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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, here we are. It's another Monday
Speaker 1: of mix shots after an uneventful day that Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: is very happy. He did not make the trip to
Speaker 1: our nation's capital over the weekend and it was not
Speaker 1: in attendance personally, but I know, Mickey, you took it
Speaker 1: all in. And here we are. That's why we call
Speaker 1: this show mix shots, because there will be plenty for
Speaker 1: you to fire away at today. Same song, different verse. Right.
Speaker 1: I think we've heard this story before and it's starting
Speaker 1: to get old, and I would imagine it's getting old
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Not enough offense, uh, not nearly enough defense,
Speaker 1: And to me, we understand why they're struggling offensively defensively.
Speaker 1: You know, it's getting to the point Bill where the
Speaker 1: only conclusion I can come to is they're just not
Speaker 1: good enough. And that might be the worst indictment of
Speaker 1: a group that can be made. You know, before it
Speaker 1: was the system. We're not used to these coaches, and
Speaker 1: at seven, at seven games into the season, they're just
Speaker 1: not playing well, not playing well at all, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if they can get better. Stephen Jones today
Speaker 1: on his segment radio segment said he still has hopes
Speaker 1: that this defense is evolving. Well, it needs to start
Speaker 1: evolving a little bit quicker because they're still making mental
Speaker 1: mistakes and they still aren't good enough for some reason
Speaker 1: up front to stop anybody, including the Washington Redskins, who
Speaker 1: came in with the thirty second rushing offense in the league.
Speaker 1: They average, which would be dead last, dead last in
Speaker 1: the league, right, eighty two point two rushing yards a game,
Speaker 1: and they go for two o eight? Are you serious?
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is I thought we hit rock bottom
Speaker 1: last week, but I think we're underground this week. And
Speaker 1: there's Everson Walls. Everson Walls is joining us. How you doing, Everson?
Speaker 1: I'm doing just fine? Can you hear me? Okay? I
Speaker 1: hear you fine. I'm not sure if the rest of
Speaker 1: America and the Worldwide Web the web does, but thumbs up, Chris, Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: Christy Beam by the way, So I'm good. But the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are not. And by the way, Bill, thank you
Speaker 1: Captain Obvious for clarifying what Spacknola was talking about. This
Speaker 1: reminds me so much. You know what, it would be
Speaker 1: good if he reminded me of last year's Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: If you recall, they lost Roethlisberger, they came in. I
Speaker 1: think they were down to the third stream quarterback as
Speaker 1: well by the time the season was over with. But
Speaker 1: you know what they did, they made an extremely gallant
Speaker 1: effort at hanging in there. You know, the coach Thomas,
Speaker 1: he was like, look, no excuses. You know how he is.
Speaker 1: This guy refuses to take handouts from anyone. And if
Speaker 1: you recall last year, they didn't make the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: of course now you're looking at this year, they're the
Speaker 1: only undefeated team left in the NFL. But good teams
Speaker 1: go through this a lot. It's how you go through
Speaker 1: it and that makes a difference. And right now, I
Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys know what the hell they're doing Offensively.
Speaker 1: We use the word excuses. Excuses is really not a
Speaker 1: big enough word for what the problems that they have
Speaker 1: with their offensive. Defensively, there are no excuses. These are
Speaker 1: the players that we signed. This is the system that
Speaker 1: we wanted Mike Nolan, although he's never been successful and
Speaker 1: with any defense that he's had, we assumed that these
Speaker 1: were the players that he needed. And we assumed wrong,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter who he puts in. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how they simplify the game plan itself. And I
Speaker 1: can't see a defensive game plan being so difficult that
Speaker 1: it makes you play as badly as our defense has
Speaker 1: been playing all year long. I have not seen improvement.
Speaker 1: And the only improvement that we may have seen was
Speaker 1: against teams that was so horrible. We saw improvements against
Speaker 1: the Giants, right well, yeah, that team, we should have
Speaker 1: improvements against the offense they're horrible, and the same with
Speaker 1: the Redskins, but we were even worse. So they let
Speaker 1: you know where we are at the bottom of the
Speaker 1: barrel right now. And Guys, I said to my son yesterday,
Speaker 1: we have the worst team in the NFL. It's just
Speaker 1: that simple. We have the worst team in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now. That's not speaking as a disappointed fan, that's
Speaker 1: not speaking as an alumni that his pride whose probably
Speaker 1: is hurt as you look at this team, we have
Speaker 1: no fights in us at all. That's what makes us
Speaker 1: right now probably the worst team in the NFL. You know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Pittsburgh from last year, and as you were talking,
Speaker 1: I looked up Pittsburgh. The difference with Pittsburgh last year,
Speaker 1: of course, they lost Roethlisberger for the season, and they
Speaker 1: were in their offense then was like was ranked twenty
Speaker 1: seventh in the league, thirtieth in the league in total yards,
Speaker 1: thirty first in passing yards twenty ninth and rushing yards.
