WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Monday, Monday 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:08.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:18.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.960 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.680 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:37.959 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, here we are. It's another Monday 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:44.320 of mix shots after an uneventful day that Mickey Spagnola 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.479 is very happy. He did not make the trip to 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.960 our nation's capital over the weekend and it was not 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.520 in attendance personally, but I know, Mickey, you took it 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.520 all in. And here we are. That's why we call 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.400 this show mix shots, because there will be plenty for 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.720 you to fire away at today. Same song, different verse. Right. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.399 I think we've heard this story before and it's starting 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.400 to get old, and I would imagine it's getting old 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:20.200 for the Cowboys. Not enough offense, uh, not nearly enough defense, 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:27.400 And to me, we understand why they're struggling offensively defensively. 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.760 You know, it's getting to the point Bill where the 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.600 only conclusion I can come to is they're just not 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.680 good enough. And that might be the worst indictment of 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.280 a group that can be made. You know, before it 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:46.959 was the system. We're not used to these coaches, and 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.360 at seven, at seven games into the season, they're just 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.920 not playing well, not playing well at all, and I 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.800 don't know if they can get better. Stephen Jones today 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:05.560 on his segment radio segment said he still has hopes 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.120 that this defense is evolving. Well, it needs to start 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.880 evolving a little bit quicker because they're still making mental 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.800 mistakes and they still aren't good enough for some reason 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:23.519 up front to stop anybody, including the Washington Redskins, who 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:29.000 came in with the thirty second rushing offense in the league. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.639 They average, which would be dead last, dead last in 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:37.120 the league, right, eighty two point two rushing yards a game, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.160 and they go for two o eight? Are you serious? 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.920 So yeah, this is I thought we hit rock bottom 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.280 last week, but I think we're underground this week. And 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:55.120 there's Everson Walls. Everson Walls is joining us. How you doing, Everson? 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.600 I'm doing just fine? Can you hear me? Okay? I 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.800 hear you fine. I'm not sure if the rest of 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:06.120 America and the Worldwide Web the web does, but thumbs up, Chris, Yes, indeed, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.360 Christy Beam by the way, So I'm good. But the 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.040 Cowboys are not. And by the way, Bill, thank you 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:20.040 Captain Obvious for clarifying what Spacknola was talking about. This 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.200 reminds me so much. You know what, it would be 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:28.080 good if he reminded me of last year's Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:33.160 If you recall, they lost Roethlisberger, they came in. I 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.560 think they were down to the third stream quarterback as 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.600 well by the time the season was over with. But 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.280 you know what they did, they made an extremely gallant 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:47.600 effort at hanging in there. You know, the coach Thomas, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.840 he was like, look, no excuses. You know how he is. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:55.600 This guy refuses to take handouts from anyone. And if 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.360 you recall last year, they didn't make the playoffs. And 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.880 of course now you're looking at this year, they're the 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:05.840 only undefeated team left in the NFL. But good teams 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.880 go through this a lot. It's how you go through 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.280 it and that makes a difference. And right now, I 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.640 don't think the Cowboys know what the hell they're doing Offensively. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:23.159 We use the word excuses. Excuses is really not a 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.240 big enough word for what the problems that they have 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:31.880 with their offensive. Defensively, there are no excuses. These are 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.520 the players that we signed. This is the system that 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.120 we wanted Mike Nolan, although he's never been successful and 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.560 with any defense that he's had, we assumed that these 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.359 were the players that he needed. And we assumed wrong, 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.160 because it doesn't matter who he puts in. It doesn't 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.880 matter how they simplify the game plan itself. And I 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.760 can't see a defensive game plan being so difficult that 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.880 it makes you play as badly as our defense has 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.080 been playing all year long. I have not seen improvement. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.279 And the only improvement that we may have seen was 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.159 against teams that was so horrible. We saw improvements against 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.880 the Giants, right well, yeah, that team, we should have 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.080 improvements against the offense they're horrible, and the same with 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.599 the Redskins, but we were even worse. So they let 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.000 you know where we are at the bottom of the 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.479 barrel right now. And Guys, I said to my son yesterday, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.680 we have the worst team in the NFL. It's just 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.480 that simple. We have the worst team in the NFL 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.480 right now. That's not speaking as a disappointed fan, that's 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.159 not speaking as an alumni that his pride whose probably 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.800 is hurt as you look at this team, we have 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.680 no fights in us at all. That's what makes us 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.640 right now probably the worst team in the NFL. You know, 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.400 you mentioned Pittsburgh from last year, and as you were talking, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.719 I looked up Pittsburgh. The difference with Pittsburgh last year, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.480 of course, they lost Roethlisberger for the season, and they 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.200 were in their offense then was like was ranked twenty 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:14.719 seventh in the league, thirtieth in the league in total yards, 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.840 thirty first in passing yards twenty ninth and rushing yards. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.000 So they were horrible on offense. Okay, and that and 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.200 where the Cowboys are with their offensive line right now, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.719 that's pretty much the territory that we're talking about with 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.120 all the injuries that they've had. The difference was on defense. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.640 Pittsburgh played lights out last year. In fact, they were 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.520 number one in the league in sacks with fifty four. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.320 They were number one in the league in takeaways with 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.720 thirty eight takeaways on the season. The Cowboys have two 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.800 takeaways on the season, and they were top five defense 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.599 overall last year. And so yeah, one for east fifths back, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:59.120 one interceptor for each fist. There you go. And so 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.200 you would lie if you're gonna have the number of 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.839 injuries that the Cowboys have had on offense where you're 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.920 by necessity going to be a pedestrian offense. You have 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.840 to have your defense step up and play. And the 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.560 defense has not been there all year. And you must 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.320 have just read my column from Friday, because that was 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.960 my exact point. You know, I understand what's going on 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.760 on offense. You don't have your quarterback. You've got a 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.160 bunch of guys that you didn't even know we're going 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:35.239 to make the team playing the offensive line and you 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.080 need and you're you're struggling with turnovers. I get it, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.480 but that's no excuse for the defense. You could still 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.160 play defense. And that's the most troubling part of this 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:52.600 whole deal is that they let this team come in 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.440 and nearly gained four hundred yards. They ended up with 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.680 three ninety seven. All right, three ninety seven. This team 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.840 had not scored more than twenty points during their five 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.200 game losing streak, and they scored twenty five. What did 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.559 they have twenty two at halftime? Yeah, And so Micky, Micky, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.080 they didn't have to go over if they needed to 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.280 go over four hundred yards, they could have easily gone 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.920 over four hundred yards. They shut the game down because 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.760 there was no threat. The only way they were gonna, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.480 like the Cowboys in the game turn it over. The 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:32.000 Washington football team took pity on us. They were like, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.800 this is not even fun anymore, beating up on these guys. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:40.240 Let's they pulled out the white flag and they were 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.720 winning the ball game. If they wanted to take pity, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:47.319 they could have not done a headshot to Yeah Andy, Yeah, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.439 I think I think they weren't taking pity on Dallas. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.400 They were protecting themselves from their quarterback who's prone to 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.839 turn the ball over. And so so you let they 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.800 get up twenty two to three on you at halftime, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.480 and they're not going to take any chances at all 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.600 on the second half, especially with what the Cowboys offense 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.439 looks like right now. I mean, all right, you want 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.280 to talk to you you got your first mix shot John Bostick, 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:17.520 John Bostick, What do you think goes through the guy's 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.480 mind when he does that? Or there's nothing going through 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.559 his mind? I mean, there was no need. It wasn't 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.840 even a close call. And even if he wanted to 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.960 hit him on the ground, he didn't have to lead 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.600 with his head to hit his helmet. So hard. He 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:37.079 knocked the helmet off. That was just inexcusable. And if 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.080 he doesn't get suspended for this, I know he won't 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.400 picked out of the game, but he shouldn't be. He 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.680 will not be suspended. Yeah, and I saw that too, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:53.280 and I want to ask why not. Maybe they floated 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.319 it out there to see what kind of reaction there 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.040 might be, and maybe they when the when the decision 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:03.000 comes down, maybe some public sentiment might factor into their 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.840 ultimate decision on it. Well, this should be like hockey. 