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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it's time for another week of
Speaker 1: Mick Shots. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls.
Speaker 1: Mickey and his Cowboy blue. He's got the star on
Speaker 1: his shirt, Everson in his Cardinal red as we kick on.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's do not say that. Please do not
Speaker 1: say that's Grambling State, sir, Gramma, Yes, is Grambling T shirt.
Speaker 1: All right, that's much more like it. I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought the Cardinals made a believer out of your last
Speaker 1: night or something there for a second, and not a
Speaker 1: lot of people believing in the Cowboys right now after
Speaker 1: what happened at at and T Stadium on Monday night.
Speaker 1: But it is. It is Washington Football Team week at
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. After we put this one to bed,
Speaker 1: and Mickey, we need to put it to bed as
Speaker 1: quickly as possible. No week. Yeah, it's a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: Last night, during the game at some point. That sleep
Speaker 1: number commercial came on and it showed Dak Prescott in
Speaker 1: bed sleeping, and I said, yeah, that's a good place
Speaker 1: to be, because the last place you want to be
Speaker 1: is behind that offensive line trying to throw the football around.
Speaker 1: You know my point on this one, And you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about it last week when the Cowboys got
Speaker 1: wiped out in their first Monday night football appearance by
Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals nineteen seventy. They got beat thirty
Speaker 1: eight to nothing, and we had talked about hitting rock
Speaker 1: bottom because after that game they had lost two in
Speaker 1: a row. I believe it was to the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. They turned it around and didn't lose another
Speaker 1: game until they lost Super Bowl five to Baltimore. So
Speaker 1: I was thinking, well, maybe they've hit rock bottom. They
Speaker 1: can't get any further down after losing to an Arizona
Speaker 1: team that, by the way, didn't play all that well either.
Speaker 1: That's the worst part about this team. About this game,
Speaker 1: You know, this team could have been beaten. You lost
Speaker 1: to a quarterback who completed nine passes nine passes for
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty eight yards, and one of those
Speaker 1: asses was for eighty yards. So that's eight passes for
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight yards, and you got beat because
Speaker 1: you gave up two hundred and sixty one yards rushing
Speaker 1: and you did what, turn the ball over four times
Speaker 1: and fell behind once again twenty one to nothing. I
Speaker 1: think the problem that we have is one of the
Speaker 1: problems we have. We want to We were ready to
Speaker 1: concentrate on Dalton's ability to take him down the field.
Speaker 1: How will he overcome his rusty play because we talked
Speaker 1: last week, you're going to have to have an adjustment
Speaker 1: between the receivers and the quarterback. This is something new.
Speaker 1: You're having a different timing, different tendencies. That was one issue.
Speaker 1: I was assuming that defensively we would not have the
Speaker 1: issues that we have this week, the same ones we
Speaker 1: had going all the way back to Week one. That's
Speaker 1: the disappointing part. I was kind of prepared for the
Speaker 1: offense to be rusty. I was prepared for Dalton to
Speaker 1: be rusty. I was not prepared for Emma to keep
Speaker 1: fumbling the upside, Zeke to keep fumbling the ball. And
Speaker 1: I was also not prepared for the defense to just
Speaker 1: it wasn't It was not for lack of effort. We
Speaker 1: still have the same lack of recognition. We still have
Speaker 1: the same look of surprise on our faces defensively, whenever
Speaker 1: a play is over, everyone's standing around like, Wow, how
Speaker 1: did that happen. That's the that's the that's the consistent problem.
Speaker 1: That's going to be our downfall. That's what we have
Speaker 1: to fix up defensively. Yeah, that was the most disturbing
Speaker 1: thing about last night, in my opinion, was what was
Speaker 1: not happening on the defensive side of the ball. And
Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head there. I think
Speaker 1: as far as recognizing what you know, you know going
Speaker 1: into the week, they were coached on the quarterback run, okay,
Speaker 1: and the way that this quarterback can beat you and
Speaker 1: move the chains, as he showed last night, is on
Speaker 1: those quarterback runs, and they were not recognizing it. And
Speaker 1: obviously you have to be able to recognize it because
Speaker 1: if Kyler Murray gets a step on you, he's got
Speaker 1: the corner and you got to play team defense in
Speaker 1: order to contain a quarterback like him. He can't do
Speaker 1: it with a spy on this Cowboys team. I can't
Speaker 1: think of a defensive player who you could use as
Speaker 1: a spy and would be able to keep up with him.
Speaker 1: So it's got to be the ends being able to
Speaker 1: set the edge. It's got to be aware that what
Speaker 1: this Cardinals team is going to do in a third
Speaker 1: and one situation, probably more than half the time, instead
Speaker 1: of giving it to a running back up the mental
Speaker 1: the quarterback is going to on a zone read or
Speaker 1: on a bootleg is going to take it to the outside.