Speaker 1: So they were horrible on offense. Okay, and that and
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys are with their offensive line right now,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the territory that we're talking about with
Speaker 1: all the injuries that they've had. The difference was on defense.
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh played lights out last year. In fact, they were
Speaker 1: number one in the league in sacks with fifty four.
Speaker 1: They were number one in the league in takeaways with
Speaker 1: thirty eight takeaways on the season. The Cowboys have two
Speaker 1: takeaways on the season, and they were top five defense
Speaker 1: overall last year. And so yeah, one for east fifths back,
Speaker 1: one interceptor for each fist. There you go. And so
Speaker 1: you would lie if you're gonna have the number of
Speaker 1: injuries that the Cowboys have had on offense where you're
Speaker 1: by necessity going to be a pedestrian offense. You have
Speaker 1: to have your defense step up and play. And the
Speaker 1: defense has not been there all year. And you must
Speaker 1: have just read my column from Friday, because that was
Speaker 1: my exact point. You know, I understand what's going on
Speaker 1: on offense. You don't have your quarterback. You've got a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys that you didn't even know we're going
Speaker 1: to make the team playing the offensive line and you
Speaker 1: need and you're you're struggling with turnovers. I get it,
Speaker 1: but that's no excuse for the defense. You could still
Speaker 1: play defense. And that's the most troubling part of this
Speaker 1: whole deal is that they let this team come in
Speaker 1: and nearly gained four hundred yards. They ended up with
Speaker 1: three ninety seven. All right, three ninety seven. This team
Speaker 1: had not scored more than twenty points during their five
Speaker 1: game losing streak, and they scored twenty five. What did
Speaker 1: they have twenty two at halftime? Yeah, And so Micky, Micky,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to go over if they needed to
Speaker 1: go over four hundred yards, they could have easily gone
Speaker 1: over four hundred yards. They shut the game down because
Speaker 1: there was no threat. The only way they were gonna,
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys in the game turn it over. The
Speaker 1: Washington football team took pity on us. They were like,
Speaker 1: this is not even fun anymore, beating up on these guys.
Speaker 1: Let's they pulled out the white flag and they were
Speaker 1: winning the ball game. If they wanted to take pity,
Speaker 1: they could have not done a headshot to Yeah Andy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think they weren't taking pity on Dallas.
Speaker 1: They were protecting themselves from their quarterback who's prone to
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. And so so you let they
Speaker 1: get up twenty two to three on you at halftime,
Speaker 1: and they're not going to take any chances at all
Speaker 1: on the second half, especially with what the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: looks like right now. I mean, all right, you want
Speaker 1: to talk to you you got your first mix shot John Bostick,
Speaker 1: John Bostick, What do you think goes through the guy's
Speaker 1: mind when he does that? Or there's nothing going through
Speaker 1: his mind? I mean, there was no need. It wasn't
Speaker 1: even a close call. And even if he wanted to
Speaker 1: hit him on the ground, he didn't have to lead
Speaker 1: with his head to hit his helmet. So hard. He
Speaker 1: knocked the helmet off. That was just inexcusable. And if
Speaker 1: he doesn't get suspended for this, I know he won't
Speaker 1: picked out of the game, but he shouldn't be. He
Speaker 1: will not be suspended. Yeah, and I saw that too,
Speaker 1: and I want to ask why not. Maybe they floated
Speaker 1: it out there to see what kind of reaction there
Speaker 1: might be, and maybe they when the when the decision
Speaker 1: comes down, maybe some public sentiment might factor into their
Speaker 1: ultimate decision on it. Well, this should be like hockey.
Speaker 1: If my guy gets knocked out so many games, then
Speaker 1: you get knocked out so many games for your offense.
Speaker 1: So if this is baseball, then we're coming at them,
Speaker 1: right next, next man up, we're gonna throw yeah at
Speaker 1: your noggin, right. Yeah. Absolutely, what I saw was, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw not just the personnel on the field. At
Speaker 1: this point. Our defensive coaches are at their wits end.
Speaker 1: They have no idea what to do, how to do it,
Speaker 1: who to play, who to punish, who to promote. You know,
Speaker 1: right now they're just throwing people in and nothing is working.
