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Speaker 5: Well, one of the things that I noticed on the
Speaker 5: injury report that Kyle and Carson, who had been starting
Speaker 5: at corner, ooh, what you just do because I can
Speaker 5: hear myself? Oh better?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, before it was I didn't do it.
Speaker 5: Well, something happened, something did happen, and I saw you
Speaker 5: touch something.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: That's mean I was trying to figure out, I'm good
Speaker 3: start hearing people.
Speaker 5: And Carson missed this last game with a shoulder injury,
Speaker 5: and yesterday for practice he was limited, which was a
Speaker 5: step in the right direction that he did not practice
Speaker 5: all last week. So when Mike was asked about Carson
Speaker 5: and you know, his deal and for practice, and he
Speaker 5: said he needs to make a big step today. Now
Speaker 5: I don't know if he's bluffing or just doesn't want
Speaker 5: to come clean, but he said, I can't tell you
Speaker 5: either way at this point. Well you think so that
Speaker 5: made me think, hmm, limited might have been the reason
Speaker 5: he was limited, right, and maybe not ready, which means
Speaker 5: that they're probably gonna you know.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like frustration from the coaches point of view.
Speaker 5: It did a little bit, So we'll see, I guess
Speaker 5: what he's able to do today when they practice in pads.
Speaker 5: So that stuck stuck out to me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: The other thing he was talking about, he thought the
Speaker 5: running game you know better last week. Uh, he said
Speaker 5: it was their best day so far. But they're built
Speaker 5: to stop the run and they'll attack you even when
Speaker 5: you go play action. So it's gonna be a pretty
Speaker 5: good matchup because each team has got some injury situations going. Uh,
Speaker 5: their offensive line is beat up, and their defensive line.
Speaker 5: If you count Alex high Smith as a defensive lineman,
Speaker 5: he's outside linebacker. However they line up, he's gonna be
Speaker 5: out with a groin injury. And their backup Nick Herbig
Speaker 5: has an ankle and he didn't practice yesterday. So maybe
Speaker 5: that things will even out the amount of injuries were
Speaker 5: going into this.
Speaker 2: Have t J.
Speaker 3: Watt and Michael Parsons is not supposed to play right. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so both so maybe it does it even out.
Speaker 5: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: They have t J.
Speaker 2: Watt?
Speaker 5: Well, now you can just concentrate, you can just concentrate on.
Speaker 3: We're going if we're going to talk about pass rushers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they haven't advantage this game, Yes they do.
Speaker 5: Well, he's got three sacks in four games. I'll take that.
Speaker 5: If he only gets one sack.
Speaker 3: You'll take you.
Speaker 2: If you.
Speaker 5: Okay with one track, I'll take.
Speaker 3: Over the course of the season. That would only be
Speaker 3: like a fourteen sack season instead of a nineteen.
Speaker 5: Saxieson that's that's a win for me.
Speaker 3: If he on, which he's had before.
Speaker 4: And as long as and it's not just that he
Speaker 4: disrupts all running plays come to his side.
Speaker 5: You know what I noticed. I was watching some of
Speaker 5: the early plays against the Colts. Uh, they ran the
Speaker 5: other way and they didn't block him in the running game.
Speaker 5: They let him dive in from the backside. He made
Speaker 5: a couple of tackles from behind, but at least they
Speaker 5: gained three or four yards. They weren't really running right
Speaker 5: at them.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, you probably use all your resources
Speaker 4: to concentrate on the vicinity you I mean, if he's
Speaker 4: coming from backside by Timmy gets there like you said
Speaker 4: you should.
Speaker 5: If you blocked it well on the front side.
Speaker 4: And that you can use all your resources to concentrate
Speaker 4: on the hole that needs to be opened.
Speaker 5: The other thing that I noticed is the Colts were
Speaker 5: not stupid pass blocking. They put two guys over there
Speaker 5: and sometimes even turn the guard that way and let
Speaker 5: the center take care of the defensive tackle. Other times
Speaker 5: they chipped them and he was primarily Now they might
Speaker 5: switch them around. I didn't get to watch enough of it,
Speaker 5: but he was on Terrence Steele's side. He was on
Speaker 5: their left. So we'll see if they say, hmm, let
Speaker 5: me see where the soft spot is right and go
Speaker 5: to the site. But if they do, you just got
Speaker 5: to motion the tight ends over to that side or
Speaker 5: now the other thing I saw them do and I
Speaker 5: thought this was interesting. Their safety Deshaun Elliott Texas, is
Speaker 5: that right now?
Speaker 6: Texas and Rockwall Heath High School? Oh, Rockwall I didn't
Speaker 6: realize that. Uh, they line up what lot wide and
Speaker 6: if there's a gap between him and the defensive tackle.
Speaker 6: A lot of times Elliott is in that gap and
Speaker 6: he's he's blitzing a lot of time. So that gives
Speaker 6: you an idea.
