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Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, it's time for another edition of
Speaker 1: Mick Shots. It's another week for Mickey inside the SWBC
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Speaker 1: I'm Bill Jones at my home office, Everson Walls and
Speaker 1: his fulm office, and boy do we have a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about. Once aboard, you know, well almost predicted
Speaker 1: that score about exactly right. Mickey headed for a second there,
Speaker 1: and then I remever, so, what was your score? I
Speaker 1: believe mine was thirty to twenty eight with a game driving,
Speaker 1: game winning field goals. You edited twenty eight. I mean,
Speaker 1: Seattle was up thirty to twenty eight, Mickey. I thought
Speaker 1: I had it with a game winning field goal. Also,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Mickey? I did? And you know, when it
Speaker 1: was around thirty twenty two, I'm thinking, okay, because I
Speaker 1: picked thirty six thirty three, right, I'm thinking Seattle's gonna
Speaker 1: kick another field goal. If the Cowboys at least score
Speaker 1: two more touchdowns and miss an extra point, which certainly
Speaker 1: could happen. Right, they were gonna hit thirty six. I go,
Speaker 1: I got this, and then it didn't work out so well?
Speaker 1: All right, before wit orgage started, here a little message,
Speaker 1: let's behind the scenes message to Chris Beam that we
Speaker 1: are hearing what's going on. I think we care either
Speaker 1: on topic. All right, very good, you know, and if
Speaker 1: memory serves me right, I had Seattle winning that game.
Speaker 1: Yes you did, and I think it was thirty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you were in jinks. You were the reason we lost that.
Speaker 1: We need positivity here and not wait, you didn't say
Speaker 1: thirty one, did you? I want tape on that. I believe,
Speaker 1: I said. I believe the score was pretty low if
Speaker 1: I would call no, I had it. Wait, I had
Speaker 1: a high scoring. I had like thirty four, thirty one? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah, so um. But anyway, so much to get
Speaker 1: to and it could have very easily have been the
Speaker 1: other way around if not for mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, the
Speaker 1: mediad of mistakes that put this team in another howl.
Speaker 1: And Mickey, I'm sure you could fill more than forty
Speaker 1: five minutes talking about all I absolutely could, because I did.
Speaker 1: I just got done finishing fourteen hundred heard words on it,
Speaker 1: by the way for Dallas Cowboys dot Com. But I
Speaker 1: thought Mike McCarthy after the game, on his postgame press
Speaker 1: conference hit it on the head. He goes, we are
Speaker 1: not a very clean football team right now, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't agree with them more. You cannot make the mistakes
Speaker 1: they make. And I don't care if you throw for
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty yards again and become the second
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history to have back to back passing
Speaker 1: yardage of at least four fifty. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you become the first Cowboys team to have plus five
Speaker 1: hundred yards in back to back games. If you make
Speaker 1: the mistakes they made in that game, I don't care
Speaker 1: if you overcome a fifteen yard deficit. It's still hard
Speaker 1: to win a game. You can't fumble the ball at
Speaker 1: the goal line, recover at the one and it turns
Speaker 1: into the safety. That's two points you can't have. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to maintain both of those extra points were blocked.
Speaker 1: The first one if you go back and look at it,
Speaker 1: poona Ford gets penetration he's got his hand in the
Speaker 1: air and the ball did just a weird thing. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give zirline the benefit of the doubt. But
Speaker 1: even not, you can't miss two extra points. Now, I
Speaker 1: just gave you four points, right, If I take those
Speaker 1: four points, give the Cowboys two more and Seattle two
Speaker 1: less that they shouldn't have had only thanks to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's a thirty six thirty three game in that last possession,
Speaker 1: and Dak doesn't have to desperately throw the ball into
Speaker 1: the end zone at the end because he's got a
Speaker 1: field goal in his back pocket to tie the game.
Speaker 1: And if I you know what, and if I go
Speaker 1: into the two turnovers Dak's interception at the end of
Speaker 1: the half, there's not hardly any time left. And in
Speaker 1: twenty nine seconds they score a touchdown, and then you
Speaker 1: come out, he gets sacked, the ball comes out, they
Speaker 1: score another touchdown. You've got a struggling defense as it is,
Speaker 1: and then you just hand the hottest quarterback in the
Speaker 1: NFL fourteen points. He didn't need those fourteen points. He
Speaker 1: was doing enough on his own. And you make those
Speaker 1: mistakes and until they clean this stuff up, you are
Speaker 1: not going to recover the way they did in Atlanta
Speaker 1: every week and score forty points to have to win
Speaker 1: a game there. I only took five minutes, then took it.
