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Speaker 1: again on this Monday as meat Loaf sang two out
Speaker 1: of three eight bad because Bill Jones got called a
Speaker 1: way assignment and was very apologetic, by the way, and
Speaker 1: he wasn't here to state that the Dallas Cowboys won
Speaker 1: the state championship of Texas on Sunday, beating the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans twenty seven twenty three. Could this be considered a rivalry,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think well, as we talked about it,
Speaker 1: I think the Texans did, because they certainly played like it,
Speaker 1: stretching the Cowboys down to the last five minutes of
Speaker 1: the game before they could take control and win and
Speaker 1: get to ten wins. And once again we are sitting
Speaker 1: here saying a win is a win, doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: you get it, as long as you get it. And
Speaker 1: I know there's probably a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: that weren't happy with the Cowboys style points, but they
Speaker 1: were good enough to overcome quite a few hurdles to
Speaker 1: be able to get that tenth win. First time since
Speaker 1: ninety five ninety six they've had back to back seasons
Speaker 1: of double digit wins. Oh wow, how about that. I
Speaker 1: did not know that. Yeah, they didn't get any credit
Speaker 1: for it. If you now, they're never gonna get any
Speaker 1: credit if you listen to talk radio. Right. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I after watching that game, I was really torn because,
Speaker 1: of course, you see the same bad habits coming into
Speaker 1: play right at the same time of year, which is
Speaker 1: extremely unfortunate and untimely. But I still gotta feel good
Speaker 1: about that about our resolve, right, I have to feel
Speaker 1: good about our resolved. I'm not gonna throw away an
Speaker 1: entire game and look at it as a loss when
Speaker 1: if we would have lost, it would have been catastrophic. Right,
Speaker 1: we saved ourselves from catastrophe. But man, the way we
Speaker 1: did it, it's like, whoa this is? This is impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to feel so impressed in
Speaker 1: the game that we should have blown out, but that
Speaker 1: last drive was impressive, and I guess I should say
Speaker 1: this is Mick shots who have everython Wallah without Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com in the s WBC podcast studio, thank
Speaker 1: you for that, and yeah see, And here's sort of
Speaker 1: what I wrote after it was like, don't sweat the
Speaker 1: first fifty five minutes because the Cowboys didn't sweat the
Speaker 1: last five, right, And what they did in the last
Speaker 1: five minutes with a goal line stop from the four
Speaker 1: yard line, and it wasn't like they drove down to
Speaker 1: the four. They ended up with an interception and got
Speaker 1: to the four yard line, and in four plays, two
Speaker 1: of the four the Cowboys caused minus gains and then
Speaker 1: stopped them at the two yard line on fourth and
Speaker 1: goal when they could have put the game away and
Speaker 1: gone up stopped twenty on the fourth down play. I
Speaker 1: believe it was Gallimore and Anthony and two guys that
Speaker 1: you really haven't too much from this year, but enough
Speaker 1: on that play to give the ball at the two
Speaker 1: yard line with three forty nine, three twenty nine to
Speaker 1: go and they commenced on a three twenty to go
Speaker 1: ninety eight yard drive. Now we spent and I know
Speaker 1: it was a little bit different circumstance, but on Friday,
Speaker 1: talking fifteen minutes about Baker Mayfield driving the Rams ninety
Speaker 1: eight yards in the final minute of the game to
Speaker 1: score the winning touchdown, and Dak Prescott gets little credit
Speaker 1: for driving eight yards at all. For the wind. Where
Speaker 1: were you? Where have you been? That's what everyone was
Speaker 1: done for me. Why did you have to wait this long?
Speaker 1: And you know, the weird thing that I think got overlooked.
Speaker 1: He accounted for ninety four of the ninety eight yards
Speaker 1: correct ninety one passing or seventy nine passing in fifteen runs.
Speaker 1: The touchdown run was the only thing that he had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with, Yeah, other than the handle. Other
Speaker 1: than he knew he was handing the ball to Ezekiel Nulliet.
Speaker 1: He told me, and everybody else knew it too. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what the Texas were doing. It was like
Speaker 1: it's like it was like Dak Dak said in the huddle,
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, offensive line, just do your job
Speaker 1: because Zeke will run through all the rest. Yes he will,
Speaker 1: and handed him for a touchdown, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: it was a note the Cowboys PR department came up with.
Speaker 1: It's the sixth straight game he's had a rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: and only two other guys in Cowboy history have had
Speaker 1: at least six consecutive games with a rushing touchdown, and
Speaker 1: their names happened to be Tony and Emmett. There you go,
Speaker 1: and I think they're both in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: And you knew when they were going to hand him
Speaker 1: that ball that he's getting it. He's not getting denied
Speaker 1: like he did on the goal line earlier in the
Speaker 1: what was it the third quarter on the fourth and
Speaker 1: goal at the one, and he ended up losing a
Speaker 1: yard because the offensive line just collapsed. What the heck? Man? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at that, the difference in
Speaker 1: those two plays, I don't know, Houston just they just
Speaker 1: they seemed to be playing pass right. It just seems
Speaker 1: like they had a lot of gaps just from the alignment,
Speaker 1: from the alignment, the pre snap alignment. There were still
Speaker 1: holes in there on the defensive line. It looked as
Speaker 1: if they were waiting on a trick play well, and
Speaker 1: they did get the pass on second down to Gallop
Speaker 1: and it looked like it was a touchdown until you
Speaker 1: kind of saw the replay and he didn't get his
Speaker 1: second foot down. I thought it was a blind side hit.