Speaker 5: Of Okay, if you think you're going to double team
Speaker 5: over there, well who's picking up the safety in the slot?
Speaker 2: Well, now that's that's been real.
Speaker 4: The They will probably attack just like they attack anyone
Speaker 4: else when it comes to the run.
Speaker 2: But whatever the Coat did.
Speaker 4: We can't do what the Colts when it comes to
Speaker 4: the running game, we just don't do that.
Speaker 2: They're much better running the ball. Had a thousand yard
Speaker 2: Russia last year.
Speaker 4: I think they was when he made it, because I
Speaker 4: know he got injured a little bit, but he did.
Speaker 2: He had a thousand yard seasons onto his belt.
Speaker 4: And so their their running style is going to be
Speaker 4: a whole lot different from ours. We're going to have
Speaker 4: to tack it a whole different way simply because we're
Speaker 4: just not as good at it.
Speaker 5: But although they only only ran for I think eighty
Speaker 5: eight yards in that game, they were throwing the ball,
Speaker 5: So that means you got to protect and that'll be
Speaker 5: that'll be a big.
Speaker 3: Chore for Jonathan Taylor not only had a thousand yard
Speaker 3: season in his career, or had a couple of them.
Speaker 3: He had an eighteen hundred yards season, but that's been
Speaker 3: three years ago. Last year, to your point, he had
Speaker 3: only played ten games with seven starts and seven hundred
Speaker 3: and forty one yards. But Cowboys showed signs of improving
Speaker 3: their run game on offense in the game against the Giants.
Speaker 5: Mike said it was their best day and no, we
Speaker 5: could have figured that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Boar's kind of low.
Speaker 3: Both offensively and defensively. As far as the run game
Speaker 3: it's concerned. It was their best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely we got criticized for playing such good run defense, which.
Speaker 5: Is a good thing, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we only gave up what twenty six.
Speaker 5: Yards twenty six on twenty four Carris And as I
Speaker 5: mentioned yesterday when we closed, it was probably Mozzie Smith's
Speaker 5: best day in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about old Mazi.
Speaker 5: It came out of nowhere, had three tackles, had three
Speaker 5: tackles the game before. And you know what I noticed
Speaker 5: about him and even after the game, like on Monday,
Speaker 5: rarely what he said at his locker and allowed the
Speaker 5: media to come around and have a group interview. Well,
Speaker 5: he hung in there and he did it, and I
Speaker 5: saw him smile. I couldn't remember the last time I
Speaker 5: saw him smile, because when he arrived here as a
Speaker 5: first round draft choice, big smile had kind of a
Speaker 5: big personality. His mom was here with him and said
Speaker 5: that you know, he was a jokester, and I was like, hey,
Speaker 5: well we're gonna say it. We never saw it, right,
Speaker 5: And she said something like laughter is the biggest part
Speaker 5: of life or something, and that wasn't him. But on
Speaker 5: Monday I saw him smile and one of the things
Speaker 5: after kind of most everybody left, I think there was
Speaker 5: just one or two of us there, he started talking
Speaker 5: about I want to be able to carry my weight
Speaker 5: and I don't want to be dead weight. And I
Speaker 5: was like, hmm, all right, and he actually smiled and
Speaker 5: shook hands with us, and I said, well, maybe he's
Speaker 5: coming out of his shell.
Speaker 4: Well, he's coming out of his shell as a player. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that kind of helps. I would imagine this help your personality,
Speaker 4: help his personality, his confidence right now. Right, he had
Speaker 4: the three tackles this past game. I didn't know about
Speaker 4: the three in the previous game, but I do know
Speaker 4: that after every play, if he wasn't in on the tackle,
Speaker 4: he was pushing someone into the play.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: His pressure throughout the entire game was consistent and consistently good.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you looked up, he was always a
Speaker 4: guy that was doing the pushing.
Speaker 2: He was a guy that was what he was boasted.
Speaker 3: We had seen that this previous However many games it's
Speaker 3: been in his career, seventeen Bluster twenty games, in his career.
Speaker 3: We wouldn't be talking about there weren't many questions about
Speaker 3: Mazie Smith.
Speaker 2: No, that was a first. We wouldn't be surprised that
Speaker 2: he knows how.
Speaker 5: To smile and he's getting more snaps obviously right out
Speaker 5: of necessity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he just looks like, I'm sorry, I never
Speaker 4: saw that guy last year. I never hardly How many
Speaker 4: tackles did he make last year? Did we know what
Speaker 4: that number?
Speaker 2: It's got to be.
Speaker 5: Minisculled because maybe fifteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on, I mean, this guy is I'm just
Speaker 4: so glad that he's coming out of his shell and
Speaker 4: that regard. Now once again it was just the Giants,
Speaker 4: but you did what you were supposed to do. When
Speaker 4: you're supposed to kick someone's ass, you kicked that ass.
