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Speaker 1: screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Bryan Bronis, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Bill Jones. Does anybody here know the words to
Speaker 1: the song Happy Days Are Here Again? I'm willing to
Speaker 1: say you got a second. Days are here again, Poway.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I'm awake now, Happy Days are here
Speaker 1: again for one more week, for another week. That's right.
Speaker 1: It's a week to week. It is game, isn't it?
Speaker 1: A strange lady? It is? And the strange lady theory prevails.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, and how about those cowboys last night?
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad. Rob Phillips, you got in at one time,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola, you got in at what time? Walked in
Speaker 1: the door of my house at five? Here. Did y'all
Speaker 1: need wings to fly on that airplane? Or did you?
Speaker 1: Jerry didn't. Jerry sprouted his own wings, right, he did.
Speaker 1: Everybody else was sleeping, we were working. Brian brought us.
Speaker 1: You had a good night last night? Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: out things. Yeah, I got out of here too, and
Speaker 1: then got the film done this morning, got back in
Speaker 1: here at six thirty, so all good to go. Here
Speaker 1: we are here, we are talking football. Needs more than
Speaker 1: two and a half three hours sleep. Yeah, I'm raising
Speaker 1: my hand. We got, we got. I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 1: to you. We got plenty to talk about here on
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. We invite your participation as well. And I
Speaker 1: walked in here or in the studio is dark, and
Speaker 1: didn't all of a sudden, Rob Phillips a berge from
Speaker 1: the dark studio. I did not sleep in here. I
Speaker 1: was trying to get the light on. And that we
Speaker 1: discussed it though, just just yeah, straight here and yeah.
Speaker 1: On the flight home, he was bragging about how he
Speaker 1: used to do that. He used to have a blow
Speaker 1: up mattress in the old the old ranch in the
Speaker 1: cave down there in Brad's office. Well, and Kent Garrison
Speaker 1: is here. Hello, Kent Garrison. He'll be taking your aid calls.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's a great morning here at the Star.
Speaker 1: It is a cold, miserable morning weatherwise, but the sun
Speaker 1: is shining on your Dallas Cowboys. Let's go around the
Speaker 1: around the horn here who wants to go first? Go ahead, Mickey,
Speaker 1: first impression, First impression, yep um capsuleize it. The ability
Speaker 1: to run the ball efficiently helped out greatly and defensively
Speaker 1: making key plays at key times. It's not like they
Speaker 1: shut down the Eagles offense. They ended up with four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty one yards golf. Golf. I had golf
Speaker 1: on my mind because I just read the thing about
Speaker 1: the the audible halle Berry halle Berry yea, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty good. Not back to where I
Speaker 1: was going. The need of the pin of the Santa
Speaker 1: Maria right right, we're looking for land. And even though
Speaker 1: went through for three hundred and sixty yards, they made
Speaker 1: key plays on third down and fourth down to hold
Speaker 1: the Eagles to only twenty points. And the moribund Cowboys
Speaker 1: put it on the hometown team to the point where
Speaker 1: the folks were booing. Imagine that they were booing in Philly.
Speaker 1: Were they were booing, they were fighting. They were getting
Speaker 1: thrown out of the stadium and fight right in front
Speaker 1: of us, and the press box happens. That's taking the
Speaker 1: press box. Yeah, I mean there could that was last time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna wear maryon barber jersey to
Speaker 1: the game in Philly. You know you're asking for you're
Speaker 1: asking for it. Man. It's the only place I think
Speaker 1: I've ever seen fights in the stands where people actually
Speaker 1: land punches, you know. It's none of that pushing and
Speaker 1: shoving and ground. Oh no, there's some good fighters and
Speaker 1: Philly I've seen that. They'll pull that that hockey sweater
Speaker 1: over your head and start pounding on you. Guys. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you. Oh my gosh, yeah, absolutely, the elevator trick.
Speaker 1: They oh no, they will, They'll drop the gloves in
Speaker 1: an instant. Yeah, we were going, we were going down
Speaker 1: after the game, and and and they was Mickey with
Speaker 1: thirty seconds slept in the game, going, oh I waited
Speaker 1: till the last second tip ticked away. It was almost
Speaker 1: over time. You guys talking, Were you cheering in the
Speaker 1: press box? That's what I want to know. There was none.
Speaker 1: They behaved themselves been anyway, We're getting on the elevator.
Speaker 1: The guy goes, I gotta go up before I go down,
Speaker 1: and he goes, okay, use guys, I take you down,
Speaker 1: all right, Rob Phillips, what was your take? Mickey's right,
Speaker 1: The defense did its thing that was out of character
Speaker 1: for them last week against Tennessee, particularly on third down.
Speaker 1: Philly I think was four of ten on third down,
Speaker 1: saw a lot of dbs. The young DB's making plays.
Speaker 1: Cheeta Woozier has been in position to make those kind
Speaker 1: of plays, but made a few in the game. Byron
Speaker 1: Jones Xavier Woods that was impressive. Gregory getting back into it,
Speaker 1: the linebackers. They have so many young players on this
Speaker 1: defense that were playing well, and that's that's good for
Speaker 1: the present and the future, especially without Sean Lee. Offensively,
Speaker 1: whatever they did at the end of the first half,
Speaker 1: if they could bottle that up for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, that would be that would be nice. Raise
Speaker 1: your hand if you thought they were going seventy three
Speaker 1: yards to the house after Dak Prescott took a thirteen
Speaker 1: minus thirteen yards sack on that last drive before the
Speaker 1: first half. I thought that was great strategy on his
Speaker 1: part though by taking that sack then he knew that
Speaker 1: the Eagles would start calling time out. That would that's
Speaker 1: what happened, could serve the clock and he wrote a
Speaker 1: dope that's exactly right, brilliant by number four. He and
Speaker 1: he had moments in the game where he was I
Speaker 1: mean that drive a couple chunk plays gallup Beasley, hearns.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was his best drive of the season
Speaker 1: for him, and it got the offense, got the offense
Speaker 1: going in addition to what Zeke was doing with the
Speaker 1: hurdle and all that. But um, the offense showed flashes
Speaker 1: of what it could be. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it started up front with the way they played
Speaker 1: up front, did a really nice job up front. Brian
Speaker 1: brought us that games should have been an ass kicking
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. That should have been they left
Speaker 1: some plays on the field, you know, yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: and we talked about it. Mickey brought it up in
Speaker 1: the Tennessee game, the opportunity, and I was kind of
Speaker 1: like scoffing at Mickey first, saying, now, they should have
Speaker 1: had seventeen points, but they had Philadelphia little I thought
Speaker 1: they had Philadelphia on the ropes kicking those two field
Speaker 1: goals and stuff like that. Missing a field goal that's
Speaker 1: just like a turnover right there. As well. You can't
Speaker 1: have that think about that though, that that that game
Speaker 1: should not have been by the way that game at
Speaker 1: the very end and I'm not going to get an
Speaker 1: official talk, but how do you miss a facemasking penalty
Speaker 1: on that last play in the last drive and they're
Speaker 1: trying to kill the clock. John Perry and his crew
Speaker 1: should be a shame for missing that one. That one
Speaker 1: could have ended the game right there. We could have
Speaker 1: not even had to deal with that final flurry of plays.
