WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Friday, Friday 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.560 The following here is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:13.880 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.799 nick Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.119 the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:36.400 Everson Walls, and Nicky Spagnola. And there we go, Dallas 0:00:36.400 --> 0:01:05.720 Howboys stand stand. I love it. It's we're stampeding into 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.959 the final weekend of this NFL season and Mickey Spagnola 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.720 has just the cap on for the stampede fight song 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.680 from the sixties. You've got the cowboy or riding the 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.640 horse logo from the sixties on your cap, and I 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.319 thought it would be only appropriate to wear it today 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.759 when we played the song, right, Cowboy Joe, Cowboy Joe, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.800 that's right, it's on the logo that used to be 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.800 for the Dallas Cowboys before they change it. And if 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.560 anybody's been paying attention the coaching staff on the sideline 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.000 of late when they've been wearing the sweatshirts, they got 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.000 the huge cowboy Joe logo on the front of that sweatshirt. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.800 Cowboy Joe making a comeback. And these are hard to 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.200 find because the first time the pro shop they didn't 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.920 have one in my size, and then I went back 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.360 right before Christmas and they had one. So I said, okay, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.760 for old time's sake, I'm gonna buy it. I don't 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.080 know how much I'll wear it, but I'm buying one. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.760 So I have the logo, all right, So there you go. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.440 So it's Friday. We are set for Washington. The man 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.720 who wrote the book on the rivalry. Let's go Dallas 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:17.240 versus Washington. Here inside the SWBC podcast studio, and we 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.440 have an empty seat to my ride over here Everson Walls, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.200 and I just can't recall. He said there was some 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:24.840 point that he was not going to be able to 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.480 be here. Maybe we have reached that place. Had a 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.640 real confusing conversation on what he had to do and 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.280 when he had to do it. And he's involved in 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:38.000 one of these college showcase of it, yes, yes, like 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.800 the All Stars coaching. He's coaching, and we can't remember exactly. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.519 And he said something about, yeah, one of the practices, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.400 but I think I can call it. I thought he 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.840 was talking about next week, but maybe who knows. Maybe 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.840 that's why he's not here. So anyway, anyway, we'll try 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.079 to shuffle along and see how well we can do 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.160 getting you ready for a game that used to be 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.840 a rivalry. And I bet if you did a survey 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.440 in both locker rooms, you wouldn't find a dozen guys 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.880 that knew that this was a big rivalry back in 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.799 the days. Outside of the fact it is a division game, yes, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:16.880 but they don't understand the magnitude of the rivalry, going 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.040 back really to the Clint Long Ladies. The bitterness, right, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.840 the bitterness the George Allen coached watching those teams from 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:31.520 the seventies. Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm not and I'm gonna 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:36.320 put a sign up in the window we are Dallas 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.000 Cowboys dot Com. Why is that because we have tours 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.200 to pull back the curtain here. There's a window behind 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.320 Mickey and there are tours come through, and there's a 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.920 loudspeaker and they can listen to us as they walk by. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.240 And we just had a group that just passed by. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.920 And it doesn't matter how many times I tell them 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.160 that we are Dallas Cowboys dot Com. They come by 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.320 and say, and that's where one oh five three the 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.480 fan does their broadcasts. Well, they do it here too, 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.760 but they're just not here. Ever, except during the draft 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:14.400 exactly like once a year, once a year. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.719 this is what they do the broadcast. So I want 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:22.760 to see I'm going to put a sign up we are, well, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.360 you should we should Okay. Remember when you were in 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.920 high school they would say we are and whatever the name? Yes, right? Yeah, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.960 all right, um, so I know more important things. The 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.440 most important thing, yes, is DeMar Hamlin. And this is 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.120 already a victory weekend. As if you haven't caught the 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:48.320 news today, DeMar Hamlin has improved to the point that 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.080 he was able to FaceTime in to the Bills team 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:57.400 meeting today and the Bills players were able to stand 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.560 up and cheer for him as they made the connection 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.080 with him, and I think he flexed his muscles for 