Speaker 1: And when you're at that position. You talked about the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh defense, they've always had that pride about them. It
Speaker 1: goes once again to our culture here. You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about this, I think a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have never really you know, put the emphasis
Speaker 1: on getting in off a defensive squad. We were always
Speaker 1: known here with the Cowboys for well, aside from Doomsday,
Speaker 1: we have always been known for having that offensive squad
Speaker 1: that that making every game where we can come back,
Speaker 1: we can be those cardiac kids because offensively, we've always
Speaker 1: had the twols to do that, and we've always had
Speaker 1: those since the nineties. We've had those players, Charles Haley,
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders, Woodson, you know, Kevin Smith, good players, but
Speaker 1: we weren't really known ever as a defensive force with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys since the seventies. Really, that's just what we
Speaker 1: were never known for that. I think that that has
Speaker 1: to change here nowadays because there are times when offensively
Speaker 1: you can score all the points you one. We saw
Speaker 1: that last year and we saw that the beginning of
Speaker 1: this ship. But offense sales the tickets and defense wins
Speaker 1: the games. We always talk about that defense right now
Speaker 1: needs to be showed up. From a personnel standpoint, I
Speaker 1: know they've been trying to get it in there. I
Speaker 1: know they've been signing to Everson Griffins, They've come in
Speaker 1: with all these guys. We feel good about them. But
Speaker 1: as a team, I don't think anyone that's trying to
Speaker 1: have any accountability defensively, I don't. I don't see anyone
Speaker 1: stepping up and saying, man, I gotta do better. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm horrible, And almost everyone on the front seven can
Speaker 1: practically say that, but no one is really saying it
Speaker 1: and then holding their other teammates responsible as well. See,
Speaker 1: and okay, I get that, but I don't get the mistakes.
Speaker 1: And that's the part that is inexcusable. You know, you
Speaker 1: can get beat physically. Maybe I don't have the physical
Speaker 1: talent to do this, but the mistakes they're making. Think
Speaker 1: about it, and I believe it was a it was
Speaker 1: a third down, it was a third down play. Maybe.
Speaker 1: Let me see, I got my notes here, I got
Speaker 1: all my shots here, you go get it together me.
Speaker 1: So it's second and five at the Dallas forty five.
Speaker 1: They blew part of the game we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: This is this is early, this is uh maybe late
Speaker 1: first when it was still a game. Okay, it was
Speaker 1: still a game. Second in five, the Dallas forty five.
Speaker 1: They blitz the Xavier Woods, all right, nobody covers the
Speaker 1: tight end. He gets a free release downfield for a
Speaker 1: twenty six yard game. Some guy named Thomas seriously, and
Speaker 1: he had a ball game yesterday, yes, and think about it.
Speaker 1: There was no guys and they end up they end
Speaker 1: up in single safety high and the closest guy to
Speaker 1: covering the tight end was Donovan Wilson, who had to
Speaker 1: come from twenty yards deep in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field to go to the sideline to cover the tight
Speaker 1: end that's not covered. Now, how does that happen? And
Speaker 1: then on the fifty two yard touchdown paston mclauren, they
Speaker 1: hadn't completed a past longer than twenty nine yards all
Speaker 1: season long. That was his longest completion for Kyle Allen,
Speaker 1: twenty nine yards and he hits a fifty two yard
Speaker 1: because the rookie defensive back is looking inside. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's looking at the corner, if he thought
Speaker 1: the pass was going to go underneath, and and he
Speaker 1: kind of stutters himself. The guy didn't do nothing but
Speaker 1: run a nine route straight down the field. No stutter move,
Speaker 1: no no fancy didn't go. He just ran straight and
Speaker 1: he gets blown by for a fifty two yard touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: How do you make that mistake and see and that's
Speaker 1: the same thing they did last was that last week?
Speaker 1: Yutely same thing when they had the three guys and
Speaker 1: were looking like exact same route and you didn't see
Speaker 1: And you didn't see a lot of Darryl Worley on
Speaker 1: the field this game either. And I got another guy
Speaker 1: that doesn't need to be on the field anymore is
Speaker 1: don Terry Poe. That's three games in a row he
Speaker 1: zeroed out. He played forty eight snaps, I mean forty
Speaker 1: eight percent of the office of their snaps, the defensive snaps,
Speaker 1: and he zeroed out nothing three games in a row.
Speaker 1: His name is not even on the defensive tackle chart
Speaker 1: on the play by play three weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they think we just got to
Speaker 1: put him out there, but he's not doing anything I
Speaker 1: could zero out. So they're just the mistakes they're making.
Speaker 1: It just this is seven games in How do you
Speaker 1: keep making those mistakes? Now? I understand the rookie right
Speaker 1: when you you're gonna start a rookie corner and no
Speaker 1: offense to Everson. But you're gonna have to live with
Speaker 1: some growing planes. I understand it. But still that that's
Speaker 1: just very simple. And that's why after the draft I
Speaker 1: was really concerned when I heard all these people talking about, Oh,
Speaker 1: they've drafted these two corners, Trayvon Digs and Reggie Robinson.
