Speaker 1: And I heard from the other locker room that, you know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the noise in that place, and it's real,
Speaker 1: by the way, because the press boxes open air and
Speaker 1: we're basically sitting in the stands, and it's very difficult
Speaker 1: for the offensive lineman going on silent counts to not
Speaker 1: get jumped by the defense that's looking at the ball.
Speaker 1: And I think that led to a lot of problems
Speaker 1: that Cowboys offensive line had because they did not play
Speaker 1: as well as we've seen them play previously, and because
Speaker 1: of that, they got themselves in a lot of bad
Speaker 1: down distances. And then the Saints were able to pin
Speaker 1: their ears back. And I don't know if Dak ever
Speaker 1: got comfortable in the pocket. You know, yeah, he'd never
Speaker 1: got comfortable. Everything seemed frantic the whole time, even though
Speaker 1: they didn't have one false start. It just seemed frantic
Speaker 1: the whole time, trying the change plays, getting guys in
Speaker 1: different places on the line of scrimmage, and it resulted
Speaker 1: in them scoring the only touchdown in the game, a touchdown.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought the Saints. I thought the Saints
Speaker 1: secondary was really good in this game. They they basically said,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is not going to beat us in this game.
Speaker 1: They took their best cover man who who has had
Speaker 1: some problems and he covered very well in this game,
Speaker 1: and they said, Okay, Randall Cobb and and Devin Smith,
Speaker 1: you guys try and beat us. We talked about last
Speaker 1: week and mentioned that we felt like the Saints safeties
Speaker 1: were a poor part of their secondary. The plays they
Speaker 1: made were down the middle of the field and cover two.
Speaker 1: Never felt like the Saints safeties were nearly attacked enough
Speaker 1: in this game. Now, whether Dak Prescott saw it or not,
Speaker 1: you know, it didn't matter. People are saying, what was
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's game plan? Where it was all the play action?
Speaker 1: Where was all that? You know, I just felt like
Speaker 1: the Saints overall did did a great job of taking
Speaker 1: away a lot of that stuff. Even when Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: had time to throw the ball, there was coverage down
Speaker 1: the field. There was a lot of contested plays. There
Speaker 1: were plays that you know that you know we've seen.
Speaker 1: Now Prescott missed Cobb on a crossing round on the
Speaker 1: third down. If he throws the ball in front, but
Speaker 1: then Cobb's professional, He's got to make that play. It's
Speaker 1: behind him a little bit, and then he misses Cobb
Speaker 1: in the end zone. You know, after he's does I
Speaker 1: don't know how he got out of trouble. He's thrown
Speaker 1: to his left. How many times we've seen him throw
Speaker 1: to his left and be accurate, but he wasn't accurate
Speaker 1: and he missed Cobb twice on key plays. It could
Speaker 1: have been big in this game. And you know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had an opportunity late in that game too, would
Speaker 1: they get you know, Sean Payton with a crazy call
Speaker 1: of throwing the ball late in the game. They get
Speaker 1: the sack, they get the ball back. The ten second
Speaker 1: runoff killed him in that game. Yea, they just killed
Speaker 1: him at the end because you know, they get a
Speaker 1: heck of a play down the middle of the field
Speaker 1: again to Cobb, and then they're in a situation where
Speaker 1: if they could have gotten one more snap where they
Speaker 1: could have thrown the ball, maybe they could have gotten
Speaker 1: better field goal range. But the ten second runoff only
Speaker 1: lose their all pro tackle. They lose ten seconds in
Speaker 1: the game when they needed those ten seconds. So not
Speaker 1: only did they lose the ten seconds, they lost the
Speaker 1: opportunity unity to catch the ball too. Yeah, because the
Speaker 1: guy was on Cooper the whole way, and then when
Speaker 1: he made his cut, the guy lost his balance and
Speaker 1: falls backwards and you'd get called for passing interference, which
Speaker 1: was a second one. And by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys sensed this or not. Cooper, who
Speaker 1: nursed that ankle all week, looked like he was running
Speaker 1: in mud. Now the whole day he was Friday's practice.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not going to put a guy out there,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he was one hundred percent. But
Speaker 1: then he just wasn't. He just wasn't moving the way
Speaker 1: he normally moves. I think I think twenty three had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that myself. Well, and twenty
Speaker 1: three had some twenty three. Twenty three played with a
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder, you know, guys like myself, Mickey.
Speaker 1: Everybody was calling him out of being a bum basically,
Speaker 1: well he was the week before, so well, I just
Speaker 1: know overall nationally they're probably calling him a bum. And
Speaker 1: I mean Chris Collinsworth called him out last night for
Speaker 1: giving up a lot of big plays. But he played
Speaker 1: excellent last night. A matter of fact, their whole secondary
Speaker 1: they did a great job. Dennis Allen did a super
Speaker 1: jobber Rush three, drop a clog and cover whatever you
Speaker 1: have to do. They did a great job of mixing
Speaker 1: things up for Dak Prescott, not giving him clean looks,
Speaker 1: you know, and giving him an opportunity to get the
Speaker 1: ball to where he needed to. And the receivers did
Speaker 1: a poor job of running routes getting open. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to make any excuses for a Marii Cooper because
Speaker 1: you know, he tries to run a slant and and
Speaker 1: you know Lattimore is all over him, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's and that's Prescott trying to force the ball in
Speaker 1: there when he had three other options he could have
Speaker 1: gone with the right. The secondary for the Saints was
Speaker 1: really good, and we talked about at the front flour.
Speaker 1: They showed faith in those guys to stop the run
Speaker 1: up front, and their their linebackers around that couldn't block
Speaker 1: Malcolm bronco Row was a load inside. To Mario O'Davis,
Speaker 1: their linebacker was flowing to the ball. Mickey made a
Speaker 1: good point. I think he made the comparison to the
Speaker 1: fan this morning that that noise is a real thing,
Speaker 1: and it was decidedly a pro Saints crowd. I know
Speaker 1: there was a lot of blue in the crowd, but
Speaker 1: they had very much a twelfth man advantage. They're coming
Speaker 1: off the SnO app defensively, and it reminded you of
Speaker 1: that Metrodome game in the playoffs about ten years ago.
Speaker 1: And I thought the same thing, Yeah, during the press
Speaker 1: box that it's hard. They didn't have any pre snap penalties.
Speaker 1: I don't believe the communication pre snap was good. But
Speaker 1: the Saints were flying off the snap and they were
Speaker 1: flowing to the ball. I mean, they just that was
Speaker 1: a tremendous defensive effort, and you know, the offense said
Speaker 1: after the game, a wasted effort for the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: because absolutely, you know, I mean, you hold them to
Speaker 1: four field goals, it's another slugfest just like last year.