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:05.920 him and he was able to tell him I love you, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.040 And just an unbelievable moment for the Buffalo You know, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.600 if they were crying when this happened, they were balling 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.760 their eyes out today, man, guaranteed. I got I was 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.720 listening to the Sean McDermott press conference driving in and 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.360 I get goosebumps just just talking about it here. I mean, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.080 what a moment that is, and what a job done 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.560 by everyone involved in the medical staff, the training trainers 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.479 for the Bills, the Bengals, the staff on site there 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.320 in Cincinnati and at the hospital and so forth. I mean, 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.000 this is a man who has come back to life. 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.520 They brought him back from to life, and I mean, 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.480 it's just an unbelievable And the doctors were right on 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.400 yesterday when they did the press conference and they were 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.360 talking about whatever reaction in DeMar Ad and they said 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.000 one of the things he wrote on the on the 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.000 on the piece of paper where they were discussing with him. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.279 His first question was did we win? And their answer 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.360 was you won? You won in the game of life. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.680 And I was like, I'm gonna start crying right now, 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.640 just you know, thinking. But they're right. I mean, he won. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.040 Unbelievable job by those folks. Uh. They're the ones that 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.479 should get a standing ovation, right Uh. And I'm sure 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.120 at some point they will all be recognized, everybody that 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.320 had a hand uh in preserving his life. And the 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.240 fact that he was face timing with them today. And 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:45.320 I learned a new word because we know about um incubated, Well, 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:52.960 he was excubated when they take it out, that's what yeah, uh, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.719 which is also a great sign that means the lungs 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.320 are working on their own failing because yesterday they said 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.720 it was that like fifty percent, but they needed to 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.159 make sure that it was for sure that they didn't 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.120 want to have to do it again, like take it 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.080 out and have to put it back in. So uh yeah, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:15.400 just a minor miracle that he's able to uh talk 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.520 with his team at this point. And I guess maybe 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.240 at some point come home, right, Yeah, I mean, I'm 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.160 not sure what the timeline would be on that, but 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.560 I mean or how he gets home. Yeah, but Cincinnati 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:33.640 to Buffalo that's still a pretty long yeah drive. Yeah, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.000 I'm not sure how that works. But it's just, uh, 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:41.200 such a great story. And so he's he's my comeback 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:46.320 Player of the Year. Yeah, that's we're talking about Brian 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.760 Brian Brian Robinson. Everson nominated him as a comeback Player 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.400 of the Year. That's got to be the next year, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.160 that's right. Uh yeah. For now, well, they just the 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:01.360 nfl PA just named him the uh community they have 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:05.280 a national Community Player of the Week, and they named 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:10.280 him that this week for you know whatever. However, everybody 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:15.880 responded to his charity, yeah, which was yeah, pretty cool. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:22.800 So yeah, just a heartwarming story. Well as far as 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:27.280 the Cowboys are concerned taking on this Washington team, and 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.520 we'll get into that over the course of the next 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:36.319 forty minutes or so. Here. And I know that the 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.800 NFL in regards to the Hemlin situation and the Bills 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.559 game against the Bengals, they made the announcement yesterday that 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.080 the game will not be resumed. And there's a meeting 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.559 going on that just probably just started, Jerry said, was 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.160 supposed to start as soon as he got off the rate. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.600 Well it might an hour ago, he said, eleven eleven 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.199 hour time. As they are voting on what to do 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:05.079 about the playoff ramifications. Okay, so and you got the 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.079 list in front of you. So what they were voting 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:14.560 on yesterday or whatever day? Cedee Lamb spoke when something 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.679 asked him about the scenarios of the playoffs, and he 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:24.800 said them damn things stressed me out right. So I've 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.880 got the list here. I started reading all the different 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.240 things that they're supposed to vote on, and I thought 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.360 I was back in high school physics class. That when 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.760 I every day I left, I had a headache because 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.959 I didn't understand physics. I thought I was going to 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.320 be like a scientist, right. I