Speaker 1: Gave me a chance to have some notes. I put
Speaker 1: some notes down while you were talking. I would have
Speaker 1: to say that, you know, can we say that the
Speaker 1: defense actually improved from the two previous games. We're allowed
Speaker 1: to say that. I mean, when you think about it,
Speaker 1: a third down ccentage was way up. I was impressed
Speaker 1: with the effectiveness that they had in spots against Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: to see him be a little bit hesitant and some
Speaker 1: of the things that he was doing. We actually were
Speaker 1: consistently holding them to at least to have them think
Speaker 1: about what they're trying to do, as opposed to just
Speaker 1: being able to just go up and down the field.
Speaker 1: We had actually gave them a bit of resistance, and
Speaker 1: then that's when the mistakes happened. It's not just fumbles,
Speaker 1: it's not just extra points. It's also coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: we had. I believe in the three touchdowns that I saw,
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone was around for I'd say about
Speaker 1: ten yards on each touchdown. The first three touchdowns, they
Speaker 1: were so wide open. Those also came from a coverage
Speaker 1: mistakes in the secondary, not just that. When you look
Speaker 1: at the pass rush for the Cowboys, we did improve.
Speaker 1: We got three sacks by one player. He had a
Speaker 1: great game and Alton Smith that's kind of what we
Speaker 1: have come to expect from him. But the problem you
Speaker 1: have is people staying in their lanes. When you have
Speaker 1: a player like Russell Wilson, you've got him on third
Speaker 1: and six, he knows that you're gonna become an after him.
Speaker 1: He saw that our pass rush was better, so he
Speaker 1: started to use that against us. He would allow you
Speaker 1: to lose your lane coverage when he came to the
Speaker 1: pass rush, and then he would buy more time with
Speaker 1: his amazing pocket presence. He would fake like he's gonna run,
Speaker 1: draw you in by himself, room for the outside, and
Speaker 1: there's your man wide open. Thirty and six thirty for
Speaker 1: we tried to do a good thing. We had Jayla
Speaker 1: Smith as a spot. That was a good idea, but
Speaker 1: the spot also has pass coverage. So there was this
Speaker 1: game between Wilson and Smith in regards to do I
Speaker 1: make him stay back and play pass or that I
Speaker 1: can run for those yards and sometimes he would come
Speaker 1: he would fake the run, come back, Jayleen would come forward,
Speaker 1: or any of the coverage would come forward. They become
Speaker 1: disarrayed and there's an open man right in the middle.
Speaker 1: It was a chess game that we lost because we've
Speaker 1: never defensively been able to play chess. We're always playing
Speaker 1: checkers on defense while a quarterback, at least in this
Speaker 1: particular instance, he was definitely playing chess. And that's Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you guys this question, and you
Speaker 1: both can maybe give me a good answer. How do
Speaker 1: you have that many busted coverages in one game? Because,
Speaker 1: as Everson said, you know, and I wrote in my column,
Speaker 1: you know, social distancing is good for our society, it's
Speaker 1: not good in coverage. You can be within six yards
Speaker 1: of the receiver. There was there was. Of his five
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, only one was somewhat contested. Okay, the rest
Speaker 1: of them, they're wide open. How do you have that
Speaker 1: many busted coverages? Were Hunt found this week about the
Speaker 1: CG the defense. Jalen Smith complained about the defensive game
Speaker 1: plan was always too thick. They were going to whittle
Speaker 1: it down a little bit to where we could kind
Speaker 1: of absorb it defensively. Well, maybe it did happen a
Speaker 1: little bit because we seem to have a little bit
Speaker 1: more effectiveness against a blazingly hot quarterback. But in the end,
Speaker 1: it was still the same old story. Not only one
Speaker 1: of the mistakes there, but the pressure was not down
Speaker 1: the strets. I'd say his last three drives, I don't
Speaker 1: know if Russell Wilson got touched unless he decided to
Speaker 1: run past the line of scrimmage. And it was so
Speaker 1: disappointing to see how we were effective in most cases
Speaker 1: without the mistakes, and then when it came down to it,
Speaker 1: especially after we had the game, what we thought was
Speaker 1: to go ahead drive in the game, we thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a game winning drive, we still ended
Speaker 1: up collapsing defensively on the D line. You know, it
Speaker 1: seemed like at times, and you guys tell me, it
Speaker 1: seemed like one guy in the secondary didn't have the
Speaker 1: call right, Like everybody's playing zone and that guy wants
Speaker 1: to play man and leaves an area, or everybody's playing
Speaker 1: man and that guy thinks he's zone and he drops off,
Speaker 1: and no one covers a guy running free down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. How does that happen? You can't
Speaker 1: make that many mistakes. You know, it's one thing to
Speaker 1: physically get beat, when you get beat mentally in the
Speaker 1: secondary like that, that part I don't understand. You know,
Speaker 1: even the one that somewhat was contested by Thompson. He
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he was supposed to that.