Speaker 1: They did a great job. And what a play by
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith to give him an opportunity at the end.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hell of a call to they carry hider
Speaker 1: to carry on getting home. And then also Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: took three blockers with him on that when to get
Speaker 1: Smith hometot Peyton said afterwards he kicking himself for calling
Speaker 1: such a stupid play. What was that going to be?
Speaker 1: Like a forty seven yard field they were trying They
Speaker 1: were trying to run the wheel route get Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: A lot of credit Byron Jones covered the wheel. Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis covered the wheel coming out of that field, and
Speaker 1: then Bridgewater once he saw it cover, he tried to avoid.
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, the best hope you could
Speaker 1: have you got the sack, but man, if you could
Speaker 1: have knocked the ball loose, I mean, that would have
Speaker 1: been one of those things. Ball would have been at
Speaker 1: midfield and a chance to go win the game. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt like they had enough time to go win
Speaker 1: the game. I felt like that, you know, But but
Speaker 1: then again you kind of said, then I should have
Speaker 1: thought to myself, well, they haven't made any plays really
Speaker 1: down the field. The chunk plays you talked about him
Speaker 1: only two of them to the one chunk play they
Speaker 1: were able to make. They didn't have enough time. They
Speaker 1: got the balls. A great throw by Dak that was
Speaker 1: one of the two to cop to Cob. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the other one that was the second longest play.
Speaker 1: The other one was to Jar one jar with the
Speaker 1: one yet both against covered two and so you know
Speaker 1: that's kind of where, Yeah, the team just didn't do
Speaker 1: enough to win this football game. Offensively. It just did not.
Speaker 1: And it's a shame when you when you waste a
Speaker 1: defensive effort. Even though the Saints controlled the clock, they
Speaker 1: didn't kick out, they didn't score a touchdown. And I
Speaker 1: looked back and looked, and it's time they lost a
Speaker 1: game not scoring given up a touchdown. Was two thousand
Speaker 1: and two when they were just bad, awful that they
Speaker 1: lost I think a game nine to five and nine
Speaker 1: to seven or something weird like that. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: that that and after all this stuff, we said they
Speaker 1: lost by two points, and Brian mentioned some missed opportunity,
Speaker 1: Jack rolling to his left money, he's money, Well, he said,
Speaker 1: I completed that ball a million times, you know. And
Speaker 1: and and that's look at that. That that was the
Speaker 1: second drive of the game. They left four points on
Speaker 1: the field. People will lose by two. People will say
Speaker 1: that the Saints, if they wouldn't have had the penalties,
Speaker 1: would have been a lot different game. Dallas forced you
Speaker 1: into those penalties. I mean, the Cowboys pass rush forced
Speaker 1: you into those. Larry Woolford he was awful, I mean
Speaker 1: he was he was awful, and you know he was
Speaker 1: holding every play and you know he could have been
Speaker 1: called for more in that game. But if you said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if the Saints would have just you know, if they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have got those penalties, now, well, if they had held,
Speaker 1: they were going to get the quarterback sat There's no question,
Speaker 1: There's no question. So again, this was this was a
Speaker 1: big time wasted opportunity by the Dallas offense, uh to
Speaker 1: to to handle this game. And the turnovers were terrible.
Speaker 1: You know, Jason Witton, I mean, they make a heck
Speaker 1: of a play. They rushed three drop eight, Witton finds,
Speaker 1: finds the window, Dak hits him on the run, and
Speaker 1: then you know, and then aj Klein is in coverage
Speaker 1: and he's in such bad position, but then he rallies
Speaker 1: his ass off to knock the ball free. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff. If you're gonna get beat,
Speaker 1: make sure your rally to get to the ball. That's
Speaker 1: a good lesson for everybody out there. But and then
Speaker 1: the zeek thing, I don't know. I mean, I thought
Speaker 1: I thought the fun I thought his elbow was down,
Speaker 1: and they're talking about the ball moving and on. I've
Speaker 1: just grown to know the officials are going to screw
Speaker 1: you anytime they can, so just be ready for them.
Speaker 1: They just gave up on that call. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, the guy in the field said, it
Speaker 1: was a fumble. Okay, it's a fund but they didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't call it. They didn't call it a fumble,
Speaker 1: right right, you can't bitch about it. I mean, what
Speaker 1: the hell there? Again, the officials are gonna do what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna replay what they
Speaker 1: want to replay. They're not going to replay stuff. So
Speaker 1: you know, you're at the mercy of it. And they
Speaker 1: had the bulls eye right there on the replay, the downmarker,
Speaker 1: the big orange circle. It was in the way of
Speaker 1: seeing the play a couple of times, right, you know.
Speaker 1: And Zeke said afterwards, I can't leave any doubt in
Speaker 1: that situation. Doesn't matter if my elbow was down. It
Speaker 1: kind of looked like it was, but not only kind
Speaker 1: of he was down and the ball wasn't. It was
Speaker 1: bound down, but he was pulling, so he was pulling
Speaker 1: the ball out. The ball wasn't out. What what the
Speaker 1: what they they said to the mercy of exactly, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But see what happens there. It ends up being a
Speaker 1: big swing because now they get the ball and they
Speaker 1: end up kicking a field goal when they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had that opportunity, they wouldn't have time left. And then
Speaker 1: we can get into how the clock went from four
Speaker 1: seconds to two seconds miraculously on that last play. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into a lot of all that stuff and
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Speaker 1: we could go on and on talking about replay and
Speaker 1: fumbles and the call on the field and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about during the during the
Speaker 1: break here. I don't know what packs. Lying on replay
Speaker 1: doesn't help though, doesn't put your elbows at all, not
Speaker 1: at all when the officials not sure what the call
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Speaker 1: to get your tickets for Sunday's game against Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and the Packers. Mickey, do you want to go from
Speaker 1: four seconds to two seconds to zero seconds? Jason's Garrett's
Speaker 1: fastest play in NFL history. Yeah, the clock didn't start.
Speaker 1: I have to hit something that would be stopped. Yes, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so done. Who who was the official on the or
Speaker 1: the in the booth? Who was then the game guy?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you that because actually no, no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no on TV. Oh Al Michaels and Chris Colin. No,
Speaker 1: who was there? Oh Terry mcaulay. Okay, so he came.
Speaker 1: But he came on and pointed out after I went
Speaker 1: back and looked at it when I got home, that
Speaker 1: the clock doesn't start stop until it hits something. Right. So,
Speaker 1: if you remember back training camp San Antonio, when Bill
Speaker 1: was having Quincy, Carter learned to run out ball, throw
Speaker 1: it as far as you can, throw it out of bounds,
Speaker 1: and the clock doesn't stop until the ball hits the ground.