Speaker 3: He had thirteen tackles last year. Wow, thirteen tackles, three
Speaker 3: tackles for loss in three quarterback hurries, one sack in
Speaker 3: three hundred and four snaps total last year and.
Speaker 2: He feels that so he felt it all off season.
Speaker 5: These last two games he had I want to say
Speaker 5: it was close to forty forty some snaps in each game.
Speaker 5: So that was you know, that was like Okay, we
Speaker 5: can play this guy a little bit more. I've got
Speaker 5: it right here. Forty seventy smith, forty six snaps and
Speaker 5: then twenty.
Speaker 3: Twenty six against the Giants. Forty six against Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Twenty six against the Giants.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's pretty good participation. That's not bad, right,
Speaker 5: that's not bad.
Speaker 3: So so yeah, and we talked about it. You know,
Speaker 3: they have a the Giants have a young center, John
Speaker 3: Michael Schmidtz, who played at Minnesota in the Big Ten.
Speaker 3: It was a second round draft pick last year, so
Speaker 3: basically the same age as Mozzi. And this week he's
Speaker 3: going up against a rookie center for the Steelers and
Speaker 3: Zach Frazier out of West Virginia. And so, I mean
Speaker 3: that probably helps a young player's confidence too, that you're
Speaker 3: going up against a guy that's your peer and not
Speaker 3: a seven year veteran and who knows all the tricks?
Speaker 4: Who did you play against in Baltimore? Against Baltimore, what's
Speaker 4: what was the center of veteran.
Speaker 3: Tyler Linderbaum?
Speaker 2: Three tackles against him?
Speaker 3: And Linderbaum is another he's from Iowa. He's another Big
Speaker 3: ten guy, and so another he's a little bit older
Speaker 3: a couple of years.
Speaker 5: And potentially they you know, they lost their starting well,
Speaker 5: they did lose their starting right guard Daniels.
Speaker 3: So Linderbaum was in the first round pick in two
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 2: So well, the.
Speaker 4: Fact that he was able to get three tackles from him,
Speaker 4: and I know that Derek him, we was able to
Speaker 4: run run all over the place. But uh, you got
Speaker 4: to hold your own. Yeah, you got to hold your own.
Speaker 4: Can't speak for anybody else.
Speaker 3: So basically he's got three straight games now where he's
Speaker 3: gone up against young sinners who are you know, which
Speaker 3: up and coming who should be guys that uh, you
Speaker 3: know from an experience standpoint and so forth. They don't
Speaker 3: have an edge on him, you know. And even his
Speaker 3: play strength don't have an edge on him, you know.
Speaker 3: So they haven't been around the block.
Speaker 5: Like facing guys of his own.
Speaker 2: Ill.
Speaker 4: Right, That's good and had a lot to do with
Speaker 4: the building of the confidence.
Speaker 5: The other thing probably need to clear out since clear up,
Speaker 5: since we were kind of guessing yesterday on Brandon Cook's situation.
Speaker 5: So my understanding is that after the game on Friday
Speaker 5: and Saturday, he did a he took a platelet injection
Speaker 5: to help his sore knees, one each day and one
Speaker 5: of those injections, and it was planned. The Cowboys knew
Speaker 5: he was doing and evidently he's done it before.
Speaker 3: Good time to do it. It's a bye week, it's a
Speaker 3: mini bye week game. You got more time before the
Speaker 3: next game.
Speaker 5: The problem was one of those shots or whatever they
Speaker 5: injected them, the blood caused the infection and understand that.
Speaker 5: And so when he got back here, the Cowboys got
Speaker 5: on top of it right away.
Speaker 2: Is there negligence involved here?
Speaker 5: Well, that part because it's you have something like that
Speaker 5: and you get an injection and you get an infection,
Speaker 5: you would think so, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, I mean I thought you were about
Speaker 4: to make excuses for him, like, no, this is something
Speaker 4: that should be.
Speaker 3: And it was.
Speaker 2: It should be just.
Speaker 5: And it was where he New York and the reason
Speaker 5: he had it after the game because he previously in
Speaker 5: his career had done it.
Speaker 4: There that part, I get no problem with that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But if we're going to make this happen and we're
Speaker 4: going to be strategic on how we do it, we're
Speaker 4: trying to be timely with it with the many buy
Speaker 4: or whatever, and then now we have a problem.
Speaker 5: Well, they had to solve the problem when he got
Speaker 5: back here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, now now we have a setback, correct.
Speaker 5: So not this week, We'll see next week. And then
Speaker 5: you got to buy. So so that plan failed, We'll see,
Speaker 5: uh where it goes. Well, I don't know that the
Speaker 5: Cowboys endorsed it. He did it.
Speaker 4: They knew he was going to do it. It's a plan, yeah,
Speaker 4: and it failed. I blame it because I just know
Speaker 4: that it failed.
