WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Hitting Rock Bottom? 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:16.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.680 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.400 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:33.600 and Nicky Spagnola and it's time for another week of 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:39.559 Mick Shots. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola and Everson Walls. 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:43.800 Mickey and his Cowboy blue. He's got the star on 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:48.120 his shirt, Everson in his Cardinal red as we kick on. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.600 Oh no, that's do not say that. Please do not 0:00:53.800 --> 0:01:01.880 say that's Grambling State, sir, Gramma, Yes, is Grambling T shirt. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.720 All right, that's much more like it. I thought, I 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.920 thought the Cardinals made a believer out of your last 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.680 night or something there for a second, and not a 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:13.160 lot of people believing in the Cowboys right now after 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.119 what happened at at and T Stadium on Monday night. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.440 But it is. It is Washington Football Team week at 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.720 the Star in Frisco. After we put this one to bed, 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.920 and Mickey, we need to put it to bed as 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.600 quickly as possible. No week. Yeah, it's a matter of fact. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.000 Last night, during the game at some point. That sleep 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.240 number commercial came on and it showed Dak Prescott in 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.880 bed sleeping, and I said, yeah, that's a good place 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.000 to be, because the last place you want to be 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:53.280 is behind that offensive line trying to throw the football around. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.080 You know my point on this one, And you know, 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:02.360 we talked about it last week when the Cowboys got 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:07.840 wiped out in their first Monday night football appearance by 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.560 the Saint Louis Cardinals nineteen seventy. They got beat thirty 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.600 eight to nothing, and we had talked about hitting rock 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.960 bottom because after that game they had lost two in 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.240 a row. I believe it was to the Giants and 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.840 the Cardinals. They turned it around and didn't lose another 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:31.360 game until they lost Super Bowl five to Baltimore. So 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.160 I was thinking, well, maybe they've hit rock bottom. They 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:40.839 can't get any further down after losing to an Arizona 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.800 team that, by the way, didn't play all that well either. 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.560 That's the worst part about this team. About this game, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.359 You know, this team could have been beaten. You lost 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:56.960 to a quarterback who completed nine passes nine passes for 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.760 one hundred and eighty eight yards, and one of those 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.800 asses was for eighty yards. So that's eight passes for 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.160 one hundred and eight yards, and you got beat because 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.280 you gave up two hundred and sixty one yards rushing 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:15.840 and you did what, turn the ball over four times 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:22.120 and fell behind once again twenty one to nothing. I 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.160 think the problem that we have is one of the 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.200 problems we have. We want to We were ready to 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:34.440 concentrate on Dalton's ability to take him down the field. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:40.000 How will he overcome his rusty play because we talked 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.440 last week, you're going to have to have an adjustment 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.800 between the receivers and the quarterback. This is something new. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:52.960 You're having a different timing, different tendencies. That was one issue. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.520 I was assuming that defensively we would not have the 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:02.160 issues that we have this week, the same ones we 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.120 had going all the way back to Week one. That's 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.720 the disappointing part. I was kind of prepared for the 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.560 offense to be rusty. I was prepared for Dalton to 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.200 be rusty. I was not prepared for Emma to keep 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.960 fumbling the upside, Zeke to keep fumbling the ball. And 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.200 I was also not prepared for the defense to just 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.640 it wasn't It was not for lack of effort. We 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.919 still have the same lack of recognition. We still have 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:34.120 the same look of surprise on our faces defensively, whenever 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.440 a play is over, everyone's standing around like, Wow, how 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.320 did that happen. That's the that's the that's the consistent problem. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.960 That's going to be our downfall. That's what we have 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:50.920 to fix up defensively. Yeah, that was the most disturbing 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.480 thing about last night, in my opinion, was what was 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:56.760 not happening on the defensive side of the ball. And 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.640 you hit the nail on the head there. I think 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.680 as far as recognizing what you know, you know going 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.040 into the week, they were coached on the quarterback run, okay, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.600 and the way that this quarterback can beat you and 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.200 move the chains, as he showed last night, is on 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.440 those quarterback runs, and they were not recognizing it. And 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.000 obviously you have to be able to recognize it because 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.159 if Kyler Murray gets a step on you, he's got 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:28.000 the corner and you got to play team defense in 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.880 order to contain a quarterback like him. He can't do 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.120 it with a spy on this Cowboys team. I can't 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.000 think of a defensive player who you could use as 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.479 a spy and would be able to keep up with him. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.359 So it's got to be the ends being able to 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.359 set the edge. It's got to be aware that what 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.800 this Cardinals team is going to do in a third 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.560 and one situation, probably more than half the time, instead 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.520 of giving it to a running back up the mental 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.919 the quarterback is going to on a zone read or 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.240 on a bootleg is going to take it to the outside. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.479 You have to be aware that that play is going 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.080 to happen or in all likelihood might happen. You know, 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.240 we talked last week, Everson talked about the secondary and 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.200 where people's eyes are. I don't think the guys on 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:20.360 this defensive line see anything. I mean, it was obvious 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.800 sometimes where the ball was going and no one was 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.320 looking in the middle of the line. It's got to 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.640 be better than that. And then when you're not holding 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.920 down the middle, your defensive ends start going, okay, well 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.400 I got to get in there and help out. And 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.279 then zip zip zip. There he goes fourth and one 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.040 for twelve yards. Like, who did they think was going 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.360 to carry the football? You know that was going to 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:48.080 be There were moments bags especially our boy at thirty seven, 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:54.360 Donovan is that his last name Wilson. Wilson. I saw 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.919 him try and plug a hole that was not there. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.360 I believe that was on to touch the long touchdown run. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.880 For some reason, he's sticking his head in there where 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.680 there is no crease for the running back to come through. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.200 When you're a defensive back or a linebacker, you have 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.200 to read the line. As you're a running back, you 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.920 have to anticipate where that running back is going to 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:25.440 eventually expose himself and you have to be there to 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.080 meet him in the hole. For some reason, this guy 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.880 comes up, he sticks his head and there gets caught 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.720 in the wash, totally caught up in the wash to 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.040 the right of the play. The hole is to the left. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:43.200 He's untouched. That hole was four number three seven to 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:48.640 fill plays like that that because the possibly been a 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.400 seven six yard game ends up being in what eighty 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:59.920 yard touchdown run. These small things lead to big proper 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.120 and I pick him out because when you are safety, 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.800 you are the last resort and you must remember that. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.800 As a safety, the responsibility is so huge. You can 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:17.240 stop a potential touchdown or you can give up one 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.119 of the biggest players of the night to really close 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.840 the door on you. So well, these are the consistent problems. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.760 Were the consistent inconsistencies that we've had in this secondary. 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.640 The front seven been up and down, the secondary has 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.640 always been down, and that needs to change now. Ever 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.679 since along those lines, you're talking about the last touchdown 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.480 that put it away with two minutes left in the 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.960 game at thirty eight to ten, I'll take you back 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.760 to the fourth and one play with the score scoreless 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.680 early in the second quarter, and the Cardinals have the 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.960 football at the Cowboy eighteen yard line, and that's when 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.200 Kyler Murray ran the bootleg and done Wilson was. He 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.280 was a safety on the side of the field that 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.120 the bootleg went and he on that play got caught 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.960 up in the wash. He has the athleticism that he 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.280 might have been able to stop Kyler Murray on the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.960 edge or at least turned him turned him back in 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.960 for his teammates to make the tackle, but he got 