Speaker 1: The ball, the clock stopped as soon as the ball
Speaker 1: crossed the sideline. It appeared to me in the world,
Speaker 1: it appeared to me that the clock didn't start until
Speaker 1: the start. Wait. Wait, it appeared to be the clock
Speaker 1: didn't start until the ball got to the out about No.
Speaker 1: I went back and he took a two strap, a
Speaker 1: quick two step drop right, and the clock hadn't started
Speaker 1: until the ball he was throwing the ball, and then
Speaker 1: it didn't and then it landed like five six yards
Speaker 1: out of bounds by time it hit. I talked to
Speaker 1: Sean after the game, which showed surprise. He goes, you
Speaker 1: know that plight should have taken three seconds. I said, well,
Speaker 1: I think it took four. At minimum, there should have
Speaker 1: been one second left on the clock, and maybe you
Speaker 1: go to maybe they should go to Arena ball and
Speaker 1: use the decimals and have it tick all the way
Speaker 1: down to a tenth of a second, just you know
Speaker 1: exactly how much time is left. I think. I think
Speaker 1: Sean and RJ brought that up on the fan this morning,
Speaker 1: and Jason Garrett was like, hmm, I thought the same thing, honestly,
Speaker 1: And if there's three tenths of a second left on
Speaker 1: the clock, then you can't get a playoff, just like
Speaker 1: the count the right and then you know, and those
Speaker 1: are those are those are the two circumstances to lead
Speaker 1: to a field goal. They lost by two. You know,
Speaker 1: all this stuff we've said, it comes down. They lost
Speaker 1: by two? Does yeah? It does? Still lost? Oh I understand. Okay,
Speaker 1: what about the decision to go for it on fourth
Speaker 1: and one at forty three? Y? Yeah? I mean again,
Speaker 1: they ran they you know, he's he has confidence in
Speaker 1: his offensive line, even though they'd had some struggles in
Speaker 1: this game. I kind of was kind of going through
Speaker 1: the litany problems that they had just on first down runs.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm all for that. You know this
Speaker 1: this I'm sitting here arguing or saying, hey, make Bridgewater
Speaker 1: have to play, you know, I mean, go for it,
Speaker 1: go for it, trying to make him, try and make
Speaker 1: something happen, try and get your team going a little bit,
Speaker 1: try and build a little spark, a little momentum and
Speaker 1: all that. Hell, they had the first down, They had
Speaker 1: the first down. I just fumbled the damn ball. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, there's a question whether he actually fumbled
Speaker 1: the ball. We don't get into that, but yeah, you're right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I'll be honest. At the time, I'm thinking
Speaker 1: puntered away. I thought the same just too well there
Speaker 1: and then because keep saying they got field goal ranch
Speaker 1: yet right, right, But it's a calculated gamble. You just
Speaker 1: paid this guy how much money. He's the best back
Speaker 1: in the league arguably, and they got the first down.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, hindsight, they made the right decision.
Speaker 1: You can argue the call. For sure. I thought he
Speaker 1: should have gone for it, and so he won the
Speaker 1: bet and then lost. Yeah, because the ball gets yanked
Speaker 1: out and let's not also forget and he probably still
Speaker 1: would have made the field goal. But it's third and
Speaker 1: ten at the twenty seven and they forced an incompletion
Speaker 1: and they get the personal file on Lawrence. He's on
Speaker 1: the ground trying to grab the quarterback and he gets
Speaker 1: called fifteen yards. So if at fourth down at the
Speaker 1: twenty seven thirty seven, it was gonna be a forty five.
Speaker 1: Now that guy was going to hit it. He's really
Speaker 1: that guy. Every field goal he makes his over fifty
Speaker 1: yards appears he would have hit it. But there was
Speaker 1: a lot of circumstances to win to what seemed like
Speaker 1: a meaningless field goal. Okay, it's nine three, you're only
Speaker 1: down to touchdown, you go in the lead, which it
Speaker 1: ended up ten nine, So yeah, a lot of things
Speaker 1: went into that, and then okay, you get to halftime,
Speaker 1: you're down nine three in the first half. Was a
Speaker 1: lot like even last week's game against Miami, where it
Speaker 1: was at ten sixth lead or whatever it was at halftime.
Speaker 1: But you'd take control of the game in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: which has been the Cowboys habit so far in the
Speaker 1: first three games of the year. Of course, dak still
Speaker 1: hadn't thrown an incompletion in the third quarter of a game,
Speaker 1: but in the second half. The Saints owned the time
Speaker 1: of possession nearly nineteen minutes time of possession in the
Speaker 1: second half, and the Cowboys only had the ball that
Speaker 1: one time great drive in the third quarter, and until
Speaker 1: the final seconds of the game. They only had three
Speaker 1: possessions in the entire second half of the game. But
Speaker 1: you got to go ahead and convert. The only reason
Speaker 1: that they got a first down on the second possession
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys got a first down the second possession
Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter because they got a penalty
Speaker 1: on a third down play, So it was essentially two
Speaker 1: three and ounce. Offensively, after that long drive, they did
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do, and especially in the second half,
Speaker 1: You're right, Bill, they got to milked the clock. They
Speaker 1: used Kamara. He had some tough runs. You Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: was around the ball. They played with great effort, but Kamara,
Speaker 1: he didn't break the big play, but he ran had
Speaker 1: some plays with incredible balance, second effort um. You saw
Speaker 1: why he's a great running game and what it did
Speaker 1: for them. Even when they didn't have a scoring drive,
Speaker 1: they were able to maintain field position where the Cowboys started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more stead and so the Cowboys in the second after drives.
Speaker 1: Their possession started at their own sixteen yard line, their
Speaker 1: own twenty five, their own thirteen, and their own ten. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That they had a three and out after the Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn sack too late in the second half that killed him.
Speaker 1: You know that that was they got got second in
Speaker 1: one and then they ran the ball and got minus
Speaker 1: one and then turn around and had an incomplete pass.
Speaker 1: Am I right about that Bill right before, right before
Speaker 1: it's like probably three four minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the game, they had that untimely
Speaker 1: three and out that I mean, heck, they get they
Speaker 1: get a nice they get a nice play. They get
Speaker 1: nine yards eight yards to Cooper and then zero for Zeke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then uh incomplete the Cooper punt. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's that's actually minus one to Zeke. Well, I
Speaker 1: was following along on the on the NFL Jesus site
Speaker 1: and they said Cooper for nine and then and then
Speaker 1: Zeke for minus one. Gave it a third and two
Speaker 1: and then they had their incompletion again, and that you know,
Speaker 1: that was this killer that Latimore broke it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See that's that that's to me is where that to me?
