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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it is time for Mick Shots
Speaker 1: minus the Mick. On the day after the season opener
Speaker 1: of the kickoff to the NFL season in Tampa, Florida,
Speaker 1: Everson some of us made it back in time for
Speaker 1: the show. Headline Act did not make it back for
Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know what Mickey had told me earlier,
Speaker 1: earlier in the week that yeah, he was on that
Speaker 1: seven thirty flight, just like I was. And then I
Speaker 1: get to the airport, there's no Mickey. And now here
Speaker 1: I get to the Star in Frisco and there's no Mickey.
Speaker 1: What is going on with Mickey? It can't be by choice.
Speaker 1: No one wants to stay in Florida overnight. They don't
Speaker 1: have to. Oh yeah, this is definitely something necessary. That's
Speaker 1: why we guys back. There's no problem. Well, maybe he
Speaker 1: got back to his hotel room like I did at
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning and realized oh, this five
Speaker 1: o'clock wake up call for this flight. Maybe I need
Speaker 1: to adjust my schedule. You guys have to be geek. Man,
Speaker 1: y'all have to be geek. Could could you sleep you
Speaker 1: know after the game like that? Well, after the post
Speaker 1: game stuff, you know it. It's the process after the game,
Speaker 1: waiting on the press conferences and then it winds you down. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then the fact that, okay, I have to wake
Speaker 1: up in three hours. That'll wind you down too. But
Speaker 1: Mickey apparently is en route. He is flying here now.
Speaker 1: If it was anything like my flight, he is already
Speaker 1: now supposedly he I think his flight is supposed to
Speaker 1: land at one fifty or two o'clock. Okay, so he
Speaker 1: should be joining us here shortly. If it's anything like
Speaker 1: my flight this morning, his plane has already landed at
Speaker 1: DFW Airport and they're waiting for a gate to open
Speaker 1: for the day. We got good news and bad news
Speaker 1: from the captain. We made it here early, but no
Speaker 1: one was ready for us, so we'll be sitting on
Speaker 1: the runway. Yeah. I told this, bad's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the bathroom like die Hard, reporting from from the rest
Speaker 1: from the lavatory, you know, on the plane trying to
Speaker 1: find out what we're talking about. So we'll hear from
Speaker 1: him some. Okay, So in the meantime, Everson, the floor
Speaker 1: is yours. I can't wait to hear what your take
Speaker 1: is on what happened last night in Tampa. And I
Speaker 1: think that at the conclusion of it, here's the way
Speaker 1: I looked at it. Okay, one game. Now, we got
Speaker 1: a sixteen game regular season still to be played here,
Speaker 1: and so that was the preseason last night. Boy, that
Speaker 1: was a good preseason. The way this man I was
Speaker 1: geeked last night, I was geeked this morning. I just
Speaker 1: loved the game itself. That was real football there. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of scores were put up, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily the traditional defensive struggle that you wanted,
Speaker 1: especially considering Tampa Bay had the number one defense in
Speaker 1: the league and Cowboys came out and diced them up
Speaker 1: from really series one. I thought Dak showed, he showed
Speaker 1: his poise because I'm thinking when the game started, it's
Speaker 1: no way he's gonna be able to calm himself down.
Speaker 1: You know, he hadn't played an eleven months and he's
Speaker 1: coming out here. The hype has been going on all
Speaker 1: off season, especially as we got close to the game,
Speaker 1: just got crazy, crazy hype, everybody questioning him with the shoulder,
Speaker 1: how's the leg gonna look? I was nervous. I was
Speaker 1: probably more nervous than he was. But the Cowboys themselves
Speaker 1: had so much confidence in him, and you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's so refreshing that they have. First of all, they
Speaker 1: paid him, you know, and he had the confidence that
Speaker 1: he was gonna get paid. All this time everybody was saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it's too much money. Now he gets paid. He realizes
Speaker 1: the responsibility, which he always did. But now being able
Speaker 1: to come out and show against the best defense on
Speaker 1: the biggest stage, against probably the best quarterback in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, it was just refreshing and exciting
Speaker 1: to see the Cowboys show some type of not just competence,
Speaker 1: but competitiveness, you know, from both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because I was there doing live
Speaker 1: shots for CBS eleven starting at let's see, the game
Speaker 1: started Eastern time at eight o'clock, and so we started
Speaker 1: at We got there about four o'clock Eastern time, three
Speaker 1: o'clock Dallas time, and Dak was out there was he
Speaker 1: Dack and and Zeke were their first starters that were
Speaker 1: out on the field. The inactives came out and worked
Speaker 1: out for a little bit first, and then the first
Speaker 1: arders out there were Tyring and Lyle they were stretching whatever,
Speaker 1: and then Dak and Zeke where they were out there
Speaker 1: and doing the little yoga routine, the karaoke and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. That's good stuff. And you know that it's
Speaker 1: the process that Dak does. We you know, watch it
Speaker 1: at training camp every day. There's it. I want to say,
Speaker 1: it's probably a pretty much a twenty minute workout that
Speaker 1: he does. Just the bridge poles. I do that in yoga.
Speaker 1: He get the bridge poles. I didn't know he's doing
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Yeah, good for the core, but
Speaker 1: but beyond that, I mean, he works up a really
Speaker 1: good especially in Tampa. You I mean, I was working
Speaker 1: up a good sweat and they he was fully clothed,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, well he uh yeah, had the
Speaker 1: long sleeves, sweats right, sweats on and uh But to
Speaker 1: your point, you know, getting being so hyped, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can compare it with what
Speaker 1: his normal pregame routine is I can compare it to
Speaker 1: what I was seeing on the other end of the field,
Speaker 1: which was no Tampa Bay players out on the field.