Speaker 5: So anyway, Jalen Tobert, Ca Turpin, Jalen Brooks, Jalen Brooks,
Speaker 5: and maybe flow Noy. This is your life, her opportunity.
Speaker 4: The reality is, if you want to be doomsday about it, uh,
Speaker 4: this is not the time for that.
Speaker 2: This is not the game for that. We need this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was hoping that he was going to
Speaker 4: be one of the guys that's going to provide us the.
Speaker 2: Tools to do that.
Speaker 5: Well, got to step up, gotta step up. Hey, they
Speaker 5: got problems with their receivers not named George right anyway,
Speaker 5: So we'll see how well the Cowboys defense can adapt
Speaker 5: to that.
Speaker 3: And we have a Player of the Month award, Yes,
Speaker 3: the NFC Special Teams Player of the Month. Brandon Aubrey
Speaker 3: of course, twelve of thirteen on field goals, five for
Speaker 3: five from forty to forty nine yards and six for
Speaker 3: seven from fifty plus yards. You know they need to
Speaker 3: add a category. How many he was sixty in beyond?
Speaker 5: Which is two of two or three of three this year?
Speaker 5: Two of two, right, should be three of three.
Speaker 3: If for a delayed game penalty.
Speaker 5: Y's right, that would have tied the NFL all time record.
Speaker 3: That's right, yep, delay game time out. You could have
Speaker 3: taken a time out. We don't want to take those
Speaker 3: timeouts because we want to.
Speaker 5: Stay rhythm right.
Speaker 3: One ice our own kickers, but twice now we've had
Speaker 3: timeouts and decided not to use it. He missed one field.
Speaker 5: Goal they had, they had.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, we don't have time for mistakes this year.
Speaker 4: We got to get on it, guys. I mean we
Speaker 4: need to be had.
Speaker 5: They had a big issue with the clock management by
Speaker 5: the officials on what happened.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmmm.
Speaker 2: So then that the verdict is still out there, do
Speaker 2: we know what's up?
Speaker 5: Well, they thought that the t was going to get
Speaker 5: reset because of they ran a guy on the field
Speaker 5: and it wasn't a substitution. They only had ten and
Speaker 5: they held up the snap, sat over the center and
Speaker 5: told them not yet, not yet, not yet. They were
Speaker 5: ready to go, and they let that guy run on.
Speaker 3: So they don't do it as a rule when the
Speaker 3: special teams unit comes on the field.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not a substitution, right, I substituted, you substitute
Speaker 5: because the special teams It's not like, oh, I brought
Speaker 5: in a different wide receiver, so they get to bring
Speaker 5: in another corner, right, and you hold up the snap.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that was their negligence.
Speaker 2: M sided coach.
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Speaker 3: The last time I guess you went to Pittsburgh was
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: Uh, Ezekiel Elliott touchdown at the end.
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott was your quarterback right Zeke Elliott, and Zach
Speaker 3: Martin was on that offensive line. Frederick Frederick was the man.
Speaker 3: I went back and watched. I watched the last part
Speaker 3: of that game last night, and I went, oh, man,
Speaker 3: look at that offense.
Speaker 2: Everything was going backwards.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You had that Tyron Smith in his prime at
Speaker 3: left tackle, Ronald Leary in his prime time at left guard,
Speaker 3: Travis Frederick, who would have been in his fourth year
Speaker 3: in his prime at center, Zach Martin was born in
Speaker 3: his prime at right guard, and you had Doug Free
Speaker 3: at right tackle.
Speaker 5: Doug Free before Leall Collins, right.
Speaker 3: Uh huh yeah.
Speaker 2: So and they were pushing them back and so just
Speaker 2: the entire.
Speaker 3: Dame and I and since then I always thought, oh,
Speaker 3: that was one of the best games of that season.
Speaker 3: And of course the Cowboys went on what an eleven
Speaker 3: game win streak that year. That was win number eight
Speaker 3: in a row, week ten of the season. And early
Speaker 3: on in that game, towards the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 3: it was a screen passed to Zeke and he took
Speaker 3: it eighty three yards down the sideline.
Speaker 2: Not just the running but the blocking field amazing.
Speaker 3: So then the game comes down to the last two
Speaker 3: minutes of the game. You got to go find it
Speaker 3: and watch it. It was really I had forgotten just
Speaker 3: the intensity and just all the story up, all the
Speaker 3: scoring that start that that that happened in the last
Speaker 3: two minutes of the game. Uh so the Cowboys were okay.
Speaker 3: The final score was thirty five to thirty. Steelers had
Speaker 3: four miss two point conversions that so it was a
Speaker 3: crazy even though that's a normal score thirty five to thirty,
Speaker 3: the numbers leading up to that were way off because
Speaker 3: of miss.
Speaker 5: I thinks they they didn't have a kicker. No, they
Speaker 5: were just once you try and miss, and then you try,
Speaker 5: and it was trying to trying to get a three point.