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna step right in and be day
Speaker 1: one starters. Better just hold the boat on that one
Speaker 1: a little bit, because the problem that the only problem
Speaker 1: you have with that Spags is we assume that he
Speaker 1: would come in and make plays, or either one would
Speaker 1: come in and make plays, because we had no one
Speaker 1: back there really making any But see, but that's nothing
Speaker 1: right because chitebe Eousier is a good corner and they
Speaker 1: miss him really badly right now. They need him on
Speaker 1: the field, and I know at times he gets beat
Speaker 1: on those those fifty fifty balls, but at least he's
Speaker 1: covering somebody. He's not letting somebody run ten yards past
Speaker 1: him before he decides to turn and run. I think,
Speaker 1: I think what you have with your secondary is they
Speaker 1: wanted to have they wanted to show improvement. Yes, we
Speaker 1: had Jones, we had we had we have a Woozier.
Speaker 1: But what we were looking at was trying to get
Speaker 1: some players in here that could make plays on the
Speaker 1: ball because we still needed a secondary with that type
Speaker 1: of mentality to help the offense when they were stuttering.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is really where it came from, Spags.
Speaker 1: Our offense was blowing people away just like we did
Speaker 1: earlier this year in regards to numbers and production, but
Speaker 1: we had to go eighty yards the whole time. You know,
Speaker 1: that's my narrative. I'm the guy that has been on
Speaker 1: board with this the entire time, So I know where
Speaker 1: your frustration is coming from. But where do you go
Speaker 1: when you have a defensive backfield that is stagnant in
Speaker 1: their production? That's they were trying to improve that. So
Speaker 1: here we go, we bring in guys that make it
Speaker 1: plays on the ball. Yeah, but the knowledge here, well
Speaker 1: you brought to he right, I mean the Robinson and
Speaker 1: then yeah. Yeah, so you assume that this is going
Speaker 1: to be part of your new wave of players that
Speaker 1: are going to be thinking turnover as well as still
Speaker 1: being solid players patched as far as recognition and coming
Speaker 1: up making tackles and things of that nature. Which does
Speaker 1: a lot of that, but you come here, you have
Speaker 1: no pressure. You have the pressure of being a Dallas cowboy.
Speaker 1: And I'm not giving these guys excuses at all. Trust me.
Speaker 1: What this is the play that he had yesterday? I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't. You can't watch worldly do the
Speaker 1: same thing last week. You do it coming up this
Speaker 1: week against you know, some of the better, the best
Speaker 1: wide receiver on their squad. Remember I picked up digs
Speaker 1: would pick to click because I knew they were gonna
Speaker 1: come at him. I thought he knew that they were
Speaker 1: gonna come at him. But he stands there with his
Speaker 1: feet and submit. So all you're looking at right now
Speaker 1: is a continuation of what went on last year. Well,
Speaker 1: actually it might be a little worse now because as
Speaker 1: you're giving up the big plays, you're not making any
Speaker 1: of your own. Defensively, This isn't even close to last
Speaker 1: year they finished. They finished ninth overall in yards. Right now,
Speaker 1: right now, they are thirteen yards a game from the
Speaker 1: pace of being the worst defense in franchise history. Giving
Speaker 1: up the most yards after one year was at sixty
Speaker 1: or eighty nine, No, it was twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: really gave up the most yards in franchise history. Wow,
Speaker 1: is that Rob Ryan? It would us and that was
Speaker 1: it was? It was the year after Rob Ryan. But
Speaker 1: I think second or third was Rob Ryan in twelve,
Speaker 1: I think or eleven, so so Mickey. They were making
Speaker 1: the transition from a three four to a four three
Speaker 1: right back then Tamaranelli to a fourth three. Yeah, from
Speaker 1: a three four to a four three. There you go, right, Well,
Speaker 1: now they're in a four three right exactly. But they're
Speaker 1: they're having they're having difficulties trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: defense they need to be in. What As the season starts,
Speaker 1: someone someone texts me Rob's number. I'm gonna call all
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Speaker 1: and the third scoring drive. I want you to take
Speaker 1: us through the one that made it twenty two to three.
Speaker 1: There were three third down conversions in that possession for
Speaker 1: Washington that you might have some mix shots about when
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Speaker 1: after they lost, they'll really be pissed off. And they
Speaker 1: came away with a victory yesterday against Tennessee and Steve
Speaker 1: got Gaskowski missed a field goal that would have tied
Speaker 1: the game and forced overtime. Yeah, all right, mickey. So
Speaker 1: you were running through some key defensive lapses in the
Speaker 1: game against Washington. You got us through fifteen to three
Speaker 1: in the first half, which essentially ended the game. But
Speaker 1: then the Washington put the game away on their next possession,
Speaker 1: starting with seven thirteen to play in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: It was a sixty yard ten play drive and there
Speaker 1: were three critical third down conversions for Washington on that drive.