Speaker 1: But that game should have been an ass kicking for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I'm glad they won. I'm happy that they won,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm happy for the players and the coaches
Speaker 1: in the front office that they won. But that that
Speaker 1: that that the way that Dallas played, I thought on
Speaker 1: both sides ball, Yeah, you can give up all the
Speaker 1: yards you want, but they didn't give up points. They
Speaker 1: had two first down stops, they faked punts, They did
Speaker 1: whatever they had to do to win that game. But
Speaker 1: you know they also left some plays out there. Man,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, if he could just have hit Cooper Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper down that sideline, man, that's a that's they got.
Speaker 1: They got Rusul Douglas beat clear release boomed down the field.
Speaker 1: You know, they were throws he missed, especially earlier, and
Speaker 1: he played well. He played well. He played well, he
Speaker 1: fought his butt off and that's what he is. He's
Speaker 1: gonna miss some throws, He's gonna make some throws the
Speaker 1: inside three. I counted fourteen times that Sue Filo had
Speaker 1: uh Fletcher Cox on his nose in that game. He
Speaker 1: didn't give up anything. I mean, there were a couple
Speaker 1: of little pressure where he had to push Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: passed the pass the quarterback. But if you're talking about
Speaker 1: him just lining up and playing and passed past situations
Speaker 1: and being good at him Martin coming back in the game,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the line I thought did a
Speaker 1: great job in that game. But I've just they could
Speaker 1: have They could have they could have hammered Philadelphia. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a shame that they let him get back into singing.
Speaker 1: It was a close game at the end, But that
Speaker 1: doesn't because I said, it would have been even more
Speaker 1: impressive to go up there and get to win the
Speaker 1: way they did. But at the same time it was
Speaker 1: it's it maybe bode well for them going down the
Speaker 1: road by on the road, having you know, facing adversity
Speaker 1: in the second half of the game and still figuring
Speaker 1: out those plays. Bill, go make those plays. You know,
Speaker 1: those are those are those are you know this this
Speaker 1: OC has taken a lot of crap, you know, for
Speaker 1: his play calling, you know, and they're talking about his
Speaker 1: job and all that. You know, and I'm one of
Speaker 1: the guys talking about his job and all that. But
Speaker 1: you know, when he does do something right, figure out
Speaker 1: a way to help him out a little bit, you know.
Speaker 1: And and and hey, those guys still aren't out of
Speaker 1: the woods. But this game should not have been as
Speaker 1: close as it was. Dallas clearly outplayed Philadelphia on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball and on special teams other than
Speaker 1: the miss the missfield goal. But having said that, the
Speaker 1: Eagles did drive in the second half to score touchdowns
Speaker 1: and shouldn't have been close and get back in the game.
Speaker 1: You mean to stay in the game. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: so I don't. I'm I'm I'm the point that that Dallas.
Speaker 1: I think that if Dallas gets those early points, I
Speaker 1: think this is a different Yeah. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: get up, you're not gonna you know, I expected Philadelphia
Speaker 1: to play well offensively, I did. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: consider it. I mean, Carson wins, you know, he's gonna
Speaker 1: throw the football. Let's not be stupid here. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw the ball and make plays. Well, we
Speaker 1: talked about Dak missed some opportunities early and it was
Speaker 1: kind of a here we go again thing early in
Speaker 1: the game for the offense because they had a penalty
Speaker 1: on the special teams right before their first drive. They
Speaker 1: had some some penalties that backed them up. Sacks Zeke.
Speaker 1: I think his first seven carries, he got twenty five
Speaker 1: yards and it's like, oh, it's gonna be another one
Speaker 1: of these tough sledding games on the road, and then
Speaker 1: he busted through with that hurdle play and then here
Speaker 1: we go. So that was a four point play too,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, that could have That was another
Speaker 1: missed opportunity. But they had to kick a field goal there,
Speaker 1: you know. And and earlier on that drive they had
Speaker 1: to do the fake pun just to keep the driving going. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Good and good, you know. Good for Garrett if it
Speaker 1: if it takes, if it takes adversity this way to
Speaker 1: maybe think about the way to operate game, good for him.
Speaker 1: If if that's the way he's going to coach the
Speaker 1: rest of the way. By all means, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: How surprised were you that they were going forward on
Speaker 1: first on fourth down at their own forty yard line
Speaker 1: early in the game, had a shot, had had some
Speaker 1: good plays called too. Jess Swam doesn't move. They're gonna
Speaker 1: get that that fourth down conversion. But how surprised were
Speaker 1: you that they went ahead and went for it? And
Speaker 1: the press box we said we were a little surprised
Speaker 1: because that was a full yard at least, you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like a fourth and two. They faked that
Speaker 1: punt with fourth and two. That really wasn't a close
Speaker 1: I mean, yea deeper and they were back at their
Speaker 1: own thirty Yeah, exactly exactly. I applaud the way that
Speaker 1: the coach was. It was um it was preparation because
Speaker 1: they had to play called and Heath had to read
Speaker 1: it right. I mean, if it's there, it's out there,
Speaker 1: then they go ahead and punch. He did a smart
Speaker 1: thing too by running behind. He ran behind olda wally,
Speaker 1: which is a guy who's normally used to block an inside.
Speaker 1: He did a great job and knocking his guy and
Speaker 1: march Luller turned his guy, so it game a nice
Speaker 1: little crease inside. He also put his head down and
Speaker 1: rammed him by. I asked him about it. He goes,
Speaker 1: they better not have called that after all the times
Speaker 1: I've been rammed by the running back putting his head
Speaker 1: down and running me over right, And I'll give some
Speaker 1: credit to Keith O'Quinn on that too. That special team scored. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was good preparation. They saw something. They said, Okay,
Speaker 1: if this happens and we get in this situation, then
Speaker 1: let's go. So the preparation was almost as important as
Speaker 1: the execution. You know that the drive that Rob you
Speaker 1: were talking about at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll see where they go from here, if
Speaker 1: they can went on the road at Atlanta, if they
Speaker 1: can get on a roll. You remember the Prescott's rookie
Speaker 1: season at Green Bay, right before the half, they had
Speaker 1: like a ninety ninety five yard drive, ran a jet
Speaker 1: sweep and Lucky Whitehead caught a pass and then they
Speaker 1: finished it off with Bryce Butler. Yeah, I mean those
Speaker 1: type Uh. It just when you were talking about that,
Speaker 1: it reminded me of that drive and that was critical
Speaker 1: too in the in the middle of that season, getting
Speaker 1: on that eleven game win streak, is it gave him
Speaker 1: a belief that they could win on the road. They
Speaker 1: can play, you know, and I can't. Kind of it
Speaker 1: jump started this team as far as it's kind of
Speaker 1: thinking that Jacksonville was going to be that moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did too, thought jackson That's why I say. And
Speaker 1: the more I think about it, Mickey, you're right, congratulations,
Speaker 1: Jeff fraud. They're a fraud. They got beat again. He's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's right. They're frauds very much. And you know what.