Speaker 2: Pressure on them by scoring.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so they they the onus was always on Pittsburgh's offense.
Speaker 2: We have to keep pace from the first extra point
Speaker 2: that we missed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I should you go ahead and look up the
Speaker 3: box score, but I don't have time to. So anyway,
Speaker 3: it comes down the last two minutes of the game,
Speaker 3: and Cowboys have the ball and in fact, Zeke, well
Speaker 3: this is I'm just picking it up at the two
Speaker 3: minute one, okay, and Zeke scores a touchdown a fourteen
Speaker 3: yard run to give the Cowboys a one point lee.
Speaker 3: I can't remember one two points. It is a narrow lead, okay,
Speaker 3: or maybe it was like a five point lead, okay.
Speaker 3: And the Steelers come back. So they get the ball
Speaker 3: back with a minute forty left or whatever, and with
Speaker 3: forty two seconds left, they're facing a third down play
Speaker 3: they're coming up to clock it and that's when Big
Speaker 3: Ben faked no nice faked it the crew to Antonio
Speaker 3: Brown and corner pass. Yeah, and we were snookered and
Speaker 3: so then so the Steelers took the lead. And that
Speaker 3: was what I want to say. It was forty two
Speaker 3: seconds left that gave the Steelers a thirty to twenty
Speaker 3: nine lead. So now the Cowboys get it and they're
Speaker 3: backed up, okay with they maybe had a timeout or
Speaker 3: tack the part, but they did have it a couple
Speaker 3: of timeouts, and so the Cowboys get it. Dak completes
Speaker 3: a couple of passes and they're showing shots of Dan
Speaker 3: Bailey on the sideline. It's okay, all you gotta do
Speaker 3: is get a Dan Bailey field go get a field
Speaker 3: goal range. And of course back then we had a
Speaker 3: kicker who was a Pro Bowl kicker who couldn't kick
Speaker 3: it sixty six yards. Yeah, it was very complete, it
Speaker 3: was right. So they get it.
Speaker 5: Down here yesterday.
Speaker 3: But they actually they actually had a pass to Cole
Speaker 3: Beasley that should have been a face mask call against.
Speaker 3: It was a blatant face mask. They didn't call it. Okay,
Speaker 3: that converted got it one first down, then a past
Speaker 3: to Whitton and it was not a not a blatant
Speaker 3: face mask, but it was a face mask. And that one,
Speaker 3: that call with fifteen seconds left, got the Cowboys down
Speaker 3: to the thirty two yard line and they're basically, okay,
Speaker 3: we're just in position, get it wherever Dan Bailey wants it.
Speaker 3: On the field. We'll kick the field and go home
Speaker 3: with a thirty two to thirty win.
Speaker 2: They thought they hand off.
Speaker 3: To Zeke and there is a whole as why and
Speaker 3: Zeke goes thirty two yards up the middle, untouched, game
Speaker 3: winning touchdown with nine seconds left. Zeke in that game
Speaker 3: had two hundred and nine yards from scrimmage, Yes he did.
Speaker 5: But guess what, Rossellisberger threw for four hundred and eight
Speaker 5: yards okay, and got beat great game?
Speaker 3: What did what Doc have?
Speaker 5: Three hang on three nineteen two touchdowns? He had four
Speaker 5: oh eight three touchdowns?
Speaker 3: But what a what a great game that was.
Speaker 4: So you've got the combination of Dak and Zeke and
Speaker 4: then you've got Roethlisberger and Le'Veon Bell. It was one
Speaker 4: right they running back in the league at that time.
Speaker 3: And they had Antonio Browns or what and so they
Speaker 3: had some fire.
Speaker 5: Bell had and Bell had nine catches for seventy seven yards.
Speaker 3: That's what he did and.
Speaker 2: The U.
Speaker 3: But when you look at Dak and Zeke and where
Speaker 3: the Cowboys were that that game and the road game
Speaker 3: at Green Bay are the ones from that rookie season
Speaker 3: that stood out more than anything for me and the
Speaker 3: Green Bay game was a couple of weeks. It was
Speaker 3: that was Green Bay was October sixteenth, thirty to sixteen win,
Speaker 3: and then the Pittsburgh game was November thirteenth, so nearly
Speaker 3: a month later, those road wins, and that's when we
Speaker 3: realized we got something here.
Speaker 2: You know, talked about those those rookie.
Speaker 3: And basically, but by the time the Pittsburgh win happened
Speaker 3: that Romo was back healthy again. I believe it was
Speaker 3: leading up to that when Romo had his press conference
Speaker 3: and what did that say? Which was which what did
Speaker 3: he say this press conference? Mackey? You remember basically he
Speaker 3: basically was handed over, yeah, thank you and good night.
Speaker 5: Well this is kind of saying.
Speaker 2: And he really making some money.
