1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot, 3 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 5 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola handed this time for a Monday edition 6 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: of Mick Shot. Says, we look back at what happened 7 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 1: on Sunday at at and T Stadium and look ahead 8 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 1: to a Monday night game this week. I guess the 9 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals of course, much to get to and Mickey 10 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: Spagnola and Everson. I'm not sure if Everson's with us 11 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: just yet, but Mickey, I know that the area is 12 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: Everson is here. You know, it is a victory Monday 13 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: at the Store in Frisco. But Mickey, it just doesn't 14 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: feel like a victory Monday at the Star in Frisco. Doesn't. No, 15 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: it sure doesn't. As a matter of fact, I kind 16 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: of turned that old phrase around from my column today 17 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: and I said, this was the agony of victory because 18 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:26,760 Speaker 1: obviously you won a game. You know, it's like, thank god, 19 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: finally you pulled a two in three. You're actually in 20 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,000 Speaker 1: first place. But you lose your starting quarterback for the 21 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,919 Speaker 1: rest of the season, and somehow it just seemed hard. 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: And I'm sure it was hard for the team afterwards 23 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: to celebrate a victory they had every right to celebrate. 24 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: But again, when you lose Dak Prescott the way they 25 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: did in such gruesome fashion, I know everybody, I mean, 26 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: I don't know what other people thought, but when I 27 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 1: was watching it and seeing him struggle the way he 28 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: did about made me sick to my stomach. To see 29 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: him have to go through that. Yeah, I happened to 30 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: be watching it, and and just so happened. My daughter 31 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,799 Speaker 1: was next to me. If she's a grown woman, she's 32 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: thirty plus years old. But you know, we're both major 33 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: cowboy fans. Uh, when even when I went to the Giants, 34 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: they remained cowboy fans. That just let you know how 35 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: much she loves the Cowboys. And uh, of course when 36 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: dad goes down, you know, she's, you know, black woman 37 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: seeing a young young black man, and and just she 38 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: empathized with him even more than she would just being 39 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: a major cowboy fan and the human being. It just, man, 40 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: it took away from the the game itself. You know, 41 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 1: like you said, you're sick to your stomach. It just 42 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: felt so uneasy. When I first saw the injury, guys, 43 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 1: I just I was he as he was holding his cat, 44 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: I just thought he had a not in his calf 45 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: because that's all I was looking at. And then just 46 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't take much to just go from 47 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,679 Speaker 1: the calf down to the foot. And when he held 48 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: it up and I'm like, oh my goodness, he's it's done. 49 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: He's done for the season. Uh. And I was hoping, 50 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: you know how it is as a player, you've seen 51 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: the Joe thisman. You know, we always go back to 52 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: Joe thisman when we see that injury. And I was 53 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: I'm hoping that his career is not over, because that's 54 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 1: really something tough to come back from. He's he's younger 55 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: than Tisment was when Tisman had his injury. Of course, 56 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: you know, Dak is a stud of a human being, 57 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: so we just hope he can he can come out 58 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: of it in some way. Forget it. I almost forgot 59 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: about the season, that's how much it hit me. I'm thinking, man, 60 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: it just you just wanted to turn off the TV, 61 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: you know, And that's just crazy, considering that the game 62 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: is still going on. Yeah, I mean the game gun 63 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: was on the backburner then. I mean you just felt 64 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: for for Dak so much, and you talk about ever 65 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: since what you saw as the injury occurred. And for me, 66 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there at home watching it with my wife 67 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: and and I did not when I saw something was wrong. Okay, 68 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,679 Speaker 1: immediately saw something wasn't right. I did this, I put 69 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: you know, I charted the game. I got a notebook 70 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: in my hand. I went like this, and I did 71 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: not want to see what was going on. I didn't 72 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: want to see it at all. And I have deadly 73 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 1: saw it. Actually, yeah, right, accident, And that's that's the 74 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: way I reacted in injury like that. I just I 75 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: just do not want to see it. And I think 76 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: there's you know, you could see the pictures of the 77 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: teammates and the and people on the sideline they didn't 78 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: want to look either, and um, you know, but uh, 79 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: the the it was. It was in a way though, 80 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: it was such a beautiful scene to see the the 81 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: the Giant as well as the Cowboys, and you could 82 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: just see how much respect that Dak Prescott has not 83 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: only among his teammates but and fans here in Dallas, 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: but across the league as well. We've seen it on 85 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: social media with so many people reaching out, and this 86 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: guy has earned the respect and just the way he 87 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: goes about his life and so forth. That's why it 88 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether I would look at it. If Dak 89 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: Prescott played for the Giants and I knew what I 90 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: know about Dak Prescott as a person, I would have 91 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: those same feelings that Jason Garrett had on the sideline 92 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: when he came out, you know, and that was a 93 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: touching moment when he came out, you know, as he 94 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: laid there on the term. The good news as far 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: as Dak is concerned, I've talked and Mickey you may 96 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 1: have two. I've talked to medical