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.640 caught up in the wash, and it was his clear 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.080 sailing to the outside. That was me an untrained eye 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:28.200 just looking at that, but but that was that reminded 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.600 me of it when I went back and looked at 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.920 it this morning, that that was a particular play, a 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.360 huge play in that game where it looked to me like, 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.240 if if Wilson could have got to the outside, he's 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.120 got enough speed to contain Kyler a little bit and 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.640 he might have got some help and they might even 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.840 not gotten first down. Hey, this is this is coming 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:54.080 from a non athletic, non speed guy right here. If 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:58.000 you you can have all the athletic ability in the world, 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.040 the Cowboys came up with this computer workout to gauge 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.120 a kind of athlete you're going to be signing. You 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.960 can have all the speed in the world, you can 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.240 have all the agility in the world. If you have 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.240 no recognition, it doesn't do you any good. If you 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.079 have zero recognition, you're always going to be a step 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:22.680 behind players like myself, players like Michael Downs. Recognition was 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.199 there so were we had a step on our opponent. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.240 If you don't recognize anything, then you're always going to 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.680 be chasing behind players you're in the entire game, not 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:39.280 just as an individual, but your team itself. No team recognition, 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.520 you will always be playing from behind. That's what we're 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.720 looking at, guys. And I thought along the lines of 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.160 the defense again. When we're talking about the defense, you 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.160 know early in the third quarter when the Cardinals got 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:58.480 the ball after the controversial Drake Kirkpatrick interception and Mickey, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.840 I'm sure it's ready to go off on we got holed, 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:05.720 We got hold that entire drive, that entire drive. But 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.240 the disappointing thing on that is the Cardinals come back 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.559 and rip off a twenty two yard run, a twenty 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.720 yard run and they, you know, they drive it down 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.200 the defense's throat for seventy nine yards at nine plays, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.280 and it wasn't like the defense was tired at that point. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.400 They had literally been on the field. Of course, we 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.320 had a halftime in there too. They had been on 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.960 the field for one play in the last thirteen minutes 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.600 of the ballgame, which was the eighty yard touchdown pass 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.679 to Christian kirk That was the one time that they 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.000 were on the field outside of a kneel down at 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.880 the end of the first half, since the ten minute 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.800 mark of the second quarter. And the Cardinals take over 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.199 with twelve minutes left in the third quarter, and they 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.240 just drove her right down the field on him. I mean, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.440 it was inexcusable and and this is my pet peeve 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:01.120 on the complaints afterwards about the turnovers, right I get it. 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.800 They turned the ball over four times, but just because 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.360 you turned the ball over doesn't mean the defense has 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.400 got to let them drive the field and score one 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.319 of those. Only one of those turnovers should have led 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.800 to a short drive touchdown, and it was dak a 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.440 Zeke's second fumble. They recovered at the Dallas twenty seven 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.360 yard line, so all they had to do was drive 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.240 twenty seven yards. The first turnover, they got the ball 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.640 at their own forty six. They drove fifty four yards. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:39.120 The first interception they drove seventy nine yards, and the 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:43.160 third interception they got the ball at the Arizona ten, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.360 and they drove ninety yards to get a well what 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.680 not less than ninety They ended up with a field goal. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:58.000 So you don't I understand, You know, the sudden change 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.520 and the adversity of turnover. You shorten your own possession, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.559 but the defense can maybe hold him to a field 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:10.040 goal like once in a while. So once again this 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:15.280 defense gives up two hundred and sixty was a two 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:20.760 sixty one yards rushing high goodness after a three h 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:26.280 seven two weeks ago. They just got no clue up 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:31.600 front what they're doing, and they're wasting snaps on players 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:35.240 who are doing nothing. You know that. They finally called 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.280 up We talked about it. They were going to call 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:43.440 up Justin Hamilton, and he got in. He played. He 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:49.400 played nineteen snaps. He had three tackles. Don Terry Poe 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:55.240 for the second game in a row, zeroed out, no 0:13:55.600 --> 0:14:01.200 solo tackles, no assistant tackles, no quarterback pressures. I could 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.839 go out and do that. I could get hurt, but 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.920 I could do that. So at some point they got 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.880 to start using maybe different guys. Maybe you got to 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.040 work some different offensive lineman in there. And it wasn't 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:22.200 like always on the offensive line getting physically beat. There 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.960 was no recognition on blitzes coming at him. It was like, Okay, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.640 they're gonna blitz I can see it. You know, somebody's 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.960 got to pick that guy up. Now. If you got 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.360 to leave a running back in all the time, then 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.920 you gotta do it. If you got to play two 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.480 tight ends and help those tackles out, you gotta do it. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.280 And then what's the worst thing that can happen? The 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.920 only guy with any experience on that offensive line, Zach Martin, 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.240 he gets knocked out of the game going he was 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.040 down in Zeke's knee, hits him in the head, and 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.520 now he's in concussion protocol. So now you've got four 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:03.560 guys on the offense of line that we're nowhere near 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:09.200 starting this year trying to block a team that ended 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.720 up with a twenty one point lead. Oh, they're just 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.520 gonna come at you. What have they got to lose? 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.680 And they got overwhelmed for Andy Dalton should have got 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:29.040 combat pain. Oh my goodness. Well and yeah, and you 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.120 listen to U. Troy Aikman was on the radio this 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.560 morning and he actually had he had a good comment 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.840 about the injuries and the offensive line, and it was 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.120 this way he said, when when he played, everyone talked 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.120 about for six days of the week, they talk about 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.320 the injuries on the offensive line and how are you 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.720 going to be able to patch it together? Who you 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.760 don't have enough players to play? But then one Sunday 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.760 comes or in this case, Monday night comes, Then how 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.920 come you can't do anything on offense? How can you? 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.720 How come you can't throw downfield? Well, it's because you've 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.040 got basically four rookies on your offensive line. Went once 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.760 Zack Martin went out, I mean, coming into this season, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:13.280 in Brandon Knight, Terrence Steele, Tyler Biadas, and Connor McGovern. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.960 They had a grand total of zero NFL starts coming 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.960 into this season. So the one veteran hand you had 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.000 in there was your left guard. Connor Williams is in 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.440 his third year in the league. Now, having said that, 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.760 there are a number of NFL teams going through the 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:33.360 exact same thing this season, and in the Cowboys owned 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.440 division in the NFC East, where the Eagles are down 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.880 six basically six starters on their offensive line, and just 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.160 like the Cowboys were last night. And so the good 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.320 thing for the Cowboys, of course, is that they play 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:53.120 in the NFC East. That's the saving grace. Still good place, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.880 still still in first place at two and four, and 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.800 they've got the Washington Football team and the Eagles the 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.920 next two weeks, and they need to take care of 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.639 business the next two weeks to get back to five hundred, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.600 and they could still be running away with the NFC's 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.119 Mickey and when and when we come back from break, 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:16.760 we have a choice cut SoundBite from Jerry Jones on 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:22.360 that exact topic. 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There's 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.760 four home games left Cowboys schedule, looking ahead Washington in 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:13.680 Philadelphia and then home against currently the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.320 the next home game. And Mickey, that brings a smile 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.000 to your face and a shake of your head. Yes, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:26.320 because those Dallas Cowboys are still in first place. It'll 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.000 be a battle of two first places. I think if 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:30.639 they could have won the game, they would have been 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:32.560 a game and a half ahead of the Eagles, in 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:36.239 two games ahead of the Giants in the Washington's I'm 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:41.440 going to call him the Washington's now shortens Washington football team. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:47.800 And and you know, the guys today on the fan 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:53.080 asked Jerry, you know, but you know what you're you're 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.359 still in first place. What do you think about that? 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.800 And I think Chris probably has that cut ready to 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.879 hear what Jerry had to say. I'm not in the 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:08.880 feel good mood frankly that we've been got manner from 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:14.440 heaven being in the East. These things have a way 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.000 of even and out as we go along. And certainly 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.520 then if s East is having his challenges right now, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.879 all of that is a way of not wanting to 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:30.160 talk about other teams when you're not playing any better 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:36.200 than we are. It's hard for me to basically look 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.119 to the end game, which is to win the East, 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:44.400 and get excited about the fact that we're better than anybody. 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.879 So we may be slow, but we're ahead of you, syndrome. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.480 We've got to get better to have the kind of 0:21:51.520 --> 0:22:00.720 season that makes sense for us. We might be slow, 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:06.160 but we're ahead of you syndrome. That would correct me up. 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.919 But he's right right, He didn't say we might be bad, 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.760 but we're not as bad as you guys are. Um, 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:16.320 it's no consolation, especially as he said, if we want 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.360 to have the kind of season that makes sense to us. 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:21.600 And you know he started that off and I'm not 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.680 sure if it caught this. But he goes but I'm 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:29.720 not in a feel good mood frankly, so yeah he was. 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:35.360 He was not happy and and no nobody should be happy, right, 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.280 uh you know, and and we can't so this game. 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:42.240 You know, last time they got run like this against Cleveland, 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.160 it was all about the effort, right, Well, no one's 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:49.320 talking about effort this time, right talking about turnovers? Well, 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.480 I talked, you told you about the turnovers. Yeah, you 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.359 short your possession, but you don't have to let him score. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.080 I mean it was just to me. And I'll go 0:22:58.160 --> 0:23:01.080 back to what I said when we opened the show. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.159 They better hope this is rock bottom, because if it 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:08.840 gets worse than this, it's gonna get ugly. You know, 0:23:08.880 --> 0:23:13.480 I think everyone's everyone has good intentions. We've seen that. 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.359 I'm sure you could just be inside Zeke's heads before 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:22.600 the game and probably understand that he's thinking, Okay, O, boy, 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:26.040 Dak is down. The load comes on me. I'm gonna 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:29.600 carry that load. I'm gonna be that guy to step up. 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.800 I need to have Andy Dalton's back. Let's go. Old 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:36.240 line just opened up those holes for me, and let's 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.719 take this conservative route. I will I will carry that 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.080 burden on my shoulders. And he just kind of pressed 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:46.159 himself into a couple of turnovers. And you know, when 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.800 you start seeing the same thing happened weekend week out, 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:53.800 even though your mindset is different, you think your mindsets different. 0:23:53.960 --> 0:23:55.920 I'm gonna go into this game and I am not 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:59.240 gonna do what I've been doing, and then you go 0:23:59.280 --> 0:24:02.280 out there and do it anyway, it's gotta be disheartening. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.439 It's almost like you start to doubt yourself. And I 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:08.480 was glad. I knew they wasn't gonna do it, but 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:11.399 I was just so glad that just for the future 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:13.679 that they kept him in the game, kept z you know, 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:15.879 in tuned in the game. They put Polo in a 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:20.240 little bit afterwards, but they kept Zeke in tuned to where, Okay, 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.480 you're still that guy. You know, you're still going to 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:26.600 be our horse for the rest of the season. But man, 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:28.480 it was just so tough to see him go through 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:32.600 that and wonder mentally, what's in his head, Like, damn, 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:35.199 can I just stop doing this? You know, that's a 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:37.600 tough thing. That's a tough thing as a professor player, 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.320 and as you saw when they were tackling him. They 0:24:41.320 --> 0:24:44.400 were going for the ball. It wasn't almost like they 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:46.920 were worried about getting him on the ground. They were 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:50.480 reaching for the ball, especially on the second one. The 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:55.320 first one kind of goofy play right. Pressure gets to Dalton, 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.520 he steps up at the last second, he throws a 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:02.080 little shovel past the z He catches it, turns and 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.080 he leaves the ball out here and he gets hit 0:25:04.160 --> 0:25:07.280 from behind. He's got to be up here. He knows 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:11.600