WEBVTT - 1_20 Mick Shots.mp3 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:14.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.560 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.800 official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:58.720 and Mickey Spagnola. Go Dallas, Howboys stand stand? Now? That 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:03.080 ought to get you fired for some football Sunday afternoon. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.760 I got goose bumps just thinking back to the Cowboys 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:12.559 Niners Conference championship games of the seventies, fast forward into 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.360 the nineties. We skipped right over one matchup in the 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:21.440 eighties and on now into the twenties. As the Cowboys 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.480 try to get payback for what happened last January at 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.200 at and T Stadium. You think if they played that song, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.280 we should just stream it in the locker room. That'll 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:37.720 get them all. How many people anywhere near that locker 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:42.160 room have any idea about Stampede? Right? Well, they know 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.600 Cowboy Joe. Now, they do know Cowboy Joe. That's right, 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.880 that's right, and so we need to bring back Stampede. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.720 That's right. We're doing our best here, and we're doing 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.280 our best to get you ready for a divisional playoff 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.360 game in Santa Clara, California, three thirty West Coast Time, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.320 five thirty Dallars Time. Inside the SWBC podcast Studio, Bill 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:12.160 Jones with Mickey Spagnola. Everson Walls is away today, but 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.359 he has delivered his picks to click and a pick 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.679 to win. I think he's in the witness protection just 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:27.040 judging by where he was right. But anyway, so no 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.560 Everson in studio today. But man, we got so much 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:35.240 to get to and there are so many storylines on 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.239 this game it's going to be very difficult to fit 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.960 it into forty five minutes. We can tell you this 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:45.040 much on this Friday that the football team is on 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.040 a football field right now, walk through practice, and they'll 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:57.800 have their regular Saturday practice tomorrow going over everything that 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:04.280 they're gonna do, I guess, and then the charter wheels 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:11.760 up at three o'clock on Saturday. Okay, so even leaving 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.239 at three o'clock by time you get to Santa Clara, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:19.840 right with the time chain, Yeah, it's only four forty 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.200 so they didn't need to normally to Charter leaves it too. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.600 So that's one thing about flying west later. Yeah, right, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.240 all right, So Mike McCarthy. What we as not only 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.280 had Mike McCarthy, but also a couple of coordinators talking 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.240 with the media today. So you're filling up your nineteen 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.400 ninety six legal pad. Did you see the tweet from 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.680 someone saying saying that Mickey nineteen ninety six wants it's 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:49.880 legal pad back nineteen nineties? He just threw out just 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.280 because you're not on your it's not it's not a year. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.480 You can say the same thing about my notebook. That's 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.280 not a reference. Meg, don't look too far. Let's wonder 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.360 what nineteen ninety six like. It a funny line, I mean, okay, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.160 if you get it. Okay, it's not a yearly notepad, 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.520 it's a weekly Yeah, okay, all right. I apologize for 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:17.640 you and bringing up what's on your legal pad? Oh, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.560 I think what I took from what dan quinn had 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.920 to say, and then I think Mike McCarthy has emphasized 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.279 it now he did this. Dan Quinn did this session 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.640 with the media before he talked to the Broncos today morning. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.159 All right, you know what all the Broncos need to 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:39.000 do is just get the game film from Monday night, right, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.400 that should be interview enough and if he has another 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.200 good Sunday night game. You could take most every game 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.159 film from the last couple of years yeah and say, Okay, yeah, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.800 I want this guy. But but if I'm hiring him, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.440 I'm telling him, you're the defensive coordinator, I don't want 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.560 this I'm the head coach, and then I'm going to 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.760 be a walk around guy, right, because I think he's 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:07.120 awfully good. But both guys all week long have emphasized tackling, 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:13.000 that tackling will be a premium need in this game 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.960 against the team that I'm sure somebody came up with 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.119 a stat on it leads the league and yards after catch, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:24.320 and just because of their guys being so versatile wide 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.480 receivers playing running back, running backs playing wide receiver, they 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.880 got a fullback, a