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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a victory Monday inside
Speaker 1: the Esto Studios where Mickey Spagnola resides at Ford Center
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco. And this is Mick Shots
Speaker 1: Everson Walls in his own Uh, let's say, what kind
Speaker 1: of gear do you have on today? Every cowboy there
Speaker 1: you go. That's Ricky has got his Freebee Cowboys gear on.
Speaker 1: I have one of those as well that Mickey gave
Speaker 1: to me a few years ago. And I behind me,
Speaker 1: I've got the Christmas tree still lit because it is
Speaker 1: a victory Monday. So I just liked so we liked
Speaker 1: the power that was. I thought that was, oh you
Speaker 1: flowers built. I thought those were oh you flowers. Well
Speaker 1: they are speaking of them. They arrived tomorrow for the
Speaker 1: good Year. About the bow Classic on a Wednesday, want
Speaker 1: a great week to be alive and the Cowboys staying
Speaker 1: alive in the NFCS. Thank you very much you Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers and former Baylor coach Matt Rule Mickey victory Monday
Speaker 1: three right, try three in a row. We haven't had
Speaker 1: many of these staying alive. It sounds like it should
Speaker 1: be a hit song for a movie, right and uh,
Speaker 1: and it's a December to it's a december to remember,
Speaker 1: as far as Jerry Jones's concerned. So fire the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What the Cowboys might be believe it or not? The
Speaker 1: hottest team in football right now? Can you believe that
Speaker 1: whether we won, uh for three in a row? Right,
Speaker 1: three in a rows of Buffalo does tonight four out
Speaker 1: of six? Yes, I think Buffalo's got the street guard.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, I mean, let's let's just think about that.
Speaker 1: All the teams that were highly talented they were at
Speaker 1: mid season, all the teams just even two weeks ago. Oh,
Speaker 1: there are a lot for the playoffs. And these are
Speaker 1: the guys we have to watch out for. The Browns
Speaker 1: this and and you got all these teams and everybody's
Speaker 1: looking at Pittsburgh Steelers. You know they're gonna be the
Speaker 1: team to be all of a sudden, they're all struggling.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys right now, except for the Casey Chiefs
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. If I'm not listening, even the Bears. I
Speaker 1: think we were like as far as consistency the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, we're the top four teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And how about that end considering too, by the way,
Speaker 1: meaning ten. How about how about the other thing? When
Speaker 1: people look at the teams the Cowboys have played did
Speaker 1: in this three game winning streak, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: how about this? This bodes very well for Sunday Night
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia because two weeks ago, the Cowboys beat the Bengals.
Speaker 1: What the Bengals do? The following week they knocked off
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh They beat not they not only one? They
Speaker 1: won over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay, last week, what did
Speaker 1: Cowboys do? They beat the Niners? What did the Niners
Speaker 1: do on Saturday? They came back and beat the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 1: And now the Cowboys beat the Eagles. And what do
Speaker 1: they do next Sunday Night? They're gonna beat They're gonna
Speaker 1: beat the Washington team, and they're gonna put us in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Right now, the Cowboys have to do their part.
Speaker 1: We've taken care of that part of it. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: will have to do their part and beat the New
Speaker 1: York Football Giants. Did Cincinnati again and yesterday Cincinnati, what
Speaker 1: did they do? Yester? They were right, yes, yesterday the
Speaker 1: playing they're playing, they played the best team so far. Right,
Speaker 1: And how about It's like it's like the you know,
Speaker 1: ever since you talk about the Cowboys being one of
Speaker 1: the hotter teams in the league, two other hot teams
Speaker 1: in the league, all of a sudden are the Bengals
Speaker 1: and the New York Jets. Come on the company that
Speaker 1: this is this is a goofy goofy year. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the best you can say about it. All. They
Speaker 1: kept talking about it, and they were even this more
Speaker 1: on it. Everyone's joking all the NFC East, they're so bad,
Speaker 1: all these pundits, they're becoming so poetic on how they
Speaker 1: put down the Cowboys and the NFC East. Everyone's trying
Speaker 1: to be so dog gone articulate all of a sudden
Speaker 1: when it comes to how they can down the entire division.
Speaker 1: And then when you look up, if you start talking
Speaker 1: about the power index the last month of this season,
Speaker 1: just the power index, like you just talked about Bill
Speaker 1: teams that are beaten teams and lost to other teams
Speaker 1: and upset other teams. The Cowboys power index is right
Speaker 1: at the top. As a matter of fact, we are
Speaker 1: the NFC East has how can I put it? They
Speaker 1: have affected the playoff picture more than any other division
Speaker 1: I think in the NFL. And with the Cowboys having
Speaker 1: that windstreak going and affecting their own destiny, Man, you
Speaker 1: can just shut up about the NFC East. You can say,
Speaker 1: you can say what you want. In the first part
Speaker 1: of the season, especially this last month, the NFC East,
Speaker 1: especially Dallas Cowboys, are relevant. They are relevant and so
Speaker 1: relevant that they got flexed into a prime time Sunday
Speaker 1: night game. Oh boy, bangs, I'm talking about. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. So if you had those we talked
Speaker 1: about that changing your airline plans, your flight plans. Someone
Speaker 1: right now is scrambling to change all of their flight
Speaker 1: plans leaving New York City and coming back home. And
Speaker 1: so you know the real reason that Washington in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: got flexed to Sunday night of the Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game last night and it was a blowout.