Speaker 1: And by the way, in the game, Washington was nine
Speaker 1: for fifteen on third down sixty percent conversion rate. The
Speaker 1: first one before that game weren't they the worst in
Speaker 1: the league, the offensively challenged Washington's by the way, that's right,
Speaker 1: they were the worst third down team offensive team in
Speaker 1: the league, correct before before yesterday. I've got I'll check
Speaker 1: that out. Let's go with it. I agree. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: sounds good, sounds good. All right. They're facing a third
Speaker 1: and five at their own forty five yard line, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys come with a blitz mickey, And what happened
Speaker 1: on that play? They blitzed and they're gonna throw a
Speaker 1: little short pass I think it was to the running back. Yep,
Speaker 1: and Layton Vanderish gets called for holding. He didn't let
Speaker 1: the running back out, So that's an easy conversion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you just gave him the first down without them
Speaker 1: executing anything. They had them in second and fifteen after
Speaker 1: a delay of game. On the next set of downs,
Speaker 1: Alan throws to McLaurin for six. They've got him third
Speaker 1: and nine at the fifty and they allow Alan to
Speaker 1: run out for thirteen yards. Thirteen yards. They looked good
Speaker 1: the pocket. Yeah, and he doesn't run much at all.
Speaker 1: He looked good. He stepped, he was like a running back.
Speaker 1: He saw the whole he hit it. He dipped to
Speaker 1: the outside people nipping at his heels, and little where
Speaker 1: he learned how to do that. It you know where
Speaker 1: he learned how to do that watching Kyler Murray in
Speaker 1: practice at Texas A and M and then and then
Speaker 1: it refreshed his memory watching the Cowboys against Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: last Monday night. Oh my goodness, I said there was
Speaker 1: a conversion that got one more conversions down. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then there's another third down conversion. They go two tight ends.
Speaker 1: It's third and one at the fifteen, and they get
Speaker 1: that guy named Thomas one on one with some guy
Speaker 1: named Thomas Smith. Yeah, some guy named Thomas one on
Speaker 1: one with Jalen Smith. And he, I mean, he's challenged,
Speaker 1: he can't cover. I still think they've got him playing
Speaker 1: out of position. Uh And I'm not sure what his
Speaker 1: position is, but he's not the guy that's going to
Speaker 1: run with those guys. That's the weak side linebacker. Uh
Speaker 1: And and he ends up missing the tackle and it's
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And by the way, Logan Thomas a former
Speaker 1: college quarterback at Virginia Tech. Uh. In fact, he's so
Speaker 1: he's their version of the belldozer. He's he's our he's
Speaker 1: Washington's a belldozer, Blake Bell being a former college quarterback
Speaker 1: who was, by the way, one play away from taking over.
Speaker 1: That's what people were asking, who goes in if something
Speaker 1: happens to de Nucci? And something could have could have
Speaker 1: happened to de Nucci the way they were coming at him.
Speaker 1: So when you when you go back to the vander
Speaker 1: As play, uh, that's one of those things where it
Speaker 1: wasn't for lack of knowledge or uh determination. I think
Speaker 1: he was gonna blitz that play. And uh he first
Speaker 1: on vander Esh on the hole. Yeah he was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was bla blitz that hole. He was gonna blitz
Speaker 1: that hole. The running back wasn't going to block him.
Speaker 1: He was going to release. So that was kind of
Speaker 1: a knee jerk bam bam play as far as his
Speaker 1: reaction was concerned. And he writes bags Jalen smith Man,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been trying to give him something. I've
Speaker 1: been trying to give him, you know, a little time
Speaker 1: to adjust to whatever's going on till Vanderesh gets back.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is what he is. He's a decently
Speaker 1: athletic player. He's got speed. It's all straight line. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's just face it. He has no footwork, he has
Speaker 1: no hips for playing man to man. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have to have a certain mentality to play man to
Speaker 1: man that whatever position you are, and he's just not
Speaker 1: that guy. I mean, he's still a guy that we
Speaker 1: could use defensively as long as we protect him well.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to man to man defense, Jayles
Speaker 1: Smith is a much better zone pass linebacker than he
Speaker 1: will ever be on man to man. So that touchdown,
Speaker 1: by the way, got us to Did that get us
Speaker 1: the halftime twenty two three? Yeah? Well that was there
Speaker 1: were still three minutes left and they had the big
Speaker 1: long drive and had ended up with the past just
Speaker 1: a little bit behind Zeke for the interception, right, So
Speaker 1: I had written down here since they were at twenty
Speaker 1: two uh that I saw a note where the the
Speaker 1: Washington's had scored thirty or more points only one time
Speaker 1: in the last thirty five games, So I figured they
Speaker 1: were on their way to thirty five for sure at
Speaker 1: twenty two three, especially especial considering the Cowboys the track record.