Speaker 1: You have to be aware that that play is going
Speaker 1: to happen or in all likelihood might happen. You know,
Speaker 1: we talked last week, Everson talked about the secondary and
Speaker 1: where people's eyes are. I don't think the guys on
Speaker 1: this defensive line see anything. I mean, it was obvious
Speaker 1: sometimes where the ball was going and no one was
Speaker 1: looking in the middle of the line. It's got to
Speaker 1: be better than that. And then when you're not holding
Speaker 1: down the middle, your defensive ends start going, okay, well
Speaker 1: I got to get in there and help out. And
Speaker 1: then zip zip zip. There he goes fourth and one
Speaker 1: for twelve yards. Like, who did they think was going
Speaker 1: to carry the football? You know that was going to
Speaker 1: be There were moments bags especially our boy at thirty seven,
Speaker 1: Donovan is that his last name Wilson. Wilson. I saw
Speaker 1: him try and plug a hole that was not there.
Speaker 1: I believe that was on to touch the long touchdown run.
Speaker 1: For some reason, he's sticking his head in there where
Speaker 1: there is no crease for the running back to come through.
Speaker 1: When you're a defensive back or a linebacker, you have
Speaker 1: to read the line. As you're a running back, you
Speaker 1: have to anticipate where that running back is going to
Speaker 1: eventually expose himself and you have to be there to
Speaker 1: meet him in the hole. For some reason, this guy
Speaker 1: comes up, he sticks his head and there gets caught
Speaker 1: in the wash, totally caught up in the wash to
Speaker 1: the right of the play. The hole is to the left.
Speaker 1: He's untouched. That hole was four number three seven to
Speaker 1: fill plays like that that because the possibly been a
Speaker 1: seven six yard game ends up being in what eighty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. These small things lead to big proper
Speaker 1: and I pick him out because when you are safety,
Speaker 1: you are the last resort and you must remember that.
Speaker 1: As a safety, the responsibility is so huge. You can
Speaker 1: stop a potential touchdown or you can give up one
Speaker 1: of the biggest players of the night to really close
Speaker 1: the door on you. So well, these are the consistent problems.
Speaker 1: Were the consistent inconsistencies that we've had in this secondary.
Speaker 1: The front seven been up and down, the secondary has
Speaker 1: always been down, and that needs to change now. Ever
Speaker 1: since along those lines, you're talking about the last touchdown
Speaker 1: that put it away with two minutes left in the
Speaker 1: game at thirty eight to ten, I'll take you back
Speaker 1: to the fourth and one play with the score scoreless
Speaker 1: early in the second quarter, and the Cardinals have the
Speaker 1: football at the Cowboy eighteen yard line, and that's when
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray ran the bootleg and done Wilson was. He
Speaker 1: was a safety on the side of the field that
Speaker 1: the bootleg went and he on that play got caught
Speaker 1: up in the wash. He has the athleticism that he
Speaker 1: might have been able to stop Kyler Murray on the
Speaker 1: edge or at least turned him turned him back in
Speaker 1: for his teammates to make the tackle, but he got
Speaker 1: caught up in the wash, and it was his clear
Speaker 1: sailing to the outside. That was me an untrained eye
Speaker 1: just looking at that, but but that was that reminded
Speaker 1: me of it when I went back and looked at
Speaker 1: it this morning, that that was a particular play, a
Speaker 1: huge play in that game where it looked to me like,
Speaker 1: if if Wilson could have got to the outside, he's
Speaker 1: got enough speed to contain Kyler a little bit and
Speaker 1: he might have got some help and they might even
Speaker 1: not gotten first down. Hey, this is this is coming
Speaker 1: from a non athletic, non speed guy right here. If
Speaker 1: you you can have all the athletic ability in the world,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys came up with this computer workout to gauge
Speaker 1: a kind of athlete you're going to be signing. You
Speaker 1: can have all the speed in the world, you can
Speaker 1: have all the agility in the world. If you have
Speaker 1: no recognition, it doesn't do you any good. If you
Speaker 1: have zero recognition, you're always going to be a step
Speaker 1: behind players like myself, players like Michael Downs. Recognition was
Speaker 1: there so were we had a step on our opponent.
