Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Nick shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here it is for the first
Speaker 1: time in the sixty year history of the franchise on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. It is the day after a Dallas Cowboys game,
Speaker 1: the first ever Tuesday night game in Dallas Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: And right off the top, Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola,
Speaker 1: I have a suggestion, let's not play on Tuesday night
Speaker 1: anymore than I don't think it mattered Tuesday, Wednesday, Monday,
Speaker 1: Sunday when you pick it, we've screwed it up. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, Everson just just basically, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he read my column already, but that was
Speaker 1: my column. Beginning the lead to the column, I said, wow,
Speaker 1: it's the first game in sixty one seasons on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It looked like the season opener. It looked like Monday
Speaker 1: at night. It looked like Sunday night, looked like Sunday
Speaker 1: at thirty. It looked like Sunday at noon, whatever other
Speaker 1: day you want to say, Tuesday looked exactly the same.
Speaker 1: They still could not know what they reminded me of.
Speaker 1: They reminded me of nineteen eighty nine. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's all I kept thinking as I was watching the game.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been through with you. You know, I
Speaker 1: try not to be so high as mighty like I've
Speaker 1: won every championship or every game I played in. I've
Speaker 1: been on some of the worst teams in Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: So I know this feeling and I don't like it.
Speaker 1: And it's that deja vu all over again. That's something
Speaker 1: that is not good for any franchise. I don't care
Speaker 1: how storied you are. Ever soon after one in fifteen,
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine, where were you in nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: I was in New Jersey. I was on the first
Speaker 1: thing smoking to New Jersey. I made the phone. I
Speaker 1: made the phone call right after Flipper Anderson beat Mark
Speaker 1: Collins on that overtime playoff win. I'm on the phone
Speaker 1: the next day, Monday. And how much longer before you
Speaker 1: had a Super Bowl ring? It was about a year later.
Speaker 1: My point is, there is hope, no matter how bad
Speaker 1: it seems right now there is hope on the horizon,
Speaker 1: and that's why Mickey Spagnola is here. He is going
Speaker 1: to give us hope right off the top their hope.
Speaker 1: So they let you go. So the last line in
Speaker 1: my column was, hope is fading like the winter sun. Hey,
Speaker 1: the winter sun in New Jersey. The winter sun in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Yeah. Oh, and that once again, Bill, you're
Speaker 1: talking individual hope. Okay, I as an individual had hope.
Speaker 1: After that, the Cowboys team still didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: That that that following year, it took him a couple
Speaker 1: of years to make the playoffs. So yes, from a
Speaker 1: team standpoint, hope springs eternal, but it's gonna take him
Speaker 1: a couple of years if you're gonna go by your example.
Speaker 1: But wait a second, Mickey. It was a seventeen to
Speaker 1: ten game at the end of the first half and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were going to the end zone on a
Speaker 1: hail Mary. That hell Mary was not answered. What happened
Speaker 1: to this team in the second half. They they decided
Speaker 1: that they were going to run the ball, and run
Speaker 1: the ball and run the ball. Well, here's what happened
Speaker 1: in the second half, and it was a byproduct of
Speaker 1: the first half. And what did I tell you? The
Speaker 1: more field goals you kick, you closer to losing, and
Speaker 1: especially when you don't make them. Hey, don't get mad man.
Speaker 1: That was your pick to click guy. You know that's
Speaker 1: a personal thing. It sounds like to me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't like it he missed him either, But I
Speaker 1: think that you're really pulling it on a bit extra
Speaker 1: because that was your pick to click guy. Don't don't
Speaker 1: get mad at him because he didn't live up to
Speaker 1: your expectations. Clayton vander esh by the way, and he
Speaker 1: didn't live up to me. Oh and Bill right by
Speaker 1: the way. You know you you mentioned the hill, Mary
Speaker 1: and the end zone. How about the interference call that
Speaker 1: they blew at the thirty four yard line? How do
Speaker 1: you miss that? How do you miss that? Now it
Speaker 1: might have ended up field goal, but I don't know
Speaker 1: how that would have turned out. But you know, the hell,
Speaker 1: Mary would have been a shorter throat. Hey, as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned, any blown call in a crucial situation,
Speaker 1: it just changes everything. All the variables have changed. It
Speaker 1: could mean that it could mean nothing, or it could
Speaker 1: mean that the Cowboys take that spark and go on
Speaker 1: and win the game. We've seen it happen too many
Speaker 1: times where that timely call can be the breath that
Speaker 1: you need to finish your task. As far as I'm concerned,
Speaker 1: once you blow a call like that, you don't know
Speaker 1: what could have happened after that, And especially with the
Speaker 1: fact that the Cowboys was so focused on going into
Speaker 1: the end zone, you don't know what kind of change
Speaker 1: it could have made. And that's what makes you so upset.