Speaker 5: They're a Pittsburgh leading tackler with nine in that game,
Speaker 5: Ryan Shazier. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: But anyway, what a what a great game that was
Speaker 3: and also shows the importance of a run game, importance
Speaker 3: of offensive line. Yes, I'm thinking about Okay, where are
Speaker 3: the Cowboys now compare to you know. One of the
Speaker 3: things though, one of the really interesting things I thought,
Speaker 3: and looking at that footage from that game was Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott and you can see you go back and look
Speaker 3: at him his rookie year and that look at him
Speaker 3: and his improvement as far as technique, everything about every
Speaker 3: aspect of being an NFL quarterback. It is amazing to
Speaker 3: see now he was playing winning football, okay, but he
Speaker 3: was basically just managing games.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: In that season he had twenty three touchdowns and only
Speaker 3: four interceptions. He took care of the football and at
Speaker 3: some point in his career he got to get to
Speaker 3: the point where he could make plays, but you could
Speaker 3: see his form. Everything is different now and it shows
Speaker 3: all the work that he has done throughout his career.
Speaker 3: And think about the and shout out to the late
Speaker 3: Wade Wilson, the quarterback coaches that he's had, and the
Speaker 3: head coaches who have like McCarthy, like Jason Garrett, who
Speaker 3: have brought him along to and making sure that he
Speaker 3: does all the little things from a fundamental standpoint to
Speaker 3: improve as a quarterback, the things that he's done in
Speaker 3: the off season.
Speaker 4: To control the game at the line of script, all
Speaker 4: that stuff.
Speaker 3: And so it's fascinating to go back and look at
Speaker 3: the twenty sixteen Dak Prescott and understand what a special
Speaker 3: player the Cowboys have now in twenty twenty four. He
Speaker 3: was special then he was Now.
Speaker 2: We're talking three hundred plus yards.
Speaker 3: And yeah, we're talk game whatever. But the improvement that
Speaker 3: he has made, without his work ethic and all that
Speaker 3: he's put into that, he was not going to be
Speaker 3: able to sustain that like he has in his.
Speaker 4: Career because the Cowboys couldn't sustain a running game. That's right,
Speaker 4: this running game at twenty sixteen. That helped him get
Speaker 4: through that rawness that he had, right.
Speaker 3: Because what I remember from that season, as much as anything,
Speaker 3: opening drives of games. The Cowboys had a ridiculous stretch
Speaker 3: during that winning streak where they would score touchdowns on
Speaker 3: virtually every opening drive of the game. They get the
Speaker 3: ball and they go seventy five eighty yards for a time.
Speaker 4: Was that the year that we went to Seattle? Or
Speaker 4: in one did we go to Seattle.
Speaker 2: And win that year?
Speaker 3: They look at up?
Speaker 5: You mean in the playoffs?
Speaker 2: No regular season?
Speaker 3: Oh no, you may be that was not in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: which so that's eight years later, twenty eighteen, lost at Seattle.
Speaker 3: You may be thinking about this. We've been romo though.
Speaker 3: The Seattle win in twenty fourteen, which was a huge
Speaker 3: road win in week six of the season thirty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I don't even think but that.
Speaker 3: And of course that was a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that was before the bookies got there.
Speaker 5: So it's eight years and sixty million dollars later, eight
Speaker 5: years and how many years?
Speaker 3: Yeah here, I was gonna say, no, it's like one
Speaker 3: sixty plus two hundred and whatever.
Speaker 2: Too much money, yo, too much money.
Speaker 3: Anyway, that's my put on that segment.
Speaker 2: Good stuff. I love it.
Speaker 3: Go watch it. I mean, it'll bring back some fond memory.
Speaker 4: What's the entire season? Yeah, even the green bag, even
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: But as it relates to this and being at that stadium, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, they got a new name for the
Speaker 3: stage no longer Heinz Field. It's Akrischuer Stadium. So naming
Speaker 3: rights deal sty pitchback a stadium which happened apparently two
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 5: So seven twenty start by the way.
Speaker 3: Okay, seven twenty start on Sunday night, all right, much
Speaker 3: more to get to here on Mixed Shots in just
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Speaker 2: So what we got on the fifth, you got beer,
Speaker 2: It's Saturday. On the sixth, you got slurpy right.
Speaker 3: Then your weekend is four there you go. We've got
Speaker 3: football tonight, we got Thursday night football. And they've done
Speaker 3: well on these Thursday night games and they've done division
Speaker 3: matchups this year, and I think that makes a difference.
Speaker 3: I don't know if that continues around the entire season.
Speaker 2: Last year it was just a disaster.
Speaker 3: You got Tampa Bay at Atlanta tonight. Of course, last
Speaker 3: week it was the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: That's gonna that's gonna be a good one. That's gonna
Speaker 2: be a go on. That's good.