Speaker 1: If you don't recognize anything, then you're always going to
Speaker 1: be chasing behind players you're in the entire game, not
Speaker 1: just as an individual, but your team itself. No team recognition,
Speaker 1: you will always be playing from behind. That's what we're
Speaker 1: looking at, guys. And I thought along the lines of
Speaker 1: the defense again. When we're talking about the defense, you
Speaker 1: know early in the third quarter when the Cardinals got
Speaker 1: the ball after the controversial Drake Kirkpatrick interception and Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's ready to go off on we got holed,
Speaker 1: We got hold that entire drive, that entire drive. But
Speaker 1: the disappointing thing on that is the Cardinals come back
Speaker 1: and rip off a twenty two yard run, a twenty
Speaker 1: yard run and they, you know, they drive it down
Speaker 1: the defense's throat for seventy nine yards at nine plays,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like the defense was tired at that point.
Speaker 1: They had literally been on the field. Of course, we
Speaker 1: had a halftime in there too. They had been on
Speaker 1: the field for one play in the last thirteen minutes
Speaker 1: of the ballgame, which was the eighty yard touchdown pass
Speaker 1: to Christian kirk That was the one time that they
Speaker 1: were on the field outside of a kneel down at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, since the ten minute
Speaker 1: mark of the second quarter. And the Cardinals take over
Speaker 1: with twelve minutes left in the third quarter, and they
Speaker 1: just drove her right down the field on him. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was inexcusable and and this is my pet peeve
Speaker 1: on the complaints afterwards about the turnovers, right I get it.
Speaker 1: They turned the ball over four times, but just because
Speaker 1: you turned the ball over doesn't mean the defense has
Speaker 1: got to let them drive the field and score one
Speaker 1: of those. Only one of those turnovers should have led
Speaker 1: to a short drive touchdown, and it was dak a
Speaker 1: Zeke's second fumble. They recovered at the Dallas twenty seven
Speaker 1: yard line, so all they had to do was drive
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards. The first turnover, they got the ball
Speaker 1: at their own forty six. They drove fifty four yards.
Speaker 1: The first interception they drove seventy nine yards, and the
Speaker 1: third interception they got the ball at the Arizona ten,
Speaker 1: and they drove ninety yards to get a well what
Speaker 1: not less than ninety They ended up with a field goal.
Speaker 1: So you don't I understand, You know, the sudden change
Speaker 1: and the adversity of turnover. You shorten your own possession,
Speaker 1: but the defense can maybe hold him to a field
Speaker 1: goal like once in a while. So once again this
Speaker 1: defense gives up two hundred and sixty was a two
Speaker 1: sixty one yards rushing high goodness after a three h
Speaker 1: seven two weeks ago. They just got no clue up
Speaker 1: front what they're doing, and they're wasting snaps on players
Speaker 1: who are doing nothing. You know that. They finally called
Speaker 1: up We talked about it. They were going to call
Speaker 1: up Justin Hamilton, and he got in. He played. He
Speaker 1: played nineteen snaps. He had three tackles. Don Terry Poe
Speaker 1: for the second game in a row, zeroed out, no
Speaker 1: solo tackles, no assistant tackles, no quarterback pressures. I could
Speaker 1: go out and do that. I could get hurt, but
Speaker 1: I could do that. So at some point they got
Speaker 1: to start using maybe different guys. Maybe you got to
Speaker 1: work some different offensive lineman in there. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: like always on the offensive line getting physically beat. There
Speaker 1: was no recognition on blitzes coming at him. It was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna blitz I can see it. You know, somebody's
Speaker 1: got to pick that guy up. Now. If you got
Speaker 1: to leave a running back in all the time, then
Speaker 1: you gotta do it. If you got to play two
Speaker 1: tight ends and help those tackles out, you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: And then what's the worst thing that can happen? The
Speaker 1: only guy with any experience on that offensive line, Zach Martin,
Speaker 1: he gets knocked out of the game going he was
Speaker 1: down in Zeke's knee, hits him in the head, and
Speaker 1: now he's in concussion protocol. So now you've got four
Speaker 1: guys on the offense of line that we're nowhere near
Speaker 1: starting this year trying to block a team that ended
Speaker 1: up with a twenty one point lead. Oh, they're just
Speaker 1: gonna come at you. What have they got to lose?
Speaker 1: And they got overwhelmed for Andy Dalton should have got
Speaker 1: combat pain. Oh my goodness. Well and yeah, and you
Speaker 1: listen to U. Troy Aikman was on the radio this
Speaker 1: morning and he actually had he had a good comment
Speaker 1: about the injuries and the offensive line, and it was
Speaker 1: this way he said, when when he played, everyone talked
Speaker 1: about for six days of the week, they talk about
Speaker 1: the injuries on the offensive line and how are you
Speaker 1: going to be able to patch it together? Who you
Speaker 1: don't have enough players to play? But then one Sunday
Speaker 1: comes or in this case, Monday night comes, Then how
Speaker 1: come you can't do anything on offense? How can you?
