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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty three, Season eighteen, Episode number one,
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Speaker 1: Life nest WBC Mortgage studios at the Star wake up
Speaker 1: over their amber. It's time to talk about some Cowboys football.
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and man, it feels good, doesn't feel good? Nick?
Speaker 1: Like Nimmi and Nicko last and I were like the
Speaker 1: first experience. It's not often after twenty three years we
Speaker 1: could do something for the first time. That was the
Speaker 1: first time went at Tampa. We've had a no, well,
Speaker 1: we've had a road playoff game. Oh that we were
Speaker 1: actually on a flight coming back and we weren't like,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have shows this week, Like what are
Speaker 1: we gonna do this week? Like it was actually like, oh,
Speaker 1: we got another game. Yeah, draft show. Well, I will
Speaker 1: say this, I was already on the horn this morning,
Speaker 1: and I'm not stepping I hope I'm not stepping out
Speaker 1: my boundaries. But I told people, all right, guys, just
Speaker 1: keep watching tape. Man, we'll get that. Keep just keep
Speaker 1: watching tape, you know, get your notes together, and eventually
Speaker 1: they're gonna ask us to come in there. But right now,
Speaker 1: right now, we're gonna we're gonna keep keep playing football here.
Speaker 1: It's what we're gonna do. I failed you, guys. You know,
Speaker 1: I told you I would. I was gonna capture a
Speaker 1: moment for y'all for YouTube, and I didn't. We were
Speaker 1: on the sideline and now we were looking the game
Speaker 1: and finished and all that, and I turned around and
Speaker 1: then I see you too. Your faces were like lit up,
Speaker 1: like your eyes were You weren't crying, right, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, but you can see the shine and the
Speaker 1: emotion you guys were talking about it. I'm like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: let me get my phone. And then I took I
Speaker 1: took it out and as I was about to start snapping,
Speaker 1: some of the linemens start running down and we're about
Speaker 1: to get run over. Uh. I did next week, I
Speaker 1: will capture that moment. I'll tell you what you have
Speaker 1: it and you can frame it at your house. You
Speaker 1: will get tears of joy if somehow on Saturday the
Speaker 1: Giants find a way to beat Philadelphia and you find
Speaker 1: a way to beat San Francisco. Oh yeah, that would
Speaker 1: be tears of joy right here if you can somehow
Speaker 1: host this h NFC championship. But a lot of work
Speaker 1: still to be by, a lot of teams. I gotta
Speaker 1: I got a little missd eide Nick when you came
Speaker 1: over in game, a little pound after the game, because
Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, this is this new, this is different,
Speaker 1: this feels different, this feels very You know what's funny
Speaker 1: is being as old as I am. I was at
Speaker 1: the game the last time, Like we've talked about the
Speaker 1: last time they won a road playoff game, and it
Speaker 1: was like thirty years ago, and so you think about it,
Speaker 1: you know, all these days of working with the team
Speaker 1: and stuff, and you've never you know, you never had
Speaker 1: that experience. So yeah, and really I'm happy for I'm
Speaker 1: happy for the you know, the coaching staff, happy for
Speaker 1: the players, happy for you guys too. It's it makes
Speaker 1: all our jobs so much easier when this team finds
Speaker 1: ways to win. We always talk about that, but and honestly,
Speaker 1: it's it's the truth. It really does make a big,
Speaker 1: big difference as you get through this. Let's dive in
Speaker 1: because I think we have to start the show talking
Speaker 1: about the actually showing it on TV right now. But
Speaker 1: four last night, Dak Prescott played out of his freaking mind. Uh.
Speaker 1: He goes twenty five or thirty three, three hundred and
Speaker 1: five yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, not even anything that
Speaker 1: looked like it could have been an interception. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three point. The gall touchdown was close.
Speaker 1: Maybe I got it was like what gave me there?