Speaker 1: It's it's the unknown, It's what we don't know, what
Speaker 1: could have happened after us. What do you think that
Speaker 1: the official was not more than ten yards away from it?
Speaker 1: What do you think he was looking at? Was he
Speaker 1: supposed to watch the ball? Was he watching the other
Speaker 1: receivers on the other side of the field, Because this
Speaker 1: was coming right at him and it was clearly a hold.
Speaker 1: It's not no exaggeration, and the ball was in the air.
Speaker 1: He spun him around and he misses the call. That's
Speaker 1: just inexcusable. The guy should get fired, I think, because
Speaker 1: somebody will get fired. Somebody will get fired or won't
Speaker 1: get resigned because of this game, right, and he had
Speaker 1: a hand in it. What are you doing. And you
Speaker 1: know what, that's funny you say that spags because everyone,
Speaker 1: of course is always talking about tanking. I've been on
Speaker 1: some horrible teams, and I don't I don't think I
Speaker 1: got the memo ever about tanking because when you tank,
Speaker 1: it's got to be a universe so thing. It has
Speaker 1: to be a coordinated effort, you know. So when you
Speaker 1: start talking about tanking, does that mean, uh, we we
Speaker 1: get a reduction in our salaries if we take. Does
Speaker 1: that mean we tank the salaries? Does that mean that,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we go down on the on the
Speaker 1: prices per ticket if we have all decided it's a tain.
Speaker 1: So I don't know who's in on it right now,
Speaker 1: but I hope they're not thinking about taking. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, that guy's pretty lucky that the guy
Speaker 1: that I sort of cut off this morning wasn't on
Speaker 1: the field because I got the double bird this morning
Speaker 1: when I come into work, really and it was an
Speaker 1: emotional one too, and both hands off the wheel, So
Speaker 1: that's what that guy. No, No, he recognized juice bags.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like driving probably yet. Yeah. Yeah, it's like,
Speaker 1: how do you did you express yourself to him? I
Speaker 1: decided I wasn't going to just wave because he might
Speaker 1: have thought I was being rude. We were going ten
Speaker 1: miles an hour, We're coming to a stoplight. I just
Speaker 1: changed lanes and the guy got all upset. And the
Speaker 1: worst part was is he was going to get in
Speaker 1: the right turn lane anyway. So I didn't cost him anything,
Speaker 1: but boy was he mad. Oh my lord, you better
Speaker 1: be carefuls bags between bike riding and driving. You don't
Speaker 1: do well at anything, I guess not. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you there was a there was a stabbing at a
Speaker 1: restaurant in parking lot yesterday morning, at a place near
Speaker 1: near where I lived, and so and it was and
Speaker 1: they said later it was a road rage incident, So
Speaker 1: making you be careful on those roadways. I didn't respond
Speaker 1: on the morning after a Cowboy loss. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think what they meant was a road game rage.
Speaker 1: The road game rage. That's what that was, Bill, you know.
Speaker 1: And the shame of this whole thing was the offense
Speaker 1: was kind of doing a little bit right. They were
Speaker 1: kind of doing enough. They were moving the football. Yes,
Speaker 1: they couldn't score. You didn't score in the red zone.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be kicking field goals like they
Speaker 1: did on the opening drive, but at least they were
Speaker 1: somewhat functional. Andy Dalton was able to throw for two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five yards and only got sacked once.
Speaker 1: Now he got hit a lot, and they had a
Speaker 1: bunch of tackles for losses. So you know, but from
Speaker 1: if you just put in context the Cowboys offensive line
Speaker 1: and what they've been and what they were able to do,
Speaker 1: it was kind of okay, right, But no, the defense
Speaker 1: got to give up thirty four more points, got to
Speaker 1: give up two hundred and ninety four yards rushing two
Speaker 1: hundred ninety four only top by Cleveland's three h seven.
Speaker 1: You know I talked about before and Troy Troy Aikman
Speaker 1: was on him all night long, and let's just be real.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not happy to hear Troy talk about our
Speaker 1: team like that. I know he's not happy to do it.
Speaker 1: You've got all the fans out there and they're upset
Speaker 1: about his commentary. Sometimes he tries to be politically correct
Speaker 1: in what he says about this defense, but last night,
Speaker 1: all gloves were off, and I must admit it was
Speaker 1: justified because everything he talked about came into fruition. He
Speaker 1: talked about why is Lamar Jackson even trying to throw
Speaker 1: a pass? Yeah, he said, they don't even need to
Speaker 1: throw a pass, just keep running the ball over and
Speaker 1: over again. And when that statement is made by a
Speaker 1: commentator and it's known to be true by all fans
Speaker 1: and anyone watching the game, what do you do with that?