Speaker 1: The other fraud was the Philadelphia run defense. I told
Speaker 1: you no one ran against them. They faced the least
Speaker 1: amount of runs of the league against themselves, and they
Speaker 1: couldn't they you know, it looked like it was gonna
Speaker 1: be tough sledding early and then they found some runs
Speaker 1: that started to work and got Zeke in the open field.
Speaker 1: Couldn't cover anybody too. Yeah, well, they ran out very evident.
Speaker 1: They had an undrafted rookie on Cooper by the end
Speaker 1: of the game, didn't they. Yeah. It was bad. That
Speaker 1: was bad for them. That's what you got to do, though,
Speaker 1: when somebody's down like that. Yeah, just punish them, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean they were going three four a couple of
Speaker 1: times they went four wide. Yeah, okay, the tight end
Speaker 1: go sit on the back if you're not going to
Speaker 1: have good enough players as backups, take advantage of that,
Speaker 1: and I think they did that last night. One more
Speaker 1: thing about that drive though, before the half. Dak perfect
Speaker 1: on that drive for seventy seven yards. I think he
Speaker 1: had one, two, three, five completions, no timeouts, no timeouts,
Speaker 1: had the up the middle sneak for the touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's Dak that we've seen in the past, you know,
Speaker 1: last year probably. I mean, they haven't had a drive
Speaker 1: like that anywhere close to that on the road except
Speaker 1: maybe latent games when they're already down. That was really impressed.
Speaker 1: It was kind of where did this come from? Moment?
Speaker 1: You know, And they were able to game ten weeks
Speaker 1: in th about that, right, Yeah. I mean now I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it, I'm like, how can they Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's that's what they need. Land is bad in
Speaker 1: the secondary, maybe Marii Cooper. That's that's a huge get
Speaker 1: right there. He's gonna win on routes, isn't he. He's
Speaker 1: gonna win on routes, and he's also pulling coverage tone well,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's winning on routes and you know, what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's those other guys around him are starting
Speaker 1: to realize that they can go make some plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that freaking screen that they threw out to gallop and
Speaker 1: a short field like that, you know, into the boundary.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't have worked, but it did because that kids
Speaker 1: got great balance. And third and fifteen explodes and they
Speaker 1: get the they get the lineman out quick enough. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just a that's just a good play, right hey.
Speaker 1: And it's not only third and fifteen. They don't get
Speaker 1: the first down. That play happened with fifty eight seconds left.
Speaker 1: They get stopped there and the Eagles have a chance
Speaker 1: to go down. It's like it was at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. That's why they were calling time out.
Speaker 1: In fact, in fact that drive started. I said to
Speaker 1: whoever I was with watching watch in the game, I said, okay,
Speaker 1: a minute thirty three left, Okay, when it got down
Speaker 1: to think and the Cowboys finally we're gonna score, I mean,
Speaker 1: or they were gonna at least kick a field goal,
Speaker 1: I said, okay, So at the beginning of this drive,
Speaker 1: with one thirty three left, did you think it was
Speaker 1: a better chance that the Cowboys were gonna score or
Speaker 1: the Eagles were gonna score a touchdown before they have it.
Speaker 1: It looked like after the sack and facing third and
Speaker 1: fifteen that the Eagles were probably were going to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I mean, I figured it was it's gonna
Speaker 1: be six to three at halftime and first team to
Speaker 1: twelve wins. You know, another one of those just grind
Speaker 1: it out game. It turned out to be kind of
Speaker 1: a back and forth contest. Yeah, how about Alan Hearns
Speaker 1: making a couple of big plays, So it's two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row now that you know. He had the
Speaker 1: big double move for the touchdown and then he gets
Speaker 1: that thing down on the goal line, note gets open,
Speaker 1: great protection up front, they handled the twist stunt. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just that's what you gotta have. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what he is, Alan Hearns. Yeah, Yeah, he's a reliable.
Speaker 1: He's not a number one guy. He's a reliable, steady guy.
Speaker 1: He could have packed it in once they got once
Speaker 1: they got Amari Cooper, he could have said, Okay, that's it,
Speaker 1: but there's a role for him here and right absolutely
Speaker 1: he does. And that heck of a catch by Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley on that drive too. I mean, how many times,
Speaker 1: but it's eighteen yards down the sides. You know, you're
Speaker 1: throwing a ball to a guy on the outside. That's
Speaker 1: five to eight to go. Get that like that in
Speaker 1: tight space? Okay, yeah, yeah, well done. Hearn's only had
Speaker 1: fifteen plays, but he made the use up. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. He's he's incredible when it comes
Speaker 1: to making plays like that. You know. I mean, you're right, Bill,
Speaker 1: He's probably not a number one wide receiver, but you
Speaker 1: know what's he's a better Terrence Williams is what he is.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna make two or three plays a game,
Speaker 1: go make two or three big plays a game and
Speaker 1: the quarterback can depend on him. Yeah, he's trustworthy as
Speaker 1: far as being run of the right routes and you
Speaker 1: know Ben and where he the quarterback thinks he's gonna be.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what I didn't realize about Cooper.
Speaker 1: He's a little bigger than I thought he was was.
Speaker 1: And he runs the ball hard. Well. We talked about
Speaker 1: that though, didn't we. I mean, I know, I mean
Speaker 1: how he breaks tacklesby you know, he bounced off of him.
Speaker 1: It was a couple of times they It almost reminded
Speaker 1: me of Dez. It's like they didn't want to He
Speaker 1: had that catch in the red zone before their second
Speaker 1: touchdown against Tennessee where you're gonna have to gang tackle
Speaker 1: the guy to get him down, and that they haven't
Speaker 1: had a guy like that since Dez. They really haven't.
Speaker 1: And Pete des a guy that's going top speed over
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and you gotta find a
Speaker 1: way to bring him down. Now they can figure out
Speaker 1: how to hit those deep balls, be really good. He
Speaker 1: was open. You know what you got, You know what
Speaker 1: you gotta. And the thing about him is is if
Speaker 1: he if he's even with the dB, he's open because
Speaker 1: he pulls away. He pulls away like the mid stream
Speaker 1: whatever it was, the stream, and he went fast. I
Speaker 1: was going with you until you said stream fishing reference.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, sleep, did you get sleep? Did you
Speaker 1: get two and a half hours? All right? Did you
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Speaker 1: the same, old mickey, he's actually doing better than I.