Speaker 1: I thought the guy was gonna get penalized for it, right,
Speaker 1: But I guess if you break up a touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: you no, no, you gotta give him love on that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I was really hoping that that was gonna be
Speaker 1: the end of it, you know, meaning just catch the
Speaker 1: ball and then you know, let's get out of here,
Speaker 1: you know, and let the defense come and do their jobs.
Speaker 1: But I heard someone complaining about that pass, like, look, man,
Speaker 1: you know, just catch the ball. You know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw the ball. You catch the ball, will all be good.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I know Gallup's not complaining, I mean
Speaker 1: in regards to you know, those pundits out there. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's complaining about everything, Dack. But you know, he almost
Speaker 1: had it the whole way. He just didn't get the
Speaker 1: other foot down because when he fell he still had it,
Speaker 1: still had it, and right, it was kind of right.
Speaker 1: And and then it came out. I mean, they gave
Speaker 1: the other catch to the Texans on the one that
Speaker 1: McCarthy challenged. When the ball you saw it squirt out
Speaker 1: and then you know, and it was like no, it
Speaker 1: was a catch, and like no, it wasn't even that.
Speaker 1: Dean Blandino the Cowboys bane of a replay guy said
Speaker 1: it was incomplete, right, And so at postgame interview, I asked,
Speaker 1: I asked McCarthy. I said so because he brought up
Speaker 1: the you know, the challenge. And then I said, so,
Speaker 1: what did they tell you? He said, they decided in
Speaker 1: New York. So it wasn't even the crew, right, they
Speaker 1: decided in New York. Well, they had another content the fumble.
Speaker 1: They called a fumble on the pass attempt from Dak.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I believe you. The guy
Speaker 1: that you just mentioned thought that it was an incomplete pass, right,
Speaker 1: and he thought that was pretty obvious. But they chose
Speaker 1: to go with a fumble, and then here we go.
Speaker 1: We love to compound our mistakes, don't we. We Just no, man,
Speaker 1: you didn't mess up enough. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: mess up something over here. You know. It was just
Speaker 1: so we can balance that out, and here you go.
Speaker 1: I think we threw an interception Dak. There was an
Speaker 1: interception after that, yes, which is like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the heck was going on with that. Well I
Speaker 1: got was that the second Yes, that we got his
Speaker 1: arm hit it. That's why wasn't in there for that
Speaker 1: last sea Hey, man, the guy's doing this as he
Speaker 1: just got in the game, right Well, you know that's
Speaker 1: the other thing, you know, when he had to go in,
Speaker 1: I went back and look, So this is his first
Speaker 1: year to play right He was on basically injured reserve
Speaker 1: his rookie year. He had eleven offensive snaps this season
Speaker 1: so far, and none of them were in significant playing time.
Speaker 1: So that was his first extended, you know, stretched to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. Did he struggle, Yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: And give him credit for saying, Okay, Jason Peters, it's
Speaker 1: your forty year old butt in there, because I can't
Speaker 1: handle it right now. And even and even if you
Speaker 1: haven't played right tackle from since two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: By the way, he came in and geez did a
Speaker 1: two thousand and two thousand and five. That's what he said.
Speaker 1: Think about that. That's how long he's history right now.
Speaker 1: This is is eighteenth year. Someone said, man, this is
Speaker 1: the first this has happened since two thousand and five. Like, man,
Speaker 1: that was a long time ago. Yeah, and he's still
Speaker 1: he's part of it. He's still playing um so and
Speaker 1: came in and did a decent job. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys haven't made this official, but I was told
Speaker 1: after the game that Terrence Steele tore his season and
Speaker 1: MC yes, so he's done for the season. So that's
Speaker 1: a discussion for tomorrow probably, but uh, yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to decide what they're gonna do. Had to write tackle,
Speaker 1: but they had to overcome that, uh, the fact that
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph was starting, So two of their top three
Speaker 1: corners were out and for three plays all three of
Speaker 1: them were out because Diggs had to leave it momentarily
Speaker 1: a thumb or something. Yeah, but yeah, you don't need
Speaker 1: to have a thumb to cover. Now you might not,
Speaker 1: And that's what I was thinking, where's he going, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't need a hand to cover. Let's let's just
Speaker 1: get you know, back in the day, we would, you know,
Speaker 1: we take cells up. But now things are just much
Speaker 1: more serious. You're talking about a lot more money is
Speaker 1: involved with everything. So I can't just go over there
Speaker 1: and do my thumb on my finger like I did.