Speaker 1: If Washington had gotten to thirty points in this game,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys would have tied the all time record, which
Speaker 1: Jacksonville did later in the day, giving up thirty or
Speaker 1: more points in six straight games, but Washington only got
Speaker 1: twenty five. So yeah, they shut it down. Otherwise they
Speaker 1: would have if they had to write. I wrote so
Speaker 1: in the third quarter they didn't score, right, and I
Speaker 1: was like, whoa, this is like a victory. They shut
Speaker 1: him out in a quarter. Oh well, I saw some
Speaker 1: unusual things yesterday. I don't know if it was just
Speaker 1: you know, McCarthy being at his wits end, not knowing
Speaker 1: what to do offensively. It almost looked as if Paula's
Speaker 1: got a lot more playing time than I thought he
Speaker 1: would get. I think he got it in the late
Speaker 1: in the game when it was like, there's no sense
Speaker 1: using up zeke, We're not going anywhere. Look, and here's
Speaker 1: the thing that I thought they very smartly did on offense.
Speaker 1: They finally gave concessions to the fact that that offensive
Speaker 1: line is not capable of blocking anybody, especially one that
Speaker 1: has five first round draft choices on it, including Chase Young. Right,
Speaker 1: So they started off with two tight ends, they played
Speaker 1: a lot of two tight end right. They ended up
Speaker 1: with shorter drops, quicker throws. They adjusted to their deficiencies
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, this is working well. On the
Speaker 1: sack fumble that caused the safety, they had two tight
Speaker 1: ends and Schultz missed. He missed his block, and then
Speaker 1: Irving missed his block. And it's like you've setting everybody
Speaker 1: up to do what you're supposed to do and then
Speaker 1: you don't do it. And by the great God, Schultz
Speaker 1: recovered the ball in the end zone. Better recovered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he slutely, he's got nothing else to do because his
Speaker 1: man is now assaulting the quarterback. But however, however, let
Speaker 1: me let me throw it in this because Schultz recovered
Speaker 1: the ball in the end zone for a safety and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys then had to free kick it back to Washington.
Speaker 1: Instead of giving up seven points on that play, had
Speaker 1: Washington recovered in the end zone, the Cowboys gave up
Speaker 1: nine points. So I think when there is a fumble
Speaker 1: in the end zone, just go ahead and let the
Speaker 1: other let it go. Let it go, and then at
Speaker 1: least you'll be getting the football back. Okay, well, it
Speaker 1: shouldn't be automatic that you're going to give up nine
Speaker 1: that it should not be automatic. That's the problem that
Speaker 1: we're dealing with. That's the defense. You're dealing with that,
Speaker 1: which which is what happened last week against Arizona when
Speaker 1: Dalton threw the interception down at the Arizona twenty one
Speaker 1: yard line, and it was like a knife through butter
Speaker 1: twenty yard here, twenty two yards there. And they weren't
Speaker 1: pass plays. They were run place seventy nine yards and
Speaker 1: give up a you know, that was points off a turnover.
Speaker 1: But spags, you you were right before Dalton got hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, offense was still somewhat productive. Actually, we went
Speaker 1: scoring position and I'm sure you're gonna go over that,
Speaker 1: and then we threw the interception. So they ended up
Speaker 1: And I've wrote about this ad NAUSM, but I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure I didn't forget the total. They
Speaker 1: ended up with a hundred and forty two yards of
Speaker 1: total offense. I had to go back kind of seasoned
Speaker 1: by season to two thousand and one to find fewer
Speaker 1: total yards offense in a game. And it was the
Speaker 1: season opener with Quincy Carter making his NFL debut at quarterback,
Speaker 1: and they total one hundred and twenty seven yards against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in a ten to six loss. Ten to six,
Speaker 1: they got beat with one hundred and twenty seven yards.