Speaker 1: They were zoning that guy out of the slot, but
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis didn't even reroute the guy. He just stood
Speaker 1: there and let him go by. And then he stood
Speaker 1: in space like this, and there wasn't a receiver in
Speaker 1: twenty yards of him, So what was he supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing? You know the other one that the guy
Speaker 1: ran by down the field, you know, Trayvon Diggs is
Speaker 1: going with him and then he backs off, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if the safeties thought, oh he's got him
Speaker 1: covered and he runs right by the whole secondary. You
Speaker 1: can't make those mistakes. That part I didn't understand, and
Speaker 1: I can't excuse. And once again here you have a
Speaker 1: situation where someone needs to make a play. Just any
Speaker 1: play at any time would make a difference in a
Speaker 1: close game like this. I almost had my tray Von
Speaker 1: Digs interception. I almost predicted that. I was so close,
Speaker 1: but he didn't catch it. But any one of those
Speaker 1: instances when you make turnovers, then you put doubt in
Speaker 1: the receiver's mind, and you put doubt in the quarterback's mind.
Speaker 1: And we did that from a rush standpoint. But while
Speaker 1: he was looking down the field, Russell Wilson saw no
Speaker 1: threats coming at him. And he's had wide receivers wide
Speaker 1: open running down the field at any time. You have
Speaker 1: to counter that with not just sacks, because sacks won't
Speaker 1: do it. You have to counter that with turnovers, and
Speaker 1: that would give you momentum and like I said, it
Speaker 1: puts it out in the quarterbacks mind. You know, I
Speaker 1: think any quarterback can learn a lot from from Lunch
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. And you know, Dad would be well served,
Speaker 1: I think from the standpoint of him taking care of
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, and we looked looked up his
Speaker 1: stad is sax last year. I think he was sacked
Speaker 1: forty eight times. Last year. He was sacked four times
Speaker 1: in this game. The big thing he doesn't do is
Speaker 1: turn the football over. I think it's only five picks
Speaker 1: last year. And you know, sometimes you know, a sack
Speaker 1: is not a good thing. But you could see and
Speaker 1: you talked to Everson about his pocket presence, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Cowboys were getting decent pressure on him.
Speaker 1: At times it wasn't probably wasn't consistent enough, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's he has the ability to let plays develop. And
Speaker 1: in fact, Troy was calling the game and he talked
Speaker 1: about some of the stuff being coverage sex or nearly
Speaker 1: coverage sex, that there were times the Cowboys seemed to
Speaker 1: be doing a good job. But I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that too is Russell is patient in the pocket
Speaker 1: where he lets things develop and can see the whole
Speaker 1: field and so forth. And I mean credit to him
Speaker 1: for having that ability, and I think that is um
Speaker 1: you know, being a veteran quarterback, the maturity of a
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback and understanding it that it's not the end
Speaker 1: of the world to take a sack. You know. One
Speaker 1: of the critical um um scenarios in that game was
Speaker 1: with a minute left in the first half and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys throw the interception and the Seahawks were able to
Speaker 1: convert that into a touchdown. And I don't know, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're going to go off on the double.
Speaker 1: Uh penalty and they pick up the flag on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Uh that on the completion of Gregor was an olson
Speaker 1: Elli sideline of years. That was awesome down the sideline
Speaker 1: out and um, you know we're we're gonna we're not gonna,
Speaker 1: We're not gonna worry about the Seahawks penalty on this one.
Speaker 1: It's the cowboy penalty. You know. I don't know that
Speaker 1: Jalen Jalen did not push him out of bounds. The
Speaker 1: initials shove sent him to the sideline and he was
Speaker 1: losing it balance and he fell out of bounds. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the official rules are on that, but uh,
Speaker 1: that was that was a bad break for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: You know, you throw the pick and then you give
Speaker 1: up seven. There's that's a tough one, you know, where
Speaker 1: you're down twenty three fifteen at halftime instead of sixteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and it wasn't just that one. I think
Speaker 1: they had a third down stop and Russell Wilson's out
Speaker 1: of the pocket. He's way out of the pocket, and
Speaker 1: I forgot I think it was Whirlie ran into the
Speaker 1: wide receiver and they called him for a legal contact.
Speaker 1: I thought when the quarterback was out of pocket. You
Speaker 1: helped me, Everson. I thought, once he's out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: you can hit a wide receiver no matter where he's at.