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Speaker 1: to change a lot of things. They need to change
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I tried. I tried, didn't You didn't get
Speaker 1: it out of the Yeah, you want to go to
Speaker 1: the phone lines. Yeah, let's see what Cowboys Nation is
Speaker 1: saying about last night's victory in Philadelphia to want to
Speaker 1: fire the code Spencer in Maryland, Hello Spencer, Hey guys,
Speaker 1: good morning. How are you doing. Good morning? Hey guys,
Speaker 1: real quick um. Watching the game last night, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm playing late last night. I get to kind of
Speaker 1: see everybody playing them, watching other teams play, other offenses play,
Speaker 1: And this kind of question for Brian because he brought
Speaker 1: it up before. Dad, you have said that some quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have to see it before they get rid of it.
Speaker 1: We watched the broadcast last night and just talking about
Speaker 1: how that kind of tends to see it whole a
Speaker 1: little bit too long. Is there something that they can
Speaker 1: do for him to where eats a faster he gets
Speaker 1: rid of it, or is this difin his DNA, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think is the best way to
Speaker 1: help him in this case, because it's you know, if
Speaker 1: he gets rid of the quicker we got, let's hold
Speaker 1: new calls you, less negative plays, less sacks, et cetera,
Speaker 1: et cetera. I guess they need more tact to run.
Speaker 1: So it's one of we just thoughts on you know
Speaker 1: what that is and what they can do to help
Speaker 1: him out, Thanks guys, Or do you think I think
Speaker 1: I think they have. I think they have helped him.
Speaker 1: I think they have it by getting receivers like we
Speaker 1: were talking about that can get open and he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to evaluate that on tape and see that.
Speaker 1: He's going to trust those guys a lot more throwing
Speaker 1: that football. You know, he's not going to have to
Speaker 1: worry about some tight window throws and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You know, the wall he did like and Chris Collinsworth
Speaker 1: that they met made a good point because then I said,
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's right about this, because I went
Speaker 1: back and watched the end zone copy of the play
Speaker 1: that he tried to throw to Gallop on the side
Speaker 1: side lines early in the game, and he did. He hitched,
Speaker 1: he hitched, he hitched, and then he threw it. You know,
Speaker 1: when I'm sitting there thinking, Okay, Collinsworth was right. I
Speaker 1: don't always agree with Collinsworth, but in that case, right there,
Speaker 1: because if you watch the break the Gallop, Haad, if
Speaker 1: the ball was to the sidelines, he's got a shot.
Speaker 1: I noticed that. You got you gotta get rid of that,
Speaker 1: just yeah, and then you know, and that was like
Speaker 1: he was holding. He was holding, he was holding. He
Speaker 1: was just waiting for Gallop to get opening. But if
Speaker 1: he throws the ball there, you know, and give him
Speaker 1: a chance. You know, the guy made an incredible play
Speaker 1: to go get it. But I think that the way
Speaker 1: that they help him, the best way they help him,
Speaker 1: is you have receivers that are able to separate. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where he will develop more confidence that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I could throw the ball there and that guy is
Speaker 1: gonna be there, whereas before I didn't think he had
Speaker 1: that confidence. Yeah, I mean he threw a kind of
Speaker 1: threw to a spot and that pick in the end
Speaker 1: zone last week against Tennessee. I mean that was an
Speaker 1: overly aggressive throw with pressure to his new receiver. You know,
Speaker 1: he took a he took four sacks in the game,
Speaker 1: and a couple of them. I think we're on him
Speaker 1: for holding the ball a little too long. No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: to be able to let it fly a little bit.
Speaker 1: But again he battled back. And you know, one or
Speaker 1: two point eight quarterback rating, it's hard to argue with that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: what what should be the completion percentage? A good completion
Speaker 1: percentage for your quarterback. He's at sixty three percent in
Speaker 1: a game? What was he coming into the game, That's
Speaker 1: what I want to know. Yeah, it was round sixty three.
Speaker 1: To be that's not good enough, you have to be okay,
Speaker 1: but what was it? What was it last night? He
Speaker 1: was twenty six? At thirty six? You do the man,
Speaker 1: you know what that is. But I don't know. Seventy
Speaker 1: two percent. Can you live with your quarterback completing seventy
Speaker 1: two percent of your passes if he does it every week? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I can, okay, But the criticism just now was last
Speaker 1: night I'm just pointing out that it wasn't perfect. No,
Speaker 1: he's not perfect, but quarterback is perfect. He completed seventy
Speaker 1: two percent of his pass What do you do about
Speaker 1: his anticipation in his ability to read it? He still
Speaker 1: completed seventy two percent of his passes. We're in week
Speaker 1: ten and he completed seven two percent of his passes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he should have been eighty. I just went on
Speaker 1: for five minutes about that drive before the half. I
Speaker 1: know what, what did the what? The narrative just become.
Speaker 1: Now the narrative he doesn't anticipate. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: But seventy two percent of his passes were completed. He
Speaker 1: played a terrific game. He did. He is, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't perfect. And in his career he's sixty five percent.
Speaker 1: He sixty four percent this year. He was sixty seven
Speaker 1: point eight percent his first year. So there are the
Speaker 1: numbers on Dak Prescott. All right, let's go to Ernesto
Speaker 1: in Virginia. You're next up on Talking Cowboys. Ernesto, good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking my call. First off, um, I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people were upset about the Amori trade
Speaker 1: because of first round tick is a big price. But
Speaker 1: if you look at what this for receiving corps has
Speaker 1: done in a short time he's been there, they got
Speaker 1: some juice to them. If you look at last week,
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns has shown up on the in the game.
Speaker 1: Even Deonte Tonson when he was playing last week, actually
Speaker 1: made a catch, didn't bobble it and have it be intercepted.
Speaker 1: Last night, Alan Hearns again shows up, Michael Gallop showing up.
Speaker 1: So Amari Cooper is doing more for the team than
Speaker 1: just being a number one receiver. He's bringing some juice.
Speaker 1: The other thing I liked the Connor Williams pick. The
Speaker 1: thing about Connor Williams and his development needs to occur
Speaker 1: in the off season through strength and conditioning. Xavers Suafilo
Speaker 1: didn't kill you last night. They actually looked pretty good
Speaker 1: in my opinion, considering if Davis Suafilo continues to hold
Speaker 1: up pretty good against good defensive fronts, do you think
Speaker 1: they ride with him the rest of the year and
Speaker 1: let Connor will Hims get the off season to get
Speaker 1: that strength felt up and then plug him in next year.
Speaker 1: Thanks Ernesto, That's a good question without a lot of
Speaker 1: that On Twitter, last night. Yeah, Brian, did uh you
Speaker 1: have a chance to look at Xavier Sue? She was good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's good, And to use Mickey's line, he's not perfect.