love science. I used 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.439 to participate in science fairs and things like that and 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:50.920 you know, make a project or whatever. I started reading 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.800 this stuff and it was like, Okay, you're gonna have 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.800 to help me. It's way too complicated. And when I 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.959 got to the last one, just let me read this 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.800 to you. It says here, in what scenario would the 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:10.079 home team in a Bengals Ravens playoff game be determined 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:15.760 by a coin flip? The Baldimar Ravens defeat the Cincinnati 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.280 Bengals in Week eighteen, and the Ravens end up as 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:26.280 the number six seed in the playoffs. However that scenario 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.479 works out. In this scenario, the Bengals, as the AFC 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.080 North champions, would hold the number three seed and would 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.200 be scheduled to face the six seeded Ravens during Super 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:44.000 Wildcard Weekend. The Ravens will have beaten the Bengals twice, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.559 but will still have a lower winning percentage because the 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.760 Bengals will have only played sixteen games while the Ravens 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.040 have played seventeen games. To try to solve this inequity, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:01.439 a coin flip would determine which team has old field advantage. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.719 In the event the Ravens win the coin toss and 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.800 host the Bengals, Cincinnati would still have the number three 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.880 seed and the Ravens would have the number six seed. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.599 How do they come up with all this stuff? The 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:23.079 Ravens only end up as the number sixth seed in 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.000 the scenario. If the Chargers also beat the Broncos in 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.800 Week eighteen, the Charges would be the number five seeds. Okay, okay, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.120 And then they went through all of the possibilities. Yes, yeah, okay. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.960 By the way, it's official now. The NFL voters officially 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.479 voted in the last hour here in favor of modifying 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.640 the playoffs structure to account for the tiebreaker situation that 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.360 could arise depending on the outcome of Sunday's games. All right, 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:57.920 you want to briefly, I got, I got, give the highlights. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.120 According to NFL re search, and I think this is 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.480 what they were planning. It says the Bengals, if clinched 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:09.000 the AFC North Ravens cannot win the division. Okay, The 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.160 Bengals can no longer obtain the AFC's number one seed 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:17.160 and first round by the Chiefs clinched the number one 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.160 seed with a win at the Raiders or a Bill's 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.920 loss versus the Patriots. The Bills clinched the number one 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.079 seed with a win versus the Patriots and a Chief's 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.520 loss at the Raiders. Okay, that makes sense. The Bengals 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.240 will finish as the number two seed with the win 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.920 versus the Ravens and a Bill's loss to the Patriots. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.400 In any other scenario, the Bengals will earn the number 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:46.320 three seed. So did they vote on this is exactly 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.480 what they're going to do and go on winning percentages. Apparently, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:55.040 whatever the resolution was, they approved the resolution, So whatever 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.760 you're reading there has approved. Now briefly here in scenario 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.920 number one, just to Buffalo in Kansas City, if they 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.600 both win or both tie this weekend, a Buffalo versus 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.880 Kansas City championship game would be at a neutral site. Okay, 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.400 that's scenario number one. Scenario number two, if Buffalo in 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.280 Kansas City both lose, Baltimore wins or ties, a Buffalo 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:20.560 versus Kansas City championship game would be at a neutral site. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:25.280 That's okay, okay, anyway, that's it's a neutral site if 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:31.520 it's Buffalo versus Kansas City, and if so, the neutral 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.840 site will have to be at a stadium that if Baltimore, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.440 If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati, and if those two clubs are 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.839 scheduled to play a wild card game against one another, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.839 the site for that game would be determined by a 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.360 coin toss. People in Cincinnati are upset, I would imagine, yeah, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.599 so because they because winning percentage wise, they have a 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.520 better record than what Baltimore would have. Even if they 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.640 lose to Baltimore and Baltimore has the has a head 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.599 to head tiebreaker, well they're not tied because if you 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:07.000 go by winning percentage, Cincinnati has the higher winning percent 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.040 because they didn't play that one game. Because they didn't 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.280 play the one game. So the team that wins the 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.720 coin flip and they're going to find a neutral site, 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.240 do they get to pick the neutral site? No, the 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.840 coin flip is for home and a way I believe yeah, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.080 for Baltimore Cincinnati site for that game would be determined 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:31.880 by a coin tis Cincinnati wins um anyway, the Buffalo 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.560 Kansas City days the site because Buffalo beat Kansas City 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.200 and if they would have won this weekend against excuse me, 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.480 they would Buffo Buffalo beat Yeah, Buffalo beat Kansas ciety. 