Speaker 1: Is where you know this game they needed to find
Speaker 1: ways they didn't make enough plays on third down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't think it was all about protection. I
Speaker 1: think I think there was. I think the coverage was
Speaker 1: really good. I think I don't think Dak was as
Speaker 1: as as sharp as he needed to be in this game.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I wonder if the offer on his
Speaker 1: contract goes down now, I don't think it was gonna
Speaker 1: It's probably gonna stay the same. Were you um, I
Speaker 1: was just trying to be because they weren't third and
Speaker 1: longs either. We're talking third and two. Yeah, they run
Speaker 1: the ball second and one, four of eleven, second and
Speaker 1: one and they get my this one because they can't
Speaker 1: you know, they can't block Malcolm Brown. Right. How much
Speaker 1: did the return of Rankins help the same? No, he
Speaker 1: was it was it was Brown. It was Brown and that.
Speaker 1: And now I'll tell you Tyren Smith, I know he
Speaker 1: got hurt. He didn't play great. Yeah, and you know Collins, I,
Speaker 1: like I said, every one of those first down runs
Speaker 1: they had somebody had a problem. Somebody had a problem
Speaker 1: every time that they snapped the ball. Did you have
Speaker 1: a problem with how much they ran on first down?
Speaker 1: That's a big talking point coming out of this game,
Speaker 1: is it? I mean, running into a brick wall too often? Well,
Speaker 1: I mind, it just felt like just going into the game,
Speaker 1: I felt like they were gonna do anything. It was
Speaker 1: gonna come on the edges, yeah, is what I was
Speaker 1: gonna You know that there was times where I felt
Speaker 1: I mean, if you watch the games they played against
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Seahawks and the Rams, those teams
Speaker 1: had success running the ball a little bit, not inside.
Speaker 1: You did. You mentioned that last week on so you know,
Speaker 1: to me, everything that was going inside, you know, there
Speaker 1: was just it was just problems. There were more problems
Speaker 1: inside because they couldn't make cutoff blocks, they couldn't make
Speaker 1: reach blocks, they couldn't scoop. There were guys, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know I saw one I saw one
Speaker 1: toss sweep that they ran where where Zach Martin missed
Speaker 1: his guy and the linebacker made the tackle. Maybe that
Speaker 1: took him out of all that stuff. But I mean,
Speaker 1: everything to me was inside, inside, inside, And you know
Speaker 1: people will say, well what about oh, on first down,
Speaker 1: why don't you throw it? Why don't you play action?
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna get some type you're gonna get better results.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get better results if nobody's open that.
Speaker 1: That was a huge problem in this game. You're watching
Speaker 1: the game and you're thinking, man, when is Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: coming back? Because how much could he help this offense
Speaker 1: right now? The way he's separating. They bet they bet
Speaker 1: that Smith and Cobb were not going to beat them.
Speaker 1: That's what they bet on. You know, they play cover two,
Speaker 1: they'll play some play some man and stuff underneath, and
Speaker 1: those receivers did not do a very good job of separating.
Speaker 1: Seeing all these folks are yelling for play act. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you run the ball for forty five yards, play action?
Speaker 1: What are they biting on? We're stopping. The analytics guys
Speaker 1: will tell you play action affects some regardless of what
Speaker 1: the play action is. All right, I was thinking, you
Speaker 1: know what, analytic analytics start helping dumb people act smart
Speaker 1: because they can't see what's going on in the game.
Speaker 1: All right. I just I just to me, it was
Speaker 1: there were more problems run blocking than they were pass blocking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought that. I mean that, you know, the last
Speaker 1: the sack they get on, you know, it was unfortunate
Speaker 1: on the you know the in the final minute of
Speaker 1: the game that that is unfortunate right there, because again
Speaker 1: you lose your left tackle, you lose ten seconds, you
Speaker 1: lose little field position there, you know. So to me,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean the protection. They just did not
Speaker 1: win enough on the outside. And then when they did win,
Speaker 1: you know, the quarterback had trouble getting them the ball.
Speaker 1: That's it, That's the way it came down. Then give
Speaker 1: him credit that third third and two to Cooper or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to Cobb that was incompletely remissed him. That
Speaker 1: was a clean pocket. And you know sometimes three man rush,
Speaker 1: three man rush, sometimes the ball was coming out quick.
Speaker 1: But he had some clean pockets in the game. Um,
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean when you see Zeke one point nine,
Speaker 1: that's just that's not Zeke. And they just couldn't get
Speaker 1: anything going. You gotta give the Saints credit, you have to,
Speaker 1: which by the way, on Tyrn Smith, so I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've heard this term before for
Speaker 1: a sprained ankle, but when I asked if it was
Speaker 1: a high ankle sprain, I was told it was a
Speaker 1: medial ankle sprain, not in between as a high It's
Speaker 1: in between a normal and a high. So low is
Speaker 1: the best, Yes, high is the worst. And this was
Speaker 1: in between. But he's still going to miss some time.
Speaker 1: And they they they did it. You know, there was
Speaker 1: no structural damage, but it's a sprain. Would have been
Speaker 1: the worst segament. It looked bad. And I would imagine
Speaker 1: at least two games that he misses. And here's the here,
Speaker 1: And I told the guys this morning on this. When
Speaker 1: you play at the Superdome where the visitor's locker room
Speaker 1: is and where the buses are, when you lose, you
Speaker 1: gotta walk one hundred and thirty yards across the field
Speaker 1: to get to the bus. And here's old tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: and this big old boot having the lumber all that
Speaker 1: way to get to the busy. You know. An aversion
Speaker 1: sprain is a tear of the deltoid ligaments, or the
Speaker 1: inside of the ankle. It is often called a medial
Speaker 1: ankle sprain. All right, delt inside ligament. It's what we're
Speaker 1: looks what the mets were. Apparently the medial ankle sprain
Speaker 1: inside of the ankle, that's the one we all sprain,
Speaker 1: right us common athletes. Yes, I wonder if that's better
Speaker 1: than being outside you know the inside ligament better than
Speaker 1: the outside ligament. I don't know, no idea. Can't Fleming
Speaker 1: get ready, Yes, the one that we knew. The ankle
Speaker 1: goes like that, Yeah, and a high ankle, it goes
Speaker 1: inside inside right, So yeah, I don't know what the medial.