Speaker 1: But you know, but what what you needed in that
Speaker 1: game and the decision that they made in that game
Speaker 1: is they went power over athletic ability. Is what they
Speaker 1: did because they could. Redmond wasn't bad either when the
Speaker 1: few plays that he actually played, they missed a couple
Speaker 1: of twist stunts that they probably needed to pick up,
Speaker 1: which caused Dak a little problem. But other than that, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, I sue, Philo, the one thing he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you, he's gonna give you strength. He's going to
Speaker 1: give you a lot of effort, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: going to try and finish plays. And you know, this
Speaker 1: is where they're at though right now, is that you know,
Speaker 1: you see him have a good game. But to me,
Speaker 1: I don't see them. I see as soon as Connor
Speaker 1: Williams is healthy that they put him back in there.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see them is saying okay, that
Speaker 1: we're just gonna leave the rookie on the sidelines, you know,
Speaker 1: and not allow him. You know, you've made this journey
Speaker 1: this far. Now, maybe people argue with me out there
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, but the offense functioned better better with
Speaker 1: him in there. At least, the blocking was better. Run
Speaker 1: game was dominant up front. But it might be go
Speaker 1: to Mickey's point that that the Eagles defensive line or
Speaker 1: run game was not very good. You know, maybe I
Speaker 1: feel I thought he did a good job of getting
Speaker 1: on the second level. He was getting to the linebackers.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of times where he popped and
Speaker 1: fell off, but at least he was getting Now when
Speaker 1: they they combo block some stuff and he got some
Speaker 1: really nice push and you know, but I just I
Speaker 1: just don't see them. Maybe it's a situation like what
Speaker 1: happened with Dak two years ago, three years ago, that
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, guys playing pretty well. Let's see,
Speaker 1: he's gonna probably have to play this week against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I would think, so, yeah, and maybe later and then yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you turn around. I mean, Connor Williams's least played.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's a fair question. But
Speaker 1: I just don't see them. I just don't see them
Speaker 1: going back. Yeah, I mean this, this guy's going to
Speaker 1: be part of your line for a long time. That's
Speaker 1: their plan. So he hurt his confidence by keeping him
Speaker 1: down on the bench when he's healthy, Once he's healthy,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, but I do know that
Speaker 1: this is as dominant as they were up front, especially
Speaker 1: for Zeke's It wasn't Zeke's career high or season high.
Speaker 1: I think Detroit he had a little closer to two
Speaker 1: hundred yards all purpose, but yards per carry were incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they controlled the line of scrimmage for the most part,
Speaker 1: and Dak had a lot of time to throw in
Speaker 1: this game, especially in the second half. Now about some
Speaker 1: props for Will McClay and his staff for finding a
Speaker 1: Xavier Sue Uppilo out there. Yeah, and yeah, and Adam
Speaker 1: Redmond for that matter, when they had issues when Travis
Speaker 1: Frederick went down. Two different type of bodies right there.
Speaker 1: You know, with Redmond, he's more looks more like what
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. And of course we saw what Sue Filo.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's but you know, Sue Hey, Suephila got
Speaker 1: to practice a little bit last week the on really
Speaker 1: on well Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and he and and Tyren
Speaker 1: Smith looked really comfortable playing next to each other and
Speaker 1: that and that's let me, let's be honest, Sue. Philo
Speaker 1: does not get a lot of work during the week.
Speaker 1: He's been been an active every single game. So for
Speaker 1: him to come in there and plug right, and that
Speaker 1: just shows you though a veteran guy forty one starts, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a veteran guy comes in there and does his job.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what you need. And Garrett I wasn't
Speaker 1: in for Jason the press conference, but I wonder it
Speaker 1: was the matchup a factor too, you know, the power question,
Speaker 1: no question. He said that when we typed his h
Speaker 1: pregame radio show that one part of the decision was
Speaker 1: he's a little bit bigger and we were going up
Speaker 1: against a big front. Yeah, and he goes also the
Speaker 1: fact that he had the experience, he's played in big games,
Speaker 1: he's been in city situations like going into Philadelphia forty
Speaker 1: some odd starts in his career. And then and then
Speaker 1: the other part was if you started him, then you
Speaker 1: left Redman in his situation right that way, if there
Speaker 1: was if you started Redman and there was an injury
Speaker 1: to Looney, then he's got to move over, and then
Speaker 1: somebody else had got to move in there. So, as
Speaker 1: it turned out, the fact that they gave both guys
Speaker 1: some reps in practice last week help when Redman had
Speaker 1: to come in and play thirteen plays when Zach Martin
Speaker 1: went out, at least he had practiced a little. That's
Speaker 1: what it was, thirteen plays, I believe. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: so yeah, it almost ended up badly for them. Oh
Speaker 1: it's Zach Martin when that when that? When I saw that,
Speaker 1: I was like that, that that's it. Same knee that
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with too. But you know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of he's kind of taking the Jason Witten mantle of
Speaker 1: a captain that's just gonna fight his ass off and
Speaker 1: stay out there no matter what, you know, tough guy.
Speaker 1: And then and then you know, the same thing happened
Speaker 1: with Collins. It was the same knee, and you know,
Speaker 1: when he went down, it looked like, oh, this is it.
Speaker 1: And when I was talked to him, I said, I said,
Speaker 1: did you think you're gonna be able to come back?
Speaker 1: He goes, well, I had to. I go, what do
Speaker 1: you mean you had to if you couldn't come back?
Speaker 1: He goes, you got to be a dog man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And he goes, I couldn't sit in there. Well, they
Speaker 1: moved and they moved Crawford inside and he got a sack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that was something that was good. I mean,
Speaker 1: that just shows you once again, Crawford, he's got the
Speaker 1: sea patch on his jersey, and that's for a reason.
Speaker 1: You look at all the guys that had to play
Speaker 1: in that game, the captains, and what they had to do,
Speaker 1: and the place, well, the place that they had to
Speaker 1: make in that game. He has a lunch pail in
Speaker 1: his hand. He basically, you know, he kind of transitioned
Speaker 1: back to end and then here he goes back inside.
Speaker 1: And I think he was asked about it after the game.
Speaker 1: He said, look, y'all know what I do. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: whatever is asked to me. I'll just move around whatever
Speaker 1: you guys need me to do. It was truly Veterans Day. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: Mickey said, all right, at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: when you look back at that game, what is the signature.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say moment, but signature. Uh and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say highlight either. What will you remember from
Speaker 1: that game the most at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Zeke's hurtle, Zeke's hurtle there's one other thing. I think
Speaker 1: the I think the play that Heath made, because that
Speaker 1: might have saved your seat, that might have saved your
Speaker 1: season right there, the tackle on Yeah, And I know
Speaker 1: people talk about I know people talk about the the
Speaker 1: play that that that vander Esh made. And by the way,
Speaker 1: his interception was a great read on his part too.
Speaker 1: He did a nice job of dropping the zone and
Speaker 1: being there and never saw him, never saw him, never
Speaker 1: saw him. And but you know, Jeff Heath, the thing
Speaker 1: that you could have worried about there is because they
Speaker 1: were trying to trade out matching up Woods with Ernest,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're just you have trouble covering that guy.