Speaker 1: And I thought that was a ticket. If the quarterback
Speaker 1: is out of the pocket, he has the propensity to run, right,
Speaker 1: So now he becomes a runner and the wide receiver
Speaker 1: is a potential blocker. And if he's a potential blocker,
Speaker 1: then all bets are off. They called and they called
Speaker 1: interference and are holding and they wasn't holding that. They
Speaker 1: both ran into each other and he's outside the pocket.
Speaker 1: How do they call that? And that's a significant play.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean there was a couple of those
Speaker 1: weird calls in this game. Uh. And then kind of
Speaker 1: the unfortunate one on their two point conversion when they
Speaker 1: got to redo after Tristan Hill clapperd you know, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson in the shoulder or head or whatever he hit Uh,
Speaker 1: And they got a reader to me, Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I thought, you know. And and they said on TV
Speaker 1: that it was head to head cont you know, No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't head to head contact. He Hitler really was
Speaker 1: not hit to hit. No, it was not head to hit.
Speaker 1: If anything, it was hand to head, and I don't
Speaker 1: think it hit him on the head. I thought it
Speaker 1: hit him on the shoulder. That's what it certainly, I
Speaker 1: must I have to ask you in regards to these,
Speaker 1: how do you bring a player down, uh, if he's
Speaker 1: in the pocket versus if he's a runner. When the
Speaker 1: young man I believe it was a wagner, he grabbed
Speaker 1: Zeke by the yes, by the ear the ear hole,
Speaker 1: like the back of his helmet. It isn't that also? Uh?
Speaker 1: Face mask? I wasn't sure about that, But I didn't
Speaker 1: know you could grab someone by the head anywhere under
Speaker 1: pelment at any time. I thought. I just assumed that
Speaker 1: that was also either a horse caller or consider the
Speaker 1: face mask not I'm wrong, No, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a horse caller too. I mean, what's what's more dangerous
Speaker 1: grabbing the guy by the shoulder pads are grabbing him
Speaker 1: by the back of his helmet and yanking him down
Speaker 1: basically the neck. Yeah, grabbing him by the neck and
Speaker 1: slinging him down. Yes, And the referee was right there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can throw challenges there. But
Speaker 1: as we talk about the I guess incompetence or question
Speaker 1: the incompetence of the referee. I think the Cowboy coaching
Speaker 1: staff should also be on point to make sure and
Speaker 1: bring these up to them in the future because and
Speaker 1: when I say the future, that means future just future plays,
Speaker 1: not future games, but future plays, because that could be
Speaker 1: a factor when it comes to another critical part of
Speaker 1: the ball game where a flag is not called. I
Speaker 1: think that they have to have some type of quality
Speaker 1: control on the sidelines. I'm sure they do. We always did.
Speaker 1: I'm sure every NFL team has quality control on the
Speaker 1: sidelines and regloss that someone needs to check the ref
Speaker 1: in regards to how consistent they are in the calls
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Speaker 1: You know that? Get it right? That's right. I was
Speaker 1: trying to look up the rule on the face mask twisting,
Speaker 1: turning or pulling the masks. Yeah, I mean it looks
Speaker 1: like it's mask only, but you're right in that case,
Speaker 1: when you're grabbing around the bottom of the back of
Speaker 1: the helmet and as the same effect of pulling a
Speaker 1: face mask, they need to do it. They need to
Speaker 1: address that rule if it's if it's not a pleasure
Speaker 1: that they have talked about that you have so many
Speaker 1: instances where yeah, I thought so too. Yeah, yeah, in
Speaker 1: many ways the face mask, if it's not a twist
Speaker 1: turn or and you know one has something to do
Speaker 1: with it. I guess a twist turner pool. I don't
Speaker 1: have enough time too. I would have to say that
Speaker 1: he was definitely pulled them down twists before he went there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Um, there's so much to get into. Mickey.
Speaker 1: Where would you like to go next? You know what
Speaker 1: I thought I'd point out, uh and and Everson pointed
Speaker 1: it out in his first segment rant uh Alden Smith
Speaker 1: the guy if if I got my stats right, I
Speaker 1: know he had three sacks. Okay, he also ends up
Speaker 1: with four quarterback hits. So now in three games he's
Speaker 1: got four sacks, and in his contract, if he ends
Speaker 1: up with eight sacks, he gets an extra five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. He's halfway to it in three games. If
Speaker 1: he gets ten sacks, he has a million dollar incentive.
Speaker 1: So it has been phenomenal what he's been able to do.