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.239 If my guy gets knocked out so many games, then 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.560 you get knocked out so many games for your offense. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.559 So if this is baseball, then we're coming at them, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:20.320 right next, next man up, we're gonna throw yeah at 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:27.280 your noggin, right. Yeah. Absolutely, what I saw was, you know, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.800 I saw not just the personnel on the field. At 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.679 this point. Our defensive coaches are at their wits end. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.120 They have no idea what to do, how to do it, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.920 who to play, who to punish, who to promote. You know, 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.800 right now they're just throwing people in and nothing is working. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.680 And when you're at that position. You talked about the 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.000 Pittsburgh defense, they've always had that pride about them. It 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.719 goes once again to our culture here. You know, we 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.800 talked about this, I think a couple of weeks ago. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.559 The Cowboys have never really you know, put the emphasis 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:10.160 on getting in off a defensive squad. We were always 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:15.359 known here with the Cowboys for well, aside from Doomsday, 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.880 we have always been known for having that offensive squad 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.880 that that making every game where we can come back, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.040 we can be those cardiac kids because offensively, we've always 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.760 had the twols to do that, and we've always had 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.520 those since the nineties. We've had those players, Charles Haley, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:39.200 Dion Sanders, Woodson, you know, Kevin Smith, good players, but 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:43.840 we weren't really known ever as a defensive force with 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.280 the Cowboys since the seventies. Really, that's just what we 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.360 were never known for that. I think that that has 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.600 to change here nowadays because there are times when offensively 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.160 you can score all the points you one. We saw 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.040 that last year and we saw that the beginning of 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:04.360 this ship. But offense sales the tickets and defense wins 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.400 the games. We always talk about that defense right now 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.040 needs to be showed up. From a personnel standpoint, I 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.080 know they've been trying to get it in there. I 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.480 know they've been signing to Everson Griffins, They've come in 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.640 with all these guys. We feel good about them. But 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:25.280 as a team, I don't think anyone that's trying to 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:30.240 have any accountability defensively, I don't. I don't see anyone 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.240 stepping up and saying, man, I gotta do better. You know, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:38.360 I'm horrible, And almost everyone on the front seven can 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:42.600 practically say that, but no one is really saying it 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.400 and then holding their other teammates responsible as well. See, 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.280 and okay, I get that, but I don't get the mistakes. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:57.160 And that's the part that is inexcusable. You know, you 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.400 can get beat physically. Maybe I don't have the physical 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:04.080 talent to do this, but the mistakes they're making. Think 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.560 about it, and I believe it was a it was 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.800 a third down, it was a third down play. Maybe. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.000 Let me see, I got my notes here, I got 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:18.079 all my shots here, you go get it together me. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.200 So it's second and five at the Dallas forty five. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.800 They blew part of the game we're talking about here. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.640 This is this is early, this is uh maybe late 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.760 first when it was still a game. Okay, it was 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.800 still a game. Second in five, the Dallas forty five. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:40.040 They blitz the Xavier Woods, all right, nobody covers the 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.720 tight end. He gets a free release downfield for a 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:49.680 twenty six yard game. Some guy named Thomas seriously, and 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:55.480 he had a ball game yesterday, yes, and think about it. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:14:00.439 There was no guys and they end up they end 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.800 up in single safety high and the closest guy to 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.160 covering the tight end was Donovan Wilson, who had to 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.480 come from twenty yards deep in the middle of the 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.319 field to go to the sideline to cover the tight 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.199 end that's not covered. Now, how does that happen? And 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:23.480 then on the fifty two yard touchdown paston mclauren, they 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.080 hadn't completed a past longer than twenty nine yards all 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:32.440 season long. That was his longest completion for Kyle Allen, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.280 twenty nine yards and he hits a fifty two yard 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.400 because the rookie defensive back is looking inside. I don't 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.320 know if he's looking at the corner, if he thought 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.960 the pass was going to go underneath, and and he 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.000 kind of stutters himself. The guy didn't do nothing but 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.560 run a nine route straight down the field. No stutter move, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.120 no no fancy didn't go. He just ran straight and 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.000 he gets blown by for a fifty two yard touchdown pass. 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.200 How do you make that mistake and see and that's 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.520 the same thing they did last was that last week? 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.680 Yutely same thing when they had the three guys and 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.560 were looking like exact same route and you didn't see 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.560 And you didn't see a lot of Darryl Worley on 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.760 the field this game either. And I got another guy 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.520 that doesn't need to be on the field anymore is 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.640 don Terry Poe. That's three games in a row he 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:31.320 zeroed out. He played forty eight snaps, I mean forty 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.880 eight percent of the office of their snaps, the defensive snaps, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.960 and he zeroed out nothing three games in a row. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.920 His name is not even on the defensive tackle chart 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.480 on the play by play three weeks in a row. 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.520 I don't know if they think we just got to 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.640 put him out there, but he's not doing anything I 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:57.000 could zero out. So they're just the mistakes they're making. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.920 It just this is seven games in How do you 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.880 keep making those mistakes? Now? I understand the rookie right 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.920 when you you're gonna start a rookie corner and no 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.080 offense to Everson. But you're gonna have to live with 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:15.000 some growing planes. I understand it. But still that that's 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.320 just very simple. And that's why after the draft I 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.960 was really concerned when I heard all these people talking about, Oh, 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.000 they've drafted these two corners, Trayvon Digs and Reggie Robinson. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.080 These guys are gonna step right in and be day 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:33.040 one starters. Better just hold the boat on that one 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.880 a little bit, because the problem that the only problem 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.960 you have with that Spags is we assume that he 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.480 would come in and make plays, or either one would 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.360 come in and make plays, because we had no one 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.240 back there really making any But see, but that's nothing 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.440 right because chitebe Eousier is a good corner and they 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:57.840 miss him really badly right now. They need him on 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:02.240 the field, and I know at times he gets beat 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.000 on those those fifty fifty balls, but at least he's 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.200 covering somebody. He's not letting somebody run ten yards past 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.359 him before he decides to turn and run. I think, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:18.840 I think what you have with your secondary is they 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.439 wanted to have they wanted to show improvement. Yes, we 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.880 had Jones, we had we had we have a Woozier. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.720 But what we were looking at was trying to get 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.639 some players in here that could make plays on the 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:40.200 ball because we still needed a secondary with that type 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:45.840 of mentality to help the offense when they were stuttering. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.000 I mean, this is really where it came from, Spags. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.760 Our offense was blowing people away just like we did 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:55.840 earlier this year in regards to numbers and production, but 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.840 we had to go eighty yards the whole time. You know, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.560 that's my narrative. I'm the guy that has been on 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.080 board with this the entire time, So I know where 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.880 your frustration is coming from. But where do you go 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:12.040 when you have a defensive backfield that is stagnant in 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.880 their production? That's they were trying to improve that. So 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:18.760 here we go, we bring in guys that make it 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.960 plays on the ball. Yeah, but the knowledge here, well 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:24.760 you brought to he right, I mean the Robinson and 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.560 then yeah. Yeah, so you assume that this is going 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.280 to be part of your new wave of players that 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.880 are going to be thinking turnover as well as still 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.119 being solid players patched as far as recognition and coming 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.840 up making tackles and things of that nature. Which does 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.640 a lot of that, but you come here, you have 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:48.000 no pressure. You have the pressure of being a Dallas cowboy. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.720 And I'm not giving these guys excuses at all. Trust me. 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.560 What this is the play that he had yesterday? I mean, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.159 you can't, you can't. You can't watch worldly do the 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.439 same thing last week. You do it coming up this 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.919 week against you know, some of the better, the best 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:09.879 wide receiver on their squad. Remember I picked up digs 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.720 would pick to click because I knew they were gonna 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.040 come at him. I thought he knew that they were 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.800 gonna come at him. But he stands there with his 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.920 feet and submit. So all you're looking at right now 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:24.840 is a continuation of what went on last year. Well, 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.480 actually it might be a little worse now because as 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.280 you're giving up the big plays, you're not making any 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.560 of your own. Defensively, This isn't even close to last 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:39.760 year they finished. They finished ninth overall in yards. Right now, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:46.080 right now, they are thirteen yards a game from the 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:51.040 pace of being the worst defense in franchise history. Giving 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.040 up the most yards after one year was at sixty 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.800 or eighty nine, No, it was twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.480 really gave up the most yards in franchise history. Wow, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.359 is that Rob Ryan? It would us and that was 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.119 it was? It was the year after Rob Ryan. But 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.320 I think second or third was Rob Ryan in twelve, 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:19.359 I think or eleven, so so Mickey. They were making 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.560 the transition from a three four to a four three 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:31.720 right back then Tamaranelli to a fourth three. Yeah, from 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.120 a three four to a four three. There you go, right, Well, 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:38.440 now they're in a four three right exactly. But they're 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.919 they're having they're having difficulties trying to figure out what 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.760 defense they need to be in. What As the season starts, 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:51.159 someone someone texts me Rob's number. I'm gonna call all 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.800 right when we come back here. On mick Shots, Mickey 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.760 took us through the first scoring well, the second scoring drive, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.600 and the third scoring drive. 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A limited number of tickets are on sale 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:41.560 now get yours today at Dallas Cowboys dot Com slash tickets. 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:45.200 I think the Steelers might be playing the Ravens this week, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.680 so they may not be unbeaten when they come into 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:53.919 at and T Stadium next week. Soon defeated, I'll be 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.679 more interested. Yeah, that's right now, Loo bringing me in 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:03.760 after they lost, they'll really be pissed off. And they 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:07.679 came away with a victory yesterday against Tennessee and Steve 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.160 got Gaskowski missed a field goal that would have tied 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:16.840 the game and forced overtime. Yeah, all right, mickey. So 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:21.560 you were running through some key defensive lapses in the 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:24.520 game against Washington. You got us through fifteen to three 0:24:24.560 --> 0:24:28.240 in the first half, which essentially ended the game. But 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.080 then the Washington put the game away on their next possession, 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.119 starting with seven thirteen to play in the second quarter. 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:39.960 It was a sixty yard ten play drive and there 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:45.520 were three critical third down conversions for Washington on that drive. 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:47.920 And by the way, in the game, Washington was nine 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:51.840 for fifteen on third down sixty percent conversion rate. The 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:55.399 first one before that game weren't they the worst in 0:24:55.520 --> 0:25:02.280 the league, the offensively challenged Washington's by the way, that's right, 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:05.320 they were the worst third down team offensive team in 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:08.600 the league, correct before before yesterday. I've got I'll check 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.200 that out. Let's go with it. I agree. Yeah, that 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:16.680 sounds good, sounds good. All right. They're facing a third 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:20.119 and five at their own forty five yard line, and 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.679 the Cowboys come with a blitz mickey, And what happened 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:27.520 on that play? They blitzed and they're gonna throw a 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:31.080 little short pass I think it was to the running back. Yep, 0:25:31.600 --> 0:25:35.760 and Layton Vanderish gets called for holding. He didn't let 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:40.480