Speaker 1: Maybe they had some place to work out, But this
Speaker 1: was literally two hours before the game, and he's out there,
Speaker 1: and I want to say, he's just getting used to
Speaker 1: the elements. He's getting used to the field. He's getting
Speaker 1: you know. And also I think it probably calms him,
Speaker 1: calms him down, and it just makes it especially his
Speaker 1: first game back in eleven months. UH, it got him
Speaker 1: acclimated to the situation. You know. Now he did, he
Speaker 1: did a great job. And yeah, we'll get into this
Speaker 1: all of this later, but I just like the way
Speaker 1: the entire UH team responded because you're talking about being
Speaker 1: out there early. Could you hear yourself talk oh pre game,
Speaker 1: pre game? You could, yeah, but but I mean, and
Speaker 1: and you know that there was an early arriving crowd
Speaker 1: and so on the radio, it was just loud so
Speaker 1: pre game. When the traditional pre game started, which is
Speaker 1: a little less than an hour before kicking off, a
Speaker 1: seven twenty kickoff, and so teams came out around just
Speaker 1: after six twenty and they were already I want to
Speaker 1: say the stands probably were pretty close to be in
Speaker 1: half full because everybody wanted to get there early because
Speaker 1: they were having their Super Bowl ceremony, which was unusual
Speaker 1: that you would have that, you know, because they weren't
Speaker 1: able to really celebrate before, you know, outside of course
Speaker 1: they had their their parade and everything, but but this
Speaker 1: was the first time. You know, I'd forgotten what the
Speaker 1: attendance was at the Super Bowl, and it was twenty
Speaker 1: four thousand and so it was one third the crowd
Speaker 1: at the super Bowl. And of course they aren't Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay fans that even it was their home stadium. There's
Speaker 1: so many corporate tickets that are sold at a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and so this was their opportunity to celebrate, and they
Speaker 1: were made sure that they're going to get be in
Speaker 1: their seat at least a half Yeah, that's right. I know.
Speaker 1: I could hear Bread and Babe trying to try to
Speaker 1: talk over the crowd, and and I remember Babe was
Speaker 1: trying to make a point, and then the middle of
Speaker 1: his point, he goes, man, it is loud, and they
Speaker 1: couldn't even hear themselves talk. There was one other time
Speaker 1: that that I think the Cowboys would have been in
Speaker 1: that same environment, and it was actually a preseason game
Speaker 1: after Seattle. This was back in oh four when Seattle
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl and it was their first
Speaker 1: preseason game. And that stadium is so loud to begin,
Speaker 1: just just the way of it contains the noise in
Speaker 1: there exactly. And we were just doing our pregame hits
Speaker 1: before doing the preseason game, and I Babe's here, I'm
Speaker 1: we're literally a foot apart, and I couldn't hear what
Speaker 1: he was saying, you know it, so that that was true.
Speaker 1: Couldn't hear? Yeah, right, And sort of kind of the
Speaker 1: same environment last night. Uh, But what a great game.
Speaker 1: And who would have thought that Dak would wind up
Speaker 1: in a game you might have predicted fifty eight pass
Speaker 1: attempts for Dak if they were getting blown out, if
Speaker 1: it was like one of those first five games that
Speaker 1: he played in last year, or the first four at
Speaker 1: least that he played in last year. The Cowboys, we're
Speaker 1: falling behind one hundred yards. But I'm saying if they
Speaker 1: had fallen behind twenty one points like they made a
Speaker 1: habit of doing last year, now you're gonna throw it
Speaker 1: fifty eight times. And you know this was in a
Speaker 1: nip and tuck game and you're throwing at fifty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll get to it later. But it's almost as if,
Speaker 1: I guess around the second quarter, it's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: forget this, We're just gonna duel. It's just gonna be
Speaker 1: a duel. It's gonna be two two straight shooters, you know,
Speaker 1: facing each other at sundown or whatever, high noon. And
Speaker 1: that was a high noon shootout, that's what that was.
Speaker 1: And it's almost as if Kellen Moore and and of
Speaker 1: course Brady himself, they just decided to hell with the
Speaker 1: run game. You know, we've got to make it happen
Speaker 1: the way we can. And let's be real, the Cowboy
Speaker 1: was kind of fourth braided into passing the ball. We
Speaker 1: were not going to give up a bunch of running
Speaker 1: yards in this game, no matter what. I want to
Speaker 1: ask you a question, did I see six defensive linemen
Speaker 1: in the game at some point for the Cowboys? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting what the way dan quinn and
Speaker 1: then we're going to be studying it further, but it's
Speaker 1: but it's interesting the way he's using personnel, and it
Speaker 1: may have I love the way, you know, in this
Speaker 1: league you're looking at more and more hybrid type players,
Speaker 1: whether it's hybrid playing a defensive end rushing from inside,
Speaker 1: or a linebacker coming up and so forth. It's more
Speaker 1: of a hybrid defense than you know. He traditionally has
Speaker 1: been a four to three guy, and he has talked
Speaker 1: about it that he is a You're going to see
Speaker 1: more not what you saw last year, but the same
Speaker 1: type ideas of last year in terms of a hybrid
Speaker 1: between a four three and reforms. So there would be
Speaker 1: times where you might see it. And I guess what
Speaker 1: I said, with Parsons being a football player, right, he
Speaker 1: could be part of that, that defensive line, and he chooses.
Speaker 1: The stellar part of it is it's hard to figure
Speaker 1: it out with the number changes to Yeah, Brady made
Speaker 1: himself knowing about that. Yeah, but you know I saw
Speaker 1: what we were definitely stacking the line with Biggs and
Speaker 1: it was a few times Brady came up. Maybe he
Speaker 1: changed a lot of plays. Yes, she is always coming
Speaker 1: up looking around, and you know that's he and Dak
Speaker 1: were kind of doing the same thing. They were noticing
Speaker 1: certain things and you gotta wonder how many times he
Speaker 1: changed from a running play to a passing play. You
Speaker 1: know because they we we we really left him no choice,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know he's like, okay, I can
Speaker 1: I can feast anywhere you want me to feast. And
Speaker 1: even though he did have some good numbers, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: secondary and defense, they had all eyes on the ball.