Speaker 1: How come you can't throw downfield? Well, it's because you've
Speaker 1: got basically four rookies on your offensive line. Went once
Speaker 1: Zack Martin went out, I mean, coming into this season,
Speaker 1: in Brandon Knight, Terrence Steele, Tyler Biadas, and Connor McGovern.
Speaker 1: They had a grand total of zero NFL starts coming
Speaker 1: into this season. So the one veteran hand you had
Speaker 1: in there was your left guard. Connor Williams is in
Speaker 1: his third year in the league. Now, having said that,
Speaker 1: there are a number of NFL teams going through the
Speaker 1: exact same thing this season, and in the Cowboys owned
Speaker 1: division in the NFC East, where the Eagles are down
Speaker 1: six basically six starters on their offensive line, and just
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys were last night. And so the good
Speaker 1: thing for the Cowboys, of course, is that they play
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. That's the saving grace. Still good place,
Speaker 1: still still in first place at two and four, and
Speaker 1: they've got the Washington Football team and the Eagles the
Speaker 1: next two weeks, and they need to take care of
Speaker 1: business the next two weeks to get back to five hundred,
Speaker 1: and they could still be running away with the NFC's
Speaker 1: Mickey and when and when we come back from break,
Speaker 1: we have a choice cut SoundBite from Jerry Jones on
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Speaker 1: We just completed a three game homestand Cowboys going one
Speaker 1: and two on the homestand losing to Cleveland and Arizona
Speaker 1: sandwiched around a three point win over the Giants. And
Speaker 1: so we are now halfway through the home schedule. There's
Speaker 1: four home games left Cowboys schedule, looking ahead Washington in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and then home against currently the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: the next home game. And Mickey, that brings a smile
Speaker 1: to your face and a shake of your head. Yes,
Speaker 1: because those Dallas Cowboys are still in first place. It'll
Speaker 1: be a battle of two first places. I think if
Speaker 1: they could have won the game, they would have been
Speaker 1: a game and a half ahead of the Eagles, in
Speaker 1: two games ahead of the Giants in the Washington's I'm
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Speaker 1: And and you know, the guys today on the fan
Speaker 1: asked Jerry, you know, but you know what you're you're
Speaker 1: still in first place. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: And I think Chris probably has that cut ready to
Speaker 1: hear what Jerry had to say. I'm not in the
Speaker 1: feel good mood frankly that we've been got manner from
Speaker 1: heaven being in the East. These things have a way
Speaker 1: of even and out as we go along. And certainly
Speaker 1: then if s East is having his challenges right now,
Speaker 1: all of that is a way of not wanting to
Speaker 1: talk about other teams when you're not playing any better
Speaker 1: than we are. It's hard for me to basically look
Speaker 1: to the end game, which is to win the East,
Speaker 1: and get excited about the fact that we're better than anybody.
Speaker 1: So we may be slow, but we're ahead of you, syndrome.
Speaker 1: We've got to get better to have the kind of
Speaker 1: season that makes sense for us. We might be slow,
Speaker 1: but we're ahead of you syndrome. That would correct me up.
Speaker 1: But he's right right, He didn't say we might be bad,
Speaker 1: but we're not as bad as you guys are. Um,
Speaker 1: it's no consolation, especially as he said, if we want
Speaker 1: to have the kind of season that makes sense to us.
Speaker 1: And you know he started that off and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it caught this. But he goes but I'm
Speaker 1: not in a feel good mood frankly, so yeah he was.
Speaker 1: He was not happy and and no nobody should be happy, right,
Speaker 1: uh you know, and and we can't so this game.
Speaker 1: You know, last time they got run like this against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: it was all about the effort, right, Well, no one's
Speaker 1: talking about effort this time, right talking about turnovers? Well,
Speaker 1: I talked, you told you about the turnovers. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: short your possession, but you don't have to let him score.
Speaker 1: I mean it was just to me. And I'll go
Speaker 1: back to what I said when we opened the show.
Speaker 1: They better hope this is rock bottom, because if it
Speaker 1: gets worse than this, it's gonna get ugly. You know,
Speaker 1: I think everyone's everyone has good intentions. We've seen that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could just be inside Zeke's heads before
Speaker 1: the game and probably understand that he's thinking, Okay, O, boy,
Speaker 1: Dak is down. The load comes on me. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: carry that load. I'm gonna be that guy to step up.
Speaker 1: I need to have Andy Dalton's back. Let's go. Old
Speaker 1: line just opened up those holes for me, and let's
Speaker 1: take this conservative route. I will I will carry that
Speaker 1: burden on my shoulders. And he just kind of pressed
Speaker 1: himself into a couple of turnovers. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you start seeing the same thing happened weekend week out,
Speaker 1: even though your mindset is different, you think your mindsets different.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into this game and I am not
Speaker 1: gonna do what I've been doing, and then you go
Speaker 1: out there and do it anyway, it's gotta be disheartening.