experts, and it looks 97 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: like this is not going to be an injury that's 98 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: going to affect his career long term. Obviously it does 99 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: for this season, but apparently the surgery went well and 100 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,119 Speaker 1: it looks like that will be able to be back 101 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: as good as new after he recovers from this. Sin. Yeah, 102 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: I think probably want to say something stags in regards 103 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: to I don't know, it's mixed shots, but I just 104 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: had to say this. It's It's not just uh, this 105 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,839 Speaker 1: injury that that Dak has had, It's just in his 106 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: entire uh year has been pretty tough for him. So 107 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: you compound that fact with his brother's suicide and then 108 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: of course this injury, and now you're talking his bouts 109 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: with depression also, So it's more than just football here, 110 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: and I want to make sure people understand that this 111 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: is about a young man who we've taken for granted 112 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: all this time. That's why the other team was so 113 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: involved in their grief, you know, in in the you know, 114 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: commiserating with everyone simply because he is known as a 115 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: person that doesn't ever complain. He is known as a 116 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: professional on and off the court, not just here in Dallas, 117 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: but in regards to the entire community of this nation 118 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: really when you think about it, So that's what went 119 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: along with that injury. It had much more to do, 120 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: much less to do with football, and much more with 121 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: what kind of person he is, which is what you 122 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: talked about, Bill, Go ahead, Spags. I'm sorry, Yeah, I 123 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: was just gonna say this. This whole thing was like, 124 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: so Dak, right, a normal quarterback, he's running, he gained 125 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: seven yards, go down, Not Dak he's gonna try to 126 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: power his way for the first down. He knows where 127 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: the first down is and he's gonna try to get 128 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: the extra yards. And then on top of that, it's 129 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: like he's on the ground and by god, he's gonna 130 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,679 Speaker 1: straighten out his leg. He's gonna straighten out his foot. 131 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: That's what he was trying to do. I couldn't believe it. 132 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 1: And you can see it turned the wrong way and 133 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: he's trying to you know, and and mate. It brought 134 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,119 Speaker 1: back memories. I could remember one time when when Troy 135 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: Aikman damaged a finger. It kind of dislocated and he 136 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 1: asked Kevin Gogan to pull it, like, get it back in. 137 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: You know, you gotta do this. This is a foot 138 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: you can't you got you gotta do it yourself. Sometimes 139 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: it's just it's just automatic. When I heard mine, it's 140 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: over to the side, and you know, I'm surprised Troy 141 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: would let someone else do it. That takes more bravery 142 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: because I just had to immediately try to pop it 143 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: back into place. It's just automatic. You see it out, 144 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: you want to put it back in now. I'm just 145 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: talking the finger. I don't know if i'd be doing 146 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: that with my foot your foot, right, yeah, and plus Troy, 147 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: Troy's asking Gogan to do it of all people, right, yeah, 148 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: Gogan would take his whole finger off, right. And then 149 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: and then when I see him going off and you 150 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,679 Speaker 1: can see, you know, tears in his eyes, and there 151 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: was part of me thinking that, yeah, he's in pain. 152 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: But the other pain is that he can't stand leaving 153 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: his team like he felt like he was leaving his 154 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: team behind. And uh, you know you could see that 155 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: the way Zeke ran, I mean he ran possessed for 156 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 1: that twelve yard touchdown. Yeah, because I think he understood 157 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: that now this thing's on us. And to me that 158 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: was yes, absolutely and so yeah, So anyway, so they 159 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:33,719 Speaker 1: the surgery last night was successful. Uh, They going to 160 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: repair the fracture, uh and the dislocation. And the reason 161 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: they rushed into the hospital so fast because they were 162 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: worried about infection. So they wanted to make sure they 163 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: cleaned out the wound from the compound fracture, get that 164 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: thing set, take care of the dislocation. And what you 165 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: hope is you know that he didn't tear any ligaments 166 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: in there that that couldn't be the other thing you 167 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 1: worry about where the other guys had such bad injuries 168 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: that we've seen on TV as they've had nerve damage, 169 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: and it didn't sound like he suffered any of that. 170 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 1: The report this morning and Stephen talked about it, that 171 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: that the surgery was successful, uh, and that the doctors 172 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: feel like he should be able to come back good 173 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: as new sou and that's that remains to be seen. 174 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 1: But I would imagine, you know, he's he's out four 175 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: to six weeks before he can do anything on that 176 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: foot again. And yeah, we had a we had another 177 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: injury that we can't ignore, was that Pope Tristan Hill. 178 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: But Tristan Hill. Before before we get to Tristan Hill, 179 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: let me say one more thing about a deck and 180 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: I want to pass along what a doctor told me 181 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: last night about that whole situation and just how serious 182 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: this situation was. For first off, down on the field. Okay, 183 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: when you have an injury like that, the biggest concern, 184 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: and of course I'm no doctor, I'm just relaying what 185 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: a doctor told me. The biggest concern for the trainers 186 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: the medical staff on the field is re establishing blood 187 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: flow and you got to make sure quickly that blood 188 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: flow is re established in that area of the leg. 189 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: When he was being carted off, you know, they put 190 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: him in a boot, okay, and amazingly that basically when 191 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: they set it and put it in that boot, it 192 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: takes the pain away amazingly for the most part. Okay. 193 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: And so those tears that you were seeing as Mickey 194 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 1: was talking about, those tears welling up in Dak's eyes 195 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 1: as he was being carted off the field, they weren't 196 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: from pain. They were from the emotion of the moment. 