tight end, and everybody runs well 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.839 after the catch. So they've really talked about it all 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:41.080 week long, tackling, tackling. Tackling makes it a lot easier 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.599 for a rookie quarterback too, Yes, well you don't have 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.320 to throw it as far down the field. Yeah, absolutely, 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:51.240 And for a rookie quarterback to have the people around 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:57.080 him that he does offensively, right, and so it makes 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.039 it easier on him. So what the Cowboys have to 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.880 do is tackle well first down, second down, if they're 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.760 running and making sure they get him into more third 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:14.839 and long situations, and maybe their pass rush can make 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:21.919 him uncomfortable. Because you know, Michael Parsons was unbelievably good yesterday, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:26.480 right I think we talked about it, or no we didn't, 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.120 because that was a right, yeah, So tell everyone how 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.960 good Michael Parsons was talking with the media yesterday. I mean, 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.200 he's when I got done there, So I'm supposed to 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.320 finish my column today, right, and I was thinking, I'm 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.000 just gonna transcribe what he had to say and say here. 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.120 I can't write it any better than he said it 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:52.359 about just he's so just right on the button. They 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.159 were They were asking him about playing San Francisco and 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.520 he goes, yeah, that's what we want to do. He goes. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:06:59.920 You know, if you're going to get to where you 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.240 gotta go, you got you gotta play the best. He goes, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.479 let's get it done now. He goes, I want to 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.839 play him. I want to see where my team is. Right, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.880 what about playing Trent Williams? Well, what about Trent Williams 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.600 playing me? He goes, he goes, you know what we're 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.880 we're awfully good at what we do, and you know 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.320 with this NFL stuff. And I'm certainly paraphrasing right now, 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.280 although if I had a brought my computer down, I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.680 could have read it to you. He said, we're in 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.480 show business and we got two of the best guys 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.080 at what they do going up against each other. He goes, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.680 this is gonna be great. He goes, you know, I'm 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:36.960 looking forward and he goes, I bet he's looking forward 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.440 to playing me, and and just going on and on, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.720 talked about you know, people say, well, you know, San 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.600 Francisco's physical, and you know, if you're gonna beat him, 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.000 you gotta He goes, No, we don't have to be 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.560 San Francisco. We have to be us. We have to 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.559 do what we do and they're gonna have to deal 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.720 with us. And I was like, this is just gold right, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.000 and just City hasn't studied the rivalry between the Cowboys 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:07.880 and nine Ers through the years, Yeah, but he has 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.000 studied boxing. Yeah, and related that. Edie basically said, yeah. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.600 He goes, you know, when you're a boxer, you're you know, 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.400 listening to Ali and he goes, he's preparing for twelve rounds. 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.440 I was gonna say, no, it was fifteen, right, but 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.520 he goes, so we got to prepare for twelve rounds, right, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.640 And it just one after another. He goes, this is 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.240 who we wanted to play. We want to play them. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.560 And it wasn't a and he said, it wasn't like 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.080 motivation by revenge. It was like, hey, they're real good, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.400 so that's who we want to play. We got to 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.880 measure ourselves. And he was basically, let's get it on, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.960 you know, let's go. And so if the rest of 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:52.800 the guys are thinking similar, you know, I think from 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:56.080 a mental standpoint, this team is in a better situation 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.920 now than they were last year. And I don't know 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.960 if you agree with me, but I got the feeling 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.200 last year they sort of tippy toed into the game. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.079 Remember coach kind of admitted it the next day. Yep, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.280 he sent some angst in the locker room. Yeah, and 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.040 they came out with the butterflies or whatever. They came 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.760 out with their boom box, and you know they're dancing 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.719 coming out the tunnel. Uh. And so now I think 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.840 the Cowboys, even Zach Martin, he's his his quote to 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.120 me and it was it was really good. It was 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:37.839 sort of like um he said something about he still 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.960 can't figure out where they were in that game, Like 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.360 he was bewildered, like how did that happen? Because if 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.600 you look at it, they got out to um a 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:54.880 big lade, they got down thirteen to nothing, sixteen to seven, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.760 twenty three to seven before they scored the next ten 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.560 points and like engaged right and had the ball there 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.760 at the twenty yard line if they had gotten one 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:12.640 more try. Oh, Martin said, why weren't we more ready? 