Speaker 1: It's almost like you start to doubt yourself. And I
Speaker 1: was glad. I knew they wasn't gonna do it, but
Speaker 1: I was just so glad that just for the future
Speaker 1: that they kept him in the game, kept z you know,
Speaker 1: in tuned in the game. They put Polo in a
Speaker 1: little bit afterwards, but they kept Zeke in tuned to where, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're still that guy. You know, you're still going to
Speaker 1: be our horse for the rest of the season. But man,
Speaker 1: it was just so tough to see him go through
Speaker 1: that and wonder mentally, what's in his head, Like, damn,
Speaker 1: can I just stop doing this? You know, that's a
Speaker 1: tough thing. That's a tough thing as a professor player,
Speaker 1: and as you saw when they were tackling him. They
Speaker 1: were going for the ball. It wasn't almost like they
Speaker 1: were worried about getting him on the ground. They were
Speaker 1: reaching for the ball, especially on the second one. The
Speaker 1: first one kind of goofy play right. Pressure gets to Dalton,
Speaker 1: he steps up at the last second, he throws a
Speaker 1: little shovel past the z He catches it, turns and
Speaker 1: he leaves the ball out here and he gets hit
Speaker 1: from behind. He's got to be up here. He knows
Speaker 1: that he can't get sloppy. But again, I think you're right, Everson.
Speaker 1: He's trying so hard to make up for what they
Speaker 1: don't do. It's becoming counterproductive because he's trying so hard.
Speaker 1: He's not taking care of the things he needs to
Speaker 1: take care of. But I knew. I do think if
Speaker 1: you credit the Cardinals for both those forced fumbles, I mean,
Speaker 1: those are playmakers on that Cardinals defense that forced the
Speaker 1: turnovers of the two bumbles. I mean Buddha Baker, he
Speaker 1: was very aware of what was going on and he
Speaker 1: knew that that. In fact, there was a comment from
Speaker 1: from Buddha after the game last night. Apparently Andy was
Speaker 1: Zeke did not see or had fallen down. I can't
Speaker 1: remember exactly and was just got back up and he
Speaker 1: did not see that Andy had broken out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: So Andy was yelling Zeke like he was going to
Speaker 1: throw him the ball. Buddha heard that came from behind
Speaker 1: and he had it measured to swipe and knock the
Speaker 1: ball out. Jordan Phillips on the other Zeke fumble, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a massive human being and he was in position
Speaker 1: to make the tackle at the same time rip the
Speaker 1: ball out. First off, the Cowboys defense. If the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to get some turnovers, they got to be
Speaker 1: in position to make the plays, much less knock the
Speaker 1: ball out. And so I think you get credit for
Speaker 1: the Cardinals on defense. They've got some some heady playmakers
Speaker 1: on their defense that made critical plays in the game. Oh. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And it's it's hard for you to concentrate on ripping
Speaker 1: a ball out when you're giving up seven and a
Speaker 1: half yards per run. You know you're desperate to make
Speaker 1: a tackle. Yeah, when you're trailing the play, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: So Yeah, defense not good. Offensive line not good. Did
Speaker 1: you ever see an uglier field goal attempt? By the way,
Speaker 1: and I know it was what fifty eight yards should
Speaker 1: have gone for? It should have gambled three points. Weren't
Speaker 1: going to help you out at that point. I used
Speaker 1: to it was an old baseball term. When you hit
Speaker 1: a ball like that and it nosed dives, they used
Speaker 1: to call it a duck snort. And this went. I mean,
Speaker 1: he leaned back like he was very Barns or something.
Speaker 1: On the home run. It's like he puts so much
Speaker 1: into it. You know. That was one of those golf
Speaker 1: shots where they tell you to keep your head down. No,
Speaker 1: he totally flailed almost on that kig. It didn't look
Speaker 1: good as as soon as it came off his feet.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what think about this. You're the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: where do you start on this tomorrow? No, you get
Speaker 1: rid of this video. You don't even watch it? Just
Speaker 1: go right, yeah, yeah, just burn it. Let the coaches
Speaker 1: look at it, realize what they have to do and
Speaker 1: what they think they can correct. Get rid of that thing.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even Tom Lamgee was good at that. There
Speaker 1: were certain games where he said, you know what, guys,
Speaker 1: this won't do us any good to watch this now.