197 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: In fact, what I remember my wife's reaction as she 198 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: saw him laying on the ground there. She was going, 199 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,719 Speaker 1: that guy is so tough. I mean, I think it 200 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: was everybody's reaction there. But as he's you know, the 201 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: the the imagine what it would have been like if 202 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: whole stadium would have been a full but even with 203 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: the limited number of fans there, and in just the 204 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: outpouring that Dak had to feel from amongst teammates and 205 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: the other side going right by the Giants bench too, 206 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: and you could see them all given their well wishes 207 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: to him as he as he was carded by, and 208 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: then just looking at that stadium and realizing all that 209 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: work that he has put in to this season and 210 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: this here and now and really not knowing what the 211 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: future holds for him. You can just imagine what kind 212 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,080 Speaker 1: of emotion that he had and he showed it right there. 213 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: And to love that he has for his team and 214 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 1: the sport and everything everything that he does. And then 215 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 1: the other thing, as Mickey was talking about, the really 216 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,839 Speaker 1: important thing aside from fixing the injury, according to the 217 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: doctor that I talked to, is is because it was 218 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: an open wound, is the chance of infection. And when 219 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: they went in there, they had to really clean it 220 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: good and over and over and make sure that he 221 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: uh does not have an infection that that would not 222 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: be good at all. And so apparently everything went well 223 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: with the surgery last night and he was being released 224 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 1: from the hospital today. Good stuff, good stuff that all 225 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,239 Speaker 1: that that that whole thing makes makes my rupture achilles 226 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: feel like a scrape on my arm. All right now, 227 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: I want to give us him. We've been setting with 228 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: injury spags not to mention your own. Yeah, you know 229 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 1: what when when this stuff happens, all I say, it's 230 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, How many more months we have left? Three 231 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: oh two? Many too many and Mickey about Tristan Hill. 232 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: What are you hearing on Tristan. I'm hearing that the 233 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 1: MRI with that they were taking was to probably confirm 234 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: that he had a torn acl So it looks like 235 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: that they'll be without him too. I mean, just that happened. 236 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: I tried to see it wasn't when the quarterback was 237 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 1: between his legs right and when he rolled over did it? 238 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,559 Speaker 1: He fell awkwardly, and you know, and I thought Tony 239 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: Romo made a good comment there. He said, you know, 240 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: when he went down, it was almost like he was 241 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: trying to keep Daniel Jones from a bad fall. He was, 242 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: you know, and this is the guy that got a 243 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: bad name after the Seattle game because of his tackle 244 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: and roll, and here he was trying to go down right, 245 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: you know. And another thing I noticed last week in 246 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: the in the Cleveland game, he made a tackle, clean tackle, 247 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: and then when he hit the ground he rolled. It 248 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: was almost like his deal. Unfortunately in the Seattle game 249 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: when he rolled, he still had the guy's leg but 250 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 1: that's kind of what he did. I saw when he 251 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: hit the ground. So this time here he is trying 252 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: to make sure he doesn't fall on Daniel Jones's leg 253 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: or probably you know, even get a penalty and he 254 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,240 Speaker 1: ends up hurting himself, you know. And the other thing 255 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: is do what you do guys when it don't let 256 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: anybody else change what you do whatever it's successful for you. 257 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: If you start trying to change that because somebody else 258 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 1: has a complaint, then you're compromising yourself, which is exactly 259 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: what happened. Go ahead of him, Yeah, and he was. 260 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: He was holding up trying not to get a penalty 261 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: or up on the past or also you know, because 262 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: he's had that issue in the past. But you know, 263 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: then when I saw that he was hurt, he fell 264 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: so awkwardly. So many times on these ACL injuries, they're 265 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 1: non contact and they are from situations like that. I mean, 266 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: how about Blake Jarwin's I mean where it's it's a 267 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: non contact deal where it's like your your leg gives 268 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: out or I don't know exactly medically why that is, 269 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: or but that's when I saw he was down, I said, oh, 270 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: I hope he's signed an ACL because of the awkward 271 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: manner in which he felt, not because of the contact 272 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: or anything. It's just AC don't seem to be an 273 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: injury that happens that way for whatever reason. And let's 274 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: just be clear, guys, I mean, we still have the 275 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: same feeling and empathy for anyone that gets injured on 276 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: this team, anyone that gets injured in football. I think 