Speaker 1: And they kind of moved him around. You know, he
Speaker 1: was on the right side and he went to the
Speaker 1: left side, and if somebody else could come along with him,
Speaker 1: you know, they they ended up hitting Russell Wilson eight
Speaker 1: times and he gets sacked what was it four? Five
Speaker 1: times or four times? They just need they need something
Speaker 1: else in the middle of least Antoine Woods helped out
Speaker 1: and and got that sacked. At time they get they're
Speaker 1: getting no push from the middle, none whatsoever. In fact,
Speaker 1: I thought, I'm not I thought Smith should have been
Speaker 1: crentity with it. That should have been by half a
Speaker 1: sack age, right, Yeah, he would have had four and
Speaker 1: a half three and a half, three and a half,
Speaker 1: three and a half in that case, well he got
Speaker 1: him on my notes could see an NT one, you know,
Speaker 1: but into one. They needed that out of somebody else,
Speaker 1: one of the interior guys being able to put some
Speaker 1: pressure up the middle on him, and Antoine has that ability,
Speaker 1: and they're not they're they're getting if it's a by
Speaker 1: game plan, But when you have Russell Wilson, it seems
Speaker 1: as if when it was time, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was by design or not, but it seemed as
Speaker 1: if they were able to keep the two tackles at
Speaker 1: bay on the pass rush while our defensive Vans was
Speaker 1: clearly be he forced outside, and Russell was able to
Speaker 1: step up almost any time he wanted to, especially on
Speaker 1: those key third down plays. I'm not sure if that's
Speaker 1: by design or not, but it seemed to work perfectly
Speaker 1: for him. And as much as all Done was coming
Speaker 1: around the outside, as much as DeMarcus was coming around
Speaker 1: the outside, they were doing nothing but leaving a big
Speaker 1: gap for Russell to pretty much have a clear view
Speaker 1: of the field. And I thought that was I thought
Speaker 1: that just has to be by designed or at least
Speaker 1: something that Russell anticipated because of the way the game
Speaker 1: was going on. That's why I say it's a chess match.
Speaker 1: He you know, that's something that he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: tell anybody else. That's something that Russell Wilson himself would
Speaker 1: probably recognize and use it to his advantage. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was almost like they put a bigger priority in blocking
Speaker 1: them up the middle than they did on the edges.
Speaker 1: That's true, because they know the edges that coming around
Speaker 1: that they know that all they have to do is
Speaker 1: just give them a shoulder or a pathway outside, and
Speaker 1: they must take it. And all Russell does is faint
Speaker 1: as if he's doing his normal drop back, and as
Speaker 1: soon as he plants, he sees the discrepancy there in
Speaker 1: the middle, and he takes advantage of it. On the
Speaker 1: rule on the face mask not the way you need
Speaker 1: to dwell on this at all. But no player shall
Speaker 1: grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the face
Speaker 1: mask or a helmet opening of an opponent in any direction.
Speaker 1: If a player grasping an opponent's face mask or a
Speaker 1: helmet opening, he must immediately release it. If he does
Speaker 1: not immediately release it and controls his opponent, it is
Speaker 1: a foul. That's a personal file. That's a pre file.
Speaker 1: The ear hole. Would that be an opening on the helmet, yes,
Speaker 1: it would, or underneath the bay that's open. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. All of it is open, all of it anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, mickey, Yeah, give me a positive.
Speaker 1: What's what's what's Give me a positive. They came out
Speaker 1: of this despite the lack of coverage, I mean the
Speaker 1: lack of protection. Dak still throws for four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two yards four hundred and seventy two. No cowboy
Speaker 1: quarterback has done that in back to back games for
Speaker 1: fifty or more. Uh. And you know he was under
Speaker 1: siege quite a bit. Now he only got sacked twice,
Speaker 1: but he got hit ten times. They had ten quarterback hits. Wow.
Speaker 1: And and here's my question, now, somebody you know there,
Speaker 1: it's being thrown out there that Terrence Steele had uh
Speaker 1: you know, food poisoning or stomach problem before the game.
Speaker 1: He had to take ivs and then they ended up
Speaker 1: taking them out. I was thinking they should have made
Speaker 1: that move long time ago. Why did they wait till
Speaker 1: there was forty seven left in the third quarter? Put
Speaker 1: Zack Martin out at tackle at least protect him from
Speaker 1: that side. And after they made that move on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, moving Zach out Looney to guard and Beadish
Speaker 1: to center, they went down and drove ninety four yards
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. I believe they drove another eighty nine
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, and then drove seventy for a field goal.
Speaker 1: They racked up two hundred and fifty three yards of
Speaker 1: total offense on those three successive drives, scoring seventeen points.
Speaker 1: So I just think that's got to be a thought
Speaker 1: if Lall Collins is not able to come back, and
Speaker 1: it sure sounded like from what Stephen Jones said on
Speaker 1: his radio interview this morning, that he may be a
Speaker 1: little further out than what we thought. And so if
Speaker 1: he can't come back and Tyrn can't come back, they
Speaker 1: can't put those two young offensive tackles back out there again.