Speaker 1: You know, second year in the league. You just you
Speaker 1: just can't do that, right, right, No, they don't. They
Speaker 1: will not let you do that because of course we'd
Speaker 1: make it worse that time when Gogan did that for
Speaker 1: Aikman in the puddle, just pull it. It's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. They also, by the way along the way,
Speaker 1: lost Jonathan Hankins and the reason he was active and
Speaker 1: Chauncey Gholston wasn't was for the run game and they
Speaker 1: lost him and Jack Ferguson within concussion protocol. What's what's
Speaker 1: going on. I think his was a neck, I believe,
Speaker 1: So we'll see where that one goes. So they lose
Speaker 1: one of their big run stoppers. Um, the Texas came
Speaker 1: in here and did some damage. Man, Yeah they did, yeah,
Speaker 1: and almost won the game. And think about it. You
Speaker 1: won a game when you had three turnovers, you were
Speaker 1: minus two in the turnover differential. I don't and I
Speaker 1: kind of understand, you know. They Turpin loses his first fumble,
Speaker 1: but again there was a here's what happened there, and
Speaker 1: this is what happens when you have injuries. So because
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown's not in there, Kelvin Joseph is starting at
Speaker 1: at cornerback, so he's not on special teams, and they
Speaker 1: had somebody else as the hold up guy on the
Speaker 1: gunner on that punt and he missed his block. And
Speaker 1: you saw the last week right about how all of
Speaker 1: that can snowball, right, Yeah, And the guy he missed
Speaker 1: was standing right, I mean he was smelling Turpin's neck.
Speaker 1: He was behind him. He was so open, and so
Speaker 1: I'm sure he got distracted. So, uh you have you
Speaker 1: have the fumble leads to easy touchdown. Um Joseph on
Speaker 1: the first deep ball gives up a thirty six yard
Speaker 1: completion that led to a field goal. Uh Dak tried
Speaker 1: to fit one into a tight situation of twenty nine
Speaker 1: on the defense tipped it and then a Stewart MJ.
Speaker 1: Stewart and then yeah, and then tipped off of Noah
Speaker 1: Brown's hands, and that ended up being the first interception
Speaker 1: that led to an easy touchdown. And the guy it's
Speaker 1: almost like he was going this way and it's kind
Speaker 1: of just threw his hands up right and was able
Speaker 1: to barely touch it right and it was a little
Speaker 1: bit behind. Brown got his hands on it, but it
Speaker 1: ended up being un When you have a bout through
Speaker 1: on that hard that closely and then someone tips it
Speaker 1: and changes the trajectory, it makes a big difference when
Speaker 1: it's that fast, and so they get the ball to
Speaker 1: twenty seven end up scoring a touchdown and then maybe
Speaker 1: the and this one was on the Cowboys, but after
Speaker 1: they kicked the field goal. Uh, they allowed Houston in
Speaker 1: the final forty seconds of the half to drive for
Speaker 1: the field goal to take a twenty seventeen lead at halftime.
Speaker 1: So all those things took place, and yet they somehow
Speaker 1: stop Houston for a field goal in the second half
Speaker 1: and end up winning the game. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of drops, yes, big drops as well, but that don't count.
Speaker 1: That's Dak's fault. I'm sorry, he throws the ball too hard. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not what that's not what, well, I tight end said.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, he's he's so reliable and of course
Speaker 1: were talking to him ten times. Did a good job.
Speaker 1: But you know those veterans, they take it hard when
Speaker 1: they let their quarterbacks down. Yeah, and of course Dak
Speaker 1: feels bad anytime he throws in an interception. And you
Speaker 1: know they sit on the sidelines and you wonder what
Speaker 1: that's what's their mindset? You know, do they think that
Speaker 1: they're defeated or do they think do they get more resolved? Right?
Speaker 1: You know, and I like this game. The answer was
Speaker 1: more resolved. You know, you had players that just refused
Speaker 1: to just let this fiasco continue. And once again I
Speaker 1: keep comparing to last year. Even with this game and
Speaker 1: this inconsistency with the youth of this team, I still
Speaker 1: see a team that last year, this would have been
Speaker 1: totally different. We would have folded, We would not have
Speaker 1: done a good job. A matter of fact, we probably
Speaker 1: could see ourselves losing by a couple of scores. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just last year. But this team making the play when
Speaker 1: you have to didn't. I see d Law makeup more
Speaker 1: than one players, guys having a heck of a sea
Speaker 1: tackle for a loss on that on the I believe
Speaker 1: it was on the goal line standing. He is having
Speaker 1: a hell of a year and he's being overset, overshadowed
Speaker 1: by a hell of a player in Michael Potter, right,
Speaker 1: and he had he had the tackle. It was third
Speaker 1: and goal at the one, and he dropped birkehead for minors.
Speaker 1: That was huge, Yeah, that was huge. I mean we
Speaker 1: could have easily just laid down like we did on
Speaker 1: the other the two scores, right, absolutely, and we refused
Speaker 1: to do that. And then I believe that that kind
Speaker 1: of spurred back on Uh to do things that he
Speaker 1: had to do, which was unusued with such as running
Speaker 1: the ball, being more creative outside the pocket. That's where
Speaker 1: that's where the talent of a good quarterback comes through,
Speaker 1: is how you improvise, and that that improvisation led to
Speaker 1: a beautiful drive despite you know, whatever happened, and I
Speaker 1: knew what they I mean, you could see what they
Speaker 1: were doing in the passing game. They were basically playing
Speaker 1: everybody at quarters and then dropping the linebacker and so
Speaker 1: now you had to get it over linebacker. But that's
Speaker 1: always and it's tough. And you know why it's tough
Speaker 1: because once again we are not throwing deep enough to
Speaker 1: threaten anyone. That's going to be a problem SPACs. We
Speaker 1: have not done it. I haven't seen Turpin in the game.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. We went we actually
Speaker 1: went for Brown last week, which is great, But we
Speaker 1: just need to be more consistent and take strategic shot.