Speaker 1: I might say that it might be because he may
Speaker 1: have called a horrible game as well, so that may
Speaker 1: have covered his own ass. But when it does you
Speaker 1: no good to look at something like this, you just
Speaker 1: move on and understand what it's about. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's about a new quarterback. As good as he looked
Speaker 1: in the last part of the game before this one,
Speaker 1: we led us on the comeback against the Giants. You're
Speaker 1: still you have to you have to regroup. Now you're
Speaker 1: gonna be game planned as a quarterback, and that's what
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were able to do. We talked doing the
Speaker 1: brakes bags. I've never seen this Cardinal secondary place so well.
Speaker 1: They were all over the place. It's like they had
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen guys out there. And I know our receivers
Speaker 1: can beat these guys all day long, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: they game plan the so well. There were moments when
Speaker 1: they were already waiting on our receivers to finish their routes.
Speaker 1: They were all they had run the route for them.
Speaker 1: And I talked earlier about how they got screwed doing
Speaker 1: one particular drive, especially the drive with Ceedee Lamb getting
Speaker 1: knocked down. The guy gets you interception pretty the obvious play.
Speaker 1: I don't even you know. There are times when I
Speaker 1: think referees or I probably should be fine. That's one
Speaker 1: of those players where look, guy, you gotta get demoted.
Speaker 1: You missed that obvious call. And there were the calls
Speaker 1: that weren't made as well, And I know it sounds
Speaker 1: like belly aching players being held during running plays. Clearly
Speaker 1: you can see the the old lineman was grabbing out
Speaker 1: a guy trying to escape. Talking about Donovan Wilson, he
Speaker 1: tried to get off a block on the goal line.
Speaker 1: The guy just grabbed him and there was no call
Speaker 1: he was he could have actually made the tempt on
Speaker 1: the play. I saw three plays, three missed calls right
Speaker 1: before or after the CD Lamb no call as well.
Speaker 1: Just sometimes he's just, you know, referees getting lazy to
Speaker 1: any Let me tell you about this this Cardinal secondary,
Speaker 1: because you know, we talked a lot about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: wide receivers and Amari Cooper was the fourth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. CD Lamb was the first mid first round
Speaker 1: draft pick, Michael Gallup a third round pick. But if
Speaker 1: you look at the Cardinals secondary, they've got Patrick Peterson,
Speaker 1: at eight time Pro bowler at one quarterback position who
Speaker 1: was the fifth pick in the draft. Buddha Baker was
Speaker 1: early second round pick. Thirty sixth overall. He's made the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl twice. This Byron Murphy, number thirty three. He
Speaker 1: was the thirty third pick in the draft. He was
Speaker 1: nearly a first round draft pick. Drake Kirkpatrick was a
Speaker 1: first round pick of the Bengals several years ago. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have invested in their secondary. There's a reason that
Speaker 1: these guys were high draft picks, and they showed up
Speaker 1: in last night's game. And so if I think if
Speaker 1: you make an investment in that secondary, then if you
Speaker 1: make an investment in playmakers, typically playmakers will make plays
Speaker 1: for you. They got the best of the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: last night's game against the wide against the Cowboy receivers,
Speaker 1: the strength of the Cowboys team, and a lot of
Speaker 1: that had to do with the fact that, you know,
Speaker 1: you got a collapsing pocket around Andy Dalton, and when
Speaker 1: you've got a good secondary and there's not a lot
Speaker 1: open there, it's it's not going to play to your
Speaker 1: benefit when you've got you know, basically four starters out
Speaker 1: on your offensive line. But think about this, and they
Speaker 1: did it again the last possession of the second quarter,
Speaker 1: the first possession of the third quarter, Michael Gallop after
Speaker 1: making two unbelievable catches last week. Drops a touchdown pass. Man,
Speaker 1: you're down twenty one to nothing, right, that could make
Speaker 1: a twenty one to seven. You end up with a
Speaker 1: field goal, and then the first possession of the third
Speaker 1: quarter you defer, you get the ball and that's when
Speaker 1: Drake Kirkpatrick just drags he mugged Cede Lamb and it
Speaker 1: turns into an interception. If and they were moving right
Speaker 1: they were, that was that was like a twenty yard
Speaker 1: pass that took place around the twenty twenty two yard line.
Speaker 1: Those two possessions could have made it twenty one fourteen.