Speaker 1: Everybody's got tape on it now. They know what's coming
Speaker 1: or not coming, so they're taking advantage of it this week. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know some guy named Miles Garrett, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's fired because everybody, everybody from Dallas that didn't get
Speaker 1: drafted by the Cowboys, they're pissed off, right, So they're
Speaker 1: all fired up. What's that Martin? In fact, he ward
Speaker 1: the Tom Landry Award as the best high school football
Speaker 1: player in North Texas and then went to Texas A
Speaker 1: and M and Cleveland Browns. And now, how many the
Speaker 1: wards does Tom Andrew have out there? Myself and I
Speaker 1: didn't them in high schooling? You know that this is
Speaker 1: when we didn't start until about ten or eleven years ago. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. And by the way, Miles Garrett happens to be,
Speaker 1: unless it's changed since he signed the contract this summer,
Speaker 1: the highest paid defensive defensive player defensive lineman in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. So there's that. And I have to say,
Speaker 1: Bill before you continue. You talk about the problems you
Speaker 1: have with the offensive line, you could see that there
Speaker 1: was also affecting in what he was trying to do
Speaker 1: in the ball game. You just didn't have a connection
Speaker 1: between all of the offensive linemen. One thing that the
Speaker 1: Seahawks are good at, regardless of what kind of problems
Speaker 1: they're having, They've always been able to play the run. Well.
Speaker 1: The only acceptance exception to that throughout the past has
Speaker 1: been against the Dallas Cowboys. But for some reason this
Speaker 1: particular time and maybe because of the injuries, maybe because
Speaker 1: of our we didn't have the continuity in regards to
Speaker 1: the offensive linement that we've usually had, they were able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of our hesitancy in regards to the
Speaker 1: blocks that were supposed to make. So even though Zeke
Speaker 1: didn't get the yards that they wanted, what you're gonna
Speaker 1: see in the future teams are gonna start playing us
Speaker 1: pass first. That's gonna be pressure on the passing game.
Speaker 1: So we need to take a look at that development
Speaker 1: as we moved forward. How is that going to continue
Speaker 1: to put these numbers up while teams are going to
Speaker 1: continue to start putting more dbs out there, and eventually
Speaker 1: they might even stop start playing those Amba defenses against
Speaker 1: us at all times and other one a very few
Speaker 1: linemen and a lot of linebackers in one of those lines.
Speaker 1: Everson I went back and looked at it trying to
Speaker 1: figure out, you know it was there a certain play
Speaker 1: that Terence Steele did not make on the previous drive
Speaker 1: that led them. That was kind of the final straw
Speaker 1: we got to make a change here on the fourth
Speaker 1: and one play on the what was the Cowboys second
Speaker 1: possession of a third quarter where Zeke barely got the
Speaker 1: first down. Boy, we had a right on that they
Speaker 1: were with steel. Sarah got driven back into the backfield
Speaker 1: by L. J. Coyer the defensive end out of TCU.
Speaker 1: I mean basically one hand, just just uh Stone name
Speaker 1: and driving back into the and Zeke had to it
Speaker 1: just on his run because he had to go around Steele.
Speaker 1: So I mean that Maia played a factor because at
Speaker 1: that point, you know, they basically made the decision with
Speaker 1: Mickey with eleven minutes left in the third quarter, they
Speaker 1: were making the change. That's when the Cowboys drive ended.
Speaker 1: But then Seattle had the ball until the six and
Speaker 1: a half minute mark, and so that's when uh It
Speaker 1: manifested for us watching um but I think that was
Speaker 1: the one play that was glaring that that Steele got
Speaker 1: beat on a play leading up to that, and by
Speaker 1: way the stamps for Dak which would have been in
Speaker 1: the final twenty one minutes and thirty eight seconds of
Speaker 1: the game. After they made that switch on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: he was twenty out of twenty nine for two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy four yards and two touchdowns. That was the
Speaker 1: final twenty one minutes of the game. He passed for
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy four yards and two touchdowns. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's plan going forward. I was going to ask,
Speaker 1: do we have a new offensive line now? Do we
Speaker 1: have a new line up? I mean, they just can't
Speaker 1: get they can't get five guys out there to play
Speaker 1: together for any amount of time, you know. And maybe
Speaker 1: the same thing on the defensive line. You know, DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: I think I think he only played twenty let me
Speaker 1: see here, he played thirty one snaps, so forty one
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps. Now, at least he got out
Speaker 1: there and he was getting penetration. I know he didn't
Speaker 1: get a sack, but he had a couple of tackles
Speaker 1: and he was kind he was making a pest of himself.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, they need more, They need more.