Speaker 1: That was a little that was a little touchy, but
Speaker 1: day you got it there? Um and uh. And then
Speaker 1: he also had which I thought was really key, the
Speaker 1: seven rushes with twenty four yards and a touchdown. We
Speaker 1: talked last week about the fact that if they were
Speaker 1: going to win, if Dak was going to be successful,
Speaker 1: he was going to have to be the deck that
Speaker 1: we grew up on, the dack from twenty sixteen and seventeen,
Speaker 1: where he was unafraid to run the ball when he
Speaker 1: saw opportunities. We saw a lot of that last night.
Speaker 1: What did you guys see from Dak and what were
Speaker 1: your impressions? I think you said at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: like Dak, this was going into the game. This was
Speaker 1: probably the biggest game of his career because of the stage,
Speaker 1: the way he's been playing. Who's going up with facing
Speaker 1: on the other side, and he answered the call. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had the best game of his career. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. I mean this, this was so important
Speaker 1: to him in his career and he went out and
Speaker 1: carried the team. And not everybody should get the credit.
Speaker 1: And I mean more people will get credit, but quarterbacks
Speaker 1: take the blame. They get the bulk of the credit.
Speaker 1: Dak deserves it. It was the biggest stage of his
Speaker 1: career and I think he had the best game of
Speaker 1: his career. I freaking loved everything that he did yesterday.
Speaker 1: And just Nick said, he carried the team and that's
Speaker 1: one of the things we don't tend to see very
Speaker 1: much is him fully carry And that's what that game
Speaker 1: felt like. It felt like Dak was being the quarterback
Speaker 1: that you need him to be and the fact that
Speaker 1: he was able to use his feet and be that,
Speaker 1: like the type of quarterback that can escape and run
Speaker 1: and use that ability, which I feel we haven't guying
Speaker 1: to see that whole lot this year. Either. He's done
Speaker 1: it a few times, but nothing close to what he
Speaker 1: did yesterday. I thought it was amazing. And I love
Speaker 1: the way that he handled the whole week, coming back
Speaker 1: after that terrible loss against Washington to finish the season
Speaker 1: in such a sour note and then he plays this way.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely impressive and amazing. Yeah, we've talked about this
Speaker 1: a bunch on this show. Is if you get him
Speaker 1: a little bloodied, a little muddied, and maybe have a
Speaker 1: little clump of grass right in the side of his helmet,
Speaker 1: it kind of kind of makes him he gets a
Speaker 1: feel of the game. The line did a tremendous job
Speaker 1: last night. Tampa pass rush nonexistent. You had to control
Speaker 1: the middle. They controlled the middle. They stood an injury
Speaker 1: to a tackle in the game until they shuffled around again.
Speaker 1: Kind of something they've been doing. You. Your Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame right, your Hall of Fame tackle at right tackle
Speaker 1: played really well for you last night, and so you
Speaker 1: know that's Those are the kinds of things. But when
Speaker 1: you look at Dak. It was one of those games
Speaker 1: where everything that was in front of him, he saw
Speaker 1: everything that opened up. When we're all you guys in
Speaker 1: the press box, me and a radio studio and he's
Speaker 1: running to his left and you're like, throw it away,
Speaker 1: throw it away, throw it away, and Dalton Schultz uncovers
Speaker 1: himself and you're like, wow, he saw that. He saw,
Speaker 1: He anticipated Dalton Schultz making a move to get away
Speaker 1: from the corner and make himself open, and Dak fires
Speaker 1: in the ball and we're all screaming, thinking disaster and
Speaker 1: what does he do? Those are right to where he
Speaker 1: needed the throws. That's kind of his game last night,
Speaker 1: where it was just and we've I know, I've been
Speaker 1: super critical of Dak and how you see the field.