Speaker 1: The Packers are winning big over the Titans and Al Michaels.
Speaker 1: It was like every time I tuned my ear to
Speaker 1: what he was talking about, he was coming back. Let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to talking about the NFCS. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about how the Cowboys are doing so so there. Take yeah,
Speaker 1: take that, everybody there who are nobody cares about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys anymore? Yes, thank you. The first thing you talked
Speaker 1: about when you started to talk about yesterday's game takeaways,
Speaker 1: how about the takeaways? It's now ten to one over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, a plus nine. When after those
Speaker 1: first what thirteen games or twelve games, they were minus thirteen.
Speaker 1: They were sitting there after nine excuse me, they were
Speaker 1: two and seven and they were minus thirteen in the
Speaker 1: takeaway turnover differential. And then suddenly these last three weeks
Speaker 1: they're plus nine and it just makes such a huge difference.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about it for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: They get two more or picks. How about that, Everson
Speaker 1: Walls two picks and a fumble recovery. Somebody go find
Speaker 1: me and Anthony Brown jersey I'm wearing it all. Next
Speaker 1: number thirty, by the way, in case you need to know, yes,
Speaker 1: number three. I am all on this guy, But then
Speaker 1: just let you know, guys, for real, how the pace
Speaker 1: of the game. If you determine the pace of the game,
Speaker 1: then these kind of fortunate opportunities come to you. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're offensively, you're gonna be always under the gun.
Speaker 1: You can't run the ball, you're turning it over all
Speaker 1: the time. You're putting your defense in bad situations to
Speaker 1: whether it backs up against the wall with the offense,
Speaker 1: the opposing offense in position to score. If you can't
Speaker 1: stop the run consistently enough, then you don't have a
Speaker 1: chance to make those turnovers. You can't create your own turnovers.
Speaker 1: If your special team just fumbling the ball, they're not turning,
Speaker 1: they're not contributing, they're not putting you in a positive position.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going up down the road. I've always gone
Speaker 1: down guys. It takes every fast of the game for
Speaker 1: this team. It's good for every team, but especially for
Speaker 1: this team who really doesn't control things from one unit
Speaker 1: to another. All three units have to come together to
Speaker 1: help each other. Don't put a strain on your offense
Speaker 1: special teams offense, don't put a strain on your defense
Speaker 1: by giving it up and putting us in a bad position. Defense,
Speaker 1: try and stop somebody on third down every once in
Speaker 1: a while. Stop the running game from being so prevalent
Speaker 1: to where your offense is under pressure when they come
Speaker 1: into the game. We gotta score now. We gotta score
Speaker 1: now because we haven't stopped anybody. None of that stuff
Speaker 1: is happening right now, guys. Offensively, we're moving the ball.
Speaker 1: Time of possession is amazing. We've controlled that. Defensively, we've
Speaker 1: given up some drives, we've given up some big plays. Overall,
Speaker 1: we have made the opposing offense work for every yard
Speaker 1: they've gotten. We've gotten each other bend but don't break defense.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I was all a part of that when
Speaker 1: I was with the Cowboys. You had to make the
Speaker 1: turnovers in order to survive. This is what our defense
Speaker 1: is realizing that they have to do. And offensively, we're
Speaker 1: feeding off of each other. Defense, feeding off the offensive offense,
Speaker 1: feeding off the defense. That's the way you play ball. Guys.
Speaker 1: We don't have the team offensively or defensively that can
Speaker 1: counter a bunch of mistakes by the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. We just don't have it. And I think
Speaker 1: we finally realized that, and we're coaching in that manner.
Speaker 1: I like the way offensively, Keller Moore was making sure
Speaker 1: that first down was huge for us. Did you see
Speaker 1: that facts He made sure that on first down we
Speaker 1: were able to work our way up to a short
Speaker 1: and manageable third down position. It happened the entire game.