Speaker 1: He's just that's the way he is. But you you, you're,
Speaker 1: you're I think you're very fortunate you had a bigger, taller,
Speaker 1: stronger guy. And not that Woods didn't play well, but
Speaker 1: did you had Jeff Heath in that situation right there
Speaker 1: to make the play because his ability to be long
Speaker 1: enough and strong enough and have a little core strength
Speaker 1: about him kept zach Ertz from getting that ball, catching
Speaker 1: it cleanly and then driving him away from the sticks.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you have Xavier Woods in that situation, he
Speaker 1: doesn't make that playton He might make the tackle, but
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be for a first down. I thought
Speaker 1: Heath was on him most of the most of the game,
Speaker 1: and man, yeah they had, but their problem was when
Speaker 1: they went and zoned. Yeah, that's what I'm saying there.
Speaker 1: They tried to kind of switch some things around with
Speaker 1: him though a little bit, and that Oh he had
Speaker 1: a big night though. Well it was like, do you
Speaker 1: realize who he throws the ball to, you know, like
Speaker 1: on the touchdown? Yeah, Damien Wilson's probably supposed to hit
Speaker 1: him off the line of scrimmage and he whiffs and
Speaker 1: then he's like, oh I should chase him. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: one else covered him. Yeah, it's pretty easy pitch and
Speaker 1: catch on when that happens. I mean, it's like he
Speaker 1: led the team in receptions and running wide. I mean
Speaker 1: for the season two Yeah, fourteen catches out of sixteen
Speaker 1: targets one forty five. Wow? Did that? Didn't he do
Speaker 1: that in the last game of the year last season?
Speaker 1: I mean, didn't they play the game in Philadelphia? He
Speaker 1: wouldn't have played in that one played? Or was it?
Speaker 1: Was it the meaningless game? The meaningless game for Dallas.
Speaker 1: Then the year before I thought he had fourteen fifteen catches.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a reason why he is. He's a
Speaker 1: great player, he really is. Plus he catches the ball
Speaker 1: no matter where it's thrown. Yeah, I got a big
Speaker 1: catch radius, as they say, But vander Ish and I'm
Speaker 1: not selling specifically that play, just the overall game that
Speaker 1: vander Ish had is to answer my own question at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, I think I'll look back
Speaker 1: at that Philadelphia game and just the way Vandersch was
Speaker 1: flying all over the place and the interception and so forth.
Speaker 1: Year tell you what vander he played like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith played well too. Now yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: know on that play that Vandersch and when you guys
Speaker 1: go back and watch it, watch MALIEK. Collins and Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith both get take angles to where Okay, it's a
Speaker 1: loss of five, but it's a good chance that if
Speaker 1: if he doesn't make the tackle, Jalen Smith's gonna make
Speaker 1: the tackle or MALIEK. Collins is gonna make the tackle
Speaker 1: right there. I mean, they're an angle in the pursuit
Speaker 1: to make the play. So give all those guys a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for running into the ball the way
Speaker 1: they do a fourth down stop. Jalen had first half too, well,
Speaker 1: that was that was that was all about the DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: He just destroyed. He destroyed that Vitai, that right tackle,
Speaker 1: you know, and we talk about this Colin assume Lawrence
Speaker 1: doesn't get enough credit the way he plays the run
Speaker 1: right and he he abused. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you got Smith and Lewis. They beat their blocks,
Speaker 1: Aguilar and Ernst. We're talking about Ernst. Ernst can't block
Speaker 1: a lick, you know, he can't, but he's gonna make
Speaker 1: every single catch. But good job on those two guys.
Speaker 1: Of of Lewis, and then also Smith getting inside and
Speaker 1: beating the beating the blocks to get there, by the
Speaker 1: way arts. In that game two years ago, the meaningless
Speaker 1: game of the Cowboys, he had thirteen catches, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty nine yards in two touch there you go stats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he went fourteen one forty one or something like that.
Speaker 1: One day they're gonna have an honor for him, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna talk about games he played against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be the all time. Like Jason wit Witt,
Speaker 1: versus the Giants. Snacker it go. Yeah, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the Cowboy killer, that's what he is. His picture he'll
Speaker 1: be up at the link. Yeah, it will against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's right. Is Witten's picture without his helmet running down
Speaker 1: the field in Philadelphia? Is that at the link too?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, that's not there. No number one?
Speaker 1: Was it number one? It was number one? All right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I tried at fifth. Yeah, y'all were way different,
Speaker 1: so it was hard to like play off of what
Speaker 1: y'all voted, you know, But a lot of good moments.
Speaker 1: I had a couple more writed moments, and the guys
Speaker 1: ignored the Michael Michael Irving moment. That that was that
Speaker 1: when that happened, I hate to regress back to some
Speaker 1: but it was a good thing you did. But that
Speaker 1: was the end of the Dallas Cowboys as we knew it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when that happened in nineteen ninety nine, that was that
Speaker 1: was the end of it. Day. Yeah, three and one
Speaker 1: at the time. And when he was laying on that
Speaker 1: rail three and oh, that's right, three and oz and
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Speaker 1: How about him? All the talking he did all week
Speaker 1: and then he doesn't play. He's gonna do this, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that. And then Jason Peters sets a
Speaker 1: few things too. All that talking. You should have seen
Speaker 1: their pregame show on television Sunday morning too, a lot
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Speaker 1: T Stadium. Were you about ready to puke? Yeah? By
Speaker 1: the way, I barely even watched that game, did you really? Yes?
Speaker 1: Well you are probably better off too, nervous. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm a family. I'm out. I'm out on them, Are
Speaker 1: you out? Yeah? What good thing? They change defensive coordinators too.
Speaker 1: By now, because I can't watch this defense anymore. It's
Speaker 1: it used to be a time you guys played defense. Yes,
Speaker 1: exactly when we when we were winning national championship, played defense.
Speaker 1: We had great defenses. Yeah, and so I'm not going
Speaker 1: to invest in this. You know, I care about him
Speaker 1: all that stuff, but I'm not going to invest my
Speaker 1: valuable time in watching this trash. I feel so bad
Speaker 1: for you. You're the one team that can beat Alabama,
Speaker 1: and yet there is absolutely no way that can happen
Speaker 1: with that defense. I wish I have no they they
Speaker 1: can outscore them, though, they can out they can outstand.
Speaker 1: If the quarterback throws a good pass, they get beat. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that that Cornelius. That was I hate the call spa.
Speaker 1: It was a horrible pass. I hate sprint ride option.
Speaker 1: It bribed me so much of Atlanta against Philadelphia last year.
Speaker 1: Why do you run the short side of the field
Speaker 1: and why do you go for two? That's my question,
Speaker 1: you know what. I applaud him for doing that, though
Speaker 1: his team is not better than your team. I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree, but me but I've seen our defense and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna why why do it on one play
Speaker 1: where your quarterback might make a bad pass? He saw
Speaker 1: if you got four chances, Yeah, he saw the first time.