Speaker 1: He saw everything that the Buccaneers were trying to do
Speaker 1: to him last night. Yeah. I think the thing for
Speaker 1: me coming out of that game is you can question
Speaker 1: a lot of things about Dak Prescott, and trust me,
Speaker 1: people have over the last couple weeks. Never should anybody
Speaker 1: question this guy's mental toughness because his ability after all
Speaker 1: the interceptions that had been thrown over the last I
Speaker 1: don't know how many weeks and all the talk that
Speaker 1: was going into this game. It takes to me, it
Speaker 1: takes a really rare person to be able to block
Speaker 1: out all of that. Because you can talk about him
Speaker 1: listening to the radio or people like us. He didn't
Speaker 1: have to do that. Now all he has to do
Speaker 1: is just go in the locker room and talk to
Speaker 1: the media, because they're going to keep asking the same
Speaker 1: questions over and over what about the interceptions? What are
Speaker 1: you doing about the interceptions? So it's gonna be in
Speaker 1: his head his ability to mentally block that stuff out
Speaker 1: and say, I'm not gonna go on a shell and
Speaker 1: get so conservative that I'm afraid to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that make me even more focused to
Speaker 1: where I am seeing the field, I am making the
Speaker 1: plays out of there. That to me was what I
Speaker 1: love about what I saw from Dak Prescott last night.
Speaker 1: And if he continues to play like that, sky's the limits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they don't turn over the ball and they don't
Speaker 1: have penalties, they're gonna they could beat anybody in the league.
Speaker 1: You saw, you saw example last night of how this
Speaker 1: team can play when it's a clean game for them.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean the penalties have been non existent.
Speaker 1: They finally drew a holding call last night since week
Speaker 1: ten against Green Bay. I mean, it's amazing that they
Speaker 1: were able to get that, but you know they the
Speaker 1: quarterback did a great job. He really really did. And
Speaker 1: I you know, we've been I know again I say we,
Speaker 1: I've been critical of Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore called a
Speaker 1: great game. I thought Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy I always
Speaker 1: a critical of him because I'm like, know the condition
Speaker 1: of your team, and he knew. He's like, listen, we're
Speaker 1: playing against Tom Brady. I gotta go for it on
Speaker 1: fourth and three here, fourth and four, whatever that was,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they what a great play called
Speaker 1: the double you know, you get double pick and then
Speaker 1: you get you know, you get gall' seema get lamb
Speaker 1: out there, and that it's an easy throw for Dak
Speaker 1: to make. See that that's what this team is capable
Speaker 1: of every week, playing football like that. And so to
Speaker 1: the middle toughness part, you're you're absolutely right about that
Speaker 1: as well. Well. And then also credit to all the
Speaker 1: receivers catching the ball. I mean, looked like a pretty
Speaker 1: clean game from their end too. And you know, We've
Speaker 1: seen it all throughout the season where Dak can throw
Speaker 1: a good pass but then the receiver just drops it
Speaker 1: or it bounces off of them or whatever it happens
Speaker 1: at that time. But I thought pretty much all of
Speaker 1: them Obviously they ain't catch every single pass, but it
Speaker 1: looked like a very very clean game from the receivers
Speaker 1: as well. First drive of the game look terrible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: two drops by CD and then questionable drop on t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton and you're like, oh, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1: The change pretty quick because like, yeah, yeah, after all
Speaker 1: that and things change. Brian, that holding call um by
Speaker 1: on Parsons, you know on third down, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think that was huge too because it showed because Parsons
Speaker 1: first play of the game for the defense makes a
Speaker 1: tackle in the back yea. Then then he gets a
Speaker 1: holding call and it's like, all right, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that kind of day for for our number eleven. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the you know, the thing with Parsons is, you know,
Speaker 1: you needed this defense to play really really well, and
Speaker 1: they they completely you know, and and talking to people
Speaker 1: this morning Tampa driving in, They're like, yeah, we just
Speaker 1: can't run the ball. And I'm like well, yeah, you
Speaker 1: throw at sixty six times to go. Yeah, but we're
Speaker 1: not good throwing it at sixty six times either, you know,
Speaker 1: and if you got to go, even if you got
Speaker 1: to go. And that's I think that I think though,
Speaker 1: I think that they made it. I think dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and the staff made a strategic a really big play.