Speaker 1: But now they take that possession drive seventy nine yards
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's it's third. It's twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three and basically games over. And then let
Speaker 1: me take that a step further, Micky, because we talk
Speaker 1: about it, well, you just throw the tape out and
Speaker 1: don't show him this. But literally, there are certain key
Speaker 1: situations in that game last night where if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: make the play, the Cardinals are kept off the board,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it was the quarterback run on
Speaker 1: the first touchdown drive of the game for Arizona. They
Speaker 1: started their possession with two thirty six left in the
Speaker 1: first quarter. They faced a third and ten at the
Speaker 1: forty six third and ten and Murray gets out for
Speaker 1: a ten yard run in a first down. Okay, they're
Speaker 1: punting if you just contain the quarterback there, didn't they
Speaker 1: come down where the fourth and one. They decide to
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth and one at the eighteen
Speaker 1: yard line, and that was the Murray bootleg for eleven
Speaker 1: yards in a first down, all right, that leads to
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And then on their next possession, you got
Speaker 1: this was after the Zeke fumble. They take over at
Speaker 1: the twenty seven yard line. You got him stopped with
Speaker 1: a third and eleven, and you play soft coverage on
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald on the outside. He got the call from
Speaker 1: the official. It didn't look like to me like he
Speaker 1: got the first down, but they would have gone for
Speaker 1: it anyway on four was that was just oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's still regardless, oh man, regardless it was soft coverage.
Speaker 1: He gets eleven yards, he gets the first down, and
Speaker 1: on the next play there goes the quarterback again for
Speaker 1: sixteen yards all the way to the goal line. There.
Speaker 1: I decided three quarterback run plays, and you knew coming
Speaker 1: into the week. The focus is on this quarterback's ability
Speaker 1: to run the football. He leads the NFL and yards
Speaker 1: per carry and they are design runs. They are not scrambles. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And on that third and eleven play, well, what kind
Speaker 1: of defensive Yeah, now that was that was the DB's choice.
Speaker 1: It was totally man to man. The call itself and
Speaker 1: the huddle. He has the option on how to play it.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to know as a veteran player,
Speaker 1: that was Noah Noah Brown? Was that Brown on the
Speaker 1: on the coverage on that play? Anthony Brown? Aside Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown on that play he runs a four zero and
Speaker 1: he's off of a big tight end guy. We talked
Speaker 1: about that with Fitzgerald, whose way past his prime. Just
Speaker 1: a solid player and you're gonna give up a sideline.
Speaker 1: You should have been all over that guy. Those are
Speaker 1: the moments, guys, while I talk about a good defensive
Speaker 1: back says this is the time. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: few minutes here of mix shots. Mickey, I got a
Speaker 1: question for you, what did you see the rotation as
Speaker 1: at cornerback for the Cowboys last night, because it looked
Speaker 1: at me like Daryl Whorley started the game at one
Speaker 1: cornerback spot was in for a couple of three series.
Speaker 1: Then Anthony Brown was in at cornerback for several series
Speaker 1: in a row. It was interesting. I was just looking
Speaker 1: back at my play by play and you know Brown,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about the Larry Fitzgerald third and
Speaker 1: eleven reception that led to a touchdown. Next time the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were on the field, Anthony Brown was not out
Speaker 1: there and Daryl Whorley was back at corner and Whorley
Speaker 1: gave up the eighty yard touchdown to Christian Kirk on
Speaker 1: the very shot. You know, wor Worley only played twenty
Speaker 1: one snaps. Anthony Brown played forty nine, so he was
Speaker 1: out there for the majority of the snaps along with
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs in your Right Bill. Not only did they
Speaker 1: play dime, there were times that they were using Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith as one of the rushing four four guys on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and then basically had all dbs
Speaker 1: out there trying to confuse him. And it did except
Speaker 1: for I don't know Everson did Worly get confused, because
Speaker 1: how do you get beat that bad? Did he think?
Speaker 1: You know? Somebody said they were in zone, Well they
Speaker 1: really weren't, because they had three wide receivers down the field.
Speaker 1: The corner to the Cowboys right had one guy covered,
Speaker 1: the safety picked up the guy down the slot. There
Speaker 1: was no one to give him help. In a zone.
Speaker 1: He had to be in man and he gives up
Speaker 1: an eighty yard touchdown pass. And you know, I could
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter man or zone. He really doesn't. If
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be dep no one gets behind you.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all of this to it. His technique,
Speaker 1: it was what it didn't It was non existent. He
Speaker 1: he didn't touch him, he didn't play flat, he didn't
Speaker 1: play dep You know, everything that you saw about it,
Speaker 1: I think he was It seemed to be as if
Speaker 1: he just had a brain lock, really, because his feet
Speaker 1: stopped moving. It seemed as if he didn't realize that
Speaker 1: this guy was coming at him so quickly. You know,
Speaker 1: when when a receiver closes that gap on you, you're
Speaker 1: at that receiver's mercy as a defensive back, and you
Speaker 1: know initially what you must do. It's okay to panic,
Speaker 1: because panic will make you turn and run. He just
Speaker 1: stayed there, and I know, I know that that was
Speaker 1: not the correct responsibility for him. There's no way he's
Speaker 1: supposed to play that technique and let a guy get
Speaker 1: up on him that fast, that quickly, and also just
Speaker 1: get by him. It's almost as if he just gave
Speaker 1: up as soon as the guy closed the gap on him.