Speaker 1: That's how we control that pace. I love it that
Speaker 1: can wait for us throughout. And then you also see,
Speaker 1: when you get a lead, the other team's got to
Speaker 1: take some chances and they start throwing the ball, and
Speaker 1: that's when you have an opportunity to get some turnovers,
Speaker 1: you get some picks. You forced them out of what
Speaker 1: they wanted to do. I'm not sure that they needed
Speaker 1: to do it as quickly as they did. Right they
Speaker 1: ran the ball right down the Cowboys throat those first
Speaker 1: two possessions, got a fourteen to three lead. Then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Cowboys were in the lead and
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson said, oh no, we're gonna just throw the
Speaker 1: ball with Jalen Hurts, and I thought that was a
Speaker 1: huge mistake. They got away from their read option run
Speaker 1: plays that had been working. But again, you get the lead,
Speaker 1: you caused people to do something different. You get the lead,
Speaker 1: and suddenly at the end of the game, you can
Speaker 1: run the football because they're taking chances, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, those holes that you weren't opening earlier in
Speaker 1: the game suddenly Zekiel Elliott's looking like, whoa, look at there,
Speaker 1: there's no one in front of me. I don't have
Speaker 1: to knock somebody over to get four yards. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: And the offensive line didn't get better, right, but they
Speaker 1: teams have to start taking chances when they get behind,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, all this stuff started to come together,
Speaker 1: you know, And you know, I was just gonna sit
Speaker 1: there and say, yeah, you know. And the Cowboys got
Speaker 1: their three wins and they beat three backup quarterbacks. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Cowboys world, right. They've been playing with
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback since the fifth game. The third quarter
Speaker 1: of the fifth game of the season, they've been playing
Speaker 1: with backup offensive linemen, and did so in the middle
Speaker 1: of the game when the one guy that's been the
Speaker 1: standard bearer on that offensive line, Connor Williams, has to
Speaker 1: go to the locker room with a knee injury or
Speaker 1: a knee issue, and they got to shuffle things up
Speaker 1: front again. They did it in the secondary. When they
Speaker 1: lost Darren Thompson to the concussion protocol, they had to
Speaker 1: move Jordan Lewis the safety, and they moved Anthony Brown, oh,
Speaker 1: by the way into the slot where he was playing
Speaker 1: when he picked off the pass. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear about all these other teams injuries because this
Speaker 1: team has been putting up with this since the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season and now they're sitting there at six
Speaker 1: and nine. Went a chance to go to seven and
Speaker 1: nine and win the division. You know. The other thing,
Speaker 1: and Mickey, you're talking about the Eagles getting away from
Speaker 1: their what was working for them on that first drive
Speaker 1: of the game, running the football with his own reads.
Speaker 1: You know. In their second possession, of course, on the
Speaker 1: first play they hit the bomb to de Sean Jacks.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, and got the fourteen to three lead. But
Speaker 1: really credit the Cowboys they as far as the run
Speaker 1: defense is concerned. The next possession for Philadelphia, they were
Speaker 1: three and out and they were all run plays. It
Speaker 1: was Sanders for seven. Neville Gallimore stopped a run play
Speaker 1: on second and three for a one yard loss to
Speaker 1: He had a third and four and on the third
Speaker 1: and four they ran it with Sanders again, got stopped
Speaker 1: for two yards and had to punt. They came back
Speaker 1: in the next possession and it was a mix of
Speaker 1: the run. They started with a Hurts run, a Sanders run,
Speaker 1: a Hurts run, and then they threw it and then
Speaker 1: Hurts ran it again. Anyway that the drive ended without
Speaker 1: points being scored, okay. And then the Cowboys come back
Speaker 1: and they made enough place started the second half, which
Speaker 1: was huge. I mean McCarthy talks about the double water
Speaker 1: burger with Cheese scoring the touchdown at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half and then scoring a touchdown on the
Speaker 1: first possession of the second half within the other part
Speaker 1: of that. So the Cowboys went from being down seventeen
Speaker 1: thirteen to being up twenty seven and seventeen. Then the
Speaker 1: defense comes out and the Eagles run the ball with
Speaker 1: Sanders for six yards and then Sean Lee makes a tackle.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown sets the edge on that play for no gain,
Speaker 1: creating a third and four and an incomplete pass ball
Speaker 1: back in the hands of the All Boys, which was
Speaker 1: another scoring drive, a field goal, and you're up thirty
Speaker 1: to seventeen. And it's basically Katie bar the door, which
Speaker 1: is remarkable since they ended up giving one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty one yards rushing. That's two games in a row
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards rushing. But as someone pointed
Speaker 1: out to me, I think last week, well that was
Speaker 1: an improvement over the two hundred and some yards they
Speaker 1: gave up the week before. So I was just gonna say,
Speaker 1: as Fays, I'm sorry, I'm not only minting one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards rushing at all. To me, that is
Speaker 1: an improvement. And they were actually looking decent except for
Speaker 1: the first drive. They were giving up some plays. But
Speaker 1: I'd say after that second quarter, the rush situation for Philly,
Speaker 1: even though as Bill pointed out, they still tried to
Speaker 1: run the ball, not only did we stop to run
Speaker 1: with that D line, I thought that they made things
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable for Hurts anytime he dropped that on third
Speaker 1: down in third down situations. That was something that I
Speaker 1: saw was a determining factor in their defensive third down success.