277 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: with Dak it's almost like the Ray Rice thing, you know, 278 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: kind of a stretch comparison. But you've got a lot 279 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: of people that have had marriage problems. But when you 280 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: see that marriage problem culminate on a video, then it's 281 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 1: just totally different and it has an entirely different effect. Yeah, 282 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: we saw he'll go down, but it didn't have the 283 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: same visual effect that Dak's injury had. So yeah, we 284 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: still feel bad for all of these guys. You know, 285 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: the journey is gonna be long. We just hope that 286 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: they come through it okay. And that's for all the 287 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: guys that they've had entries around the league, you know. 288 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: And the other thing that my doctor that I talked 289 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: to said, I mean, it's Mickey said, I can't remember 290 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: that around six weeks. I mean, it takes a bone 291 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: to heal, he said six. My doctor said six to 292 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: eight weeks, assuming everything went well with the surgery, the 293 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: bone will heal and he'll be good to do whatever 294 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 1: in six to eight weeks. Now playing in the NFL 295 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: is not six to eight weeks away for him, I think, 296 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: he says. But the way the doctor I talked to 297 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: put it is he's done for the regular season. I 298 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: mean he looked at it that it's it's not an 299 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: injury like a year long injury. It's something where after 300 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: the first of the year it looks like he would be, 301 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: you know, able to do some things. So yeah, it's 302 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: not like it's not like an Alex Smith injury, right right, right. 303 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: That's just good to hear. That's good to hear. And 304 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: I think the other thing is the thing that has 305 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: impressed me so much about Blake, about dak throughout his 306 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: time here is this positive spirit that he has and 307 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: it can do attitude that he has. And I guarantee 308 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: you who woke up in that hospital this morning, when 309 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 1: he gets back to the Star, he is going to 310 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: be doing all he can to get back as soon 311 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: as possible. But he believes in this team. 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The quarterback 362 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 1: Kyler Murray gets all the headlines, but they lost a 363 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: key member of their team and yesterday's win over the Jets, 364 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:16,959 Speaker 1: as their star high paid edge rusher Chandler Jones has 365 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,400 Speaker 1: lost for the season. I believe a torn biceps injury. 366 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: We're the initial reports. I don't think there's anything official 367 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: on that yet, but they're without Chandler Jones. But our 368 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: concern right now is what the Cowboys and what happened 369 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: on Sunday. We've talked a lot about the Dak injury 370 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: and that takes precedence over everything else. But the Cowboys 371 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: did come away with a victory, and there's a reason 372 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: NICKI that Andy Dalton is on this team. And there's 373 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 1: a reason that the football gods were smiling upon the 374 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: Cowboys in the late April when Joe Burrow was picked 375 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: by the Cincinnati Bengals, and it was obvious that Andy 376 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: Dalton no longer had a home in Cincinnati. He does 377 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: have a home in Highland Park. It made a whole 378 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: lot of sense for him to sign with the Cowboys. Yeah, 379 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: that one sort of just fell right in their lap, right, 380 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: and not to mention going through COVID nineteen, he probably 381 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: didn't want to have to move leave home to go 382 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,239 Speaker 1: to another team, and it was just too convenient for 383 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 1: him to sign with the Cowboys. And if you think 384 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,440 Speaker 1: about it, you know, these previous few years they've gone 385 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 1: with the inexperience backup, and this time, when this opportunity 386 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: presented to themselves, it's like, heck yeah. And again he 387 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: had guaranteed money from Cincinnati, So basically the Cowboys just 388 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: gave him a three year, I mean a one year, 389 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: three million dollars guaranteed contract laced with a bunch of incentives. 390 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: And you know that when you first saw it, it's like, Okay, 391 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: he's probably not going to hit those incentives, because the 392 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: first one was if he played fifty percent of the 393 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,520 Speaker 1: snaps and the Cowboys made it to the playoffs, it 394 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: was a one million dollars incentive bonus. Well what was 395 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 1: the chance of him playing fifty percent of the snaps? Right? Well, 396 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: now it's a real good chance he's gonna play probably 397 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the snaps, and then it goes 398 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: on from there. If they go through the playoffs, he 399 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: could make another, you know, two million dollars. So eventually, 400 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 1: with this from a financial standpoint, they structured the contract 401 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,360 Speaker 1: just in case, and just in case, just presented himself. 402 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,199 Speaker 1: But the more important thing is is you've got a 403 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,439 Speaker 1: guy that started this is his tenth year in the 404 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,240 Speaker 1: in the league. If I got it right, was it 405 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: twenty eleven his draft? And so this is what you 406 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: want in a backup quarterback because think about it, these 407 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: guys might get a handful of snaps during the week 408 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: in practice, maybe maybe half a dozen, and the rest 409 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: of it is mental preparation and relying on what you 410 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 1: already know. And he came in and played like he'd 411 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: been playing for four games the order to end up 412 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 1: completing nine of eleven passes for one hundred and eleven 413 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: yards and he should go take Michael Gallop out to 414 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: dinner for the rest of the year. Those two castles unbelievable, right, 415 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: But again he had to function and go in and run, 416 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: and they really didn't back off that much from what 417 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: their game plan was. So it was a real godsend 418 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: that they decided to sign Andy Dalton. Well, I really 419 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: enjoyed That's bangs, even though my heart was heavy. You know, 420 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,640 Speaker 1: we're still taking care of business, even after he fumbled 421 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: the snap from center that he could have folded. You know, 422 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: of course, I know he's no no shrinking Violet. I 423 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,160 Speaker 1: know he's a quarterback, has been the league for ten years. 