Speaker 1: Quincy completed nine of nineteen passes for a grand total
Speaker 1: of thirty four yards. And I still remember, I still
Speaker 1: remember writing my lead to my column that day was
Speaker 1: had the Cowboys started any other quarterback, they would have
Speaker 1: won the game. But now they were gonna go with
Speaker 1: the rookie because he could run, and he could throw
Speaker 1: and needn't know what, he couldn't take a snap from center. Well,
Speaker 1: at least he had a good defense to help him out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a bit. I mean, if if he was, if
Speaker 1: he was with this defense, we're looking at a disaster. Which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I'll i'll give Channel eleven credit for
Speaker 1: having Quincy on their special last night. I said, oh,
Speaker 1: this is kind of poetic justice. He was on your
Speaker 1: living room what do you guys call that? Living living
Speaker 1: room sports? And by the way, Quincy, uh it was
Speaker 1: about a nine minute interview with Quincy Carter that Keith
Speaker 1: Russell did. And by the way, this is great news
Speaker 1: about Quincy. He's doing well. Uh uh. He went in fact,
Speaker 1: Thomas Hollywood Henderson got him down to Austin. There's a
Speaker 1: rehab place called BRC Recovery that he went through that
Speaker 1: and Quincy is now over a year sober, and so
Speaker 1: that's a very very good news. And of course we
Speaker 1: we wish Quincy uh the very best. Now he's forty
Speaker 1: two years old now and he's got his own quarterback
Speaker 1: school he uh mentors young quarterbacks. So best to Quincy Carter.
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Speaker 1: All right, um, we touched on the the Bostic hit
Speaker 1: on Dalton earlier. Doctor ask Everson, what were your thoughts there?
Speaker 1: There's a big a lot of uh. Well, the question
Speaker 1: was asking McCarthy and players after the game about Cowboy
Speaker 1: players not rushing to the defense of Dalton after that
Speaker 1: on the field. What were your thoughts on that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't be one of those players. That's
Speaker 1: just not my style. You know, I'm a dB cornerback
Speaker 1: at that. But no, you want. You want your old lineman.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys that you want to step up.
Speaker 1: And even if it's questionable, you want your lineman to
Speaker 1: be there to enforce, you know, any type of payback,
Speaker 1: you know, or at least some type of show of unity.
Speaker 1: He laid down there. I didn't even see any of
Speaker 1: his lineman come to take a look at him to
Speaker 1: see how he was doing. No, two guys ran up
Speaker 1: there to take a look. They did run up there.
Speaker 1: But see if this is this tells you how much
Speaker 1: experience they have on the offensive line. They don't know better.
Speaker 1: That's late enough to say, oh, I better go rescue
Speaker 1: my quarterback and at least get in this guy's face
Speaker 1: right there. All that word about how I mean he
Speaker 1: wasn't moving. He was not moving, you know, it reminded
Speaker 1: me of that they weren't. They weren't even alerted enough,
Speaker 1: you know, to say, hey, he's not moving. I can't
Speaker 1: help him. But I'm gonna go send a message to
Speaker 1: somebody over in that huddle. You know, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: try to find fifty three. That's what I've seen happen before.
Speaker 1: Once again, not me, let me make me clear about that.
Speaker 1: But you knew that something. I always know someone's gonna
Speaker 1: go looking for number fifty three or anyone that is
Speaker 1: wearing his the same jersey, and you're going to at
Speaker 1: least go up and make your feelings heard and possibly
Speaker 1: felt if you have to. Where Jim was like that,
Speaker 1: I know we're in an emotional state here on the field,
Speaker 1: but their moments like that that can sometimes spur a
Speaker 1: team to get their hands out of the bus. I mean,
Speaker 1: even if it's for that that particular drive to even
Speaker 1: finish that game. But that change in attitude, that was
Speaker 1: kind of an opportunity for them to show that. But
Speaker 1: what it did, it was just a reflection of the
Speaker 1: kind of team we are right now in this array.
Speaker 1: Tell them this array, where was George ching? You know?
Speaker 1: But think about it, who who was gonna do it?
Speaker 1: Like all the wide receivers they were downfield, the tight
Speaker 1: ends downfield. I don't know who was at running back
Speaker 1: at that time. And then you got a bunch of
Speaker 1: young guys that I don't know if it went through
Speaker 1: their mind, but had they gone and done something and
Speaker 1: got thrown out and find that was their game check
Speaker 1: Because none of those guys are making any money. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how much experience you have, Spags. There are
Speaker 1: certain players that just have that mentality. And I don't
Speaker 1: care how young they are, I don't care how much
Speaker 1: money they're making. Very immediate reaction is going to be
Speaker 1: to go do something if he has it in him,
Speaker 1: no matter what age he is or what his income
Speaker 1: level is, if he's got it in him already, he's
Speaker 1: gonna go do something about it. We just don't have
Speaker 1: that type of those guys. That wasn't those type of
Speaker 1: guys that group of guys. Tiny Badass would be one
Speaker 1: to do it. I mean, that's why his name is Badass.