Speaker 1: It's just those are the kind of things where you know,
Speaker 1: it makes me go off on my little rants about
Speaker 1: and Bill said it. The Cardinals chose to invest in
Speaker 1: a secondary Peterson has been there for quite some time.
Speaker 1: They've given Peterson support with other quality defensive backs because
Speaker 1: that is your last line of defense. I don't care
Speaker 1: how good how well your d lines playing, I don't
Speaker 1: care how well your linebackers stopped to run. Eventually you're
Speaker 1: going to have to cover depasses. You're going to have
Speaker 1: to protect your end zone. We haven't done that for years.
Speaker 1: The low priority we have on defensive backs is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I've talked about it before. It is necessary for us
Speaker 1: to change the culture here. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna do it with Mike Nolan, I really don't. He's
Speaker 1: never shown as a defensive coordinator to be successful in
Speaker 1: that manner. I was hoping that when you came here
Speaker 1: that this would be the difference. So far, it's gotten
Speaker 1: even worse than any defense Mike Nolan's ever had. And
Speaker 1: that's saying a lot, you know. And if you're a
Speaker 1: student of the game, which what is Christian Kirk's calling
Speaker 1: Kurt his speed, right, they're gonna send him on a
Speaker 1: nine route, you got you gotta be prepared for that.
Speaker 1: You can't fall asleep. And they had three nine rounds
Speaker 1: on that one play. Yeah, they get the safety to
Speaker 1: say go to Isabella instead. Yeah. Well, not just that,
Speaker 1: they showed that we're going to come deep, We're going
Speaker 1: to go at you, and that's your secondary. From the
Speaker 1: beginning of the ball game, they showed them what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do, and for some reason, we were tone deaf
Speaker 1: to all of that jompious lay something that they had
Speaker 1: seen with the Cowboys secondary. Maybe they do it every week.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they came out that they were
Speaker 1: going to take deep shuts down the field and they
Speaker 1: finally hit on one, and they barely did. Murray almost
Speaker 1: overthrew them man only because of speed he was able
Speaker 1: to run that ball down. That's right. I mean they
Speaker 1: did on the first third down right, they went to Isabella. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so at that point, if you're a defensive bat, okay,
Speaker 1: I see what your calling card is. I'll be prepared
Speaker 1: for that. You can catch all the stuff in front
Speaker 1: of all you want. It's not going to lead to
Speaker 1: a quick six. The priority for you is to keep
Speaker 1: things under control. In that secondary coach Eddie Robinson, Glambling
Speaker 1: State University, all he ever said was don't give up
Speaker 1: the quick six. That's something that was beaten into my
Speaker 1: head my entire career, starting in college. And it's a
Speaker 1: It's a good mantra to have because that way you
Speaker 1: know that you will always be in the ball game
Speaker 1: because the ends one is protected. Mickey, you're a very
Speaker 1: studious there. You're looking up something. No, I was just
Speaker 1: looking at the eight minute or so left. I want
Speaker 1: to give you time to get something off your mind.
Speaker 1: I was I was looking to see if they had
Speaker 1: any more deep throws like that. Look, so the turnover
Speaker 1: ratio Cowboys are minus twelve, the next worst team minus seven.
Speaker 1: They're they're five more in the turnover ratio differential than
Speaker 1: any other team. They've given up two hundred and eighteen points.
Speaker 1: That's twenty six more than the next team that's given
Speaker 1: up one hundred and ninety two Minnesota, Cleveland one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty seven, the Jets one eighty two, Jacksonville one
Speaker 1: eighty one. But here come the Cowboys two eighteen. Um.
Speaker 1: How those other teams doing you mentioned the minute you
Speaker 1: mentioned the Vikings, the Jets, and the Jags. Where Morrows
Speaker 1: that you mentioned, and Cleveland's the only team that has
Speaker 1: whether they have they have three wins or four, well
Speaker 1: on the one of the one of the wins was
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. So yeah, right, so hey, let's just
Speaker 1: remember what we have over all of those teams is
Speaker 1: first place standing. That's right. You know. Another thing that
Speaker 1: we have over there might be slow, but I'm not
Speaker 1: as slow as you are, you know, another thing we
Speaker 1: have on those other teams. We have mix shots, right,
Speaker 1: We have mix shots, and we got more mix shots
Speaker 1: tomorrow at one thirty as we try to figure out
Speaker 1: what went wrong this time and what will go right
Speaker 1: against the Washington football team. Sunday is fast approaching, and
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