424 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: But under those circumstances, it was very unusual for him. 425 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: Considering the emotions around the entire stadium at that time, 426 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: I know he was feeling it and to come in 427 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: and have to perform the way he did the pass 428 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: to Michael Gallop on the sidelines, tiptoed on the sidelines. 429 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: He did that on the run, of course, running to 430 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: his right, thank goodness, But that is an extremely difficult 431 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: pass to make, coming off the bench cold and needing 432 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: that particular play. He dropped that diamond there for gallop 433 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 1: and then of course now you have to have your 434 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 1: teammates lift you up when you need it. So here 435 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: comes the deep pass. I never saw that deep pass coming. 436 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: I just assumed that they were going to continue to 437 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 1: play it safe and I put I posted that on Twitter. 438 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: You know, you see some amazing catches out there that 439 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 1: are obviously amazing. The Beckham play against against a Brandon 440 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: car in text in Capitoy Stadium. That was an amazing play. 441 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 1: It just physically he was being pied, caught it with 442 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: one hand going down. It was just ridiculously crazy that play. 443 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: The gallap wade made a little bit more subtle in 444 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 1: its greatness. It's easy to do the Willie made well, 445 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 1: it's not easy, but those that catch I've done it before. 446 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 1: Bless with the ability to do the Willie Mays catch 447 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: over the shoulder with your hands in this position. But 448 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: for him to be able to catch the ball with 449 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: his hands in this position, I posted that is one 450 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 1: of the most amazing catches I have ever seen. Guys 451 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: hanging off of his back. This is easy, guys. It's 452 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: easier to go like this and to have your hands 453 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: inverted in that manner. I don't think I've ever seen 454 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,879 Speaker 1: a cleaner ch in that manner. Those would have to 455 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,199 Speaker 1: be loved bad guys. The clutch situation, the emotion in 456 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: the room, the ability for him to come toward his 457 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: body in that manner. That's why I said, Michael Gallop 458 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: is going to have a breakout year this year because 459 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: of plays like that. Amazingly athletic guy. And then and 460 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: then add the toe tap right, he got his feet 461 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: in bound. Unbelievable. But you know what the thing And 462 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: if you guys remember when I was watching training camp 463 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: practices and I think you guys asked me what what 464 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: has stood out to you about Andy Dalton And I said, 465 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: he's so accurate throwing the ball. You said, those passes 466 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: are off target. The ball is always right there. And 467 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: when they were doing their little drill where they kind 468 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: of moved in and out of those little block and 469 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: dummies laying on the ground and have to throw the 470 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: ball in the square and the net, he was fabulous 471 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: at that. Now he was fabulous yesterday. That was when 472 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: he showed this right, yeah, and of eleven right, and 473 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: that's what they've got to look forward to. Now. I 474 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 1: don't think they have to dumb down the offense because 475 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: this guy could still sling the ball. There's nothing wrong 476 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: with his arm, there's nothing wrong with his reads. Sure, 477 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 1: you want to maybe rely on Zeke a little more 478 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: when you can. Right then, everybody was like, wow, they 479 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: will rely it on Zeke. Well yeah, because once they 480 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: wiped out the fourteen point deficit, it was they got 481 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 1: the lead. It was their ball game. Uh, and you 482 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: know they you know, great plays, uh, mixed things up, 483 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: but relied on Zeke. And and I don't know, I 484 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: think I think they were Yeah, I think you're wrong, 485 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: because yeah, on that one drive when they were behind, 486 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: they just loaded up Zeke and was like okay, let's go. 487 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,959 Speaker 1: Uh So yeah that was uh you know, and I 488 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: think you saw a blueprint for for for going forward. 489 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: But you still got to take advantage of these talented 490 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: white receivers, including Cedric Wilson, who can throw the football. 491 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: And I found out that he was a quarterback in 492 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 1: high school. Yeah yeah, and he threw a touchdown passing 493 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: college at Boise State. Also, I guarantee you Kelvin Moore 494 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: already knew that. Yeah. Absolutely, a boy that'll give, that'll 495 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: give some teams some some things to uh to talk about, 496 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: ye and so yeah, I mean you're not gonna say, okay, 497 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, we go on. Now. Dax got 498 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: a certain thing about him that obviously these guys respect, 499 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: if you just read the quotes after the game. But again, 500 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: you've got a quarterback that still had something. He just 501 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: didn't have much around him that last year or two 502 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: in Cincinnati's exactly right, exactly right. In fact, I was 503 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: looking at at Dalton's career and of course said he 504 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,479 Speaker 1: led the Bengals to the playoff ops for five years. 