Speaker 1: What can you say? What kind of answer can you
Speaker 1: have with that? Because you have no answer on the field.
Speaker 1: And it's not just the system itself. To me, it's
Speaker 1: just bone head plays. Sometimes you just look at what's
Speaker 1: going on. And I talk about the inside leverage by
Speaker 1: the defensive backs. Dexter Clinkscale texted me last night about
Speaker 1: the horrid play from the Cowboys secondary and I couldn't
Speaker 1: even take up for him. Each time you see a
Speaker 1: defensive back making a mistake on the pass, he has
Speaker 1: zero leverage on the wide receiver. He always seems to
Speaker 1: be in the trail position, or it always seems that
Speaker 1: his reaction is a beat slower than the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: There's no anticipation, there's no instinct at all. There's no
Speaker 1: leverage on anything that we do. So the run situation
Speaker 1: aside run situation, run defensive side, our secondary in regards
Speaker 1: to pass coverage, we've got to be the most coolest
Speaker 1: players I've seen in a long time. Well, the first
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, no one covered Boykins. You know what, I
Speaker 1: could have ran that route? No one covered him. He
Speaker 1: went right across the linebackers and Darien Thompson just kind
Speaker 1: of froze, and those Woozier's covering somebody out there in
Speaker 1: the flat and there's only one The safeties were on
Speaker 1: the other side where the other receivers were, and no
Speaker 1: one covered him. It's a busted coverage and had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with leverage. It had to do with recognition.
Speaker 1: And then the other one that they gave up, the
Speaker 1: deep pass. You've got a practice squad cornerback out there
Speaker 1: having to start at I don't know what he was
Speaker 1: looking at, and he gets turned around ash and then
Speaker 1: the interference call. I don't know Xavier Woods was thinking about.
Speaker 1: But he only completed twelve passes. You got beat by
Speaker 1: a quarterback who completed twelve passes, and two of them
Speaker 1: were for more than half the yards he completed that
Speaker 1: he gained throwing the ball. Think about that, the two passes.
Speaker 1: I think it ended up being the two touchdowns fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards. He only threw for one hundred and five,
Speaker 1: so he had ten passes basically for like forty nine yards.
Speaker 1: And you got beat because you can't stop the run.
Speaker 1: You can't figure out when they've got a fullback in
Speaker 1: the game, when they've got two tight ends in the game.
Speaker 1: When it's fourth in two and Lamar Jackson's at quarterback,
Speaker 1: what do you think they're gonna do. They're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball. They're gonna run the ball, and no, there
Speaker 1: you got with one linebacker in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and the skinny ass safety sitting there next to him.
Speaker 1: What do you think the result was gonna be? Well,
Speaker 1: the problem on the Lamar Jackson touchdown runners the linebacker
Speaker 1: that was supposed to be in that gap went to
Speaker 1: the other side of the field. He made a false step,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have anybody there for backup. Though there
Speaker 1: was no other linebacker. What if you had three linebackers
Speaker 1: on the field? God forbid? That was that infamous. That
Speaker 1: was that infamous zero coverage that has been known to
Speaker 1: get some people from fired here lately. I must say
Speaker 1: in this regard, I remember playing against the Rams nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five wildcard playoff game. We were in Anaheim. You've
Speaker 1: got Eric Dickerson in the backfield, and you've got probably
Speaker 1: the shortest quarterback besides Kylin Murray in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Did Brock remember him? Yeah, Canadians from candid
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, they threw I think maybe five
Speaker 1: times that game. We picked him off twice. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: we picked him off only once because Randy White jumped
Speaker 1: off sides twice or jumped off sides on the second interception.
Speaker 1: My thing is this, they're gonna do what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Every Dickerson ran for a guy two hundred by himself.
Speaker 1: He outland what we just gave up last night by himself.
Speaker 1: He ran that on us on our doomsday defense nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty five. But when they rose up to pass, we
Speaker 1: did what we had to do. He was totally inept
Speaker 1: in as a passer, and I guess that's my pet Peeve.
Speaker 1: As a quarnerback, I can't do much about the running plays,
Speaker 1: But when you've got an inept passer in that backfield
Speaker 1: and at that quarterback position, you cannot let him extend
Speaker 1: any plays in regards to your position in the secondary.