Speaker 1: I don't mean just throwing the ball deep and then
Speaker 1: getting it intercepted. I mean strategic deep passes that defenses
Speaker 1: have to be prepared for in the future. And if
Speaker 1: we don't show that to them, thank god, we're running
Speaker 1: the ball well. Thank God we're running the ball well
Speaker 1: because if we continue to just show the same status
Speaker 1: quo in regards to the depth of our routes, all
Speaker 1: teams are going to play us the way they'll play
Speaker 1: the way the Texans played us yesterday. And that's a
Speaker 1: problem we always We've overcome it. They're not the only
Speaker 1: wants to do it this year, right, but better teams
Speaker 1: are going to do it, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: a problem. And I don't know if they had Washington
Speaker 1: on a pitch count, but he only got like eleven snaps.
Speaker 1: I don't think he played the I didn't remember seeing
Speaker 1: him in there the second half, and he had the
Speaker 1: one slant that the guy broke up with a hit
Speaker 1: that was a pretty good hit on him. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the guy you'd like to see. But you were
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, the confidence and everything. Um So
Speaker 1: after the game, was sitting there talking with Scholtz and
Speaker 1: it's like, so, you know what went on in the huddle.
Speaker 1: You're sitting in the end zone. You got ninety eight
Speaker 1: yards to go right and one team And he said,
Speaker 1: Zack came into the huddle, Zach came into the huddle.
Speaker 1: I wanted I wanted to say, I didn't say Dak
Speaker 1: It was Zack Martin said. He came into the huddle
Speaker 1: with a big smile on his face. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. Yeah, let's do this. Let's do it.
Speaker 1: And uh, by golly, they they certainly got it done.
Speaker 1: And Schultz ended up making the big catch on that
Speaker 1: drive too. So we'll continue here on Mick shots on
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Speaker 1: Bill Jones talking about the Cowboys winning the Texas State
Speaker 1: championship over those Houston se speaking of something without this
Speaker 1: is a different game for us to win no sacks.
Speaker 1: I know, I was getting ready to no sex. That
Speaker 1: team had been sacked thirty three times. The team that
Speaker 1: had forty eight to lead the league came up with
Speaker 1: the first zero of the season. Is that crazy? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the first zero of the season they've had sack man.
Speaker 1: This is a weird year periods, I mean. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you have to look at how the
Speaker 1: defense still played well and they still were critical and
Speaker 1: helping us win this game. The tackles for losses, you
Speaker 1: could consider those sacks because they were huge. You could
Speaker 1: consider those as sacks. They had the same momentum. They
Speaker 1: gave us, the same momentum that a sack would give you. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: we got one interception, you know it was a that
Speaker 1: was a hell man. Yeah, they man, they fought over
Speaker 1: I can't believe they's game that were No. I think
Speaker 1: he felt sorry for like, okay, man, this is yeah.
Speaker 1: He was still tweeting out something. They told me that
Speaker 1: it was mine. I think he let them have it. Man,
Speaker 1: if you come run. Not only that, not not many turnovers,
Speaker 1: but you know, you saw a team even with the interceptions,
Speaker 1: that were still able to win with the drive. We
Speaker 1: haven't had a game winning drive like that since what
Speaker 1: when was the last time we've done that, you know,
Speaker 1: to where it really counts. Well, that's who's eighteenth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: which care He hadn't had that many of this in
Speaker 1: his last couple of years. Well, if you're ahead, you
Speaker 1: don't need him, that's right when you're winning, right, And
Speaker 1: only Tony Romo has more. Romo leads with twenty four
Speaker 1: career kind of game winning drives like that. So look,
Speaker 1: and both of them probably put themselves in that situation,
Speaker 1: and I give yeah, and I get it. They gave
Speaker 1: up twenty three points the defense. That was the second Finally,
Speaker 1: over twenty points that the second most Houston has scored
Speaker 1: this season. The other time they scored twenty four, so
Speaker 1: they were only averaging like fifteen point change over the season.