Speaker 1: When we saw the inactive list, we said, oh, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, no Gallimore, no bo Hannah, are they thinking
Speaker 1: about playing the run. No. They knew that they could
Speaker 1: choke the run, just with Hankins and also with Wilson
Speaker 1: and also with vander esh They choked the run with
Speaker 1: those guys. And now it turned into let's get ghosted
Speaker 1: up the field, Let's get OsO Diggie up the field,
Speaker 1: Let's get Parsons around on some twist stunts against Donovan's Smith,
Speaker 1: who's not any good. You know. That's kind of that
Speaker 1: their game plan going in. They had Tampa wired offensively
Speaker 1: for what they needed to do. They really did affect
Speaker 1: the way that Brady played that game. And I have
Speaker 1: a totally different opinion of what was going on in
Speaker 1: that game against Washington. Now, I mean, if you think
Speaker 1: about it, because just trying things well, I mean Mkuamu
Speaker 1: was inactive, didn't do anything. Then he comes back in
Speaker 1: this game and they put him right in the center
Speaker 1: of the field on nickel defense, and hey, you used
Speaker 1: to be a corner. Now you're safety. You got you know,
Speaker 1: stretched armstrong length, go make plays, and he did. He.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the best game he's ever played. You
Speaker 1: know it if you want to, if you want the
Speaker 1: Brian Broadest knee jerk reaction thing. We talked about the
Speaker 1: issues of Xavier Rhodes. We saw it in the last
Speaker 1: two minutes of that game when that ball went down
Speaker 1: the side lines there and he was completely he just
Speaker 1: couldn't catch up, you know, that's the thing. And he
Speaker 1: played you know, there were a couple of chances. I
Speaker 1: mean he was okay, but playing mcquomu, I think now
Speaker 1: maybe that's something going forward. You say, okay, I think
Speaker 1: Dan is trying his best and Joe Wit and Al Harrison,
Speaker 1: those guys are trying to figure out who could play
Speaker 1: that opposite corner. You know, how can we protect that
Speaker 1: side of the field. Let's just keep throwing bodies at
Speaker 1: it and see if we can make it work. Because yeah,
Speaker 1: we all know what a big challenge is coming up,
Speaker 1: you know. And these Tampa receivers aren't bad. It ain't
Speaker 1: like playing somebody that's talent poor out there. They did
Speaker 1: a good job of holding up against these guys. But
Speaker 1: Dan keeps throwing stuff out there and trying to make
Speaker 1: it work, and I think that he deserves a lot
Speaker 1: of credit for this one. All Right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our first bake when we come back. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the offensive line. He started off a bit
Speaker 1: shaky there in the second series, and then from that
Speaker 1: moment on we really didn't hear much from that defensive
Speaker 1: front in Tampa. We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: got good food in this place. Yeah, d that was
Speaker 1: just gonna say, Oh, I was gonna say, I mean,
Speaker 1: off topic kind of. But the watch party was crazy amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the amount of people that showed up. Wow, somebody told
Speaker 1: me that they think it was like ten thousand people.
Speaker 1: It was like what they showed a picture. It looked
Speaker 1: very much like when they showed the World Cup and
Speaker 1: they're liking, yeah, the fans I scored. It's like the
Speaker 1: whole I mean yeah, it was all the way to
Speaker 1: the street. It's crazy, and that whole and that whole
Speaker 1: Tostig's plaza. It was completely and you're like going wow,
Speaker 1: because yeah, when they when I saw the stage, it
Speaker 1: gets through the pregame show out there, right, and I
Speaker 1: was like, that's cool. And then you see the crowd
Speaker 1: You're like, man, it's like a World Cup game. Well,
Speaker 1: actually they get the pregame show back here at at
Speaker 1: at the Star and they were out in the plaza
Speaker 1: and there was I say, that's what I'm saying, addition
Speaker 1: to yeah, in addition to what was happening at the stadium. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Oh so there were two no, right, right, there were two.
Speaker 1: There was There was the watch party, which was at
Speaker 1: the stadium in the mill of Lighthouse and that's where
Speaker 1: I was. I see thousand people, and then there was
Speaker 1: and then there was the plaza. No, the plaza wasn't
Speaker 1: packed like that, but the plaza here at the Star.