Speaker 1: The fact that we were able to come Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: was playing like a madman. Gallimore did just what we
Speaker 1: talked about before last week, Bill coming in making plays
Speaker 1: in the middle. The linebackers themselves were filling holes well
Speaker 1: enough to where they were causing penalties against that filling
Speaker 1: offensive line because they were able to fill those holes
Speaker 1: that our defensive line was creating for our linebackers. I
Speaker 1: thought they were very coordinated on third down. Guys. It
Speaker 1: was our first, best to me best third down play
Speaker 1: all year long. And Bill, when we come back from break,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that Jalen Hurts woke up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night and saw ninety four on top
Speaker 1: of them. All right, that guarantee would we come back
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Speaker 1: mortgage studio, Everson, was that you that was found something
Speaker 1: humorous there coming out of that little b uh no
Speaker 1: no nothing humans. But I tell you what I was looking.
Speaker 1: I picked the click oh yeah, okay, okay, okay, wrote
Speaker 1: them down. I wanted to go next. No you no,
Speaker 1: you come on, bro, I wrote them down, you dog,
Speaker 1: all right next to your meek, meager little picks here,
Speaker 1: I must say. Everson ever said, hold on your second.
Speaker 1: I want to set it up for you. So I
Speaker 1: want to set it up. That's where I was gonna
Speaker 1: go too. Anyway here, Okay, did both of you have
Speaker 1: a great Christmas weekend? Yes? Yes, yes, I had a
Speaker 1: great Christmas. Yes, very very safe, very safe, was able
Speaker 1: to see all my loved ones from a farm. That's correct.
Speaker 1: Did both of you see the lamb this weekend? Yes?
Speaker 1: I saw ceedee lamb this weekend. You did see d
Speaker 1: lamb and that lady, just do. I picked the click
Speaker 1: which was a wonderful pick to click by Everson Walls
Speaker 1: and shown up on Sunday. We did see the lamb
Speaker 1: on the final touchdown of the day, and not only that,
Speaker 1: but also the first touchdown of the second half. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much? Boy? Did he did he embarrass that?
Speaker 1: I'm learning my notes? I see. First of all, all
Speaker 1: of us were very I'm sorry. We were weak and
Speaker 1: not We just didn't believe. We didn't believe, We had
Speaker 1: no faith. We know, and Spats pointed it out. Anytime
Speaker 1: the Cowboys win, they score over thirty points. Right, that's
Speaker 1: been over the last two years, correct, Spacts. They are
Speaker 1: now fourteen wins and fourteen games scoring at least thirty points.
Speaker 1: What did we do, guys? What was our prediction for
Speaker 1: the score? I started off and you guys just fall
Speaker 1: along like some little blind sheep. Twenty four points. All
Speaker 1: three of us guys just twenty four points. Where is
Speaker 1: the faith? Especially you, Bill Spags. We expect that from him,
Speaker 1: but you and I should have known better. I'm so
Speaker 1: disappointed in myself. Twenty four seventeen, you got twenty four
Speaker 1: twenty three Spags, So that means Spags didn't really care.
Speaker 1: That was just you know, he rolled that score in.
Speaker 1: You know, Bill, would you have But as we look
Speaker 1: at our picks to click, we did pretty good. We
Speaker 1: did pretty good, Spags said d Larrence, which you know
Speaker 1: he was. You know, if it wasn't for Reddy Gregory, yeah,
Speaker 1: d Larrence would have been the great picked the click,
Speaker 1: but Reddy Greggan was going crazy. Sean Lee was benefiting
Speaker 1: off of what the guys were doing up front. Good pick, Bill,
Speaker 1: but hey, Alamore was was was making it easy for
Speaker 1: he and and Jaymon Smith. You know that I was
Speaker 1: looking at the day job. It was Cede Lamb. We
Speaker 1: missed the fact. My note said, uh, the Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: passed the week before Andy Dalton through that dime. I
Speaker 1: told you how what a dime that was. I don't
Speaker 1: know why we didn't talk about that. The wide receivers,
Speaker 1: I said, must win the one on one battles. Yeah, ceedee,
Speaker 1: lamb one his But forget him. We're looking at Coop
Speaker 1: had a great day yesterday. We're looking at Michael Gallop,
Speaker 1: who had another great day yesterday. We should have seen
Speaker 1: it coming, man, We should have had We should have
Speaker 1: picked forty points, all three of us. Basically, here's here's
Speaker 1: what happened. I didn't trust the offensive line, and I
Speaker 1: still worry about them. And that's why I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: if they can score twenty four points, they're doing well.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they it was a mismatch in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And if the offensive line could just have been okay,
Speaker 1: which they were, to give Dalton a chance to throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, you can see what this
Speaker 1: guy still has all this stuff, Andy Dalton. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: put three hundred and seventy seven yards on the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: including three touchdown passed on right and he got a
Speaker 1: little too aggressive when he didn't need to be aggressive
Speaker 1: on that one pass. But other than that, he finished
Speaker 1: with a one thirty four point seven quarterback rating, and
Speaker 1: the the rookie Flash ended up with a seventy point
Speaker 1: seven quarterback rating. There you go. I would like to
Speaker 1: say one thing about my pick to click Sean Lee. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll say two things. Number one, how about we play
Speaker 1: him a little bit more. He got thirty snaps in
Speaker 1: the game, and but the key thing that he did
Speaker 1: was after falling behind team to three. They showed it
Speaker 1: on television. He called the defense together and after he
Speaker 1: chewed their butts out, the defense only scored only gave
Speaker 1: up three points the rest of the game. So I
Speaker 1: credit that to the butt chewing on the sideline from
Speaker 1: Sean Lee. How's that? No? Absolutely absolutely stick to click.