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.360 Meaning that was in his mind thinking back, like because 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.559 he looked back and he said, it just felt like 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.400 we weren't ready. And he said this time, he said, 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.800 guys are excited to play this team. And I think 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.120 that's true. You know when I and it's this team, right, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.800 this team's playing, not last year's team. I went back 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:39.160 and looked, and there are thirty one guys either no 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:42.920 longer on this team from last year, or they're in 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.920 different spots, or they're not starting. So that's a huge 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.280 difference in what you had last year. Well, look at 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.719 what happened the first four possessions of the game for 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.240 the forty nine ers last year. In this game, starting 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.040 with the first drive of the game, they went seventy 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.199 five yards in seven plays for a touchdown. Cowboys punt. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.400 It was a three and out for the Cowboys, and 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.319 they come back twenty three yards in nine plays for 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.720 a field goal, and so it's ten nothing to start 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.800 the game. In the first quarter, Cowboys five and out, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.520 punt and the Niners come back fifty six yards in 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.200 twelve plays for a field goal. Now it's thirteen to nothing. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.280 And then the Cowboys got a touchdown and make it 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.840 thirteen seven. The kick Niners get it back and they 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.480 go forty one yards in five plays for another field goal, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.240 and all you know, it's sixteen to seven before you 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:36.000 know it. But along the way, if you look in 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.160 that five play and out, they had an holding call. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.800 So back to you up ten yards suddenly, now it's 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:47.479 third and sixteen. Right the next possession for San Francisco, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.320 Randy Gregory gets called for a neutral zone in fraction 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.200 first and ten at the San Francisco thirty two. I 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:01.640 had forgotten that they got called. I'm not saying they committed. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.320 I'm gonna say they got called for fourteen penalties in 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.440 the game. Fourteen and so, which which leads to the 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.880 Niners scored whether it was a touchdown or a field goal, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.120 on five of the first six possessions of that game, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.959 going all the way into the through the third quarter 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.120 basically of that game, right, and even after they finally 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:26.840 kicked the field goal a twenty it was third and 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.520 five at the twenty. Oh, that was the touchdown. They 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.880 scored the next possession another holding call, so it put 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.520 him behind. And I think that's one of the things 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:43.679 they remember, the penalties that they committed. So yeah, but 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.560 this is you know, it took them to the fourth 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.640 quarter to really get rolling and then all of a sudden, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.800 there they were right twenty yard line, ready to you know, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.240 take one last desperation shot. By the way, the quarterback 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.920 for San Francisco in this game, what was he doing 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.000 a year ago? He was probably playing in a bowl game. 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:09.040 He was probably getting ready for an All Star game 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.000 or something like that. I don't know if he was 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.880 at the senior I don't think he was at the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.880 senior bowler and he was getting ready for the combine 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.680 or something. Yeah, and so here it is brock Purty 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.080 versus Dak Prescott. You know, It's interesting you look at 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.720 the two quarterbacks in this game and very similar stories 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:32.400 for Brock Purty and Dak Prescott, even going back to 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.240 their college days. Think about Dak when he was at 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.360 Mississippi State. At one point, Mississippi State was ranked number 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.760 one in the country. During his time as a quarterback there, 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.280 he made as big an impact on the Mississippi State 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.400 program as any player in the history of that program. 