Speaker 3: And there are some good matchups this weekend. You had
Speaker 3: your first London game on Sunday morning as well, yep,
Speaker 3: thirty Sunday mornings, the Jets and the Vikings. So they
Speaker 3: hit a home run with that one too.
Speaker 5: Better not sleep in. Yeah, oh, look at this. Jerry's
Speaker 5: not going to be happy with that. Jets and Saints
Speaker 5: high on Devonte Adams trade wishless. When's the Cowboys not
Speaker 5: been put in any trade, that is.
Speaker 3: Okay, think about the Jets and think about the SEC.
Speaker 5: I know they both got connections.
Speaker 3: And the Cowboys do too. Well.
Speaker 2: Hell, he moved to Vegas to be with Carr.
Speaker 4: Then they cut car but they live right, they live
Speaker 4: like right next do with each other now.
Speaker 5: But now cars in New Orleans, which is one of
Speaker 5: the teams they're suggesting. And his personal wide receiver coach
Speaker 5: is the wide receiver coach for the Saints. I believe
Speaker 5: it's Kevin Williams.
Speaker 2: So what's the Jets connection, Rogers, that's it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well that's a big connection.
Speaker 2: Yeah not right now. Well, it'll be bigger if he
Speaker 2: gets there. Yeah, but you know right now.
Speaker 5: You know the deal with him. So he would cost
Speaker 5: if you traded for him like this week, he would
Speaker 5: cost you thirteen point five million the rest of the season.
Speaker 5: Nine hundred and seventy thousand dollars a week is what's
Speaker 5: on his cap. And well, we got twenty one meal
Speaker 5: and next year, yeah, that's what everybody says. We got
Speaker 5: twenty one. Just absorb it all and I don't carry
Speaker 5: any over next year.
Speaker 2: Well, we won't need the rest of this year.
Speaker 5: And next year. His next two years, his base salaries
Speaker 5: are thirty five million. So whatever you traded, it might
Speaker 5: be just for one year.
Speaker 2: Well you know all in.
Speaker 3: You know the the other connection on the Jets, Nathaniel
Speaker 3: Hacketts their offensive coordinator. He was with the Packers, that's right.
Speaker 2: That was the head coach of the Broncos.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, Beef Paul's son.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, he acts like Paul Son. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I could tell.
Speaker 5: Not high on Paul Hackett. No, he had the number
Speaker 5: one offense in eighty six.
Speaker 3: He realized the connection between Paul Hackett and Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3: What is that went back to the University of Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: when Paul Hackett was the head coach University of Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: back the head coach here, McCarthy points to Paul Hackett
Speaker 3: as a guy that had a major influence on him.
Speaker 3: And basically McCarthy and I've done a lot of this
Speaker 3: research because he's going back home to Pittsburgh and preparation
Speaker 3: for the Mike McCarthy Show today, looking back at his
Speaker 3: trail and when he went back to Pittsburgh, he went
Speaker 3: back McCarthy went back to Pittsburgh in nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 3: and didn't have a job, going back home, living at home,
Speaker 3: and his dad apparently told him, you know what, you
Speaker 3: need to just go knock on a door at the
Speaker 3: University of Pittsburgh and tell him you want to work there.
Speaker 3: And so he summoned up the courage and he was
Speaker 3: scared of death, but he went up there and he
Speaker 3: knocked on the door and said, Hey, I want a job.
Speaker 3: I want to work wow. And they called him back
Speaker 3: the next day and it just so happened that one
Speaker 3: of their gas had left and uh, it was unpaid
Speaker 3: to start with. He was working in the graveyard ship here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was a he was a volunteer. Uh, and I guess.
Speaker 4: But when he knocked on his door and he said
Speaker 4: I want to work there, he gave me a volunteer job.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he gave me a volunteers.
Speaker 5: He was working that if Bill was saying that the graveyard.
Speaker 3: Graveyard ship told booth on the Pennsylvania turnpipe is what
Speaker 3: he was working.
Speaker 5: And uh, but he was living at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so.
Speaker 3: Then he and by the way, John Gruden was one
Speaker 3: of the assistant coaches on that staff. I think at
Speaker 3: the University of Pittsburgh. There were a number of them,
Speaker 3: and so he was there for four years. So for
Speaker 3: not during that time, you have to go back to Dorset. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So he was a GA for a couple of years,
Speaker 3: and then he was on the staff there for a
Speaker 3: couple of years. And then Hackett got fired at pitt
Speaker 3: and then he got he went to Kansas City with
Speaker 3: the Chiefs as an assistant coach, and McCarthy followed him
Speaker 3: to Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm not gonna be Marty.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be like somebody on this podcast and
Speaker 4: where you know, you have a certain opinion about somebody
Speaker 4: from twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta grow up, right, you know.
Speaker 4: Me and Jimmy, I mean, I love what I hate
Speaker 4: what they do to Jimmy, but then I love what
Speaker 4: he gets, you know, regardless of what happened to us.