Speaker 1: In other words, you can't give up a touchdown pass
Speaker 1: to a quarterback who is laboring right now in regards
Speaker 1: to his proper passing tech. Deal. So, yes, you don't
Speaker 1: stop the run, but there are times when we did
Speaker 1: put ourselves in a good position to stop him, forced
Speaker 1: them into a third and long and into a pass
Speaker 1: and either he scrambled for a first down or he
Speaker 1: was able to find someone wide open because of a
Speaker 1: blown coverage. My thing, as a defensive back, you do
Speaker 1: what you must do in regards to your position. I
Speaker 1: picked off data block twice that that day, but only
Speaker 1: one counted because of the off side. But my point
Speaker 1: is you can't have anyone wide open in the secondary
Speaker 1: after you finally finally got him in a position to
Speaker 1: where you want them, And that goes to a position
Speaker 1: of leverage, That goes to a position of being bone head,
Speaker 1: That goes to a position of not knowing what you're
Speaker 1: doing and not having instincts at all in the secondary.
Speaker 1: So you can't compound your problems within APT two. That's
Speaker 1: my points. Fags. I get it, we can't stop the run,
Speaker 1: but damn, you've got a guy back here passing for touchdowns,
Speaker 1: who has had the worst passing of his career, even
Speaker 1: worse than his rookie year. To me, that's the plant
Speaker 1: that needs to be made as well. Well, here's the
Speaker 1: other point. He never got touched, no sacks, no quarterback hits.
Speaker 1: That's it. He was free, and this is a guy
Speaker 1: that hadn't and there were times should hit them. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, he was here. If there were grasshoppers out there,
Speaker 1: he was killing grasshoppers on the field. It reminded me,
Speaker 1: my friend, it could have been more. It could have
Speaker 1: been more. Some guys were wild open. He just missed them.
Speaker 1: It reminded me my freshman year at Missouri when I
Speaker 1: got there and everybody was talking about what a great
Speaker 1: football program this was, and we are our block for
Speaker 1: our dorm floor was like the first row in the
Speaker 1: end zone. We couldn't see anything, but all we could
Speaker 1: see because it was the opener, were grasshoppers all the
Speaker 1: way right and the and the Missouri quarterbacks. He was
Speaker 1: thrown so many in completions. The grasshoppers were jumping up
Speaker 1: off the ground because they were ready to get killed
Speaker 1: by passes. That's what he reminded me of. How many
Speaker 1: times you throw the ball in the ground, and yet
Speaker 1: you win the game thirty four to seventeen. Just amazing.
Speaker 1: Seven on seven, that's what it looked like. It looked
Speaker 1: like seven on seven. He was standing back there so long.
Speaker 1: Do you realize they had of their yardage and it
Speaker 1: was I believe it was four oh one if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, total yards yep, two hundred and six of
Speaker 1: it came on seven plays. Seven plays accounted for two
Speaker 1: hundred and six yards, and only two of them were
Speaker 1: pass plays. The rest of them were runs. So how
Speaker 1: do you expect to win a game when you're giving
Speaker 1: up yardage like that on big plays and you're not
Speaker 1: getting any You're just kind of going D D DK
Speaker 1: but moving down field until you couldn't do it enough
Speaker 1: to you had to kick field goals. But two hundred
Speaker 1: seven plays, you divide two hundred and six by seven,
Speaker 1: and that's almost thirty yards of play. I'm at a
Speaker 1: loss of how you can play defense that bad. That's
Speaker 1: what Choice said, you know what, And I'm also it
Speaker 1: seems like I'm also not buying the excuse that they
Speaker 1: didn't have any energy or they weren't trying. No, they
Speaker 1: were trying. It just wasn't working. They worked good enough.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that Rams playoff loss back in
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty five season, brock HWard had a total
Speaker 1: of fifty yards passing or no, no, no, it was
Speaker 1: Yeah it was. Dieter Brock had fifty yards passing in
Speaker 1: that game. And Eric Dickerson ran for two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty nine yards on thirty four carries. Yea, and the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Evans ran for more yards than Eric Nickerson and
Speaker 1: Rams did. Is that forgettable playoff game in nineteen eighty five?