Speaker 1: I guess the medial is kind of in between. Get
Speaker 1: Ready on the A lot of two tight end sets
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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com slash App. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: back and look at my picks from yesterday. I don't
Speaker 1: I know I was not good. Yeah, I mean going
Speaker 1: into the weekend, I thought all these are all easy
Speaker 1: to pick. Yeah. Yeah, that's hard and that's the way
Speaker 1: it goes. Tough, That's right. Tough thing. Uh injuries other
Speaker 1: than Tyranne Smith, who we have determined that will miss
Speaker 1: some time. Tavon, I mean Cavon Frasier, Cavon frasiertal to muscle. Yes,
Speaker 1: is it tour or what do we got? It's they
Speaker 1: need to decide, Okay, it's he if if it's if,
Speaker 1: it's not surgery, but he's going to be out for
Speaker 1: a while. I tilted bad sign when they ruled, just
Speaker 1: went ahead and ruled him out of the game in
Speaker 1: the first half immediately. Yeah, it is probably something that
Speaker 1: was going to keep him out, So he's out for
Speaker 1: real weeks. Probably Donovan Wilson yep gets gets his jersey back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was inactive yesterday, so we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: I forgot to look at and then uh, Lawrence came
Speaker 1: out for a little bit. But he's fine. That sounds
Speaker 1: like yes, excuse me, yes, sounds like it. Although you
Speaker 1: know they had him rushing only on third downs in
Speaker 1: the second half, and I think the Saints last true drive,
Speaker 1: I think it was Hyder was in there the first
Speaker 1: through third down at that point, and and and de
Speaker 1: law limped off came back. Tough guy. I think they
Speaker 1: think he'll be okay. Robert Quinn, I was I was
Speaker 1: about to say, okay, now, who who would you say
Speaker 1: had the most positive performance last night? And I was thinking,
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn about Perry Mason. Just asked me, only the
Speaker 1: old people know who Perry Mason is. He's a lawyer
Speaker 1: who never asked a question he didn't already know the answer, right,
Speaker 1: Bill just gave you a Perry Mason he knows exactly.
Speaker 1: I'll say this though. You know Robert Quinn and and
Speaker 1: you know Armstead is a is a quality tackle that's
Speaker 1: not a bumb out there playing left tackle. That's not
Speaker 1: Chaz Green or something like out there, you know, playing
Speaker 1: tackle and you're just running around him. You know, they
Speaker 1: Armstead had no they had no answer for him. They
Speaker 1: tried to chip him, help him a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and you know that didn't work. That's I mean that
Speaker 1: that's just a great sign if you're a Cowboy fan
Speaker 1: of that. His effort and the way he plays and
Speaker 1: the intensity, the way he's running down plays, the way
Speaker 1: he's running down quarterbacks, you know that can only help
Speaker 1: you going forward. Is he different than what you saw
Speaker 1: on film when the Cowboys made the acquisition in the
Speaker 1: recent years? Is he is he? Or is it because
Speaker 1: he's healthy and he's he's always had that affility to
Speaker 1: rush the passer. I mean, that's that's that's his game.
Speaker 1: He You know, you if you maybe you do, don't
Speaker 1: notice until you've got him on your team, where every
Speaker 1: single play he is just he is. He has got
Speaker 1: so many any tools in the tool belt, as they
Speaker 1: like to say in the scouting world, because he will
Speaker 1: come after you he'll dip, he'll rip. He plays with
Speaker 1: his hands, he knows how you know. You see how
Speaker 1: low he gets the ground. You know, when a tackle
Speaker 1: cannot get their hands on him, that is a problem.
Speaker 1: That is a big problem. And you get somebody where
Speaker 1: he's had some issues with us here early and when
Speaker 1: the OTAs and mini camps and training camp couldn't stand
Speaker 1: his feet. Last night, you saw what he could do
Speaker 1: when he's capable of not losing his feet. He's capable
Speaker 1: of sharpening in that corner and bringing your quarterback down
Speaker 1: in the pocket. So yeah, that's a that's a great sign.
Speaker 1: You know. Then they're looking at that tape, you know,
Speaker 1: and you're handing out the helmet stickers, give him a
Speaker 1: few the way he plays. But it also tells you
Speaker 1: because it probably, I mean, for someone to be able
Speaker 1: to do anything at this level, there's so much work
Speaker 1: that goes into it in the offseason, just getting your
Speaker 1: body ready to do it. I mean, we're seeing him
Speaker 1: in the first bit of training camp and he's losing
Speaker 1: his feet. Whatever, what it tells you. You You remember, you
Speaker 1: saw him two weeks ago come in here with football
Speaker 1: equipment in hand, right after he served his suspension. It
Speaker 1: shows what kind of work ethic that he had to
Speaker 1: maintain the conditioning and whatever he needed to be able
Speaker 1: to play at this level immediately. Yeah, three tackles, two sacks,
Speaker 1: two tackles for losses, three quarterbacks hits in a past
Speaker 1: defense that the line of scrimmage. Brian said, great sign.
Speaker 1: It's a great sign for Tank too, because you know,
Speaker 1: they chipped Quinn a little bit in this game, but
Speaker 1: you got to make a decision at some point, you know,
Speaker 1: take the little tension away from Tank. Maybe he gets
Speaker 1: some more one on one opportunity. Five sacks in the
Speaker 1: game basically wasted. Yeah, five five didn't one get called back?
Speaker 1: Or are you counting the one that got called back
Speaker 1: they took a holding call. He had Quinn had Quinn
Speaker 1: would have had three would had they took a holding call?
Speaker 1: Would surprised me. I'm kind of like, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they already had him back, but still, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's that that. You know. Let's let's be honest too,
Speaker 1: Tank step up the game too. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna sit there. I mean, you watch
Speaker 1: Quinn on the other side rush. You need that same
Speaker 1: effort on the on the left side too, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean that's to me, I I you know, that's
Speaker 1: if they're going to really get to sing humming, you
Speaker 1: know in the pass rush, you know, and they need
Speaker 1: to get him going as well. Yeah, okay, So from
Speaker 1: what you could tell, what are they doing with Jaylen
Speaker 1: Smith Blitzen. That's his strength. He attacks the I mean
Speaker 1: they Quinn had a sack because he attacked the pocket
Speaker 1: and he was able to kind of bring it was.
Speaker 1: Quinn is screaming off the edge. Armstead's got no chance
Speaker 1: the back Murray has got. He's got a face full
Speaker 1: of fifty four where he could have liked he just said, no,
Speaker 1: I gotta take care of this guy screaming off the edge.