Speaker 4: I'm like somebody at this podcast, at the table who
Speaker 4: holds the grudge longer than I think anyone has ever
Speaker 4: held their grudge in life. So I'm gonna be anti
Speaker 4: Mickey if.
Speaker 5: I held the grudge against Oh my god, who you
Speaker 5: don't you hold the grudge again.
Speaker 2: Let's just we'll come back on that with tomorrow. How
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 5: That's my homework.
Speaker 4: Got a couple more minutes figure out whost Yes, there you.
Speaker 5: Go, and most of them are players are coaches. Players
Speaker 5: are just trying to figure that out. So this the
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh release left out one thing about McCarthy. It gives
Speaker 5: uh his coaching record overall at the franchise and then
Speaker 5: versus an opponent, Mike Tomlins two and two against the
Speaker 5: Cowboys and Mike McCarthy's zero and four against.
Speaker 3: The steel Game. They left out only the super Bowl.
Speaker 5: Damn super Bowl.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you research that too, all of
Speaker 3: McCarthy's matchups against the Tomlin and the Steelers have been
Speaker 3: on one score games.
Speaker 5: And uh say there from.
Speaker 4: Paul Hacket and David Shuler are the same guys, twin dummies.
Speaker 4: Oh man, see Nate holds the glute too.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that's cool.
Speaker 3: You know what's the best thing about that text. You
Speaker 3: know what the best thing about that text is is
Speaker 3: that it's not he doesn't say David Shula.
Speaker 2: Shooter, yes right.
Speaker 5: Now, he's right on that.
Speaker 3: Yeh man, Now I can't remember what I was talking about.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about that? Oh yeah, okay? That
Speaker 3: and four that they cited. Okay, how many times did
Speaker 3: McCarthy start to back up quarterback against the Steelers? Three times?
Speaker 3: And starting if you go backwards, Garrett Gilbert in two
Speaker 3: thousand started for the Cowboys against the Steelers.
Speaker 5: I forgot about that that name, And actually I said.
Speaker 11: Whot Garrett Gilbert in two thousand actually had a nineteen
Speaker 11: to nine lead in the fourth quarter, Ben brought the
Speaker 11: Steelers back with fifteen fourth quarter points to win.
Speaker 2: Those are some forgettable years, bag, So yeah, yes, Garrett Gilbert.
Speaker 3: And then prior to that, it was Matt Flynn and
Speaker 3: Brett Huntley where they were two. So three times he
Speaker 3: didn't the McCarthy did not have his starting quarterback against
Speaker 3: the Steelers. And I guess you could say this time,
Speaker 3: maybe the Steelers don't have their starting quarterback because Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson's not playing field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about that. And one one note
Speaker 2: from Nate and Frisco.
Speaker 4: Uh huh, he said, one broke Mike Shuwa's leg and
Speaker 4: the other one tried to dog out Troy.
Speaker 2: Nate will never forget that because that's his quarter back.
Speaker 3: So I'm talking about that's right, that's right. Broke shots.
Speaker 3: All right, I get Paul Hackett was going to be
Speaker 3: the heir apparent to.
Speaker 5: Tom knew it when he did, he just knew it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Just remember eighty six six and two tied for first
Speaker 5: with the Giants and number one offense in the NFL,
Speaker 5: and then Danny White got hurt. Giants never lost another game.
Speaker 5: They played him the next week, and I mean that
Speaker 5: week and the Cowboys only one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I remember that.
Speaker 3: All right, That does it for another edition of mixed Shots.
Speaker 5: Look at this.
Speaker 3: What wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 5: When we look at they act like they're talking about.
Speaker 3: This is on ESPN. Jerry Jones landed at Copy and
Speaker 3: they got a little in Jerry Copy.
Speaker 2: Is this news?
Speaker 3: He all the time? You know why? Because it happened
Speaker 3: when the media was out at practice.
Speaker 5: He got accused of that on the radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, I.
Speaker 3: Actually used music for him in the intro to mash
Speaker 3: as we showed the.
Speaker 2: I said, uh, only.
Speaker 3: Radar O'Reilly would would have seen this latest injury occur.
Speaker 3: Brandon cooks really good, and you know what, you can
Speaker 3: get away with it because no one listens long enough
Speaker 3: to not know.
Speaker 5: What you were talking about there.
Speaker 3: Now, I think he is. I looked him up just
Speaker 3: to make sure last night before I heard him.
Speaker 5: Let's not worry about the game. Let's just talk about
Speaker 5: the helicopter by the way. Uh kJ Henry, he said.
Speaker 5: He turned to one of the teammates and goes, is
Speaker 5: this a normal thing? It is like, welcome to the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Buddy, all right, natean Frisco is ready to send us
Speaker 3: back in.
Speaker 4: So here we got.
Speaker 3: We'll see again tomorrow. Fabulous fight song Football Friday tomorrow.
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