Speaker 1: You're you don't wish I could be out on a
Speaker 1: nine and one football team. What do you think they
Speaker 1: were at the double last week? Yeah? We did. They
Speaker 1: went in five and four. They had nothing to lose. Yeah, yeah, right. Uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I saw something this morning. You
Speaker 1: know they call that bedlam when Oklahoma plays Oklahoma State,
Speaker 1: they now call her are They now call it bellum
Speaker 1: because there's no d jez I like that though. It's
Speaker 1: like no whiskey. When you first started, they called him Irk,
Speaker 1: no d D and Dirk. Yeah that's a dad joke.
Speaker 1: When Osharan took over at LSU and they called him
Speaker 1: oh oh, for no points. Oh, but now doing a
Speaker 1: pretty good job and doing a decent job. Sugar Bowl
Speaker 1: here we come, all right, what else? What other takes
Speaker 1: do you have? Where do you want to go there?
Speaker 1: In this last segment about Sunday night in the victory
Speaker 1: over the Eagles, which direction you want to go here? So?
Speaker 1: Was this a flash in the pan? Or can they
Speaker 1: continue doing this? Okay? Looking forward? Looking forward to seeing Atlanta,
Speaker 1: because I'm hearing that they've had they're having a lot
Speaker 1: of problems with their past defense like this, like six
Speaker 1: straight games that they've allowed three touchdown passes. Would they
Speaker 1: give up to Cleveland yesterday twenty eight points? Right? Was it?
Speaker 1: Was it final twenty sixteen or something like that. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if I didn't get that right. Baker Mayfield is
Speaker 1: feeling dangerous. They they've they've had some problems defensively now again,
Speaker 1: has I don't think they're I don't think their guy
Speaker 1: has caught a touchdown yet this season? No, No, he
Speaker 1: did last week? Did you last week? Broke? So it's
Speaker 1: one touchdown the street? Yeah, one touchdown? Julio Jones. Julio Jones, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: he got Yeah he did last week. He got it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, he hasn't. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just I just think the Cowboys have to continue to
Speaker 1: be playing with aggressiveness. I think they spiration aggressives. Whatever
Speaker 1: you want to say, whatever, how were you practiced last week?
Speaker 1: Bring that to the practice field again this week. That's
Speaker 1: why that I keep going back to that drive before
Speaker 1: the half that was aggressive, just urgency up the field, pace, tempo.
Speaker 1: They you know, they bottled it up for one drive
Speaker 1: and it kind of carried over to the second half.
Speaker 1: You go, so I'm carrying it over. I'm figuring when
Speaker 1: they got down they're gonna spike it, right, And Dak
Speaker 1: said when he was running down there and saw how
Speaker 1: close it was, yeah, it was like okay. It was
Speaker 1: kind of a romo ischem, It's like, okay, let's go
Speaker 1: for it, right because they were out of timeouts. Yeah
Speaker 1: that was that was oh no, oh yes, yeah, that's me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: spike it. Yeah, that all of a sudden when I
Speaker 1: saw him line up and Philadelphia wasn't quite set. They
Speaker 1: did a great job too, because the only person they
Speaker 1: had they had they had Michael Bennett playing is really
Speaker 1: in the gap and that's where they blew that thing
Speaker 1: open to that side. Bennett's just not strong enough to
Speaker 1: go in there and play toe to toe. And they
Speaker 1: knocked Bennet back, they knocked Malcolm Jenkins back, and they
Speaker 1: got Fletcher Cox to turn. And so, yeah, give those
Speaker 1: guys a lot of credit. I mean, those three guys
Speaker 1: inside guys came off the ball and really the Dak
Speaker 1: reached the ball, but he really didn't have to. If
Speaker 1: he'd just falling forward, he was going to score. The
Speaker 1: way that they blew that thing open, good view right
Speaker 1: there by Ken Garrison showing you how they were able to.
Speaker 1: If you're watching along with this, So do you think
Speaker 1: do you think when you're running down field like that
Speaker 1: that you can actually hear, like if anybody's telling you
Speaker 1: spike it or go for it, can can you hear?
Speaker 1: Or is it just drilled into you the part of
Speaker 1: the situation. Yeah, they drill it during the week because
Speaker 1: he didn't really answer that part of the question, but
Speaker 1: it sounded like he made the decision when he got
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage. But let's go, how is
Speaker 1: the question post like, was anybody telling you what to do?
Speaker 1: Because he's running full speed down the field trying to
Speaker 1: get lined up right, Yeah, And I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're screaming at I think. I think the thing I
Speaker 1: think the decision that he made was he didn't allow
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to get there their goal line person change. They
Speaker 1: couldn't change. It was a seventeen yard pass, so they
Speaker 1: couldn't get their personnel on the field, you know, to
Speaker 1: to stop right, because the Cowboys were in at that point,
Speaker 1: they were in three They were in three tight ends,
Speaker 1: I believe. So you think, okay, with that matchup, we
Speaker 1: go ahead and just roll it. Yeah, just roll with
Speaker 1: it and go yeah, absolutely smart, heads up and if
Speaker 1: you get stopped, they okay it was came. The touchdown
Speaker 1: came with nineteen seconds left. Yeah, so he hadn't time.
Speaker 1: If he got stopped, they could have spiked. Because everyone's
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. It's not like a play
Speaker 1: where you're receivers downfield and so you can easily get
Speaker 1: set back up or your offensive lineman got a run
Speaker 1: for twenty yards, right, Yeah. What did you thinks think
Speaker 1: about the end of the game though, the past that
Speaker 1: went down the middle of the field to earth though,
Speaker 1: I mean, I was like, I was nervous that they
Speaker 1: were knocking tackle him there. I was jobbed by the
Speaker 1: defense and then he laterals and I'm like going, oh
Speaker 1: God to Golden Tate yea of all people. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, thinking they just give this away. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it was scary moments. Those our scary moment.
Speaker 1: I hate that picket fence defense, yeah, because you allow
Speaker 1: him to get a running start and he only and
Speaker 1: only rushed three guys, so that means he's got all
Speaker 1: day to decide what he's gonna do with it. Just
Speaker 1: couldn't get anybody home though at the end, and they
Speaker 1: had it. They mean he stepped up a couple of
Speaker 1: different times, but I don't know how he held down
Speaker 1: to the ball. At one time Lawrence hit him, Yeah
Speaker 1: he had it one handed. Yeah, he gotta be a
Speaker 1: fumble r Oh. We've seen this guy do that. Remember
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Jeff Heath hit him on the back
Speaker 1: side one time and he just almost like Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, held on and pulled it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm like, go on, how did that ball not or
Speaker 1: it might have been it might have been might have
Speaker 1: been Orlando Scandrick hit him on a blitz on the
Speaker 1: back side and he he just kept it and he
Speaker 1: tucked it, and I'm like, how do you just go
Speaker 1: along that? Yeah? This strong handed guy, no question or
Speaker 1: no first baseman's mits for hands and not to get
Speaker 1: back to you what you're what you posed there making
Speaker 1: about carrying this forward, sustaining it. Okay, not to get
Speaker 1: too far ahead of ourselves, but you got Atlanta and
Speaker 1: you got Washington. I mean you're sitting there. You got
Speaker 1: to be five and five and to get into that
Speaker 1: Washington game, yeah, I think you can come out if
Speaker 1: you can win the next two. You're sitting there six
Speaker 1: and five. Who's Washington got this week? They got? I
Speaker 1: just looked it up. My they've already had their bye weeks.