Speaker 1: It had a nice number of people. K I was
Speaker 1: thinking it wasn't. I was thinking I was because I
Speaker 1: saw the pre the the Kyle's tweet, Kyle Yeoman's tweet,
Speaker 1: and that was that was here about the stage. And
Speaker 1: then I'm thinking, oh, and then I saw the crowd
Speaker 1: and I went, oh, okay, that was the secondary crowd.
Speaker 1: That was the secondary crowd, that was the suburb crowd.
Speaker 1: Out were all the way to all the way to
Speaker 1: the street. I was like, we need to huddle up here.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. Of course, you know Dallas,
Speaker 1: you know Fort Worth Metroplex down you have multiple parties
Speaker 1: and that's part of it too. Like I was. I
Speaker 1: was talking to to our director of broadcast, Scott Procelle,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, the thing about it
Speaker 1: is if you live in Frisco. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many people are listening to us, no kind of the geography,
Speaker 1: but if you live in Frisco, you're probably not driving
Speaker 1: all the way to the stadium for watch party, but
Speaker 1: you'll drop over at the Star and just pop in
Speaker 1: with you and the wife, kids and hang out like
Speaker 1: it's a nice little area. Your chair, Yes, didn't watch
Speaker 1: the game, so you really can't have two different locations
Speaker 1: where people are popping in. And obviously it doesn't affect
Speaker 1: the numbers because I had a huge number out there
Speaker 1: at the stadium. So I think it worked and it
Speaker 1: was actually a really really good, really good party. And
Speaker 1: my hope is that they'll do it again this week
Speaker 1: and maybe next week and let's do I'm sure maybe
Speaker 1: next week we'll be at home, maybe we'll be planning.
Speaker 1: How about your boy, Jimmy? Yeah, that was my next read.
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Speaker 1: the back. Did you. Nick sent me a picture of Jimmy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I told you I know this guy like he hung
Speaker 1: out with me one night we were in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: He looks like with that outfit on exactly. That was
Speaker 1: exact outfit on that night when I hung out with Yeah.
Speaker 1: He told me though this was like noon, he had
Speaker 1: like this. It looked like really nice, but yeah it's
Speaker 1: a pajama. It's really it looks kind of hot and flannel.
Speaker 1: But he said this is just pre game. This isn't
Speaker 1: what he's gonna wear. For the game. Oh so so
Speaker 1: this get up is not game's Jimmy go to work
Speaker 1: with the flannel pajama. Look. I don't know. He might
Speaker 1: be he's a fan of just does that every day Dallas.
Speaker 1: He's got ten of them and he just rotates about.
Speaker 1: I guess so he's hoping to be the UH fan
Speaker 1: of the year. But we'll talk about that the next break.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's talk about the offense. Barrel guy Denver, right,
Speaker 1: the jet Sky Jet. All right, let's let's talk about
Speaker 1: the offensive line. I was a little worried there. Second
Speaker 1: series of the game, v just does a nice lit
Speaker 1: swim move on Beyondish quarterback. Yeah. Martin was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, oh, this is gonna be one of
Speaker 1: those days. And then after that he went into witness protection.
Speaker 1: We didn't really hear much more from Vidavey and Nick.
Speaker 1: I think it was you that said that. Brian was
Speaker 1: talking about how vitave is one of those guys. Where
Speaker 1: was that, Nate said no, you said, Nate said it.
Speaker 1: That's right. But we did a showing rate and Nate
Speaker 1: was talking about just lean on him, just keep leaving
Speaker 1: the whole game. And as the game keeps going, he'll
Speaker 1: be less impactful. Nate knows about those guys that Gilbert
Speaker 1: Browns and the big old dudes that play inside. He's
Speaker 1: seen them all. Yeah, seen them. Now. What I want
Speaker 1: to talk about though, the offensive line. There was a
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys made the decision that they were gonna
Speaker 1: go with Peters at left tackle. I went with Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith at left guard. Moving beyondish back in McGovern was
Speaker 1: not a starter, but the expectation was that they were
Speaker 1: going to use him as a as a fullback. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think of those decisions and and kind
Speaker 1: of how it played out before the injury to Peters
Speaker 1: kind of surprising, honestly, you know, just because you didn't
Speaker 1: know if Peters could play a whole game. Obviously he couldn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't, But I think that was more about getting
Speaker 1: some beef on those running situations with McGovern being the
Speaker 1: blocking fullback. So that didn't happen. Now he's back to
Speaker 1: left guard, but maybe Farniac has done this before, maybe
Speaker 1: it'll be the time for him to come back. So
Speaker 1: if they want to go that route again, maybe that's
Speaker 1: an option. Yeah, I think to me, we talked about
Speaker 1: this and I think we got ahead of this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. How many snaps does Peters have
Speaker 1: in that body at forty years old. You know, they're
Speaker 1: asking him to pull, they're asking him to do things.