Speaker 1: I thought he'd be out there that they needed tyring
Speaker 1: on the film for that one. Tyran would have escorted
Speaker 1: that guy to the locker room. Really, And that's one
Speaker 1: of those things where you you know, offensive linemen are
Speaker 1: engaged with other defensive players. They may not see the
Speaker 1: hit when it happened, but once you see your quarterback
Speaker 1: laying on the ground with his helmet off like that,
Speaker 1: then you can kind of deduce what happened on the play.
Speaker 1: And that's when you're bow up to somebody and you
Speaker 1: know that's when your whole TiO moment comes in, that's
Speaker 1: my quarterback, that's my quarterback. Land on the ground, and
Speaker 1: you have to be emotional and at least how some
Speaker 1: type of reaction. All those guys are worried about who's
Speaker 1: going to be calling the next play and make sure
Speaker 1: they don't make a mistake when the next play comes up.
Speaker 1: That's well, they were all in. They were all in
Speaker 1: the end zone trying to prevent a damn safety. Mickey,
Speaker 1: do you have you gotten any reports? Mike mccarthield talk
Speaker 1: at four o'clock today as his conference call day after
Speaker 1: conference called, do you have any reports on Dalton? And
Speaker 1: I know he flew back with the team, and so
Speaker 1: his status going forward since he's in concussion protocol for
Speaker 1: this game against Philadelphia, will be one of the big
Speaker 1: stories of this week. I guess yeah. And Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: on his segment today radio segment said he's obviously in
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol and he said we just have to
Speaker 1: wait and see how he progresses during the week. But gosh,
Speaker 1: you guys out the way his eyes looked when they
Speaker 1: had him coming off the field, I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be hard pressed to be ready to go. If
Speaker 1: you consider and I know hits to the head are
Speaker 1: never the same or equal, but Zack Martin looked considerably
Speaker 1: better when he left the field last week and he
Speaker 1: got kneed in the head in his helmet. Not like
Speaker 1: this one. This one to me looks significantly worse. So
Speaker 1: if they have to go forward, I would imagine just
Speaker 1: because he's been practicing, Ben Denucci's you're starting quarterback with
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert the backup. How much did Garrett Gilbert he
Speaker 1: was on the practice field last week? That was he
Speaker 1: through COVID protocol. By that, I think he was eligible
Speaker 1: to be on the practice field last week. So since
Speaker 1: I was the one advantage you have there with Gilbert
Speaker 1: he's playing, probably yeah, is the fact that he's older,
Speaker 1: more experienced player. And if you want to protect your
Speaker 1: young guy de Nucci, you know, boy, he could get
Speaker 1: the other parts. Been in the offense ever since to
Speaker 1: the start of training camp, and there he thought he
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be broken into as wells bad right.
Speaker 1: You see how you see how quickly he got rid
Speaker 1: of that ball on the first snap? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: oh the shot the little shovel hand to talk about potato,
Speaker 1: talk about hock potato, Yeah, but he stood in there
Speaker 1: and threw that completion down the field. That was amazing.
Speaker 1: And this is another thing, I mean, just small things
Speaker 1: that you just could have been worse, could have could
Speaker 1: have been nothing. Why would you call that type of
Speaker 1: play to a quarterback in his first play in his
Speaker 1: first NFL ball game, no warm ups, and you want
Speaker 1: him to make that timely pitch to any day too slippery,
Speaker 1: wet day, and yeah, I mean, you know, just ring
Speaker 1: that back it'll also been disastrous. And then next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, it's bad enough, I'm in here first
Speaker 1: and ten, then we're getting that butts kid, you want
Speaker 1: me to have a second and nineteen now and then
Speaker 1: I gotta get us out of the second and nineteen.
Speaker 1: First and ten is not enough. I gotta have a
Speaker 1: second and nineteen. So you don't want to put your
Speaker 1: quarterback in these unnecessary situations. I just thought that was
Speaker 1: for Keller More to call that. It's like you've never
Speaker 1: played quarterback before. Yeah right, all right, I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: you with I'm gonna leave you with this one too.
Speaker 1: So going into the game, the Redskins defense, they had
Speaker 1: sixteen snap sacks. Eight of them came in the season
Speaker 1: opener against the Eagles. So that means they only had
Speaker 1: eight sacks over the next five games, right, and they
Speaker 1: end up with six against the Cowboys with I think
Speaker 1: it was eight quarterback hits. That's how bad the offensive
Speaker 1: line was. Well, the good news for the Cowboys they
Speaker 1: played line against the Philadelphia They've got a They're playing
Speaker 1: a Philadelphia team that has just about as many injuries
Speaker 1: in their offensive line this week, so that makes us
Speaker 1: about anybod And just remembered, they're only a half game
Speaker 1: out of first place. That's right. Yeah, if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win back in first place for potential battle of first
Speaker 1: place teams next week when they unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers come
Speaker 1: to town. My god, all right, we're over that. One.
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