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.760 If they would have beat Cincinnati this weekend, they would 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.760 have had the number one seed in home field advantage. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.480 So they're saying that game, if it happens that way, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.280 would be in a neutral site. Correct, Ye, because that 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.160 the extra game they did not play. Who picks the 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.400 neutral site? The NFL? The NFL? Yeah, some of the 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.480 some of the scenario that's a long way between Buffalo. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.440 Well no, but the scenarios were kind of like Indianapolis 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.760 or like Detroit. It's got to be indoors, right, it's not. 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.440 It's not Detroit because Detroit is take is redoing their field. Okay, 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.840 so Indianapolis probably, But they're also talking about all they're 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.920 also talk being outdoor teams. That they might even select 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.760 an outdoor stadium just because their their teams are built 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.680 to play out Cleveland or whatever. Chicago. Yeah, so anyway, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.760 but someplace easy to get to regardless. That's what they're 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.160 doing with that, which is different than what we had 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:43.560 proposed earlier this week, which was just just go by anyway. Well, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.320 they had a better computer than we did. Well, the 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.880 one thing they could not do was they could not 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.240 resume the game. Yeah, it's It's that was impractical, right, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.360 If you're gonna delay playoffs and stuff like that, it 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.880 just wasn't gonna happen. All right, let's dive into doubt 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.080 versus Washington when we come back on mixed shots in 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.960 just a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.680 highest military award for valor in combat. More than forty 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.480 million individuals have served in the armed forces since the 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.040 Civil War. Fewer than four thousand have received the Medal 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.320 of Honor. 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In who are they starting a quarterback? 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:42.399 That's right? Yeah, we're not holding out one. I think 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.280 this is the third week he's been there. But strange, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.639 stranger things have happened. I can't think of one right 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:53.520 off the top of my buzz. Why you play the game, right, 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.560 that is why you play to beat Washington and not 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.200 say oh, we gotta have rest. You know what, you've 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.359 had ten days and and think about this, if they 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.920 had gotten if they had got the buye, they would 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.360 have another week of rest if you rested this week, right. Uh? 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.840 So I think that their attitude. The players have said it. 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:21.040 Mike McCarthy said it, Uh, we're going to Washington to 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.560 take care of our business. And Dak said, and you know, 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.680 we can't worry about what's happening up north. I don't 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.000 know what he meant up north, but I guess Philadelphia 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:35.320 and the Giants is up north then out west. But 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.520 I just think that's the way you got to play it. 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.920 I don't think you can sit there and say now 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.280 now we are have no interest in winning the game. Now. 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.199 The other question that's come up, Bill is so are 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.399 you going to be watching the scoreboard and if one 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:52.359 of the teams is, you know, if the Eagles are 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.040 blowing out the Giants, then do you pull your guys 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.879 out of the game? Uh? And um, you know Jerry 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:05.240 was talking about that and he said, we're not looking 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.240 at scores of other games. You just don't do that. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.919 And McCarthy at least said, well, we got a lot 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.480 of coaches at the game that can keep tract of 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.080 what's going on up there, and it will be interesting 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.399 to see if Jalen Hurts is ready to play. Now, 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.480 everything they're saying up there is that you know he's 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.439 looking better, but Sirianni always qualifies it and says, then 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.680 we'll see. We got to see what happens on Friday 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.760 in practice. If he's good to go, you would think 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.120 he's going to play, even from the standpoint of even 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.920 if they did not have any playoff ramifications from it, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.360 even if it were their fate was already sealed. Let's 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.240 say they win the game, all right, he did not 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.960 play against Dallas two weeks ago, he did not play 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.719 last week, Okay, he wouldn't play this week, and then 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:56.639 they would get the first round by next week and 0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.359 they will play again, right, and so it would be 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.720 five weeks in between the last time he played in 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.800 a game, which was against Chicago and whatever their first 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.400 playoff game is, and so I think he could use 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:15.520 just the work. So what they're doing kind of reflects 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.520 what the Cowboys are doing now with Layton vander esh 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.040 who they think is going to be ready for the playoffs. 