505 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:07,760 Speaker 1: He's the Bengals all time franchise record holder for completions 506 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: in a season, touchdown passes in a season. Of course, 507 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: the big knock on him was the lack of postseason success, 508 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: but that's not totally all on the quarterback. And then 509 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: he didn't have a j Green last year. So he 510 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: had Tyler Boyd I guess it receiver and Joe Mixon 511 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: at running back with a bad offensive line in front 512 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,520 Speaker 1: of him. But he's got to be sitting there going 513 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 1: I've got Amari Cooper, I've got Ceedee Lamb, I got 514 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, I got Zeke, I got all these weapons 515 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: and he's got to be sitting there. Yeah, we can 516 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: do this. The other thing on Dak. If anybody tells 517 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,239 Speaker 1: Dak what that doctor told me last night that in 518 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: six to eight weeks you can be good to go, 519 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: I mean I was doing a math on that. It's 520 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: October twelveth eight weeks would be December twelve. I guarantee 521 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: you Dak has in his mind. I don't care what 522 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: the doctors are saying. I'm getting back out there as 523 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: soon as I can. I would have any great year. Yeah, 524 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: out Andy, you help us get to the playoffs, but 525 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be there. I'm the playoffs are. It's exactly right. 526 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not letting you get that playoff. And 527 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: that's right. You can get you can get the what 528 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: is it the one million dollars incentive to play fifty 529 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: percent of the regular season snaps to get about. Don't 530 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: forget about those postseason incentives unless unless you just have 531 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: to be on the team. I'll get you the postseason 532 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: incentives if it's worded that way, or rework your contract 533 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: where it is worded that way, and I will be 534 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: back all right, and we'll be back here on Mike 535 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: shots in just a moment, so much to get to. 536 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: In fact, there were some guys who actually shined on 537 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: defense on Sunday next. Hey they're cowboys fans with type 538 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: Cleaners at Home pickup and Delivery. Cleaning your clothes has 539 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: never been more convenient. 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Coming to a Cowboys 574 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: game this season, make sure you know before you go, 575 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: wear a mask, keep distance, and be prepared for cashless transactions. 576 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,960 Speaker 1: Please be aware of all safe stadium policies prior to 577 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: arriving at AT and T Stadium. Visit Dallas Cowboys dot 578 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: com slash safe Stadium for details. All right, so here 579 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: we go with our final segment of mix shots for 580 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: a Monday. The Cowboys back in first place at the 581 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: NFC East with a two and three record, can even 582 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 1: the record at three and three? Nick's Monday Night against 583 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,600 Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals and a thirty seven thirty four win. 584 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember our picks. We none of us 585 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,879 Speaker 1: had the score in the thirties, right, I had twenty six? 586 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: All right, what do you have, Mickey? Twenty six? Twenty 587 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,319 Speaker 1: and I had and I texted NICKI at one point 588 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 1: in the game, I had the score. I had my 589 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: pick exactly right. It was twenty four and twenty three 590 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: at one point. They went in a game right then. 591 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: But my click, my pick to click was Ezekiel Elliott. 592 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: That works, It works, No yes, it does. Do we 593 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: remember my pick to click? Do we remember C D Land? 594 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: You damn right there, Come on, man, give me some love, 595 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,040 Speaker 1: man give all right, all right, I got it. I 596 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 1: got it so good. I got it. This week. CD 597 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,239 Speaker 1: Land is so good. I think was fired. I think 598 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:37,000 Speaker 1: he made it. Made me go seriously, especially the one 599 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: he caught and then got hit in the head and 600 00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: he still went on to the football. The second one 601 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,839 Speaker 1: he got hit in the head, that was very dangerous. Yeah, yeah, 602 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,720 Speaker 1: yeah that that. I thought that guy was gonna get tossed. 603 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 1: I thought this just proves that teams don't have three 604 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: or four quality corners. You put him in the slot, 605 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: if you're not gonna put your starter on him, that's 606 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: guy's not going to cover that guy because he's not 607 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: a third receiver. He is a very good receiver who 608 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: just happens to be in the slot and it's a mismatch. Now, 609 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: now you need to hand this show over to me, 610 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: because that's exactly what I said last week. They don't 611 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,240 Speaker 1: have another corner to cover him line back of a safety. Maybe, 612 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: So yes, thank you SPATSH for reiterating what I already said. 613 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: As I bask and glory over here, you know. And 614 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: the other thing with Ceedee Lamb when I watched him 615 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: in college, one of the things I was most impressed 616 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,320 Speaker 1: with with him outside of the obvious and his ability 617 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: to do everything in a receiver, is his toughness. He 618 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: would take shots like that all the time in college. Yeah, 619 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 1: and there were times when he was returning a punt 620 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,919 Speaker 1: and a guy would light him up. And in fact, 621 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 1: I remember I was a game against Baylor, he took 622 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: a hit even before the ball lit I mean, the 623 00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 1: guy let him up before even the ball even got there, 624 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: and he had to come out of the game due 625 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 1: to concussion protocol whatever, and he was back in like 626 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: the next series. I mean, he was so tough and 627 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,879 Speaker 1: he he's shown that already five games deep into his 628 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,240 Speaker 1: NFL career. I think he was inspired by his suitors 629 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,320 Speaker 1: winning and four overtimes on Saturday. By the way, speaking 630 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,960 Speaker 1: of that, Blake bell had to catch Blake Bello catching 631 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: us gave Billy never Gallimore comes in, and now Gallimore 632 00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: is gonna be a guy that this team is depending on. 633 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,280 Speaker 1: With Tristan Hill going down well, and then how about 634 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,680 Speaker 1: this safety a safety number forty people on Twitter who 635 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,120 Speaker 1: followed this team on a regular basis, was going, who's 636 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 1: forty Parker. There's somebody named Parker who plays for the Cowboys. 