Speaker 1: They just can't have one or two guys doing that.
Speaker 1: And then same thing on the offensive mind, these guys
Speaker 1: just aren't playing together enough and they keep switching things out.
Speaker 1: All I know is when this happened last year and
Speaker 1: they had both of their starters missing that that one game,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, so Jason Garrett, who's the
Speaker 1: next who's the next tackle up? If one of those
Speaker 1: those guys get hurt. And he basically looked at me,
Speaker 1: raised his eyebrows and he goes, probably Zach Martin. You know,
Speaker 1: it was almost like, we can't be fooling around with
Speaker 1: these other guys. We got to protect our quarterback. Nope,
Speaker 1: we need a real and one other thing. Now you
Speaker 1: start talking about the different options that we have. I
Speaker 1: like Zeke in regards to uh, how how we're trying
Speaker 1: to get him the ball. We're trying to be very
Speaker 1: creative because we weren't running well. But when we start
Speaker 1: throwing these screen passes, all the passes have to be
Speaker 1: better and he's got to catch them. They gave him
Speaker 1: I think they gave him four drops. I'd have to
Speaker 1: say that that should share in two of those drops
Speaker 1: because you know, you just got to get it to
Speaker 1: him better. You need to put it in a better
Speaker 1: place because when you're going out for a screen pass,
Speaker 1: you know you've got to it's a it's a decoy move.
Speaker 1: So while you're trying to set the office the defensive
Speaker 1: linement up, I want to be able to catch that
Speaker 1: ball quickly and turn around and see where I gotta go.
Speaker 1: And there are times when Dad just didn't put it
Speaker 1: in a friendly spot. Yes, he should have caught him.
Speaker 1: He would never blame Dad for that, but I'd give
Speaker 1: d I'd give him half of those those two drops
Speaker 1: of the head. Right, we continue with more and Mick
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Speaker 1: not a quarterback, so I don't have to take the
Speaker 1: fault for guys dropping my passes. Oh that was a
Speaker 1: little false story there. We got pen lions five yards.
Speaker 1: He was dealing with a high maintenance client, that would
Speaker 1: be And by the way, I wanted to add this
Speaker 1: stat too. Prescott, through three touchdowns of forty plus yards
Speaker 1: or more in the game right, broke a record that
Speaker 1: the three Cowboy quarterbacks had Craig Morton, Tony Romo and
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott all once had three. How about that? So
Speaker 1: they he tied it. I'm sorry, Uh, they all had
Speaker 1: three forty or more yard touchdown passes. Rather incredible. You
Speaker 1: know we talk about something positive Bill, what about number eless? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: where we lose the Mari Cooper and we don't miss
Speaker 1: a beat? Am I Right? Well, they they kind of
Speaker 1: he kind of spelled them at times to give him
Speaker 1: some Uh. So he didn't have to play the entire
Speaker 1: game with that foot that was bothering him. But ever
Speaker 1: since he had a sparkling training camp. He was doing
Speaker 1: that stuff in training camp and you could see Dak
Speaker 1: trust because he would go to him when they got
Speaker 1: in those team situations. So you know, he's been hurt.
Speaker 1: Those first two years. He was on and off injured reserve.
Speaker 1: He was never healthy. Now he's healthy and he's got
Speaker 1: that ability. I mean he ran away from people. It's
Speaker 1: not the fact that he just caught the ball and
Speaker 1: ran away from people. So now you got four. You
Speaker 1: catch a receiver who usually when you catch a receiver,
Speaker 1: you know, first time in the game, he gets a
Speaker 1: chance and oh my god, here comes the ball. They
Speaker 1: usually catch it and then their feet stop working. The
Speaker 1: whole brain stops working their content with the reception, and
Speaker 1: but this guy ready to go to the house every
Speaker 1: time he touches the ball. Now, the two touchdowns were amazing,
Speaker 1: but it was a first down on a bubble screen
Speaker 1: that may have impressed me even more. I think it
Speaker 1: was only third and two, third and three. We had
Speaker 1: this complicated option read bubble screen way too much for
Speaker 1: a third and two or third and three. But thank
Speaker 1: god it turned out. And it turned out because he
Speaker 1: was able to make a last second on the linebacker
Speaker 1: before getting blasted that would have prevented him from making
Speaker 1: that first down. He saw the guy coming, made an
Speaker 1: instinctive move, linebacker misses him, he goes forward for about
Speaker 1: three or four more yards. I think that first down
Speaker 1: was probably as big as his second testdown that he made.