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Speaker 1: Cowboys back on the road this week. More road rage
Speaker 1: for Mickey and others as road game rage as they
Speaker 1: play at Cincinnati at noon on Sunday and then back
Speaker 1: home to take on the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: And Mickey and Everson not only you two and a
Speaker 1: lot of Cowboys fans are fed up with watching this
Speaker 1: team right now, but so are the networks, apparently, because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been flexed out of the Sunday night
Speaker 1: game against San Francisco. Wow, They've been moved to noon
Speaker 1: that day at eighteen WHOA, that is extreme. They go
Speaker 1: from you you go to New Wow, They're still gonna
Speaker 1: have manager in the eyes when they play that game,
Speaker 1: They're like, whoa, if if the if the London, if
Speaker 1: the London eight thirty am window on Sunday were available,
Speaker 1: they would have gotten they would have flexed them to
Speaker 1: eight thirty am on Sunday. But they feel like Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans need to go to church. They feel like Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans need to go to church, even if it's just
Speaker 1: online on Sunday morning, so you can get out of
Speaker 1: your your church online session and then go pray for
Speaker 1: your Cowboys starting getting new. Think about this. Think about
Speaker 1: this though, Think about this. Cleveland Giants Cowboys forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: even though the Cowboys are three and nine, which one
Speaker 1: you think would get the highest ratings resolutely, but three
Speaker 1: and nine, three and nine out trump the Cowboys national
Speaker 1: appeal for the first time. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this site's legitimate or night. I saw somebody quoting uh
Speaker 1: at five h six sports, and basically all they do
Speaker 1: is give you who's playing where, what time, what time slot,
Speaker 1: who's who's broadcasting the game. And they are claiming that
Speaker 1: since Sunday Night football started in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: if that's accurate, this is the first time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have ever been flexed out of a game, not into
Speaker 1: a game, out of a game. And I can believe
Speaker 1: it because I can't. I can't. Well, there was no
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football in eighty nine. It was Monday Night, right, Um,
Speaker 1: I can't remember a game getting flexed out of that's
Speaker 1: imports Well, think about it. How many how many times
Speaker 1: have the Cowboys, you know, Jason Garrett had three straight
Speaker 1: eight and eight seasons, and so they were still in
Speaker 1: it down to the end of the season, right in
Speaker 1: those three seasons they're in outside of the four and
Speaker 1: twelve year I mean that when Romo got hurt U
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, you know, the Cowboys just probably didn't happen
Speaker 1: to have a Sunday night game scheduled for the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of the season that year. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I have to go back and look, but there's over
Speaker 1: the last fifteen years, the Cowboys had pretty much been
Speaker 1: in it all the time, you know. And he's really
Speaker 1: just to twenty fifteen where they got the fourth pick
Speaker 1: in the draft and pick Zeke the next year, and
Speaker 1: then where they were bottom, and then twenty ten when
Speaker 1: they would they finished six and ten. But even then
Speaker 1: they were they they finished six and ten, they were six, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were. They finished to see in five and three,
Speaker 1: and Jason had taken over at mid season that year.
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's uh, that's where we are right now.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's all because of COVID. Oh oh okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said something before I opened up my
Speaker 1: mouth and spoke truth. I'm sorry. Right now, guys, it's
Speaker 1: you know, you can call this season oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: We had the virus running through here from the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season. I mean virus of injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: of course, the pandemic itself, and I'm just so disappointed
Speaker 1: that we didn't handle it a bit better. I know,
Speaker 1: we've got so many issues, and people talk about how
Speaker 1: many losses they had in a personnel. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: had just as many or more. And I think the
Speaker 1: quality of losses that we've had to deal with, especially
Speaker 1: from an offensive line, it's something that just really needs
Speaker 1: to be considered. And not to mention, you got a
Speaker 1: all pro promo corebat that went down in a horrific injury.
Speaker 1: Choice folk last night about how offensively I think was
Speaker 1: still ranked number ninth in the NFL. I can tell
Speaker 1: you that they are still number ninth and number nine
Speaker 1: in the passing game. So that tells you how good
Speaker 1: they were before this stretch of suffering out there with
Speaker 1: what the offensive line they're playing with. But you know
Speaker 1: what it also tells you, you know what making What
Speaker 1: it also tells you is how far behind they have
Speaker 1: been in games in the season. Yeah, when the passing
Speaker 1: offense is putting up that kind of numbers, that means
Speaker 1: that you've been trailing a lot of games by about
Speaker 1: three touchdowns for a lot for a lot of those games.
Speaker 1: And meeting you fall behind early in the season, obviously
Speaker 1: the first half of games, and then you know, you
Speaker 1: can't win very many games throwing fifty passes a game,
Speaker 1: and then you know, talking to another forty eight last
Speaker 1: the difference in that, though, Bill, what I saw was
Speaker 1: because I remember they made a statement about garbage yards
Speaker 1: by Dad, and I guess I took offense to that,
Speaker 1: because to me, garbage yarge is when you you never
Speaker 1: closed the gap as far as the scores concerned, any
Speaker 1: any game that we were behind, whether it's Falcon's, Brown's, uh,
Speaker 1: any of those games we dak brought us back in it.
Speaker 1: We were in it at the times. He brought us
Speaker 1: back into the lead. And so to me when he
Speaker 1: not you necessarily, but when when I've heard commentators say
Speaker 1: about garbage yards, to me, garbage yards, those are not
Speaker 1: garbage yards. Those are necessary yards that brought us back
Speaker 1: into these ball games that were out of reach initially.