637 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,440 Speaker 1: We'll not Stephen Parker, a former suitor who got twenty 638 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 1: two steps who he was? Bill I had. I saw 639 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: that as well, like, who the hell is number four? 640 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,359 Speaker 1: They we're putting anybody out there? I did. I must 641 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 1: admit I had to pick up my foster and going, well, 642 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: he's not he's not on the right, And then I said, oh, 643 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,239 Speaker 1: practice squashy. They moved him up. But you know what 644 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: they did, so you know what they did is they 645 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: started playing dime, so they put extra safeties, you know, 646 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,719 Speaker 1: and Everson pointed that out. One of the things you 647 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,280 Speaker 1: can do, uh, if you can bring in more safeties 648 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 1: instead of playing that linebacker in there. And that's kind 649 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,080 Speaker 1: of what they did, and you know, it kind of worked. 650 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,280 Speaker 1: The other thing I thought defensively that worked, you guys 651 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: is I only saw one or two plays, maybe no 652 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,680 Speaker 1: more than a half dozen that they got in a 653 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,399 Speaker 1: three four alignment. They stayed with that four down alignment. Now, 654 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: they did try standing up the linebacker or the defensive 655 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 1: end a couple of times. Dorance or Alden Smith, but 656 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,879 Speaker 1: for the majority it was a four man line, two 657 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 1: linebackers in the nickel, or they went to dime and 658 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,759 Speaker 1: it was working. Now, there was this perception, and I 659 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,360 Speaker 1: had it after the game that gosh, the Giants just 660 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: ran right over them. They just couldn't stop the run still, 661 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,879 Speaker 1: And then when I was typing out my column last night, 662 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,080 Speaker 1: I said, well, gosh, they must have had like one 663 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,560 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty yards rushing. Well, I pick up my 664 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,440 Speaker 1: sheet here and it's twenty seven carries for eighty nine yards. 665 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,959 Speaker 1: I'll take that any day. Twenty seven carries for eighty 666 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: nine yards three point three a carry. They still have 667 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: problems shutting down in the middle. Those defensive tackles have 668 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,239 Speaker 1: to play better. If they can play better, I don't 669 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 1: know if they can, but I'll guarantee you Gallimore get 670 00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 1: some more snaps because the big old guy that's supposed 671 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: to be stuffing things in the middle ain't stuff in anything. 672 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,879 Speaker 1: And I just don't know, ma, how much longer they're 673 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: going with that. Okay, let me say this because I 674 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 1: brought this up because I was a month or so 675 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: ago I was studying the Patriots and the Patriots had 676 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:57,960 Speaker 1: a number one defense in the league last year, and 677 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,440 Speaker 1: I started looking at how many dbs they got on 678 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,319 Speaker 1: the field all the time, and it's like I did 679 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,560 Speaker 1: the math on it. It was like the first game 680 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 1: of the year, they had like five point eight per 681 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,160 Speaker 1: snap dbs on the field during a game, and they've 682 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: consistently been at five and a half dbs on the 683 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: field every game. And that's what I believe. That's what 684 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,320 Speaker 1: they did last year too. Joe Judge and the Giants 685 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 1: are doing that too, of course he was with the 686 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: Giants last year. And what I believe what's happening here, 687 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:31,480 Speaker 1: it's the trickle up effect from college football to the NFL, 688 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: where you got all these spread offenses, you got more 689 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: wide receivers on the field. The Giants were going with 690 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,719 Speaker 1: a lot of eleven personnel, if not ten personnel, a 691 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: lot of Ingram is like another wide receiver, even though 692 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,200 Speaker 1: he's listed as a tight end, and so you need 693 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: more dbs on the field. Now, it's going to hurt 694 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: you in the run game. But I hear college coaches 695 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,880 Speaker 1: talk about it all the time. They have to recruit 696 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,400 Speaker 1: in the Big twelve and now in the SEC. If 697 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,480 Speaker 1: you're seeing how many yards those teams were given up. 698 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 1: How about the Missouri Tiger. You see the old m 699 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,840 Speaker 1: hat back up there, so you know what, you know, 700 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,160 Speaker 1: what's funny about that built Remember when I told you 701 00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: the story that the thing came out when LSU lost 702 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: the season opener, and I said that was the first day. 703 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,760 Speaker 1: They said it was the first time the national defending 704 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: national champ lost the season over since nineteen seventy eight. 705 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: And I told you it was Missouri beating Notre Dame. 706 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,799 Speaker 1: And the reason they beat them is they stopped them 707 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,080 Speaker 1: three times in gold and goal situations. Right. The last one, 708 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:37,759 Speaker 1: Notre Dame had the ball at the three yard line 709 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: on fourth and goal. They could have kicked a field 710 00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,000 Speaker 1: goal to tie it, and then the line was too 711 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,840 Speaker 1: proud to tie, so he wanted to beat his old school. 