Speaker 1: But again, it took the Texans to get one hundred
Speaker 1: and fourteen yards rushing thirty seven carries, so they ended
Speaker 1: up averaging three point one. The carries that hurt them
Speaker 1: was them coming in with Jeff Driscoll, of all people
Speaker 1: to run the football. Yes, and he had seven carries
Speaker 1: for thirty six yards because otherwise everybody was worried about
Speaker 1: Piers And okay, he got him on a couple runs
Speaker 1: he had a twenty four yard or but he had
Speaker 1: twenty two carries for seventy eight yards, so it's three
Speaker 1: and a half a carry. When it came to total yards,
Speaker 1: they held Houston to three hundred and twenty seven yards,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's pretty good. The problem with that is
Speaker 1: the offense is giving them too many opportunities to have
Speaker 1: the ball exactly. That's the problem. So if you can
Speaker 1: stop with the turnovers, then you won't have nearly as
Speaker 1: many rushing attempts, therefore less a few of rushing yards
Speaker 1: and they won't be able to move the chain as much. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to kind of look at the offense in
Speaker 1: regards to putting the defense in those precarious situations. Two
Speaker 1: of them he fumbled the part phone. Yeah, but when
Speaker 1: you start talking about the other the other defensive plays,
Speaker 1: those were plays that they inherited. Those they didn't cause
Speaker 1: these problems. They inherited these problems from the offense. So
Speaker 1: when a team plays offense like Houston was, and we
Speaker 1: saw them almost the same blueprint that the Colts played
Speaker 1: trying to protect their quarterback, how frustrating is that defense?
Speaker 1: The guys always rolling out the run options and and
Speaker 1: they're just kind of picking away at you. That's got
Speaker 1: rembness of Randall Cunningham, you know, being able to get
Speaker 1: us outside the pocket and to create habit and I
Speaker 1: think not as dynamic as that, but it's as irritating
Speaker 1: because he's you know, they were barely picking things up.
Speaker 1: They were they were just being irritating and moving the chains,
Speaker 1: and they didn't allow us to get into the mode
Speaker 1: that we want to get into, which was keeping them
Speaker 1: third and real long, you know, second and real long.
Speaker 1: We never put them into that position consistently enough to
Speaker 1: where they had to panic to get a third down.
Speaker 1: So we played right into their hands and regards to
Speaker 1: giving them the best making their game plan successful. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the things that scares us all the time.
Speaker 1: And you know, we were teasing last week. Bill comes
Speaker 1: in talking about how bad they are and how this
Speaker 1: is gonna be an easy win, and then we all
Speaker 1: joked about that. So the thing that you have here
Speaker 1: is youth. I'm just say you still have the youth
Speaker 1: that you have to deal with, and you have an
Speaker 1: intricate offense that if it's not if all details are
Speaker 1: not adhered to, then you're gonna have a problem. That's
Speaker 1: why I always talk about this past. There are some
Speaker 1: games where you're just gonna have to say, screw the
Speaker 1: game plan. You got the man up with these guys.
Speaker 1: And I think they did that only on the last drive,
Speaker 1: the last drive, because you know what, they ended up
Speaker 1: with four hundred yards offensive sporrel four. They converted fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of their third downs, eight for fifteen. But
Speaker 1: when you drive like they did the one time and
Speaker 1: you leave the ball the one yard lass, right, that's
Speaker 1: that's a turnover. Right, that's one turnover. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's a turnover. Then you got two interceptions. That's three turnovers,
Speaker 1: right and right the fumble, so almost four and you're
Speaker 1: giving them short yardage because you held them to three
Speaker 1: hundred twenty seven total yards. That's right, you say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I live with that, right, Um, you know they average
Speaker 1: five yards of play. You'll live with that. People gotta remember,
Speaker 1: I don't care how solid you are. These are professional
Speaker 1: grown men, and they're not gonna lay down for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: They're not gonna lay down for their fans. They have
Speaker 1: a sense of pride and especially if you keep opening
Speaker 1: the door for them, right, if you don't close the door,
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, man, I've been giving you a shot. Here.
Speaker 1: You tried to close this doing three times. It's not closing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna step through and do what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: These are professional people playing ball head. They just happen
Speaker 1: to be going through a bad stretch for that city
Speaker 1: of Houston. But when don't just come in here and thinking,
Speaker 1: we can't just keep thinking like this is a college
Speaker 1: team or this is a high school team that can't
Speaker 1: wait to you know, go out on Friday night after
Speaker 1: the game is over. Now, these are grown men that
Speaker 1: have to feed their families and they have to they
Speaker 1: have a reputation to uphold. So don't think that you're
Speaker 1: going to just keep laying the ball on the ground
Speaker 1: and they're not going to pick it up. And as
Speaker 1: I like to say, the more games you lose in
Speaker 1: a row, the closer you're are to winning. And they
Speaker 1: had lost seventh straight, you would think, okay, one's going
Speaker 1: to land in their lap. And we didn't want you.
Speaker 1: We are gave Green Bay that opening, right, yeah, so
Speaker 1: we didn't want to do that to this time. And
Speaker 1: actually they gave Tampa Bay that opening and the first
Speaker 1: game of the season, although they hadn't lost yet. And again,
Speaker 1: in this league, it's not easy to win four consecutive games,
Speaker 1: and this was the fourth consecutive game, and so sometimes
Speaker 1: the percentages do catch up with you. But they were
Speaker 1: good enough to overcome all those percentage is to win, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. And and I figured out that was the
Speaker 1: first time Dak one a game with that low of
Speaker 1: a quarterback rating. His quarterback rating ended up being seventy
Speaker 1: point nine. That usually means a loss. Yeah, and somehow
Speaker 1: they were able to figure out how to win the game.