Speaker 1: I loved it. They were very aggressive and focused and yeah,
Speaker 1: gave up, gave up yours, you know, Tip Brady of course,
Speaker 1: and Gunk and all these great receivers. But I gotta say, man,
Speaker 1: when you when you walk away with four turnovers in
Speaker 1: the game, you gotta be how defense plus three turnovers down,
Speaker 1: You're you're you're thinking you're unless you're going up against
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback, Yeah, you're gonna win the game. Trust me.
Speaker 1: I've been down with Joe going well, all right, think
Speaker 1: about this, um, when you're talking about Brady changing the
Speaker 1: play so much, I think that's your credit to what
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn was doing defensively, of course, and uh think
Speaker 1: about this now. Quinn obviously he was let go early
Speaker 1: last year with Atlanta. However, there are a couple of
Speaker 1: members of this coaching staff who are on the Falcons
Speaker 1: defensive coaching staff last year, adding Dirty as well as
Speaker 1: Joe Witt, the secondary coach to them, well, we'll think
Speaker 1: think about this though. The they Atlanta did not play
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay last year until two of the last three
Speaker 1: games of the season of the regular season, weeks fifteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen. Okay, so that is when Tampa Bay was
Speaker 1: in their stretch of winning eight in a row to
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Week fifteen, the Falcons had the
Speaker 1: Bucks down seventeen to nothing at halftime in that game,
Speaker 1: so they were doing something defensively. Point my point is,
Speaker 1: we have known since the schedule came out that the
Speaker 1: first game is against Tampa Bay. Two members of this
Speaker 1: coaching staff intimately familiar with what Tampa Bay was doing
Speaker 1: from two times playing against him in the last three
Speaker 1: weeks of the season last year. And you know, dan
Speaker 1: Quinn was studying the studying like crazy throughout the last
Speaker 1: five months or however along it's been, and so they
Speaker 1: were breaking out all the stops. But Tampa Bay was
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, same thing, you know, the exact
Speaker 1: same right. The mental the mental fight that was going
Speaker 1: on on the field and off the field, I just
Speaker 1: thought was extremely intrigued. And that's the beauty of these
Speaker 1: openers is they've had so much time to prepare because
Speaker 1: you want to get off to a good start each season.
Speaker 1: And let's say it, regardless of who you're going to
Speaker 1: prepare against for the upcoming games, if you're the Cowboys offense,
Speaker 1: were really the entire team, you have to feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about if you can do this against the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champions in all facets of the game, even the
Speaker 1: running game. You Zie just got thirty three yards, But
Speaker 1: to me, he earned every down. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: that he had some yards after contact, that that showed
Speaker 1: what kind of shape he's in. It shows an improvement
Speaker 1: from last year. He never was close to dropping the
Speaker 1: ball at all in the game. You could see he
Speaker 1: was intense, but yet playing within himself, sacrifice himself on
Speaker 1: many blitzes to what he just threw himself on the sword.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw maturity from players and from a
Speaker 1: team that is totally different from what I saw last year. Right,
Speaker 1: And a lot of times it was Dak putting Zeke
Speaker 1: in position. I mean what Dak did. And Neil Brady's
Speaker 1: the King of Ben he has set protections and so forth.
Speaker 1: Da is really good too. Oh yeah, and they were
Speaker 1: both motioning to Zeke here here you go, and Zeke
Speaker 1: has always been good at past protection. They're getting out
Speaker 1: the huddle early, right, just the things that you saw
Speaker 1: they were. They out of the huddle early when when
Speaker 1: Dak's making his changes, they still got the sixteen seconds
Speaker 1: left on the play cloud. And that's what you need
Speaker 1: to where you're poised. Everyone everyone's on the same page.
Speaker 1: Except for the false start, would be honest, didn't snap
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't think the crowd started the entire
Speaker 1: but really just him. Yeah, so you know, those kinds
Speaker 1: of things didn't bother the Cowboys at all. That was
Speaker 1: the only time I saw who had that crowd as
Speaker 1: loud as it was. They would know if they had
Speaker 1: no effect on us as a team overall. And this
Speaker 1: was different than a lot of games against defending Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champions in that this is a Super Bowl champion
Speaker 1: that literally is bringing everybody back from last year. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, and it played so well down the stretch
Speaker 1: last year and for the first time as a collective group,
Speaker 1: just like all the teams had a full off season
Speaker 1: to be able to work and so forth. Uh, and
Speaker 1: we're going to see going forward, and we saw it
Speaker 1: plenty of it, especially in the first half, antony o'brown
Speaker 1: with you know, that's a totally different element to their offense.
Speaker 1: We kind of touched on twelve games before the game.
Speaker 1: He was prominent in this game, right, yes, right, And
Speaker 1: you could see it coming. All you had to do
Speaker 1: is see what he did down the stretch last year
Speaker 1: and his mind is right. But I think you just
Speaker 1: you credit the Cowboys. You walk away with a bad
Speaker 1: taste in your mouth because you didn't win the game,
Speaker 1: but you feel pretty good about things going forward. And
Speaker 1: as for Cowboys fans or anyone who is doubting this
Speaker 1: team coming in, I think it was sort of a
Speaker 1: confirmation for the players because they knew that they've got
Speaker 1: a good team, you know, but we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to see that because we didn't see that they were
Speaker 1: they didn't play in the preseason. Yeah, we were nervous
Speaker 1: that we were nervous that we may not see it
Speaker 1: because we figured we would and didn't want our hopes
Speaker 1: dash too much. But all expectations were met, especially offensively.