Speaker 1: And we'll look up in the third quarter, maybe even
Speaker 1: the fourth and gold Man we're back in this. So
Speaker 1: that happened so last times last night was garbage yards, yes,
Speaker 1: last as they weren't getting back we know, garbage yarde
Speaker 1: Those that Dak was putting up, those were not garbage yards.
Speaker 1: And you know what's so bad? I think, and it's
Speaker 1: scared to say, if Dak was still playing, would our
Speaker 1: defense still be this horrible? I mean, would they continue
Speaker 1: to be this in theft they were that in there?
Speaker 1: He continue to have That's what I mean. Would they
Speaker 1: continue your rights back? Would they continue to be inept?
Speaker 1: Even if he was still up, you know, still doing
Speaker 1: this thing and still throwing for let's say it went
Speaker 1: from four hundred yards I think high four hundred and five.
Speaker 1: What if he brought it down to every game he
Speaker 1: had to throw for three plus and four, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And would they continue to be this
Speaker 1: in theft and force us to have to be putting
Speaker 1: up crazy numbers. That's something that I actually wish I
Speaker 1: could could could realize and could see because right now,
Speaker 1: you know, we've got an excuse. The defense has an excuse.
Speaker 1: Oh well DA's down. You know, people hurt. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: wondered what kind of excuse would they use if Dak
Speaker 1: was still playing and we kept on losing and he
Speaker 1: kept putting up the numbers and bringing us back in
Speaker 1: the games. They kept on being that defense, They kept
Speaker 1: on being like the Seahawks are now, right, I guess
Speaker 1: the Seahawks really are the only team that's continued to
Speaker 1: be in there versus the pass nothing are Nothing's gonna change,
Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna change. Gus Edwards running the ball seven times
Speaker 1: for one hundred and one yards. Lamar Jackson thirteen times
Speaker 1: for ninety four yards. JK. Dobbins eleven times for seventy
Speaker 1: one yards. You know they were all worried about well Ingram. Well,
Speaker 1: he's coming back off COVID. I don't he only gained
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards. These other characters had all the rest,
Speaker 1: you know, and just because you get a batted I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think just because you get a
Speaker 1: batted pass, I just don't say we've ever had the
Speaker 1: plays got to be a touchdown once again. That's very true.
Speaker 1: How true. I love how Mickey says these other characters.
Speaker 1: You got to Heisman Trophy winner group and JK. Dobbins
Speaker 1: and played at Ohio State. Gus Edwards, but Edwards but
Speaker 1: gys is the other It's not just that they ran
Speaker 1: for choice. Spoke last night about how it was. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you can tell that fan comes out of him.
Speaker 1: You know that that X cowboy comes out, because he
Speaker 1: was he was like you could just see him throwing
Speaker 1: his hands up. The Cowboys know that they have to run,
Speaker 1: and they're still gashing the defense with the running plays.
Speaker 1: When he said that that's coming from a former player
Speaker 1: or fan, he said, this is ridiculous. The Cowboys are
Speaker 1: still giving up big chunks of yardage when you know
Speaker 1: that they all they're gonna do is run the ball,
Speaker 1: and you I've stacked the line. The other thing, though,
Speaker 1: sens me, is do we not have a third linebacker
Speaker 1: or what? Do we not have a third linebacker. What
Speaker 1: is wrong with our third linebacker? Sean Lee got to
Speaker 1: play seventeen plays? That might be a season high. There
Speaker 1: was he had eighteen I think the last game too. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's the rotation. But your point is well taken
Speaker 1: because how many times this season, outside of a goal
Speaker 1: line situation which you may may not even happen, then
Speaker 1: have Layton vander As, Jalen Smith, and Sean Lee being
Speaker 1: on the field at the same time. It hadn't happened much,
Speaker 1: if if ever, I don't know that they are running
Speaker 1: the ball. Guys, they are running the ball. They are there,
Speaker 1: like like Troy was saying, they're not trying to fool anybody.
Speaker 1: You know what They're gonna come out and do. Why,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I forgot there. The linebacker's name is that
Speaker 1: Joe Smith. What was the guy's name for the eight
Speaker 1: for for her? It was the linebacker for US for
Speaker 1: US number four, Joe Thomas. Joe Thomas. Thank you, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you everyone. Joe Thomas is out there.
Speaker 1: I saw him on the on the kickoff return. They
Speaker 1: don't play him anymore. He was decent when he played.
Speaker 1: He can't be doing anything worse than what we're doing
Speaker 1: right now now. I just thought that when they came
Speaker 1: out with the tight ends, and even if they did
Speaker 1: come out wide, they still ran the ball. And Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson this year is not passing the ball well enough
Speaker 1: to say, you know what, guys, we'd better put an
Speaker 1: extra defensive back in there. No, he hasn't wanted that
Speaker 1: kind of respect. As far as the passing yards of concern,
Speaker 1: the only way Gollin was, as fact said, blown coverages.