Speaker 1: But Smith does a great job of attacking the pocket
Speaker 1: and it forces Murray to have to step up to
Speaker 1: give Quinn the free lane to go. So you know,
Speaker 1: all you folks last week, they're wanting to just throw
Speaker 1: dirt on Smith. You know, just watch the game a
Speaker 1: little closer. Just watch the game a little closer. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm asking. Would you say four bad plays last yeah,
Speaker 1: four bad plays and you know, and he affects the
Speaker 1: way is there are times where he looks like he's
Speaker 1: running slow or didn't have the burst. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean everything last night to me was burst and power.
Speaker 1: That's what this guy is. He's a burst in power player.
Speaker 1: They're going to be times where he does it pivot
Speaker 1: and explode like he should off that foot. You know
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. But we're acting like, oh, this guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he took the money and ran nine tackles,
Speaker 1: a sack, two tackles for a loss, and a quarterback hit.
Speaker 1: But I like this three three, five a lot alignment
Speaker 1: where you've got him up there and Layton for that matter,
Speaker 1: where you could rush either one of them or both
Speaker 1: of them, which would be seen such a powerful player
Speaker 1: that these guards. It's not like rushing a light guy
Speaker 1: in there and trying to make something happen with quickness.
Speaker 1: You're attacking the pocket with power, and you you're attacking
Speaker 1: the pocket with a guy who has a feel for
Speaker 1: how to attack it and get around blocks to get
Speaker 1: in on the quarterback. Now, but they were actually getting
Speaker 1: better pressure doing that than just playing the standard defense.
Speaker 1: Wasn't just jailing. I think they rushed vander Esh and
Speaker 1: got Malik home on an early sack as well, and
Speaker 1: we Brian talked about splash plays. Vander Esh blew up
Speaker 1: a couple of plays in this game too, third down
Speaker 1: and it was third down and one and they'd run
Speaker 1: the toss sweep and yeah, here we're showing it right there.
Speaker 1: There you go. Good job, way to go with the Cayden.
Speaker 1: But that's really yeah, I mean, that's what you're saying.
Speaker 1: You've got to finally that that's the player was talking
Speaker 1: about Smith right there attacks the running back to the
Speaker 1: point where it made it just allowed Quinn to come
Speaker 1: flying off the edge. So yeah, that's and right there
Speaker 1: that gave you that player held down to the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is I'm sorry, we're doing terrible radio right now.
Speaker 1: Unless you're watching what we're talking about here, might much
Speaker 1: that should be. Yeah, but anyway, unless you're driving. I
Speaker 1: just feel like though they that Smith, they put him
Speaker 1: in those situations it is the best way to play
Speaker 1: with him instead of putting him in coverage. And so
Speaker 1: in order to use Smith in this way, do they
Speaker 1: does he need to rest some during the game. Do
Speaker 1: they need to take him off the field. And they
Speaker 1: tried to do with Joe Thomas last week and then
Speaker 1: everybody was screaming that Smith was a bum, you know,
Speaker 1: but they figured out, you know, maybe maybe there's down
Speaker 1: in distances they want to get Joe to didn't see
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas playing he snaps on defense last night yet
Speaker 1: second half, second half, and then they had see they
Speaker 1: had Lee alongside Vanderresh at times too, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I saw more Lee, but later later it was Thomas
Speaker 1: was in there. Okay, there was a start tape and
Speaker 1: I didn't. I just didn't notice him as much as
Speaker 1: they did last week fourth quarter. I think he was.
Speaker 1: He was in it, yeah, yeah, In fact, it was
Speaker 1: in the same series where Lee was on. Then Thomas
Speaker 1: came on, and I don't know, watching on television, it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell exactly what they're doing. I guaranteed Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas didn't have thirty three snaps like he did, but
Speaker 1: he was in there a little maybe yeah, yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: We can get more into that as the week goes on.
Speaker 1: But I'd like to find out from you, Brian, if
Speaker 1: it's if this the three three five thing, is that
Speaker 1: a trickle up effect from college where you see some
Speaker 1: colleges with these now with the with the more prevalent
Speaker 1: college type spread offenses stuff and are reacting to it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: you get more speed on the field when and that
Speaker 1: place to the cowboy's hands. With the strength at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position on this team, you get more of those
Speaker 1: guys on the more snaps for him, and you're going
Speaker 1: to have a better defense. Thomas had fourteen snaps. Fourteen,
Speaker 1: I mean Lee have eight twenty nine played more in
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, that's well, he actually
Speaker 1: played in some of the two linebackers. Way he was
Speaker 1: even playing. Yeah, yeah, that's why I was curious on
Speaker 1: j Jalen would be off the field in that situation
Speaker 1: and someone is trying to maybe I didn't see anybody
Speaker 1: trying to sneak in on us. Okay, we have just
Speaker 1: been told that we have till twelve if we want,
Speaker 1: you want to take it till twelve, let's take it all, right.
Speaker 1: Who else besides Robert Quinn stood out, talked about Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: talked about vander esh uh geez, trying to think of
Speaker 1: who else? Really, you know, if you look at you know,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones on it's funny how they played of the
Speaker 1: targets that went to Mike Thomas. You know, of the
Speaker 1: nine targets he had the It's funny how they played
Speaker 1: him on four the nine targets. They played zone coverage
Speaker 1: against him. So were they worried about him getting behind him?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know why. With Teddy Bridgewater the quarterback,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna nickel and dime under. Yeah, and it was.
Speaker 1: And then you know the big by the way Thomas
Speaker 1: got away with a great push off on Byron Jones
Speaker 1: on his third on his the catch, he made something
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned during the week I did. I
Speaker 1: said that he likes to push up. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: the officials are going to call your guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's Jason Garrett's right. You mentioned it to the officials
Speaker 1: and they'll probably say that they'll get your guy. But
Speaker 1: they they missed, they missed Thomas. I mean it is
Speaker 1: clear a two hand shove on Byron Jones and missed it.
Speaker 1: But Byron cart he carried him one time out of
Speaker 1: the slot and that was when they ran him through
Speaker 1: the trash where they thought they had the passing offensive
Speaker 1: pass interference. But that was just actually a good way
Speaker 1: of running the play. And then and then and then
Speaker 1: also Anthony Brown carried him on a slot play on
Speaker 1: a wheel route they ran. So yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: they kind of went it wasn't you know like I thought.
Speaker 1: I thought they would maybe take Byron Jones and put
Speaker 1: him on on him the whole time. Now on third
Speaker 1: down defense though, on third down defenses, Byron Jones took him.