Speaker 1: The culture I talk about, you know, Dan Quinn's defense
Speaker 1: has never been a shutdown defense, but it's always been
Speaker 1: an active defense. And when he first came here, I
Speaker 1: remember saying that about him. You know, they never had
Speaker 1: a bunch of talent on the Falcons team, but they
Speaker 1: had guys flying around making plays when there was you know,
Speaker 1: when there was good for them, especially living off of
Speaker 1: a great offense that had Ryan and Julio Jones and
Speaker 1: these guys that they have. So I'm just liking the activity.
Speaker 1: I'm liking the turnovers, but of course, you know, when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, I still want to see
Speaker 1: better coverage. In the second day that we knew it
Speaker 1: was going to be the weakness, I mean, I knew
Speaker 1: that we would overcompensate with the run, which is what
Speaker 1: we did. You know, there was no factor at all
Speaker 1: in regards to the running game, and you knew Brady
Speaker 1: was going to open it up. You knew you were
Speaker 1: gonna have problems with these three wide receivers, and I
Speaker 1: was a bit surprised. Mike Evans, yep, I was disappointed
Speaker 1: in him. He seemed to be not engaged at all
Speaker 1: in this ball game. And I'm wondering if it was
Speaker 1: Trey Vaughn that was really giving them some hassles. The
Speaker 1: active zone that we had two passes really could have
Speaker 1: been just with a little bit extra effort, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit bad throat, could have had two more interceptions
Speaker 1: underneath Jordan Lewis. As much as I keep wanting to discount,
Speaker 1: this guy came up and made really some key plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, he has some issues just by the size
Speaker 1: of him. Honest, I don't know how he does it.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's smacked nol out there run around.
Speaker 1: But this guy still active, and that when you're that
Speaker 1: small and you have a good team around you, it's
Speaker 1: easy to blend in with that same activity. And he
Speaker 1: always did have activity, but it just needed help. The
Speaker 1: way we approached the ball player, the way that we
Speaker 1: left no way out when we with good tackling, we
Speaker 1: didn't see small plays turning into big, goofy plays that
Speaker 1: made us look so incompetent. You saw none of that.
Speaker 1: You saw guys getting beat. Now it's football, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get beat. But you didn't see a lack of continuity
Speaker 1: from an entire defense. That's the kind of culture I
Speaker 1: wanted around here. You know, the flex defense. Come on,
Speaker 1: we're back in the secondary of giving it up back
Speaker 1: in the eighties, but we were getting ours. We were
Speaker 1: giving it up because it's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: But we were getting ours. You have to get yours, Bill,
Speaker 1: I always talk about that, you gotta get your turnovers
Speaker 1: when it's time, and those want accidental turnovers. That was
Speaker 1: the turns because guys had their eyes on the ball
Speaker 1: and they were aggressive. All right, And let's get into
Speaker 1: more of that when we come back here on Mick Shots.
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Speaker 1: off the season. I can't wait to see how the
Speaker 1: how the Washington football team plays because everyone's saying that's
Speaker 1: our that's our main competician for the NFC East. I
Speaker 1: have to see how well this defense. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: still gonna play. That's still gonna play well defensively. But
Speaker 1: what's the change with Fitzpatrick coming in? That's I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be very curious to see. Okay, so big picture, where
Speaker 1: are the Cowboys now in your opinion to what they
Speaker 1: were at this time yesterday. As far as the chances
Speaker 1: of having a postseason this year, well, you can definitely
Speaker 1: say they had him as a division winner. I still do.
Speaker 1: Oh you had him going to the super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: in your opinion, things haven't changed the actually what you expected.
Speaker 1: I thought that they would lose the way they did.
Speaker 1: I actually thought it would be by two scores. And
Speaker 1: we all kind of agreed that, you know, the cowboysn't
Speaker 1: been at the end, and of course, you know, Brady
Speaker 1: would make a play down the field, and it was
Speaker 1: a lot closer than we thought. But still the outcome
Speaker 1: was the same. You know, you're not going to stop
Speaker 1: an experienced quarterback that wasn't talent, that won their game
Speaker 1: in a two minute stretch. It was that was just experience,
Speaker 1: That's all that was. Because if you looked at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys team last night, I still thought they win the game.
Speaker 1: I still think we may go O and two. You
Speaker 1: know that that is a tougher sell in my own
Speaker 1: mind right now, but I'm gonna stick with my guns.
Speaker 1: Still think we end up o and two. But this
Speaker 1: team is ready to explode. They are. They are. What
Speaker 1: you saw was a team that's learning a new system. Okay, Defensively,
Speaker 1: they went up against you know, one of the better
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and athletes in history, and they held their own.
Speaker 1: They gave up three hundred plus years, yes, but they
Speaker 1: held their own. So what they did was they kind
Speaker 1: of changed the narrative from everyone else. They didn't believe
Speaker 1: even those doubters are thinking like whoa, because of course
Speaker 1: they they, you know, hold Brady in such high esteem.
Speaker 1: The fact that you performed like that against him, that
Speaker 1: gives everyone pause. And that's where we already were in
Speaker 1: this room. So I saw a Dallas team that was
Speaker 1: in shape. Did you see how Tampa's defense looked a
Speaker 1: bit fatigue? They looked tired, and the boys were bringing
Speaker 1: it to them offensively, right. I love watching that. We
Speaker 1: looked like we were in much better shape and it
Speaker 1: looked like we were the ones in control down the stretch.