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.199 When you look at Brock Purty the last four years 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.200 that I always stayed as a true freshman, he played 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.880 and started games. He was seven and two as a 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.800 starting quarterback as a true freshman at a program and 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.240 is not a traditional power by any means in college football. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.680 Put together a thirty and seventeen record at Ioways State, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.800 including a nine in three season, one year Fiesta Bowl win, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.280 Major Bowl win. I mean, you can make a case 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.079 that the last four years for Iowas State football might 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.920 be the best four years in the history of that 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.280 football program. All Right. He comes into the NFL as 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.320 a third day draft pick, just like Dak Prescott was 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.520 a third day draft pick, and his day was a 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:32.240 long day exactly. His day went all the way to 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.360 the end of the draft, but he comes into a 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.320 really good team. Dak Prescott came into a really good team. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.800 And we're going into training camp in twenty sixteen and 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.040 some of us had Dak Prescott as the fourth man 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:51.560 on the depth chart at quarterback, behind Tony Romo, Kellen Moore, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:56.760 and Jabille Showers. But Dak took advantage of his opportunity. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.800 He had not one but two quarterback injuries that happened 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.520 in to preseason, and he starts every game of a 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:07.200 thirteen and three season. Brock Purty not one but two injuries, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.200 and he has won every game that he's been in 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.160 the last seven weeks for the San Francisco forty nine ers. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.600 Very similar stories da and brock Purty except for their age. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.160 Dak will be the oldest quarterback well right, but they 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.800 were the same age when they came in. They were 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.920 both twenty three years old when they came in. He's 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.920 now the youngest. But point on that, My point on 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.040 that is in contrast to say a Trey Lance at 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.600 North Dakota State, who the forty nine ers used a 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.440 whole bunch of draft capital for to acquire. He But 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:40.960 if you go back and look at his time at 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.440 North Dakota State, not very many passes attempt not much 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.760 playing time at North Dakota State, brock Purty has over 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:51.400 twelve thousand passing yards in his college career. Dak Prescott, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.920 who was a three year starter at Mississippi State, was 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.760 a maturer guy coming into the league and that's why 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.520 brock Purty the stage has not been too big for 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.480 him so far. What happened with Dak though in the 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:09.280 playoffs his first first playoff game. Let's see if brock Purdy, 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.760 who has a playoff win under his belt, but in 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.800 the first half of that game against Seattle, it looked Yeah, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.160 it didn't look so good for him, and they got 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.040 it together in the second half. But now he's he 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.760 gets a real test against a very good defense and 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:31.600 an experienced quarterback on the other side, which prompted not him, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.480 but the other thing Parson said was they ain't played 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:41.240 us yet. Yeah, and you gotta love it. And he's 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:45.360 just aft one after another after another. So when it 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.520 was pointed out to Dak that he's, uh, the oldest 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.960 quarterback left in the in the playoffs, he looked up 0:16:54.000 --> 0:17:01.280 and he goes s goes fast. It does so you 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.720 better take advantage of yes, yes, this opportunity because yeah, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:09.080 and that was another thing, was it curse said it 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:14.000 or Zeke? It was like, you know, these opportunities don't 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.800 come along. You're not guaranteed this opportunity every year, so 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.000 you got to take advantage of it. And by the way, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.920 I don't think playing on the road matters, no at all. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.200 I don't think so either, And it didn't matter last 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.800 year of it. Think it's one in three where home 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.720 teams in this round of the playoffs last year. And 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.239 I mean you look at even San Francisco last year. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.920 They went on the road last year and they beat 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.760 Dallas and then Green Bay and then had the Rams 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.639 against the Ropes last year. And I think this Cowboys team, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.120 I think now it has a maturity about it, right 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:52.160 that and the experience from last year, they understand, Okay, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.560 it's a it's a different game this time of the year. Yeah. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.719 And when you're on the road, and you know this 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.080 has been pointed out, it's like you don't have any 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:07.000 personal problems. You're just with your team, right, You're not 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.000 worried about tickets and yeah, you know, and you're aunt 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.359 Gene coming in and where is she going to stay, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.679 and and trying to make time for them in between 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.840 your meetings at the team hotel if they want to 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.800 come see you because they just got in town. That 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.680 kind of stuff. Or you got to figure out where 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.200 you're where you're where you're staying. Am I staying at home? 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.800 Or am I staying in the hotel? Yeah, there's a 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.960 lot of things they get they get simplified, I should say. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:38.360 So yeah, Um, I just think I just think that, 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:44.479 uh um. Because somebody said something to Dak about how 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.960 confident it looks like San Francisco is. He goes, We're 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:54.040 we're a confident team here too, So just the nature 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.720 has changed, I think. But he did also pointing out, 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.639 thinking back to last year, it's huge for us to 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.760 get some points score early, which obviously they didn't do 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.960 last year. So yeah, it was it was a good 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.520 day of interviews. Well, and that gets back to one 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.040 of the keys for San Francisco. People talk about I 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.680 think their record might be twenty eight and two. When 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.760 they run the ball more than thirty times in a game. Well, 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:25.800 a lot of that has to do with they're ahead 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.040 in games and so they're running the ball. It's like 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:31.600 the old Emmett Smith stat on if Emmett got twenty 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.960 carries in a game, the Cowboys were unbeatable. A lot 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.040 of that is you're putting the game away late in 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.560 the game, and so if you fall behind sixteen seven, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.439 twenty three to seven, then they're gonna run for one 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.440 hundred and seventy yards on thirty eight carries, which which 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.640 is what they did last year against the Cowboys, Right. Yeah, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:55.439 So so that's why you you have to jump ahead 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.600 on this, I mean, and case in point was I mean, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:02.720 the most extreme example of it was back in the 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:07.840 nineties in the ninety four Championship game, when three future 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.480 Hall of famers turned the ball over three times in 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.400 the first five minutes of a game and you fall 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:15.000 behind twenty one. Nothing you can have you Jimmy Johnson 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.280 wrote the book on Swagger. Well, Jimmy wasn't coaching that team, 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.280 but that the Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith, and Michael Irvin 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.560 still had a lot of swagger coming into that game. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.439 But if you turn the ball over three times in 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.120 the first five minutes of the game, it doesn't matter 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.480 how much swagger you've got. You're behind the eight ball, 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.840 and I noticed that this is almost similar. So when 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.480 the Cowboys went to San Francisco in nineteen ninety two 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:44.840 to play that NFC title game, they were four point underdogs. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.320 I think the last thing I saw this morning, the 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:53.080 Cowboys are three and a half point underdogs. And as 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.120 I remember, in that game, it was like, you know, 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.560 the forty nine ers had had all their ours, they 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.439 had been to four Super Bowls, they had, you know, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.800 been to NFC title games I don't know seven eight 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.879 times since nineteen eighty one. When they beat the Cowboys 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.240 and they it was like, wow, the Cowboys are a 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.680 year away. They're too young. And it's like, well, no, 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.239 they're not too young. And they kind of proved it. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:22.680 But if you think about it, they came out there 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:29.159 with some confidence. Remember the confrontation between Kevin Smith and 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.040 Jerry Rice right from the start of the game, right, 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:35.000 and they got into a push and shoving mash and 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.040 it's like, pup, what are you doing. You're a rookie. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.639 That's Jerry Rice. But they weren't backing down, right, And 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.440 it's like Michael Parsons said, yes, that's Trent Williams. He's 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:46.280 a ten time pro bowler. Yeah right, it's okay, let's 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.960 go let's see who's who can do what, right, and 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.440 so yeah, I think And then somebody mentioned that, dak 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.760 about do you think getting that win got the monkey 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.359 off your back? He goes, I ain't got no monkey 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:02.440 on our back. You know. 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