Speaker 1: And you thank the defense for that, and really, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it could have been worse. Right, some of those
Speaker 1: drives that you know they held to field, they score
Speaker 1: down there, it's thirty twenty. Yeah, test down, it's thirty twenty.
Speaker 1: It's over. It's over. There's only three and change left
Speaker 1: in the game, right, and there's no way that you're
Speaker 1: you're going to score ten. So yeah, that's a good
Speaker 1: team win. But again, the defense helps out. And one
Speaker 1: of the things I think also got lost in the
Speaker 1: shuffle was Brett Meyer hit another fifty yard field goal
Speaker 1: fifty three yards right to cut the lead to just three. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're you're sitting there, at some point
Speaker 1: he's gonna miss one of those, right, maybe the forty
Speaker 1: six yard or the other days. Getting that out of here,
Speaker 1: get it out of the way. That's right. Then we'll
Speaker 1: see where we go from there. All right, Well, we'll
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Speaker 1: on mix Shots on a Monday after noon, kind of rainy, drizzly,
Speaker 1: chilly day day. I just think we would have lost it.
Speaker 1: But they won. They get to ten and three. They
Speaker 1: still remain two games behind the Eagles. Jacksonville is up
Speaker 1: next and the Cowboys definitely need to win that to
Speaker 1: this this game. I was just gonna tell you about that.
Speaker 1: This this Jacksonville game, it makes me even more nervous now, right,
Speaker 1: because you know, we when we do our picks to click,
Speaker 1: I'm always kind of cautious because I keep thinking we're
Speaker 1: gonna go back and regrets the way we did this
Speaker 1: particular game, okay, right, and we did that. We regressed.
Speaker 1: And so when you're talking about going on the road
Speaker 1: to a dangerous talented team, no team lacks for talent
Speaker 1: in this league, all right, They just lacks direction. I
Speaker 1: don't want them finding their way by going against Cowboys, okay.
Speaker 1: And when you have a team like that coming on
Speaker 1: coming into your stadium after playing the way we just played,
Speaker 1: you know that they're licking their chops at the things
Speaker 1: that they see that they can do. This game gave
Speaker 1: Jacksonville even more hope that they can beat the Cowboys. Well,
Speaker 1: and they gave themselves, hope, because even though they're five
Speaker 1: and eight, they beat Tennessee thirty six to twenty. Going
Speaker 1: on with Tennessee and they were on the road, Tennessee
Speaker 1: was home, yes, thirty six twenty two and that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's typical, because yeah, that's that's pretty much how Tennessee played.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was closer than that or you know,
Speaker 1: because they're no, that's pretty much the score depicts. And
Speaker 1: they've gladly they played and they've lost too straight because
Speaker 1: they were terrible last Tennessee was terrible last week. I
Speaker 1: don't know. So now you got to win this game
Speaker 1: to ensure that Christmas Eve against the Eagles is important,
Speaker 1: right because if you end up three games down with
Speaker 1: three to go, you probably don't like your eyes if
Speaker 1: you're three games back. So uh yeah, this is also
Speaker 1: an opportunity to show that they can win on the road, right,
Speaker 1: to show that they can be consistent on the road,
Speaker 1: because if things keep going the way they're going, they're
Speaker 1: going to have a lot of tough tests in the
Speaker 1: playoffs on the road. Right. Well, that's that's a good point,
Speaker 1: and you know, you've got to be able to play
Speaker 1: well on the road, and they've been known to go
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville and struggle, right, Heck, they've been known to
Speaker 1: struggle against everybody struggles in Jacksonville. Actually, I mean it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's just that they're talented team with a
Speaker 1: quarterback who can show amazing accuracy at times, and regardless
Speaker 1: of whatever that situation is, they play with a lot
Speaker 1: of youth and enthusiasm. And if you can do that,
Speaker 1: you know that Jacksonville is nothing but a college town. Anyway,
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you sit up here in the
Speaker 1: college atmosphere wondering, Man, I feel like I'm back at
Speaker 1: Grandamat getting my butt kick, and that can happen. It
Speaker 1: can happen. So you'll be glad to know they're three
Speaker 1: and three at home, two and five on the road.
Speaker 1: Does not make me feel better, all right. They are
Speaker 1: three and six playing out of their division. They're four
Speaker 1: and seven playing outdoors that they've got an outdoor stadium,
Speaker 1: right So anyway, I just had all with all of
Speaker 1: that that they have us exactly what they want us. Okay,
Speaker 1: having said all of that, but they're three and two
Speaker 1: in November and December about that, so yeah, so you
Speaker 1: gotta okay, so the big question will be what are
Speaker 1: the Cowboys doing right tackle? Thank God for time and Smith? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that way now. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: ready to go, you know, sixty plays in that Florida heat, yeah,
Speaker 1: or whatever, it's gonna be high. It's gonna be hot.