Speaker 1: He got hurt right before half, and he got hurt
Speaker 1: trying to just wall the end off on a pass play.
Speaker 1: I mean he's leaning, straining, trying to and then he
Speaker 1: comes up with the hip problem and you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: we used up all as snaps. He's this is that where?
Speaker 1: Now this is what we got? So fortunately it was
Speaker 1: you know, and you got to give a big, big
Speaker 1: tip of the cap to Tyler Smith to go from
Speaker 1: guard and his assignment all week is don't let this
Speaker 1: number fifty kind of guy eat me alive when he's
Speaker 1: over me, play with power, be strong, And now it's like,
Speaker 1: oh cool, okay, yeah, now you got to play left tackle.
Speaker 1: So for him to mentally be able to go from
Speaker 1: that assignment to going out and having to play left tackle,
Speaker 1: I think is it says a lot. And it says
Speaker 1: a lot about the you know, the Cowboys all season long,
Speaker 1: what have they been doing. They've been shuffling offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it worked sometimes last night it worked. They got
Speaker 1: back to the configuration that we thought that they were
Speaker 1: gonna go with to start the game. But the thing
Speaker 1: with Peters, it wasn't getting rolled up or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It was just a forty year old man trying to
Speaker 1: trying to make an everyday block. And you know, you
Speaker 1: saw a forty five year old, forty five year old
Speaker 1: quarterback and what he could look like when it starts
Speaker 1: to kind of fall apart for you too. Well, well,
Speaker 1: when he came out of the game, part of me,
Speaker 1: even though I've seen the other combination before, part of
Speaker 1: me in my head, I'm like, God, damn, here we go, Like,
Speaker 1: oh God, but no credit to the old line coach.
Speaker 1: I think he's done such an amazing job. Like I
Speaker 1: keep remembering, it's fresh in my memory, the times that
Speaker 1: it would only take one single player to come out.
Speaker 1: Usually he would be Darn Smith, but memory was yeah,
Speaker 1: and everything would just go to crap, like everything would
Speaker 1: nothing would work, And now you got Dad getting sag
Speaker 1: and Dad getting having to run for his life. But
Speaker 1: now we've seen so many different combinations, and like Brian said,
Speaker 1: it doesn't always work to the level that you wanted
Speaker 1: to work. But it keeps you in the game, and
Speaker 1: it does enough for you. It allows you to do
Speaker 1: enough to keep going and for Dad to make some
Speaker 1: things happen, or the running game to do something. But
Speaker 1: just in general, the fact that they've had so many
Speaker 1: different combinations and still making it work, and also the
Speaker 1: fact that they haven't stuck to one single player and
Speaker 1: just being like, no, let's just keep keep going this way. No,
Speaker 1: they understand when it's not working and understand the need
Speaker 1: to switch change things up. So that's another thing that
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate from the coaching and what they've
Speaker 1: done this year. Yeah, and I think further on that point.