Speaker 1: They play Houston, Houston, they play Houston, and I mean
Speaker 1: it's coming off of bye. I think they want sixth
Speaker 1: straight Washington. Boy, they were gifted some things against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Tampa five hundred yards of offense, did I hear? And
Speaker 1: three points? That's the first time and how long that's
Speaker 1: happed through for four hundred yards at any any and
Speaker 1: every time we got critical Fitzpatrick just either fumbled the
Speaker 1: ball through an interception. I didn't see the game. So,
Speaker 1: but I know Atlanta, I know Atlanta's coming up. They
Speaker 1: have a great talent on offense. But Washington has had
Speaker 1: trouble manufacturing points. It didn't happen again yesterday. They're dealing
Speaker 1: with injuries on the offensive line. This division is still
Speaker 1: it's still there. I mean, you're sitting there, you're sitting
Speaker 1: skating by, you're sitting here looking at it. Okay, if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can win at Atlanta, such different talk than
Speaker 1: we had last week. If the Cowboys can win at Atlanta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's say Houston wins over Washington, set it up.
Speaker 1: That's the Cowboys. The Cowboys, if they beat the Redskins,
Speaker 1: would be tied for the division lead at six and
Speaker 1: five with Eagles are playing New Orleans coming in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with New Orleans coming in and the Eagles are playing
Speaker 1: at New Orleans, I mean, they could conceivably be four
Speaker 1: and six right there. It's it's there. It's not pretty
Speaker 1: at all. But putting in a call to the to
Speaker 1: the to the NFL officials or replay guy. Even if
Speaker 1: Philadelphia goes into New Orleans and wins, and then they
Speaker 1: got the Giants the next week at the end of Thanksgiving, weekend,
Speaker 1: it could be a three way tie for first place
Speaker 1: at six and five. Sure. I thought the best stat
Speaker 1: they gave out in the broadcast last night was that Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: out of their last seven opponents, five of them are
Speaker 1: in first place. Yeah. Wow, yes, Washington, Houston. See, they've
Speaker 1: had some bad losses, Caroline. No, uh, they got to
Speaker 1: play Houston, yeah, um, got the Rams in there, Rams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's one more they've got to play that's in
Speaker 1: the first place. So yeah, it's tough being the guy
Speaker 1: everybody's going after, right, a little different than last year.
Speaker 1: But you know that that banner up there doesn't give
Speaker 1: you seven points to start the game. Yep. No, but
Speaker 1: the banners there, it's there. There, it's there. No, you know,
Speaker 1: I just we all in agreeance that, uh that they're
Speaker 1: going to have to win the division to get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah, there's no way. There's no way.
Speaker 1: I mean, so yeah, you just you know, now, it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty simple to me what they have to do,
Speaker 1: because it's not okay, go watch other people and do
Speaker 1: this and do that. You know, you just got to
Speaker 1: take care of your game. I mean, between Minnesota and Carolina,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna overtake the playoffs with Seattle's four and
Speaker 1: five now as well, so that maybe the second wild
Speaker 1: card will not come out of the come out of
Speaker 1: the West. So your second wild card could come. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be one out of the North and one
Speaker 1: out of the South South. Right, Yeah, you got right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk playoffs. Ye, playoffs. The Panthers are six and
Speaker 1: three in second places and they beat you, and the
Speaker 1: Vikings are five three and one in second place in
Speaker 1: the North. Chicago leads the North and they travel the
Speaker 1: Soldier Field this weekend to play a game. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good teams in the NFC, I mean,
Speaker 1: so and and a team like Carolina has a win
Speaker 1: over you, um and there, you don't need Atlanta to
Speaker 1: have a win over you, right, I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: easiest way, is just climb out of this hole in
Speaker 1: the division, and the division win it with nine wins
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's gonna take eight wins, who knows saying.
Speaker 1: The other thing is is the Redskins and the Eagles
Speaker 1: haven't played yet. They still got to play twice, so
Speaker 1: there's two losses there for somebody somewhere along the lines.
Speaker 1: They gotta have two losses, so they just gotta take
Speaker 1: care of yourself, right right. It's hard to believe we're
Speaker 1: talking about this this Mory. We are. We are condressed
Speaker 1: because last week we were burying them right season on
Speaker 1: the brink. Well it was, it was it was it's
Speaker 1: still on the brink. Yeah, and that's one thing that
Speaker 1: they got. He's got to the coaches have to make
Speaker 1: sure that the players realized that they didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: You know, they just survived another week, you know, and
Speaker 1: now they got to keep doing it. And that was
Speaker 1: some of the guys in the locker room. We're like, okay,
Speaker 1: but we got to move forward. Yeah, okay, this is
Speaker 1: over with And that's kind of you know, everybody gets
Speaker 1: mad at Garrett for being unemotional and you know, and
Speaker 1: but you got you gotta stay out and even keel
Speaker 1: Yeah after the game, absolutely, But but you can't sit
Speaker 1: there and act like you just won the world. Oh
Speaker 1: they were the better team last night. Dallas was the
Speaker 1: better team. They sure were they were, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: were sure doing a lot of selfies in the end
Speaker 1: zone after scoring touchdowns and stuff. You know, I'm sitting
Speaker 1: there going I thought Doug Peterson was the coach that
Speaker 1: always likes to go for two and win the game
Speaker 1: right now. And I'm sitting there going, well, why aren't
Speaker 1: they going for two when they pulled it within one
Speaker 1: point with seven minutes left in the game. Well, the
Speaker 1: whole offense is in the end zone taking a selfie,
Speaker 1: so they can't go for two. I guess they missed.
Speaker 1: Isn't that what the analytics They all the analytics, they
Speaker 1: all say that you're supposed to go for two now
Speaker 1: because Doug Peterson is so smart that he goes for two.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure. I'm sure Doug Peterson's getting ripped
Speaker 1: for not going for two. Oh that's what. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure the analytics people are saying, yeah, why didn't
Speaker 1: he go for two? I mean, yeah, That's what I
Speaker 1: was told, is that the analytics now say that you
Speaker 1: have a better chance of winning the game going for
Speaker 1: two in regulation, doesn't matter whether it's the last play
Speaker 1: of the game or seven minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: rather than going to overtime with that much time left. Really,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what they've told me on Twitter. That's
Speaker 1: your first mistake. So that's why I was trolling him
Speaker 1: on Twitter yesterday. Two minutes left to the third quarter.
Speaker 1: I'm going, Okay, how come Peterson's not going for two years?
Speaker 1: Listening to the analytics, sometimes you gotta just use comments sense, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, I should just work the same whether it's
Speaker 1: the last play of the game or two minutes to
Speaker 1: go in the third quarter. Right, that's what the analytics
Speaker 1: tell me. You go, all right. That does it for
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