Speaker 1: Because I think their thought was, Okay, this next game,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe give him a series in the first half,
Speaker 1: series in the second half, and then for Philadelphia bring
Speaker 1: them in. Yeah. Um, because they did get a series
Speaker 1: with Peters and move into left tackle, Tyler Smith to
Speaker 1: left guard. But that that little experiment might be over with.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you say, all right, Tyrn,
Speaker 1: you're the right tackle, right or they go with Peters
Speaker 1: and Tyrons the backup for a game. Um, But it
Speaker 1: sure sounded like their intentions. That sounds like they might
Speaker 1: go and maybe for one game and then get him
Speaker 1: in there some and then maybe for Philadelphia and you say, okay,
Speaker 1: you're the right tackle. Because I don't know that you
Speaker 1: want to move the rookie to right tackle. I don't
Speaker 1: know how difficult that is. I've heard Zack Martin talk
Speaker 1: about it's easier to go to a different position. Like
Speaker 1: than a different side guard to tackle than change in
Speaker 1: side right. Um, so we we talked about that in
Speaker 1: training camp. Uh, you know it's a cornerback. You know,
Speaker 1: I know I did it. I know several people have
Speaker 1: done this. You've got safeties that have moved down to
Speaker 1: the slot, you know Darren Woodson and played very well.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think, don't don't put it past
Speaker 1: anyone until you ask them to do it. I think
Speaker 1: you know, these guys are pros man, right, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a competitor. Put him over there. If that's
Speaker 1: what you need to do. Put them over there, and
Speaker 1: let's let's work. I mean, you know, let's be like
Speaker 1: the Ravens. I mean I always bring them up and
Speaker 1: regards to there you know, uh tenacity and how they
Speaker 1: try to overcome deficits. You know, you put they put
Speaker 1: in three quarterbacks? Are two quarterbacks this weekend? I mean, man,
Speaker 1: let's just do this. Let's not over complicate things. We
Speaker 1: know what we have over here. We know we have
Speaker 1: a talent over here. Let's not put them in a
Speaker 1: precarious situation. Okay, let's call the players and need to
Speaker 1: be called. Let's keep it simple and let's see where
Speaker 1: we go from there, because you know, if you're I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to you know, as much as they've
Speaker 1: been concentrating on you know, they ran the ball thirty
Speaker 1: one times one hundred and twenty seven yards by the way,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, run blocking on the right
Speaker 1: side that much different than it can be, right, just
Speaker 1: as big as tiring is and strong. Uh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: put them over there. But I just wonder in the
Speaker 1: back of their minds, they're like, at least for this
Speaker 1: coming game, do you not you know, want to play
Speaker 1: him that many How much answers do you put on
Speaker 1: winning the game versus protecting your players, right, you know,
Speaker 1: not putting them in these And maybe they give him
Speaker 1: more snaps than they would have, but not that manymore.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's Peters and him over there, But then
Speaker 1: somebody's got to take some snaps also to be the
Speaker 1: backup left tackle. Um. Seeing, that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: lose somebody. It's not the first value, it's now what
Speaker 1: I what do I have? Domino effect behind him? Just
Speaker 1: like we talked about with Kelvin Joseph, right, because you know,
Speaker 1: if if if Dix couldn't come back, Nashan writes, in
Speaker 1: the starting lineup, that's right. And now you have whoever
Speaker 1: replaces right on special teams, right, you know, has to
Speaker 1: do something because he came in to replace Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 1: Fund special teams. Um, and then you're always another injury
Speaker 1: away from Okay, Now who's next up at corner? Um?
Speaker 1: You know? And Um? I had asked last week just
Speaker 1: out of curiosity, like Mkuamu before they moved him to safety,
Speaker 1: they drafted he was a corner okay, and I said,
Speaker 1: so have they any chance? And he goes, well, they
Speaker 1: haven't asked me to go over there and do anything,
Speaker 1: so I don't know who else among the safeties would
Speaker 1: be capable of playing corner. Um. You can only you
Speaker 1: gotta put them in there to find outs backs. It might,
Speaker 1: I mean it might be well. And they now they
Speaker 1: got the two guys on on the practice squad Sheffield
Speaker 1: and McKenny mackenzie, mcken Alexander Alexander right, Um, one of
Speaker 1: those guys may have to be active. You might have
Speaker 1: to elevate one and they'll just be playing special teams, right,
Speaker 1: So that's great. Get him in there play special teams.
Speaker 1: He can get accustomed to playing again and moving around
Speaker 1: and that's all great. Just know what you're doing on
Speaker 1: special teams. This guy was a he was drafted high
Speaker 1: as a cornerback. He should have the ability and intellect
Speaker 1: to go in there and play special teams. You know,
Speaker 1: I tease about how weird special teams people are. I
Speaker 1: don't want them, but sometimes they are special different, right,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he can be special above special special teams.
Speaker 1: Ye see. And that's what you know, what happens when
Speaker 1: you lose starting guys, and it's it's like you said it,
Speaker 1: it is the snowball fight. Now. To Joseph's credit, he
Speaker 1: did give up the early deep pass, but after that,
Speaker 1: you know, he came back and made a play that
Speaker 1: was big, broke it up. That was big. That was
Speaker 1: a huge third down play. And see, and that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna, you know, end this up with us.
Speaker 1: We gotta be fit. We have to feel good about
Speaker 1: this win because it was a win. Yeah, we can't.