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:26.520 But he's practicing this week, not not in any physical 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.400 but McCarthy said, we'll see how he does in seven 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:35.480 on seven On Saturday yesterday when they were in pads, 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:38.680 he was out there, but he didn't take part of 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.480 any team stuff. But they wanted to get him back 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.520 in rhythm, back you know, he's the play caller, and 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.040 start doing all those things. So maybe they're doing that 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.520 what hurts you know, they're showing that, okay in warmups 0:22:53.560 --> 0:22:58.159 he's throwing the ball and but what they can't, what 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:03.239 they can't uh simulate, is what happens when he gets hit. 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:06.360 You know, what happens when he falls on that shoulder, 0:23:07.600 --> 0:23:09.760 and so you know, you may be able to throw 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.639 the ball um, but again, do you really want to 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:21.040 risk that this week if you're kind of I don't know. 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:23.760 So that's going to be a big decision for them, 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:26.639 and that's why they head coach gets paid the big bucks. 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:32.399 Uh So, Anyway, there's the scenario for the Cowboys to 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:36.280 be looking at and pretty simple too. We could have 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.719 explained at the CD. You know, it would have been 0:23:38.800 --> 0:23:41.040 it would have been nice if the Raiders would have 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.800 taken care of some business last week and beating the 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.760 Niners when they had an opportunity, and then you'd really 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.719 be looking at it would be very simple, Yes, I mean, 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:53.760 and how to have I mean, to have the first 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:58.119 round by would be and at home field advantage would be. 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:00.720 They're still going to kick themselves in the for losing 0:24:00.800 --> 0:24:05.760 that season opener the way they did nineteen to three 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.680 to a Tampa Bay team. Are they eight and eight 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.320 right now? They're right at that. Yeah, we're gonna we're 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:14.320 gonna have a feeling. We're gonna be talking about him 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:18.720 a lot next week. Yes, yes, and maybe we'll find 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:20.720 that by virtue of that game they have to beat 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.240 Tampa Bay now on the road road to get to 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:27.240 it was home to open the season, and you didn't 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:31.399 score a touchdown after leading the NFL last year in 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.000 points scored and you were the number one offense. But 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:38.040 and as we kind of reflect back on this season, right, 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:42.399 what happened at the end of that game, Dak Prescott 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:47.320 getting hurt, as it turns out, set a tone for 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.800 this season as Cooper Rush was next man up, right, 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:53.760 and then what he did the next five games put 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:55.600 them in a position to be where they are now. 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:58.879 Without him, they may not be sitting here. We might 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:01.320 not be we'd be in we'd be sitting there, were 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:05.280 doing Washington right podcast right now, which is what about 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.800 next year? Or are they'd be you know, vying for 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:11.679 the number seven seed or something like that could very 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:14.639 well be he won four games. If they don't win 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:18.720 those four games, you know they're they're in jeopardy of 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:20.960 being a wildcard team and you know, having to go 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:27.000 down to the last game with the Giants probably to see, uh, 0:25:27.280 --> 0:25:29.520 you know who gets in. They would be in that 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:33.639 three team scenario of Green Bay, Detroit, and Seattle that 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:36.719 they're all in right now. Well, and you could compare 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.440 it to Washington. Washington started the season one and four. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:42.760 Cowboys were looking at one and four basically is who 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.040 were they playing the next week? Cincinnati? Everybody had them 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:49.160 losing that day. Everybody had they were going at the Giants. 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:52.040 And then the Giants turned out to be a playoff team, right, Okay, 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:55.480 they won that game, and then two weeks after that 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:58.680 they were having to play the defending Super Bowl champions. Well, 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:01.600 and in between it was a game against Washington a win, 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:05.760