Speaker 1: You are thinking more in the front seven or the
Speaker 1: back end. As far as that goes, I would say
Speaker 1: the front seven because the linebackers for Tampa they were
Speaker 1: they were They were blowing, they were blowing. They were
Speaker 1: have critical. Those those two linebackers, Lavante David and Devin
Speaker 1: White are critical to that defense and they were. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of heart. They were they showed they
Speaker 1: were great players. They played extremely fatigued and they were
Speaker 1: still making play. They were so happy to see a
Speaker 1: running play. That was their reprieved because when they were
Speaker 1: trying to cover the past. The Cowboys had forced them
Speaker 1: to go into a zone a lot of the times
Speaker 1: because we were picking on the little cornerback over there,
Speaker 1: and so those linebackers had to work a little bit
Speaker 1: harder in that zone coverage, and you could see that
Speaker 1: they were taxed a little bit. Yep. Um. So when
Speaker 1: what sticks out more than let's let's talk about different uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk about down the stretch. Okay, the the third
Speaker 1: and eleven Dak to cdee Lamb thirty one yards just
Speaker 1: a huge play, I mean, and that's coming through in
Speaker 1: the clutch. Okay. So now you're down there at the
Speaker 1: third and eleven in the final two minutes, No way
Speaker 1: you're gonna make that. And and you're down now into
Speaker 1: quote unquote field goal range at the thirty four yard line.
Speaker 1: Did what about the approach once they got to that point? Well,
Speaker 1: it never changed that Tampa Bay uses their timeouts, okay,
Speaker 1: And and what I liked about it was we still realize,
Speaker 1: we still realized that that zeke could be used at
Speaker 1: that point. I believe we in we threw some running
Speaker 1: games in, some running plays in, and we needed to.
Speaker 1: We needed to at that point. I like I like that.
Speaker 1: I like those calls down the stretch because that's softened
Speaker 1: things up in the middle, and they gave that even
Speaker 1: more more room behind those linebackers in the zone that
Speaker 1: they were playing. That's why he was able to steal
Speaker 1: move the ball down the field. See the overall game plan. U.
Speaker 1: Normally you wouldn't like throwing fifty eight passes in a
Speaker 1: close game like that, but against this defense and who
Speaker 1: can quarrel with the production that they have. But having
Speaker 1: said that, when you get down to that situation where
Speaker 1: you're down inside two minutes and okay, they're going to
Speaker 1: use their timeouts, you have to get a first down
Speaker 1: at that point. And there's other situations where if you
Speaker 1: have a lead in your four minute offense, you have
Speaker 1: to be able to run between the tackles and get
Speaker 1: first down. And that's where they the Cowboys could not
Speaker 1: get that first down. That extended to where you then
Speaker 1: are taking the clock down to nothing in kicking the field.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised about that. I mean, you know, Tampa's
Speaker 1: a smart team. They're thinking just like us. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're already ahead of us. We're thinking about this post game.
Speaker 1: They already thought about the pregame. They knew that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were going to eventually have to try and change
Speaker 1: it up, and they were always ready for the run.
Speaker 1: The linebackers sniffed it out so quickly for Tampa that
Speaker 1: it was amazing that we sometimes got out of the back,
Speaker 1: out of our own backfield. So you've really stuck with
Speaker 1: what's been working for you, Bill, you know, don't You
Speaker 1: really don't want to try and change it right now.
Speaker 1: You know, what we're doing is we're having long handoffs
Speaker 1: down the field. That's all that are right, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going four and six yards, you know, little dinkers here,
Speaker 1: dinkers there. And that's why the production was so good
Speaker 1: as far as percentage was concerned, which is Brady has
Speaker 1: made a Hall of fame living doing that same stuff
Speaker 1: and being patient and then hitting the shorts down. They
Speaker 1: were mirrors mirrors of each other at quarter hurts some Okay,
Speaker 1: So we're in that situation where okay, it's get the
Speaker 1: holding call that sets him back. Now you're third and
Speaker 1: sixteen at the forty yard line, complete to Cooper down
Speaker 1: back to the thirty yard line. So now you're in
Speaker 1: position for zero lines forty eight yard field go at
Speaker 1: fourth and six for a minute and a half left.
Speaker 1: Do you think about going forth there? You just don't.
Speaker 1: You just don't. Did not either, But no one who's
Speaker 1: on that other sideline. Yeah, you gotta go with. You
Speaker 1: gotta go with is the Aaron Rodgers thing from last year.
Speaker 1: And that's what they keep talking about championship game. That's
Speaker 1: what they keep talking about. I still it's still in
Speaker 1: that situation, fourth and six at the thirty yards. We're
Speaker 1: not talking about fourth and two or not. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: my mind, it didn't even occur to me that you
Speaker 1: would go forward and that there are times when you
Speaker 1: have to just go with the traditional train of thought.
Speaker 1: You know, you keep trying to get cute with it
Speaker 1: because of who you're playing against. Really, the only the
Speaker 1: adjustment they made based on who they were playing against
Speaker 1: was how they came got away from the running game.
Speaker 1: And finally Kellen Moore was like, look, we're we're just
Speaker 1: gonna have We're gonna dule it out. Zee, just just
Speaker 1: be ready, man, Dak will take Dak will put you
Speaker 1: in position. You know you we're gonna have you been
Speaker 1: our workhorse right now, you're gonna protect the quarterback and
Speaker 1: we're just gonna dule it out with this guy because
Speaker 1: we don't have time against this defense to try and
Speaker 1: establish something this game. Forget the game plan. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna go manua mono. And basically that's what it was.
Speaker 1: Because a defense like that, we'll take you out of
Speaker 1: the game plan. All right, now we're talking manua mono.
Speaker 1: Now now, Okay, Tampa Bay's got the ball, and I
Speaker 1: think there's not a soul in that stadium who didn't
Speaker 1: realize that Tom Brady is going to matriculate down the
Speaker 1: I felt like a genius because I told you this
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. Okay, right, we all said it in here. However,
Speaker 1: all right, it's second and it's twenty five seconds left. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's twenty four seconds left, second and ten at the
Speaker 1: forty two yard line. Right now, you''s a sixty yard
Speaker 1: field goal. Okay, back shoulder, Chris Godwin, Jordan Lewis defending.