Speaker 1: I believe here I have the let's see, that would
Speaker 1: be five times he carried him and then two of
Speaker 1: the times of the five that they had he they
Speaker 1: got sacks on the play. So that that's you know,
Speaker 1: it kind of tells you a little bit about you know,
Speaker 1: taking your best corner and putting him on, putting them
Speaker 1: on their best player. So but yeah, they they had
Speaker 1: some They had some nice nice some nice coverage on
Speaker 1: some of those third down plays when they when they
Speaker 1: had to uh, when they had to to get it.
Speaker 1: And credit Jeff Heath for that shot he had on
Speaker 1: Ted Gin early in the game that finally the Cowboys
Speaker 1: get an interception, um, you know, and Cheeto comes up
Speaker 1: with the play there. I don't recall you say anything
Speaker 1: about any offensive players. Well, you're asking defensive guys. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: across the board, I think the tight ends played well.
Speaker 1: I mean you mean, well, Okay went and had the fumble,
Speaker 1: but I mean charge they I just wish they would
Speaker 1: have gone after these safeties more. I just wish. I
Speaker 1: mean the middle of the field to me was where
Speaker 1: you needed to work and throwing the ball at a guy.
Speaker 1: I get it. Lattim War had given up plays. I
Speaker 1: get it, played his ass off yesterday. You know, he
Speaker 1: took your best receiver out of the game, if you
Speaker 1: want to be honest about it. You know, and you
Speaker 1: could say, oh, well, maybe it was his ankle and
Speaker 1: all that. No, his kid played great, you know, and
Speaker 1: they just couldn't win at the other spots where they
Speaker 1: were winning was the some of the throws that they
Speaker 1: were making to the middle of the field. They were
Speaker 1: leaving the middle of the field open. The safeties were
Speaker 1: why I don't I mean again, I you know, the
Speaker 1: safeties were. Bill Walsh had a rough day and calling.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they thought, maybe they thought it, did
Speaker 1: you know what they hid to be the head coach
Speaker 1: in game Ete, I'm just telling you though that to me,
Speaker 1: you know what, he had done such a great job
Speaker 1: of attacking team's weaknesses. He had and people say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is like Lenahan football. No, I mean the Saints
Speaker 1: didn't Allen said, okay, rush three o'clock, Dak's not gonna
Speaker 1: make a throw. They said, okay, Dak, you're not good
Speaker 1: enough to beat us. I don't care how many throws
Speaker 1: or how good you've looked. You know, they put pressure
Speaker 1: on him to have to make some throws and they
Speaker 1: just couldn't come up with the throws. But the receipts
Speaker 1: didn't win. They didn't win minus scrimmage, running the football,
Speaker 1: you know, all those things that we kind of talked about, Oh,
Speaker 1: the Saints are bad at this. The Saints are bad
Speaker 1: at this, The Saints are bad at this. We went
Speaker 1: through a litany of what the Saints were bad at.
Speaker 1: They kicked your ass and every single one of those
Speaker 1: things you thought they were bad at yesterday. So young
Speaker 1: Bill Walsh had a little problem yesterday calling ball plays. Well,
Speaker 1: old Sean Payton put up twelve points. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: that was all he needed to do with a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback at backup quarterbacks two and I got you, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: and they've they're two and oh because they've they've they
Speaker 1: have complete games, complete performances, special teams. They their fuel
Speaker 1: position is usually pretty good. Five takeaways, takeaways defensively, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're winning with complete football. And that's really what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys did first three games of the season. They just
Speaker 1: don't count that last one is a tackways really four Um,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to accentuate my point. That's a sign
Speaker 1: of a good team. Though. By the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: you go up to Seattle and win that game, and
Speaker 1: then you play this team and do what you did
Speaker 1: with the way the Cowboys had put up offense, I
Speaker 1: don't care who they played the first three games. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's you have to give the Saints some credit. Do
Speaker 1: you think that um playing on the road in a
Speaker 1: loud stadium like that affected of what the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: planned to do in the game as far as what
Speaker 1: run the ball on first down for one or two
Speaker 1: yards to shot? Yeah, I don't think so. I felt
Speaker 1: like he probably felt like watching the tape that did he.
Speaker 1: You know, the Saints had had problems stopping the run.
Speaker 1: The Saints had stopped problems stopping the run though on
Speaker 1: the edges, not inside, you know, and they get rankings
Speaker 1: back and by the way, nobody decided to block Malcolm Brown.
Speaker 1: You don't block Malcolm Brown. I mean, you get what
Speaker 1: you deserve, you know. I mean, that's that's, that's that's
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're that's an all pro center, all
Speaker 1: pro guard, you know, a guy that's trying to find
Speaker 1: his way at left guard. They do have four first
Speaker 1: round draft picks on on their front four. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I tell you like it. And they absolutely played like it.
Speaker 1: They sure did give him credit. They covered, and they
Speaker 1: and they and they they controlled the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you had to do in this football game.
Speaker 1: And they did both and they and they controlled the quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, it didn't let him out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: What what one time when he when he scrambled for
Speaker 1: the first down and got the roughing penalty? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: roughing penalties. Someone said, Okay, how come they call they
Speaker 1: they picked that one up. Yeah, they picked that one up.
Speaker 1: But they didn't on the Dack one because it was
Speaker 1: a forcible blow to the head. Yeah, on the Dack one,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. I was wondering where you were going
Speaker 1: there with that, but yeah, you're right about that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to watch it again too, because my first
Speaker 1: thought was, oh, oh, well, they got away the same,
Speaker 1: but you could see Jalen pulling pulling back he was
Speaker 1: he did not go to the head and the other
Speaker 1: one didn't, and which I didn't see initially, but then
Speaker 1: on the replay you can see it. So there was
Speaker 1: the difference on that. All right, Mickey, how concerned are
Speaker 1: you about the loss of Tyrann Smith. I'm very concerned
Speaker 1: about it. I just think that to the point, would
Speaker 1: you move a guy over, No, I don't want to
Speaker 1: have to maybe weaken two spots for to save one,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna have to give Cam Fleming some help
Speaker 1: over there. I just think that's what they did last year,
Speaker 1: and they got away with it. Now you'll see if
Speaker 1: you can do it again. They win two games with him.
Speaker 1: It left Philadelphia and New Orleans. It did the Saints
Speaker 1: game last year they had and Mickey's right, they gave
Speaker 1: him help. Jason Garrett was asked on the fan your question,
Speaker 1: and he said, well, get into that. But the natural
Speaker 1: move would just be keep everybody where they are and
Speaker 1: move seventy five into that spot and a tight end
Speaker 1: in his hip pocket. Yeah, or fullback, and you're looking
Speaker 1: at a stretch here. Green Bay at the Jets at
Speaker 1: home against Philadelphia, and then the bye week. He would
Speaker 1: hope that Tyrence Smith somehow, some way can make it
Speaker 1: back for the Philadelphia game. Yeah, that's your hope if
Speaker 1: Britt Brown. I mean, he's done some magic with these
Speaker 1: guys here lately. Yeah, you know, I mean, hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna maybe see Michael Gallop this week. You know, just
Speaker 1: keep keep that in moving. How do how does that
Speaker 1: type of injury impact the position he plays? I mean
Speaker 1: as opposed to Yeah, as opposed to other positions. He's
Speaker 1: got to be able to move. He still got to
Speaker 1: be able to push off and be able to test
Speaker 1: it in practice with Robert Quinn and not around him.