Speaker 1: But I'll give it to you. That's a stretch for
Speaker 1: a pick to click. But I'll pick we all should
Speaker 1: have won the game. The pick we all should have
Speaker 1: made was Randy Gregory. Right. He had a sack and
Speaker 1: a half, six tackles, two quarterback hits, one pass defense,
Speaker 1: and forced three fumbles only one of which the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did recover. But he was all over the place and
Speaker 1: when he wasn't recording a number, he was in Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurt's face. He was chasing him out of the pocket. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was a couple I thought he should have got
Speaker 1: called from grounding. I think I think he caused at
Speaker 1: least two false starts. Oh absolutely, Oh that guy. That
Speaker 1: guy got the jitters over there on that side of
Speaker 1: the field. And one of them was a huge one.
Speaker 1: I mean if it was Gregory that caused it, the
Speaker 1: one that uh on the when they were in the
Speaker 1: on the plus side of the fifty and it turned yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and um so that was huge. Um. Well, the other
Speaker 1: guy is Michael Gallup. I mean the way Gallup played
Speaker 1: in that first half, I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: almost like a three point shooter in basketball where you
Speaker 1: just want to keep seeing the guy because he is
Speaker 1: hot right now. I mean, and and Dalton kept feeding
Speaker 1: Gallop and it was one after another. Uh and that
Speaker 1: was it was so huge. Uh the way that half
Speaker 1: ended uh to Cowboys on offense, I mean it was
Speaker 1: like they were in the running shoot where where they
Speaker 1: were shooting and scoring. Uh and uh. And Gallup was
Speaker 1: the guy during I mean he showed during that second
Speaker 1: quarter exactly why we've all been talking about Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: being a number one receiver in this league. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: I want all the people out there and get their
Speaker 1: hands up in the air. They wanted to trade him
Speaker 1: because Cowboys had too many wide receivers. Right, let's trade
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. And I spoke of it last week, and
Speaker 1: once again I speak of it. Molly Cooper just a
Speaker 1: quiet assassin, just as consistent as ever. Did he get
Speaker 1: his thousand yards yesterday? Yes, he got his thousand yards yesterday.
Speaker 1: And just think about this, guys, You've gone through four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and this guy is able to get a thousand yards.
Speaker 1: He did exactly what he was brought here to do.
Speaker 1: No matter what it was going on around him, he
Speaker 1: stayed steady and consistent in what he had to do.
Speaker 1: And when it's all said and done, to me, he's
Speaker 1: the MVP of this team. I really believe that. And
Speaker 1: not only that, he ended up with a single season
Speaker 1: high eighties. He has eighty six catches now with one
Speaker 1: game to go, and he's a thousand yards. He's got
Speaker 1: eleven hundred yards now receiving. So those guys have done
Speaker 1: a heck of a job. You know. Everybody kind of
Speaker 1: laughed when they said, well he can have three one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, right, Well, they've got one for sure,
Speaker 1: and Lamb has eight hundred and ninety two at this point,
Speaker 1: gallops seven ninety four, so in all of them with
Speaker 1: at least fifty five catches. So yeah, these three guys certainly,
Speaker 1: but see that. I mean, look, they ended up with
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirteen yards total offense. If you remember,
Speaker 1: before Dak got hurt, the three games prior to that
Speaker 1: Giants game, they had totaled five hundred yards total offense
Speaker 1: in three games in a row. This is the first
Speaker 1: one since then. So it shows you what this offense
Speaker 1: can do. Zeke with another with his second hundred yard
Speaker 1: rushing performance, you can see what this offense can do
Speaker 1: if the offensive wine will cooperate and not turn the
Speaker 1: ball over. Yeah, he I think he needs seventy seventy
Speaker 1: yards maybe to hit a thousand. That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: And so guys, let's just go back to last year
Speaker 1: when everyone was questioning a Marii Cooper's heart. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy was having a great year and
Speaker 1: he had a little little little down down moment there
Speaker 1: and everyone was talking about what's wrong with him? Why
Speaker 1: isn't he playing better? After the Patriots game, everyone was
Speaker 1: on him like he doesn't deserve the status is our
Speaker 1: number one receiver and he never said anything. He has
Speaker 1: never said anything. He's never tried to take up for himself.