Speaker 1: Was it a push off? That's a push off? Come on.
Speaker 1: He didn't extend his fore arm, but he certainly extended
Speaker 1: his entire body and shoulder and elbow to push him off.
Speaker 1: And the only thing he did was disguised it because
Speaker 1: he didn't extend his arm, but his entire body leaned
Speaker 1: on him, gave him the shoulder. Basically, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a flip. He gave him a flip and he went flying.
Speaker 1: He didn't just slip down. That wasn't a slip down fall.
Speaker 1: That was a you know, I've been I wouldn't say catapulted,
Speaker 1: but I definitely had help in regards to how quickly
Speaker 1: I went backwards. It was easy. It was an easy call.
Speaker 1: That was an easy come. That's fine. You see what
Speaker 1: was that last year or two years ago? Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: got that call and he flopped like he was playing
Speaker 1: European soccer or something. And you can't you tell me
Speaker 1: we can't get that call. That was not a flop
Speaker 1: and that was not a slipper. You know, they get
Speaker 1: the call we got, We got that call. They called
Speaker 1: that on us. Were we at home or was that
Speaker 1: in the so far? Was that in so far? When
Speaker 1: Jayalen Ramsey right, you're so far? Okay? So they got
Speaker 1: that call at home? Yeah? Yeah, season opener last year?
Speaker 1: It was it was the home field advantage, that's what
Speaker 1: it was. Right. The referees gave him, gave him, gave
Speaker 1: him grace. Imagine if if the Cowboys get that call,
Speaker 1: then you shut them back. It's eighteen seconds left. It's
Speaker 1: open unless Aaron Rodgers comes to town. Something right. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's on the other side. Yeah, but he can't move
Speaker 1: like God, because you know we're gonna bring it. Man,
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring it to him. But at that point
Speaker 1: they just get shut back to what would be their
Speaker 1: own forty three. But they need to get to about
Speaker 1: the thirty five for a fifty three yard field goal.
Speaker 1: It's not like that. It's doable. Yeah, especially with Brady.
Speaker 1: I just just from the standpoint a theater. Okay, give
Speaker 1: us some drama. Come on. It's almost as if the
Speaker 1: rest were like it was a foreguard conclusion for them
Speaker 1: as well. And so you can't get well, he's gonna
Speaker 1: do it, He's gonna do it. Let's see field, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get out of the stadium.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna throw this. That's when the narrative gets
Speaker 1: in the way of the real game. That's when the
Speaker 1: narrative gets in the way of the game. I hate
Speaker 1: that because we start giving people the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt all the time. The referees are human too. Imagine though,
Speaker 1: if they've made that call, and now let's see if
Speaker 1: Brady can get him in a position for a field
Speaker 1: goal in the last eighteen seconds, I think that would
Speaker 1: have allowed us to win that ball game. I truly
Speaker 1: believe that. But like we said, we knew how it
Speaker 1: was going to end up. And when we had a
Speaker 1: feeling that the Cowboys would stay close, I never thought
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys would take the lead. I didn't see
Speaker 1: that coming. I thought we would be extremely competent in
Speaker 1: the game, but I didn't know we would handle that
Speaker 1: defense as well as we did. Uh that through for
Speaker 1: four hundred. But I thought it'd being ugly four hundred. No,
Speaker 1: that was a master for four hundred. It was just
Speaker 1: the way they planned it. Uh. And like I said,
Speaker 1: instead of trying to run the ball, we're just instead,
Speaker 1: we're just bringing the linebackers up and throwing it behind them.
Speaker 1: So we're getting four six yards eight yards. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about this core of receivers and tight ends,
Speaker 1: I mean you had catches and then you had yards
Speaker 1: after the catch. That's what I was impressing me. When
Speaker 1: Ceedee finally was getting stuff together. That was a huge
Speaker 1: play when I think he called a curl route and
Speaker 1: he turned quickly. The defenders had no chance right to
Speaker 1: saw that explosion equipments to get to and even Mary
Speaker 1: Cooper just in those web very just more of a
Speaker 1: minuscule moment as we were marching. He gets you the ball,
Speaker 1: immediately turns and goes up field. There's no wait, let
Speaker 1: me see where I'm going. Immediately he broke two tackles
Speaker 1: and then getting up like five extra yards when he
Speaker 1: really should have gotten only about six yards. He ended
Speaker 1: up getting like maybe eleven twelve yards. All of those things.
Speaker 1: That is a team that is focused. Okay, they are
Speaker 1: in tune with each other. Everyone knows exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1: You saw Zeke Elliott. Zeke knew it. By the time
Speaker 1: this game had had gone into the second quarter. He's thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm not getting a hundred today, but I can do
Speaker 1: some other stuff right and he it was. It was seamless.
Speaker 1: There was no bad body language, you know, it was
Speaker 1: only throwing his head in that one time he got
Speaker 1: he got knocked backwards and one of the livebackers came in.
Speaker 1: He threw us by the end, got knocked backwards and
Speaker 1: stayed on his feet and attacked again. By that time
Speaker 1: the ball was gone. So just the effort from both sides. Really,
Speaker 1: that's what made it an exciting game, the effort from
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Speaker 1: you know me and you on the same So am
Speaker 1: I hearing that? We've heard something from Mickey? He's trying
Speaker 1: to he's on the phone. He is on the line
Speaker 1: now if we can have a meddlement. Hey, Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1: Bag Mickey? Did you oversleep your You said that you
Speaker 1: were gonna be on my seven thirty fight out of
Speaker 1: Tampa this morning. What happened? It's a long story. We
Speaker 1: don't have We all got five minutes, bags man, come on,
Speaker 1: what's up? Okay? We need your take. We need I
Speaker 1: wonder if Beam is ready for this. We need a
Speaker 1: parting mix shot from ready. So what do you know, Mickey? Well, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I kept I kept hearing things about people
Speaker 1: talking about this was a moral victory for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's only a moral victory when
Speaker 1: you don't think you can go out there and win.