712 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,320 Speaker 1: Well what did Missouri do first in goal at the 713 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,360 Speaker 1: one with the game on the line, and stopped LSU 714 00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:56,480 Speaker 1: four straight times? Wow? Four straight times. The last one 715 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,920 Speaker 1: was a pass breakup that they hadn't broke up a 716 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,840 Speaker 1: pass to t Rris Martschell the whole game long and 717 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 1: the guy BLEDSOE broke it up and they win. I 718 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 1: was so I'm up here watching it, right the neighbors 719 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 1: probably heard me, right, And I'm texting him too, Bill 720 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: because the game, I'm missoo, question Mark, what has happening? 721 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: But where we got off on MISSOI is the fact 722 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 1: that that I mean, I think that that this is 723 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 1: sort of the trend in the NFL, and you can 724 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,680 Speaker 1: you know, there's an old saying that you can't have 725 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: enough cornerbacks and everything. Would probably agree with that, but uh, 726 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,160 Speaker 1: probably the thing that that goes with that though, Bill, 727 00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: you have to have linebackers. They're there active and not 728 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:53,320 Speaker 1: just run stuffing, but also in past dropping with Pepper Johnson. 729 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:57,120 Speaker 1: This weekend he's coaching with IMG. They came in town. 730 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 1: I'm surely Duckingville and he and I had we talked 731 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 1: a little while and we talked about that that's what 732 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,799 Speaker 1: you have to have. Linebackers are the active we were 733 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,680 Speaker 1: blessed with called Banks Lt. Pepper Johnson Gary reasons. We 734 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,280 Speaker 1: were blessed with that. So the Cowboys can be effective 735 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,000 Speaker 1: in this defense. And I have to give him props 736 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,400 Speaker 1: because I've been on him since last thing's giving. Jaylen 737 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: Smith bawled out yesterday and that's what you have to have. 738 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:27,960 Speaker 1: We saw his weaknesses against the past. We saw some 739 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,680 Speaker 1: of that, but Jaylen Smith played the kind of football 740 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,000 Speaker 1: that we need him to play consistently, not just every 741 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,440 Speaker 1: once in a while. He has to be the anchor 742 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,439 Speaker 1: for this team day in, day out, weekend, week out. 743 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:46,280 Speaker 1: I don't care who we're playing. He has no excuse, 744 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:49,880 Speaker 1: but he has to be our lynchpin as far as 745 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,240 Speaker 1: our linebackers are concerned. That's the strength of it. Romo 746 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,239 Speaker 1: talked yesterday about the eyes that we don't have in 747 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,120 Speaker 1: the secondary. No one can play zone. No one sees 748 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,560 Speaker 1: the routes coming. No one can figure out how the 749 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: routes are going to attack them and whether the weaknesses 750 00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,960 Speaker 1: are and where your where your your your weak spots 751 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,480 Speaker 1: are you in your secondary. That's the problem that the 752 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:19,880 Speaker 1: Cowboys have the secondary. They don't recognize routes and people 753 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,080 Speaker 1: get behind them all the time. In a zone, defense 754 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: cannot happen. Jaylen Smith made major improvement, major improvement this week. 755 00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,080 Speaker 1: Well you know why he had major improvement. His recognition 756 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,960 Speaker 1: of what was about to happen was spot on, guys. 757 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,840 Speaker 1: It was his Sean Lee impersonation was reading things for 758 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,200 Speaker 1: a change, and he was there to make plays and 759 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,520 Speaker 1: the other thing that happened with all those dbs on 760 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,600 Speaker 1: you're allowed to blitz where people don't know where it's 761 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 1: coming from. Because Anthony Brown didn't just happen to be 762 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,239 Speaker 1: there to pick up. They were blitching him off of 763 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,800 Speaker 1: from the slot. Lawrence's but right, and he was coming. 764 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,359 Speaker 1: So they did that more. And let's also point this out. 765 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,000 Speaker 1: I keep hearing God they gave up thirty four points 766 00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,280 Speaker 1: to the Giants. Well, the defense really gave up twenty 767 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,800 Speaker 1: points because you get an interception, tipball intercepts and return 768 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,840 Speaker 1: for a touchdown, a fumble on the seventeen yard line 769 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,480 Speaker 1: and they go in for a touchdown. Take away. Those 770 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:25,680 Speaker 1: two plays they limited them to four field goals a 771 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:29,359 Speaker 1: touchdown in a two point conversion. With this defense, I'll 772 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,359 Speaker 1: take that every day. I'll take my chance. We can 773 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:38,640 Speaker 1: call offense without day. Yes, and along those lines were 774 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,600 Speaker 1: out of time, so I don't have enough time to 775 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:43,919 Speaker 1: make this point. But I wonder how much it helped 776 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,920 Speaker 1: Jalen Smith going up against Jason Garrett's offense, an offense 777 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,840 Speaker 1: that he saw in practice here for many years in 778 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,759 Speaker 1: training camp. Whatever. And the other thing is, and I 779 00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,759 Speaker 1: guess we'll want the league on this how motivated was 780 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 1: Jason Garrett to show people in this building Clay play 781 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,720 Speaker 1: collar play caller. He is after having the play calling, 782 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,919 Speaker 1: not being the play caller here, and he's recently head 783 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,920 Speaker 1: coach here, and he's running a flea flicker on the 784 00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:15,200 Speaker 1: first drive, he's got a reverse for a test down 785 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,800 Speaker 1: on the yeah on the first drive. He was so 786 00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,560 Speaker 1: motivated to show he's a play caller. All Right, that 787 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,560 Speaker 1: does it. We're out of time. We could go on 788 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,840 Speaker 1: and on, but we go on and on Tomorrow at 789 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,120 Speaker 1: one thirty here on mix shots. Make it a great Monday, 790 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:33,000 Speaker 1: and we'll see you again tomorrow. Go Cowboys. 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