Speaker 1: That's about the We can't ask for a better test
Speaker 1: than that. Yeah, you get the pro department a lot
Speaker 1: of credit for Robert Quinn. You know, get those guys
Speaker 1: when you go out and evaluate and you see new
Speaker 1: general manager, Hey we can have this guy for you know,
Speaker 1: the question was is he still have juice left in
Speaker 1: the tank. I think they initially got him thinking that
Speaker 1: maybe they weren't going to get into Marcus Lawrence signed.
Speaker 1: That's probably why I think they were probably look like Okay,
Speaker 1: we have got to get a rusher just in case
Speaker 1: we don't get Yeah, and you got the Gregory news
Speaker 1: in what February and you don't know when he's coming back, obviously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's looking like one of the better moves they've the
Speaker 1: shrewd moves they've made in the last few years. I mean,
Speaker 1: sixth round pick exactly. Injuries held him back a little
Speaker 1: bit the last couple of years. And he's ad team
Speaker 1: playing in a three to four and all that. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is where he's most comfortable rushing, you know what,
Speaker 1: and he's so engaged. He's so laid back, you don't know,
Speaker 1: you know kind of where he's at. But what boy,
Speaker 1: when he gets on the field, he's an engaged player. Yeah. Well, going, Well,
Speaker 1: the other part of it is, and I think you
Speaker 1: can go back to when he came out in the draft.
Speaker 1: I mean from day one for the scouts, coaches whatever,
Speaker 1: they talked about what kind of person Robert Quinn is
Speaker 1: and so they they studied him when they when they
Speaker 1: came out, and they knew what kind of individual they
Speaker 1: were getting, you know, pro who's even late in his career,
Speaker 1: he's going to be taking care of himself and put
Speaker 1: himself in a position to big like, it's a shame
Speaker 1: that last night was wasted on such a great effort,
Speaker 1: because if they win, if they win that game thirteen
Speaker 1: to twelve, all we're talking about is what a badass
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn was right and how you know, now we're
Speaker 1: kind of we're talking about it now, but not to
Speaker 1: the point of, oh my gosh, you see him do this.
Speaker 1: You see him do this, You see him do this,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. I just it's a shame.
Speaker 1: You know, there's some great, some great efforts out there,
Speaker 1: and you know, to waste it on a backup quarterback beat,
Speaker 1: you know the way they did. You know, thinking of
Speaker 1: for thirteen to twelve, how far do you think they
Speaker 1: would have had to get before he gave Miller a
Speaker 1: shot at the at the game winner, he said on
Speaker 1: the fan this morning, I mean he didn't have a
Speaker 1: It sounded like sixty two sixty yards, which would be
Speaker 1: the record what would have been if they try to
Speaker 1: just to line it up right, they were always seventy
Speaker 1: It was seventy. I mean, you know, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: little much. What's the record sixty three four? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got a leg but New Orleans Saint held that record
Speaker 1: for a long time. Sixty It was sixty three with
Speaker 1: Dempsey right right the wooden foot. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: you know, they again, you lose your tackle, you lose
Speaker 1: a ten second runoff that that hurts you at the
Speaker 1: end of the game. That you know, all the all
Speaker 1: the that sack, and that's the and that was they
Speaker 1: hadn't had to sack the whole game. And that's where
Speaker 1: they get it on your right there, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that's the unfortunate thing right there, that you know,
Speaker 1: if you had the ten seconds, maybe you could run
Speaker 1: another play and then you know, because I give I
Speaker 1: give Marcus Williams. I thought about how bad they're safety,
Speaker 1: so I give him some credit from making the tackle
Speaker 1: now as a heck of a tackle, because if Randall
Speaker 1: Coop breaks that, he's going in, I mean, he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's probably gonna fall down, and then he got
Speaker 1: all rally rally. Yeah, at that point, he's either got
Speaker 1: to go in or get out of bound down or
Speaker 1: they were getting far enough down field where they weren't
Speaker 1: gonna be able to clock it. Yeah you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they barely clocked it for the final hill Mary, which
Speaker 1: was a nice play. You look like you're doing a
Speaker 1: three man rush and then you blitz the linebacker lay
Speaker 1: he almost that's why Dak couldn't get the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did that. Dak took a big hit there too,
Speaker 1: took a real big hit on the hail Mary. So, well,
Speaker 1: what's the magic number now? Oh no, that's the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So you look at the past weekend and what happened.
Speaker 1: The Eagles went into Green Bay and one and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose, and so it's now a one game lead
Speaker 1: on the Eagles, and you and the Giants come and
Speaker 1: the Giants too are sitting there at too two and two? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and how do you think the Rams are feeling to
Speaker 1: day too? Tell you Tampa Bay, Tampa did a great job.
Speaker 1: I watched that game pretty extensively. They Tampa did a
Speaker 1: great job, had a great game plan. They attacked from
Speaker 1: the word go. I mean that was great job. I
Speaker 1: mean they and they got to intercept me. They confused
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls did a nice job of confusing that that quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems like what you do confuse him and put
Speaker 1: him in bad weather, and you can usually beat the
Speaker 1: Rams with that guy quarterback. Fifty five points on that
Speaker 1: defense too many? Wow, would have great as to fix it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had Todd Bowles versus Wade Phillips there. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was good. Good Todd did. I mean he did a
Speaker 1: guy's job. I know they got forty, but man, the Rams,
Speaker 1: it was late and it was late second half. I
Speaker 1: mean they were, they were. The Buccaneers came to play.
Speaker 1: They're twenty one to nothing when the thing started. So
Speaker 1: good job on them for going out there at going
Speaker 1: all the way across the country after a tough loss
Speaker 1: against the Giants where all they to do is make
Speaker 1: a damn field goal, that's right, and then they were
Speaker 1: gonna win that game. So and a makable field goal
Speaker 1: they got. So a good offensive coach, yep, absolutely Arians Arians, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Yes, all right, we have much
Speaker 1: more to break down tomorrow here on Talking Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: we'll start turning our attention towards those Green Bay Packers.
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