Speaker 1: We needed that drive to continue. Five catches, one hundred
Speaker 1: and seven yards and two touchdowns for Cedric Wilson. And
Speaker 1: by the way, because I think he was spilled not
Speaker 1: only Cooper but also Cedee Lamb there in the second half,
Speaker 1: maybe get us a little bit too. When you throw
Speaker 1: the football fifty seven times for four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: two yards and you're throwing it down field like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are you need all five of your receivers. I mean, Noah,
Speaker 1: Broilers get a lot of playing time or great in
Speaker 1: the game as well. You know, we talked so much
Speaker 1: about the three headed monster at wide receiver. If we're
Speaker 1: going to throw the ball fifty seven times, and they
Speaker 1: don't want to fill the ball fifty seven times. They
Speaker 1: want to play from ahead in these games, and then
Speaker 1: you're not having to throw for over four hundred yards
Speaker 1: and at fifty seven passes. But in this type of offense,
Speaker 1: you need those five receivers. Just I was thinking at
Speaker 1: the end of that game. In fact, I said that
Speaker 1: my wife we were watching it. I'm like, these receivers
Speaker 1: have to be so gas right now. On that last drive,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about just how many miles they had
Speaker 1: logged just running routes yesterday. Yeah, especially on the last
Speaker 1: drive when they allowing on that it down field and
Speaker 1: he was having to throw everything underneath, and so they're
Speaker 1: making all that effort and they're not getting anything because
Speaker 1: he can't get the ball down the field because they
Speaker 1: had those safeties almost twenty yards deep on that entire drive.
Speaker 1: They weren't going to let anything behind them. But you
Speaker 1: know what. Having said that on that near sack that
Speaker 1: he spun out of and it got intercepted in the
Speaker 1: end zone, I see what he saw. He just didn't
Speaker 1: get enough on the ball because he had two receivers
Speaker 1: behind all the defenders. If he had gotten it up
Speaker 1: a little higher, a little further, Michael Gallup's gonna make
Speaker 1: that catch. I guarantee you he would have. And that
Speaker 1: was the you know, everybody goes, oh, what is he doing?
Speaker 1: While I saw what he was trying to do. He
Speaker 1: just didn't get enough on it. Yeah, I And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe in his mind and maybe in his mind that
Speaker 1: that play probably felt like it was twenty seconds long
Speaker 1: and he's thinking, I'm running out of time. I gotta
Speaker 1: go right. And if he would have taken if he
Speaker 1: would have just dumped that off onto the sidelines and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden this only there's nothing on the clock,
Speaker 1: it would have been the like the bull play of
Speaker 1: the year. And I agree with the skads from all
Speaker 1: of that, stumbling around you in the pocket, all of that,
Speaker 1: I don't have time to look and see what the
Speaker 1: play clock is doing or what the game clock is.
Speaker 1: I'm he did it. It was not a good pass,
Speaker 1: but it was the best he could do. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: Spags that they had to be running off r sixteen
Speaker 1: cent like you said, Bill, running a whole lot of
Speaker 1: pass routes. I believe it was sixteen cent once that
Speaker 1: by snapped. So it was a ten second to be
Speaker 1: like watching it did it took more than sixteen seconds.
Speaker 1: It ended up being a It ended up being a
Speaker 1: ten second play because it ended at six. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure in his mind he was like, God, I've
Speaker 1: been doing this forever. I gotta go, I gotta throw it.
Speaker 1: That's one of those things where it's silly see for
Speaker 1: us watching in a press boxer at home munching on television,
Speaker 1: because we can see what the clock said when when
Speaker 1: he's under durest and it was such a remarkable athletic
Speaker 1: play just to keep his bounce. The game is over
Speaker 1: if his knee hits the ground there. Yeah, and and
Speaker 1: so at that point his head is not only his
Speaker 1: buddy was stinning, but his head had to be spinning
Speaker 1: so much. He didn't I and I saw exactly on
Speaker 1: the replay, Nikki, what you're talking about too. At the
Speaker 1: time that he had to make the decision to pull
Speaker 1: the trigger on it. You can see from that end
Speaker 1: zone shot that they had. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: guys there, but they collapsed to it. You're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this isn't This isn't like the NBA when you can
Speaker 1: sit there and dribble and you're looking at the basket
Speaker 1: and there's a timer right above the backboard, right, you
Speaker 1: don't have time to kind of oh, where where's the
Speaker 1: time in the stadium here? Oh okay, I can throw
Speaker 1: this out of bounce, I get I get a hill
Speaker 1: marriage and nobody's getting nobody's getting nobody's getting No one's
Speaker 1: getting hit in basketball either. Yeah, all right in the
Speaker 1: head like that. It's a totally different or aware that
Speaker 1: problem that you have. Yes, all right, that does it.
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