Speaker 1: We can't sit up here. And you know, we always
Speaker 1: want to say that we're at that that pinnacle as
Speaker 1: a team. Right now, Well, they keep trying to tell
Speaker 1: us that they're not. They're doing their best to show
Speaker 1: us that they're not at the pinnacle yet. And that's
Speaker 1: good because we've got four games to wrap up two
Speaker 1: being at our pinnacle. We're not there yet, but our
Speaker 1: timing needs to be good like Cincinnati's timing last year.
Speaker 1: Your timing needs to be good enough to where you
Speaker 1: are getting at your peak at the right time. And
Speaker 1: we are not at our peak right They're still got
Speaker 1: things to clean up. And I remember Landry talking about, um,
Speaker 1: you want to streak into the playoffs, not kind of
Speaker 1: like that's why I always had problems with laying down
Speaker 1: for that last game of the season. If you got
Speaker 1: things clinch, you don't want to get guys hurt. But
Speaker 1: sometimes in this game, momentum just means a lot. It
Speaker 1: really does. Like you think of the thing the Giants
Speaker 1: that that manning team were they nine to seven, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they go on to be what people thought was
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in history with the Patriots
Speaker 1: and Randy Moss, Right, Uh, that was the was that
Speaker 1: that wasn't seven? That was there two of them that
Speaker 1: get them both of them confused. It was the two
Speaker 1: thousands unusual, Yeah, because they were they were the wild
Speaker 1: card team on the way through, playing it playing on
Speaker 1: the Green Bay. I mean, they'd be Green Bay with
Speaker 1: Brett Farve right, and that started them going all the
Speaker 1: way up. So we didn't review our picks to click
Speaker 1: that we get not one of the let me, I know,
Speaker 1: we didn't get the stores because we all we all
Speaker 1: now know the score was hard. We all held the text.
Speaker 1: I had Wilson points, I had Wilson getting an interception. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had DAK and Bill had CD. Now none of
Speaker 1: them really Well, I get Dak for the drive. D
Speaker 1: you get Maybe Bill gets CD for that that big
Speaker 1: catch you know, to start things off. Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: huge hit he got. He got smashed and he held
Speaker 1: on to that thing. That's the CD. I like, right,
Speaker 1: he got smashed and he he got up and looked
Speaker 1: at that guy like, hey man, why you hit me
Speaker 1: so hard? That's what I lack about him. And of
Speaker 1: course Wilson did okay, but gave up a touchdown and
Speaker 1: he forced the football did and that was that was
Speaker 1: kind of a weird defensive scheme because they motioned, uh
Speaker 1: nineteen was is it more? Um? They motioned him to
Speaker 1: that side and bland. They left bland on the right
Speaker 1: side and then had your safety man demand against the
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Yeah. Um, and I'd still like that. I
Speaker 1: never got a good if that guy stepped out of
Speaker 1: bounds before he cut the ball, because that's what they
Speaker 1: were looking at, right, and that's what they challenged. It's okay,
Speaker 1: they can challenge all they want. Or no, they didn't
Speaker 1: challenge it because that's a penalty, and you can't challenge
Speaker 1: a penalty. Oh we cannot. We cannot leave this program
Speaker 1: without talking about l v oh My that got balls.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just the numbers, right. I saw him
Speaker 1: stepping up into the hole, just like I was bragging
Speaker 1: about the Giants linebackers. He was stepping in. I saw
Speaker 1: him step in twice to make big stops and I'm
Speaker 1: once again not going around blockers. But he almost did
Speaker 1: the Sean Lee thing. He was in there. He knew
Speaker 1: what was going on, he did like d law Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knew what was happening before they snapped the ball.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence does that all the time, and I saw
Speaker 1: Vanderish doing that as well in this game. I hadn't
Speaker 1: never seen any play like that since his rookie year
Speaker 1: and you know what, he was sick. I remember he
Speaker 1: didn't practice on I hope his parents were still in
Speaker 1: town telling hey, because this week out they should be
Speaker 1: very proud of. That's something and you know what and
Speaker 1: what Everson's referring to when we were talking with the
Speaker 1: Star Sports Tour and answering questions and um, it was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: vander Esh didn't practice. They're listening to them as questionable
Speaker 1: with illness. And I said, he's a linebacker. He's playing.
Speaker 1: He's playing, and mom and daddy are here too. I'm playing.
Speaker 1: I'm playing, and he played. By the way, that was
Speaker 1: a pretty good performance. Nine tackles, uh, nine solos, five assisted,
Speaker 1: and he also had the one tackle for a loss.
Speaker 1: So yeah, uh, that was the pick to click that,
Speaker 1: that was the that's what. Yeah. Obviously, all right, we're
Speaker 1: out of time here on Cowboy Cowboys, uh mix shots,
Speaker 1: and we will not be here. We will not be
Speaker 1: here to have some holiday festivities going on, and we
Speaker 1: will be back on Wednesday. We probably ought to let
Speaker 1: Bill remind him, remind me. Yeah, don't be showing up
Speaker 1: here for ever, said a propensity to show up when
Speaker 1: there's no show. All right, thanks for joining us. And
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