Speaker 1: So I think we should have been in there playing
Speaker 1: heavy run because we knew that's what they would come
Speaker 1: at us with. I don't know why we keep playing
Speaker 1: with the nickel and the dime. I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, what do you think, Mickey, I've been
Speaker 1: saying it happening. I've been saying it for weeks. I
Speaker 1: don't know understand it either. All right, we mulled that
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Speaker 1: all right, and uh, let me vouch for that Christmas
Speaker 1: extravaganza I was out last week. I think it was
Speaker 1: on Wednesday last week. I don't know if this happens
Speaker 1: every evening in the Star in the Plaza area Tostito's
Speaker 1: Championship Plaza at the Star, but starting at six o'clock,
Speaker 1: they I think they ran a replay of last year's
Speaker 1: um or it may have been one that they did
Speaker 1: right before Thanksgiving where there was the tree lighting. That's
Speaker 1: what it was, and so they replayed it and there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that were gathered there and stuff.
Speaker 1: Just but it's really if if you're not doing anything
Speaker 1: in some evening six o'clock, just head up to the
Speaker 1: to the Star. It's easy parking right there on a
Speaker 1: nice evening and it's really cool because they uh, they
Speaker 1: basically redo or replay on the big board there. Uh
Speaker 1: and and it's a they light the Christmas tree just
Speaker 1: like they did when they when they did it around
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving time, it's really neat. And this Christmas extravagance is
Speaker 1: it's a different type thing. I guess the Holiday Show
Speaker 1: which is Friday at six o'clock, and I would imagine
Speaker 1: that they'll probably replay that too some as well. But
Speaker 1: it's it's you want to get into the holiday spirit,
Speaker 1: head up to the Star any evening on a nice
Speaker 1: weather night and it'll it'll get you in the holiday spirit.
Speaker 1: And goodness knows we need that right now. And on
Speaker 1: top of that, if you make an appointment, you can
Speaker 1: visit Santa Claus at the Star also there you go,
Speaker 1: all right, very good, Nicky. When do you suit up?
Speaker 1: When do you suit up for that? Every day? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right right after right after Mick shots, you put your
Speaker 1: beard on. And actually it takes a while to you know,
Speaker 1: put his lips on. He's gotta put his lips on
Speaker 1: otherwise everybody know who he is. Actually, yesterday, I was
Speaker 1: here so early before the game. It was like three
Speaker 1: to thirty, and I'm going, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: It's still three and a half hours till the game starts.
Speaker 1: So I think for the first time in a year,
Speaker 1: I walked around the Star Complex here and I saw
Speaker 1: where the store or not the store that it was,
Speaker 1: where Santa Claus was, and people were in there and
Speaker 1: there their pictures taken. Yeah, okay, so this is the
Speaker 1: real Santa Claus. Yeah, the real Santas. So by the way,
Speaker 1: you you kind of glossed over. Somebody mentioned the virus.
Speaker 1: How many more mistakes is Baltimore gonna make with the
Speaker 1: Dez thing? How did that happen? Oh my god, how
Speaker 1: does that? How did it down for him? Break it
Speaker 1: down for him? I mean, what what what we were
Speaker 1: told was that, you know, he had an inconclusive test, right, Well,
Speaker 1: my understanding and what I've been told is inconclusive might
Speaker 1: as well be positive. And until you're negative, then you're positive,
Speaker 1: even if it's inconclusive. Uh And and supposedly two inconclusive
Speaker 1: tests before the one came back positive. I guess they
Speaker 1: finally did one point of contact trade testing instead of
Speaker 1: waiting for a couple hours for the test to come back.
Speaker 1: But that's just amazing to me. Yeah, yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: amazing that that that could take place. No wonder they've
Speaker 1: had problems and the reason why the Cowboys were playing
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday night and then have to play Sunday
Speaker 1: after getting home at three thirty and probably no one
Speaker 1: getting to their houses till four. Uh, today's a wash.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything. So you get to practice Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: maybe do something Saturday because Friday's normally a day they
Speaker 1: don't do much. And then you got to go travel
Speaker 1: again while they get to play on Monday night. Go figure.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's scary because you just play against
Speaker 1: the team that has had these unusual outbreaks. So you
Speaker 1: kind of wonder as we test going towards the next game,
Speaker 1: you know, you you kind of got your fingers crossed,
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that things turn out okay, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that was George. Yeah, and it's a short week.