Speaker 1: He lets his talking happened on the field, and that's
Speaker 1: just something that, as you look back on, is never appreciated.
Speaker 1: Until you know, people started contemplating what the season was
Speaker 1: all about him, Well, his career was all about it.
Speaker 1: I've got to give him some love. Man. I've been
Speaker 1: kind of down on him myself as far as his
Speaker 1: lack of aggressiveness, and I want him to speak up
Speaker 1: for himself, but this guy refuses to do that, and
Speaker 1: he just does all his talking on the field. I
Speaker 1: really do admire the guy. I thought the neatest thing
Speaker 1: he said after the game, when somebody asked him about
Speaker 1: Gallup's big performance, he said, I just felt it. I
Speaker 1: felt that in the air. I just knew that this
Speaker 1: was the game he was going to dominate. I actually
Speaker 1: wanted him to do a lot more because I just
Speaker 1: think that's what I felt. The guy was holding them
Speaker 1: every play the beginning of the game, and I just
Speaker 1: know Michael and so yeah, I was glad to see
Speaker 1: him go out there and do his think. So he
Speaker 1: would rather talk about everybody else but himself, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the guy. He's kind of like that quiet assassin.
Speaker 1: You don't hear much from him, you don't see much
Speaker 1: from him all the time, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he turns up with leven hundred yards receiving eighty
Speaker 1: six receptions with one game to go. Uh, he's just
Speaker 1: did you spend one? Did you see him break that
Speaker 1: guy's ankle? Him? The guy's legs ended up being prexeled.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's just you know, and he no
Speaker 1: one's gonna mention that. No one's gonna say anything about that,
Speaker 1: just because of just how humble he is. But to me,
Speaker 1: if that was any other wide receiver, if it was
Speaker 1: Tieweik Hill, if it was DeVante Adams, any of those guys,
Speaker 1: if they would have broken down a dB at the
Speaker 1: line of Scrimma is just like that, it would have
Speaker 1: been a top ten. That was the hell of a play.
Speaker 1: And don't you wish the Cowboys would have started taking games?
Speaker 1: And back six weeks ago everyone was talking about let's
Speaker 1: let's go with Garrett Gilbert instead of Andy Dalton. Oh man, bag,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't get me started, don't get don't work,
Speaker 1: don't don't gass him up, Bill, Please don't gas him up.
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there thinking, how many people back in
Speaker 1: mid November we're saying, Oh, they're still they're still talking
Speaker 1: about it. They're still talking about it. Oh no, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be drafting seventeenth. You know what, And this may
Speaker 1: be the most unreasonable draft there's been. Right other than
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and a linebacker from Penn State start telling
Speaker 1: me who the top players are. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: these teams don't even know because they can't scout these
Speaker 1: guys the way they're normally used to scouting them. They
Speaker 1: can't meet with them the way they're normally used to
Speaker 1: meeting with them, and who knows if there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a Senior Bowl or even a combine, or if it's
Speaker 1: virtual with nobody's there to talk personally with people. I
Speaker 1: just think and think about the junior outs. If you
Speaker 1: weren't on these guys as sophomores and had all these scouting,
Speaker 1: and these guys became juniors and now you're they're coming
Speaker 1: out and you've had no contact with them whatsoever, this
Speaker 1: makes me the most unreasonable draft there's ever been. So
Speaker 1: why you want to put the premium on a top
Speaker 1: ten pick well. And also now it depends on the position.
Speaker 1: Of course, we can see those that make the catches
Speaker 1: and that make the runs and the passes, but it's
Speaker 1: hard when you're talking about a guy making the tackles.
Speaker 1: So when you're talking about a guy trying to shut
Speaker 1: somebody down one on one, and when you're a D lineman,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you're you're in that a
Speaker 1: gap and you're that D lineman that's damn good at
Speaker 1: what he does. But it just really doesn't come out
Speaker 1: as much, like you said, when you don't get to
Speaker 1: study them, when you don't get to talk to them,
Speaker 1: and you don't get to see them show how they
Speaker 1: play well against the top seniors in the country. That's
Speaker 1: tough deal. Tough deal for guys coming out. And I'll
Speaker 1: throw a couple of these are two very high quality
Speaker 1: people and they're local and but they were the second
Speaker 1: and third pick of the Okay, Luke jokel out of
Speaker 1: Arlington High School and Texas A and M was the
Speaker 1: second pick of the draft and offensive tackle. I met
Speaker 1: him when he was in high school at Arlington High School.
Speaker 1: I said, this guy's gonna be a first round draft pick.