Speaker 1: And obviously the way they played, uh, they thought they
Speaker 1: should have won, and they should have won. To me, Uh,
Speaker 1: they left and I wrote it in my column. I
Speaker 1: could count fifteen points they left on the field, and
Speaker 1: it's almost like they beat themselves. You're first in goal
Speaker 1: at the eighth you can't come away. Was a field goal, Yep,
Speaker 1: you have a thirty one yard field goal. You can't miss,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, And you can't miss an extra point. They
Speaker 1: just left so many points on the field. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you when they go back and look at this thing,
Speaker 1: they're going to be sick to their stomach that they
Speaker 1: could have gone in there, in that atmosphere and beaten
Speaker 1: the defending world champs. And I'll guarantee you. And I
Speaker 1: know Bruce arians was against all this, all this celebration stuff,
Speaker 1: and he was trying to preach to his team this
Speaker 1: ain't last year's team. This is a new year or
Speaker 1: a new team. We hadn't done nothing yet, right, and
Speaker 1: they almost got it right between their eyes. Well, I like,
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about as far as leaving
Speaker 1: stuff on the fields bags, because when Dak was rolling right,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson was open. Came open a bit late, and
Speaker 1: you could tell that Dak's vision was a little you know,
Speaker 1: a little it was it was. It was compromised by
Speaker 1: two Tampa Bay defenders, one of them was covering someone
Speaker 1: and like I said, it came open late. That's when
Speaker 1: he threw the ball out to Zeke. I think Zeke
Speaker 1: got down to the two yard line or something like that.
Speaker 1: If he would have either made his mind and got
Speaker 1: it to Zeke sooner or waited a bit longer, he
Speaker 1: could have gotten it to Cedric Wilson in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Either one of those I think could have been a touchdown.
Speaker 1: That was a key actually miss. Yeah. Actually after actually
Speaker 1: after the game, when he did his interview, he said
Speaker 1: that he got the ball to Zeke too late. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, by his time I decided that's where I
Speaker 1: was going. He goes, it was too late that I
Speaker 1: almost looked like that Aaron Rodgers played last year. It
Speaker 1: almost looked like that Aaron Rodgers last year. Do I
Speaker 1: take off and run? Should I've gotten it to him sooner?
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he's in no man's land.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can go through this game and and
Speaker 1: not just the things I mentioned that, you know what
Speaker 1: kind of had to do with scoring, which I can
Speaker 1: give you five plays that any one of them would
Speaker 1: have caused the Cowboys to win if it had turned
Speaker 1: out differently. It was that close the offense and defense.
Speaker 1: But again, you know, we talked about the defense. Looks
Speaker 1: like it was going to be better. They got absolutely
Speaker 1: no pressure on Tom Brady. H And you know, I
Speaker 1: know Antonio Brown beat U Anthony Brown on the forty
Speaker 1: seven yard touchdown, But he had all day to throw
Speaker 1: the ball all day. Bill. We talked about it when
Speaker 1: we did that segment with you out on the Bay River.
Speaker 1: He sat how many times did he pat the ball
Speaker 1: before he threw it? You know you laughed when I
Speaker 1: said that, But no, no, that's what happened on that play.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about that play, and this is why
Speaker 1: you need to know what's going on and what the
Speaker 1: tendencies are of Tom Brady. I heard Chris Collins was
Speaker 1: say it last year. Anytime Tom Brady gets on the
Speaker 1: other side of the fifty yard line, he's gonna go deep.
Speaker 1: He did in the first half, came and works with Brown,
Speaker 1: and in the second half he tried it, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden Brown was ready for it. In the
Speaker 1: second half, when they get on the other side of
Speaker 1: the fifty yard line, you give him a first down,
Speaker 1: a second is short, Brady is going for the end zone.
Speaker 1: That is the tail on him that goes all the
Speaker 1: way back to when he was a young man. When
Speaker 1: you get on the other side of the fifty yard line.
Speaker 1: We're going deep, and we're not doing it with the
Speaker 1: slot guy. We're gonna do it on the outside. That
Speaker 1: I know, and I don't even play ball anymore. Chris
Speaker 1: collins Worth knows it. He doesn't play ball anymore. These
Speaker 1: are the kind of things that you got to be
Speaker 1: in tune all the time. And you know why he
Speaker 1: does it because you've now moved into four down territory
Speaker 1: and if he looks at it as an extra play
Speaker 1: and he might get a PI, so you really have
Speaker 1: there's no really no downside to that, and that's been
Speaker 1: his strategy his entire career. I just know that Quinn
Speaker 1: told the secondary that that was gonna happen, because if
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth knows it, and if I know it, I
Speaker 1: know the coaches know it. Yeah. But then it gave
Speaker 1: new meeting to the Statue of Liberty plate. He stood
Speaker 1: there like the Statue of Liberty, no one around him,
Speaker 1: and had all day to throw the ball right. So
Speaker 1: for me, the defense, you know, we talked about it
Speaker 1: looked like this to look like that it was improving,
Speaker 1: but they still gave up thirty points. They gave up
Speaker 1: thirty points. Point big man, this is Tampa Bay. You
Speaker 1: think there's gonna come in and handle tom Brady like that? No,
Speaker 1: how about giving up twenty eight points? Well, they did
Speaker 1: give up twenty eight points and then there was a
Speaker 1: push off, Mickey, Was that a push off? I think
Speaker 1: it was a pretty good shove. I think even the referee.
Speaker 1: The referee said it was a push off. He called it.
Speaker 1: I heard the analysts, look one, you know one twenty four?