Speaker 1: So my understanding, and Stephen was explaining it today when
Speaker 1: he did his radio segment that, uh, you know when
Speaker 1: they when they go on the road like that, the
Speaker 1: players are all have to do contact tracing. They've got
Speaker 1: their little device with them, and so I guess after
Speaker 1: the game all that was checked and he said that
Speaker 1: no one basically violated the protocol of being around Dez
Speaker 1: for a lengthy period of time from the cont tracing
Speaker 1: and also the fact that it was outdoors, so that
Speaker 1: kind of helped the situation. And you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: when their tests come back, uh from you know today,
Speaker 1: Uh you know what, what if anything took place, but
Speaker 1: they thought they were pretty clear of any problems from that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we're yet to see. You didn't want to
Speaker 1: interview and how Dez was that for that to happen?
Speaker 1: Caly didn't want to interview him afterwards? Or no, he
Speaker 1: didn't have to do his follow his Twitter Twitter, poor kid,
Speaker 1: and it's like, gosh, just get rid of Twitter, please,
Speaker 1: please do yourself. At that point, he said he quit,
Speaker 1: basically just threw his hands up and said he quit.
Speaker 1: But then he changed to last heard, then he changed
Speaker 1: his mind and he's, yeah, I'm coming back to play.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's good. I mean, he's emotional. We all
Speaker 1: knew that, and that is kind of frustrating, but you know,
Speaker 1: what do you expect. I mean, he's pretty haphazard when
Speaker 1: it comes to protocol. I mean, let's just be real
Speaker 1: about it. But I didn't want to see him play
Speaker 1: in this game. I am a fan of his, even
Speaker 1: though he has no freaking idea who I am. I
Speaker 1: passed my bottom four or five times. Yeah, no idea
Speaker 1: who I am? But I'm a big fan of his.
Speaker 1: I want to see him play against the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: want to see your player of his magnitude come back
Speaker 1: from that, Henry, And of course we saw that, but
Speaker 1: you still want to see him play against his old teammates.
Speaker 1: So that was something that was a totally disappointing, and
Speaker 1: I think that's why his reaction was so viscerable, because
Speaker 1: he was just like, man, what you know? And then
Speaker 1: and then the weird thing was is the Fox pregame
Speaker 1: show finally reported that that's what took place, but they
Speaker 1: still ran their feature on Dez, the interview with him,
Speaker 1: and it was like, seriously, you can't let you can't
Speaker 1: let the facts stand in the way of a good feature. Hey,
Speaker 1: welcome to social socialize the social media now spas and
Speaker 1: media in general. You were talking about how Troy was
Speaker 1: kind of hard on the Cowboys, Joe Buck was doing
Speaker 1: his best to help out before Tucker attempted that field
Speaker 1: goal and pointed out, this is no Jakes, but he
Speaker 1: has made seventy straight field goals no more than forty
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then he misses. It's like they
Speaker 1: were like, come on, come on, let's let's dig it
Speaker 1: in there, keep it going. Share enough. He misses after
Speaker 1: what's seventy straight or something? So Joe Buck did his part.
Speaker 1: Guess they tried, you know, you say, I guess they were.
Speaker 1: I guess they were. The problem is it worked on
Speaker 1: zeroline threefold though. Yeah, oh kitty, that's your boy spas
Speaker 1: green Leg. Yeah right, I was all for. How about
Speaker 1: the watermelon? About the watermelon kicks were about to put
Speaker 1: that out to pasture now, Yeah, that was a long
Speaker 1: time ago. It almost worked. He just he just kicked
Speaker 1: that one, or almost worked after. If you're gonna allow
Speaker 1: the recovery to happen five seconds after the after the
Speaker 1: ball has covered, yeah, at least they had the sense
Speaker 1: to run up and recover the ball, right, although I
Speaker 1: don't know why they got even after he recovered. What
Speaker 1: was he doing? He was like acting like he was
Speaker 1: trying to get up again. Where did he think he
Speaker 1: was going? Everybody was laying on top of him. That's
Speaker 1: why the ball got ripped out. I think I think
Speaker 1: he just wanted to go do the camera thing. Oh
Speaker 1: I got it and go off yeah yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: gotta go run to the end zone and go take
Speaker 1: a picture in the end yeah yeah. All right, looks
Speaker 1: like we're out of time for mix shots for this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and uh, we got a lot of ammunition for tomorrow
Speaker 1: though too. I have a feeling that Mickey's got two
Speaker 1: more days worth of mix shots from this game as
Speaker 1: we get set for the classic battle between the three
Speaker 1: and nine Cowboys and the two nine and one Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals on Sunday in Cincinnati. Homecoming for Andy Dalton. That's
Speaker 1: something to look forward to this week is the Cowboys
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