Speaker 1: It was this. I mean, you can tell as he
Speaker 1: was when he was a senior in high school, and
Speaker 1: sure enough he was a second pick in the draft. Now,
Speaker 1: he probably had issues whatever in his career, but you know,
Speaker 1: he did not have a great NFL career. He's not
Speaker 1: in the league now. Solomon Thomas from Coppelle High School
Speaker 1: in Stanford. I mean, you cannot. You cannot have a
Speaker 1: finer human being or a prospect than Solomon Thomas. And
Speaker 1: he still might become a Pro Bowl type player in
Speaker 1: his career, but here in the first three or four
Speaker 1: years of his career, he hasn't for whatever reason, hasn't
Speaker 1: been He's been a rotational defensive lineman for them. My
Speaker 1: point on all that is, you don't you can have
Speaker 1: the second or third pick in the draft and you've
Speaker 1: got the most quality human being and prospect that your
Speaker 1: scouts could ever come up with, and you don't know
Speaker 1: for sure that they are going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: all pro type players at all. And so the point being,
Speaker 1: play the games, just play the season out, do things
Speaker 1: the right way, and those players a Tyring Smith will
Speaker 1: fall to you at number nine or whatever wherever he
Speaker 1: was drafted J. J. Watt was a tenth pick in
Speaker 1: the draft or whatever. CD lamb Okay is a great
Speaker 1: example where the Cowboys got him last year. There are
Speaker 1: players available for you anyway. How about how about one
Speaker 1: more Emmett Smith at seventeen? There you go. How about
Speaker 1: Ever Walls at nowhere and z. How about two that
Speaker 1: are going in round and they still wouldn't have picked me?
Speaker 1: And ever Everson should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: And there's two more that weren't drafted that I want
Speaker 1: to draw fame next year where Harrison Drew Pearson. All right,
Speaker 1: that's the pick weren't Yeah, all right, we continue with
Speaker 1: more mix shots, and I gotta hear this about Randy
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Speaker 1: you here. How about DeMarcus Ware with the eleventh pick?
Speaker 1: How about Zack Martin with the sixteenth pick? How about
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Speaker 1: Prescott one h thirty fifth pick. That's the one. All right,
Speaker 1: What do you guys think of Jalen Hurts or cowboys
Speaker 1: shaking in their boots that Jalen Hurts might be the
Speaker 1: Eagles quarterback going forward. I'll allow him being a rookie.
Speaker 1: I understand the things he does, but I didn't understand
Speaker 1: some of the things he did to create the mistakes
Speaker 1: that really cost them the game. You got to be
Speaker 1: able to throw passes more accurately when you're throwing the
Speaker 1: seventeen yard out, when you're throw own the ball over
Speaker 1: the middle. Look, the easiest pass for rookie to throw
Speaker 1: is a deep pass because generally it's either it's either
Speaker 1: a big play. It might be incomplete and no harm,
Speaker 1: no file, And if it gets intercepted, yeah, our pass
Speaker 1: interference as we saw on the one, and if it
Speaker 1: gets intercepted, it's like a punt. So to me, that's
Speaker 1: the the money throws. He still got to work on,
Speaker 1: and he's still got to be able to stand in
Speaker 1: the pocket and not run around and think he's going
Speaker 1: to create all the time when you can't do it,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know what, I think Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: struggled with that a little bit too. In this last game.
Speaker 1: His short medium passes were very inaccurate and that's why
Speaker 1: they were struggling too. And you know, he's a rookie,
Speaker 1: and Bill you talked about it about what the oh
Speaker 1: you fans remember from the mistakes that he may last week.
Speaker 1: But one thing we did know, he gave them a
Speaker 1: better chance than what costs them wins would have done.
Speaker 1: I really would have felt better if Cowsom would have
Speaker 1: started that game. And let's be real, we talked about
Speaker 1: this earlier as well. Coach Peterson, for some reason, as
Speaker 1: good a coach as he is, I think he really
Speaker 1: did misread this game. I think he put his quarterback
Speaker 1: in a tough position than tougher position than he should have,
Speaker 1: as we talked about I should have. I think they
Speaker 1: should have leaned on the running game more against the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense that hadn't really shown it can stop it.
Speaker 1: I think he kind of fell in love with what
Speaker 1: Hush did the last couple of weeks, thinking it would
Speaker 1: kind of be that simple to develop, and it really didn't.
Speaker 1: Just the game itself was different. The Cowboys were playing differently.
Speaker 1: We improved, We actually made some adjustments in the second half,
Speaker 1: and really I think the second quarter that I don't
Speaker 1: think Peterson really adjusted well too offensively. So to put
Speaker 1: your rookie quarterback who was just starting at his third game,
Speaker 1: when you're looking at defense that they'd been playing thirteen
Speaker 1: fourteen games already, he really tried to he expected too
Speaker 1: much from his quarterback, or he expected too little from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, you know. And I thought that it
Speaker 1: still looked back at the key thing was getting a lead,
Speaker 1: because then you knew what they had to do right.