Speaker 1: You know what when? When when they when they kicked
Speaker 1: the field goal? And I saw one twenty four? I said,
Speaker 1: oh no, everybody did everybody for a field goal? Mickey,
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this now, because this is what's
Speaker 1: being talked about on sports talk radio. As you turn
Speaker 1: on your car radio and you leave the airport, all right,
Speaker 1: fourth and six with a minute twenty four left, fourth
Speaker 1: and six at the thirty, do you go for it
Speaker 1: and not kick the forty eight yard field goal knowing
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady's on the other sideline. No. My my
Speaker 1: thinking was you don't kick the field goal because I
Speaker 1: don't trust the kicker. Oh yeah's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we have to do. We have to get So if
Speaker 1: you were if you were making the call. You would
Speaker 1: have gone for it, not because it's Brady on the
Speaker 1: other sideline, but because you don't trust that the kickers
Speaker 1: going back the field. And I think when it got
Speaker 1: to to that that fourth and six, I think you
Speaker 1: had to go ahead and kick the field goal and
Speaker 1: just hope your defense can hang in. But I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I was being so facetious, man, I ain't
Speaker 1: trusting this guy, especially after his performance. Well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I had a feeling he would come through those bags.
Speaker 1: I was always worried about that in preseason. You know,
Speaker 1: when he's not kicking, not kicking in training camp, and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, he'll turn it on. He only needs
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks to be ready. And then he
Speaker 1: shanks a thirty one yard or extra point. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: and then the extra point off the upright, come jesus.
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be okay. Those bags. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be okay. I think he got the jitters
Speaker 1: out of the way. I think their line is going
Speaker 1: to be just fine. That for the that was that
Speaker 1: was huge in his eyes. Now, no, it was that
Speaker 1: was huge for him. He gained his confidence back again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the big thing is he okay physically? I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was it. There was the reason for
Speaker 1: the inconsistency because he's has a lingering issue there and
Speaker 1: the and was it by design they were kicking off
Speaker 1: to the just my understanding that they were trying to
Speaker 1: kick short because the one time they did it, they
Speaker 1: stopped them at the twenty, right, Okay, it's five yards
Speaker 1: and then got greedy and then they're not covering it
Speaker 1: and then Mickums made him look like a man that's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if we'll get into this next week, this this week,
Speaker 1: but next week, but I special teams. Yeah, would definitely
Speaker 1: have to give them a flunking grade. Oh oh no, absolutely.
Speaker 1: The tackling wasn't good. No, uh. And and it set
Speaker 1: up some easy scores for them, It really did, it
Speaker 1: really did. And then and then what Tampa Bay was
Speaker 1: able to do with their punter um, you know, pinning
Speaker 1: the Cowboys down and their own end of the field
Speaker 1: and several times and then making the field goal. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, Mickey guy didn't miss his thirty six yards
Speaker 1: or didn't it's right, uh, Mick, and I believe he
Speaker 1: made all his extra point the temps. Yeah, okay, it
Speaker 1: was only drama on our kickings, you know what. And
Speaker 1: I was thinking, and I got to go back and
Speaker 1: look at it. I was thinking when I was flying,
Speaker 1: had they made the extra point at some point, they
Speaker 1: would have had an opportunity to go for two maybe right, Yes,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have been two points lead. You wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been two points behind or two point three ahead. What
Speaker 1: do you want now? You want to chase points? Now
Speaker 1: that late I'm chasing. So it was sport. Well, let's
Speaker 1: say it's fourteen thirteen, then a field goal. Cowboys took
Speaker 1: the lead at sixteen fourteen late in the second quarter.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, of course, came right back and took the
Speaker 1: lead right back thirty eight seconds later. It's twenty one
Speaker 1: sixteen play half, make it two plays, okay, and so
Speaker 1: then a field goal to start the third quarter. It's
Speaker 1: twenty one nineteen. That was the four mentioned the first
Speaker 1: and goal at the eight possession and next possession, let's
Speaker 1: an interception then the Tampa Bay made it twenty eight
Speaker 1: eight to nineteen. So your opportunity, well, you scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown in your next possession and that made it twenty
Speaker 1: eight twenty six. So the chart, would it would not
Speaker 1: tell you to go for two at that point to
Speaker 1: make it twenty eight twenty seven obviously, because if you
Speaker 1: if you don't get it, you're only down. I mean
Speaker 1: you're down three instead of two, right it mathematically it
Speaker 1: didn't make sense. Then well, Mickey, you got your bag
Speaker 1: right now? It sounds like it sounds like it sounds
Speaker 1: like Mickey got to his car a lot quicker than
Speaker 1: I did this morning. Mickey, it took me an hour
Speaker 1: and a half after the plane landed. We waited a
Speaker 1: half hour for the gate to open for us. We
Speaker 1: were early, of course, and then I had then I
Speaker 1: came in at a different terminal than where my truck was.
Speaker 1: It took an hour and a half for me to
Speaker 1: just get to my truck after we landed. Well, to
Speaker 1: see you getting benefits when you show up at at
Speaker 1: two o'clock that early in the morning. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll have plenty to talk about come Monday, because it's
Speaker 1: a great Sunday coming up. What time Monday one thirty? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going every day, every day, every day you're on
Speaker 1: at every day okay until further notice? All right, right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: who's missoo? Playing Kentucky. Kentucky. Oh, that's a big SEC battle,
Speaker 1: all right. And you don't know who Grambling is playing,
Speaker 1: right Grambling, though, I don't. I have no idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know we won. Yeah, the state two tall Jones team.
Speaker 1: That's try out bragging right to the next golf tournament.
Speaker 1: I see him at all, right, And so that does
Speaker 1: it for mix shots, and we will see you again
Speaker 1: Monday at one thirty. Go Cowboys. This has been a
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