Speaker 1: And once they got that lead and they got them
Speaker 1: in a couple down in distances, especially on second and
Speaker 1: long or third and long, they went to a three
Speaker 1: man front rushing the quarterback and brought in six dbs.
Speaker 1: One of those was C. J. Goodwin, who was kind
Speaker 1: of hovering closer to the line of scrimmage and just
Speaker 1: kind of keeping an eye on Hurts, making sure they
Speaker 1: had somebody there fast enough to kind of keep up
Speaker 1: with them. And I think that's why you saw some
Speaker 1: of those runs times outside kind of shut down and
Speaker 1: he wasn't gaining as many yards because I think at
Speaker 1: halftime he might have had the majority of his rushing
Speaker 1: yards if I can look this up real quick after
Speaker 1: I said it. But but really, when you when you
Speaker 1: look at the adjustments that were made, I thought that
Speaker 1: good were not only spied, but they seemed to take
Speaker 1: liberties and when they would go from spying to just
Speaker 1: being an extra rushing because they came late. Sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: Goodman will walk up and he's looking for Hurst to
Speaker 1: maybe peek out from the pocket. And but there were
Speaker 1: also times when it seems like he took a chance
Speaker 1: and just took a shot at it. And I think
Speaker 1: all of that just confused a young, young quarterback. And
Speaker 1: really at that time we were already in control. And
Speaker 1: then for me second week in Ago, I mean, we
Speaker 1: could go more than that. But I thought Keller Moore
Speaker 1: did a very good job of calling plays within himself.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't ask for anyone to do too much.
Speaker 1: He didn't take too many gambles. He stayed with within
Speaker 1: uh Dalton's ability to run the team. That play to
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, that was really a set up play. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of coaching that I love from offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb had run that same route over and over
Speaker 1: again to where he just went out to the flat,
Speaker 1: went out to the flat. Here it is the perfect time.
Speaker 1: We're on the other side close for the fifty yard line.
Speaker 1: Ceedee faced the out after he came in motion, went
Speaker 1: straight up the field. Perfect pass by Dalton. He didn't
Speaker 1: wait too long. He threw it right way and need
Speaker 1: to be simple pitch, pitch and catch and there you are.
Speaker 1: You're looking at what was that a fifty sixty yard
Speaker 1: touchdown by Ceedee Lamb And to me, that was all
Speaker 1: Keller Moore. He just really did a good job of
Speaker 1: making the plays that didn't put our offense and to
Speaker 1: carryous situations. Yeah, and what they did on that plays
Speaker 1: they put him in motion left to right and they
Speaker 1: motioned them into the slot and as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: it looked like he was gonna just go up field.
Speaker 1: But basically what he did is he ran a wheel
Speaker 1: route for with a white and he went to the outside.
Speaker 1: The outside guy came inside and all that poor as
Speaker 1: Jacque kiss and then occupied the safety. That's what was
Speaker 1: the right The guy inside took the safety out of
Speaker 1: the safety so that desk right, kept the safety out
Speaker 1: of it, and that's when you hit him right in
Speaker 1: that pocket. And but that was You know, plays like
Speaker 1: that they can work on anybody. I don't give a
Speaker 1: dog on who the defensive defensive play there that can
Speaker 1: work on anyone. So you're talking about quality plays to
Speaker 1: quality players. That's what I love about. And that poor
Speaker 1: corner he got spun around like he was doing pirouettes
Speaker 1: on that figure skating. He got spun around so bad.
Speaker 1: Been there, done that. I know the feeling. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Hurts had fifty three of his sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards rushing in the first half, get a lead and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Okay, all that running's not gonna
Speaker 1: not gonna work out. So um, you know, for all
Speaker 1: the criticism Mike Nolan has gotten, uh, they adjusted and
Speaker 1: thought finally been on his butt. Yeah, absolutely, yes, So
Speaker 1: you gotta give him give him credit, absolutely yes. Turnovers,
Speaker 1: the turnovers the past three four weeks have skyrocketed, And
Speaker 1: I don't care, I've been there, I don't care what
Speaker 1: your defense is giving up. If you can make turnovers,
Speaker 1: it makes up for all of the yards that you
Speaker 1: gave up. Shocking when you can have your top four
Speaker 1: corners available and at one time on the field at
Speaker 1: all at the same time. Amazing, m interesting. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right, Well that does it for a Victory Monday
Speaker 1: edition of mix Shots. We got so much to get
Speaker 1: to we could go for another hour or two, but
Speaker 1: the shot clock has gotten us. Oh no, and so
Speaker 1: let's leff break before Chris gets pissed off. Now, that's
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right, okay, and you will see you
Speaker 1: again tomorrow at one thirty for another Victory Tuesday edition
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