Speaker 1: You think about Philip and you can think about Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: This is strategic. You think about how they practice these
Speaker 1: guys where they haven't working in different spots. You think
Speaker 1: about how early in the season we're seeing them in
Speaker 1: games rotating offensive linemen. You don't see that, but they
Speaker 1: always said, and it was something that Mike McCarthy would
Speaker 1: talk about his press conferences, you may have to use
Speaker 1: some of these guys in different ways as the season
Speaker 1: goes on. So you got to give them credit for
Speaker 1: foreseeing that this may be a possibility and preparing themselves
Speaker 1: for the eventuality that they would have to do. McCarthy
Speaker 1: also told Nick that this isn't fantasy football though too
Speaker 1: one time. No, Dave, Well, I'm just saying to me, like,
Speaker 1: you're talking about moving more. Yeah, it's like moving to
Speaker 1: tackle and stuff like. This is in fantasy football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I've asked Stephen Jones this question. That isn't fantasy football.
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is, no, I've asked Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones because Stephen Jones is the same way. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm all about continuity, continuity, continuity, continuity, And I'm asking like,
Speaker 1: is this just an unusual year? Where are we starting
Speaker 1: to see a turn in the NFL where the continuity
Speaker 1: is not really what it changed so many injuries through
Speaker 1: a year, continuity is really kind of out the window.
Speaker 1: Oh you say that, And I asked that question. Is
Speaker 1: Zach Martin the other day and wants the same five guys?
Speaker 1: I said, do you does this kind of changed your
Speaker 1: opinion a little bit on the Continuity's like, no, but
Speaker 1: he's appreciative of what the guys have done, and he
Speaker 1: praised Philip and all that. But if his preference would
Speaker 1: be yeah, well, yeah, I think everybody would prefer to well,
Speaker 1: you're just stick to one thing, keep doing the same
Speaker 1: thing over and over, right, But that's also I mean
Speaker 1: lucky for him. He stayed in the same position, like
Speaker 1: he has to move around time guy, the one guy,
Speaker 1: the one guy. Yeah, going back to like just just
Speaker 1: McCarthy too. I don't know where this is going to
Speaker 1: go in your rundown, but I think that he deserves
Speaker 1: a ton of credit for for getting them ready to go.
Speaker 1: You get to remember too, like when it's not their
Speaker 1: problem that they haven't won a playoff game on the
Speaker 1: road in thirty years. That's not this team's issue. But
Speaker 1: what does he do Because most coaches would be like,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about that. He embraced it. He leaned
Speaker 1: into it. He said, hey, hey, bring your baby picture.
Speaker 1: If you're older than thirty years old. I want to
Speaker 1: see a baby picture of you, because we're gonna put
Speaker 1: it in front of the whole team. We're gonna show
Speaker 1: all of this last time we want a playoff game.
Speaker 1: There's Zach Martin. Here's yeah, right, his dad holding him, Yeah, him,
Speaker 1: his dad on the long no shirt on cigarette hang
Speaker 1: another quarter of his mouth. It was pretty funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I can see you, I can see well. The
Speaker 1: funny thing is I always thought my son was gonna
Speaker 1: be like Zach Martin. Ye can't block like that, but
Speaker 1: road block I don't know yet. Yeah, yeah, but no.
Speaker 1: But but just I thought that was really good for
Speaker 1: them to kind of say, hey, we're gonna just hit
Speaker 1: this head on and we're not worried about it, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna have some not have fun with it, but
Speaker 1: just bring some light to it. And and just showed
Speaker 1: that it doesn't matter. And it didn't. Yeah, real quick,
Speaker 1: let's flip over to the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: This defensive performance last night. They held Tampa Bay to
Speaker 1: six points with fourteen minutes left in the fourth quarter. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'll ask you guys just in general, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: what was the key last night? What do you think
Speaker 1: was the key defensively to them being able to just
Speaker 1: completely shut them down? Man, I've only seen a little
Speaker 1: bit of the of the first half. I didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to not working on a lot of sleep here,
Speaker 1: you've probably seen it. Yeah me. I mean I thought
Speaker 1: though Micah Parsons set the tone again. He had one
Speaker 1: of those games where he was just he was just
Speaker 1: the effort. I mean just okay, he was you just
Speaker 1: couldn't lock him. Yeah, you said Donald Smith was going
Speaker 1: to have a problem. Yeah, and it was the first
Speaker 1: series of the game. Yeah, that just going in you
Speaker 1: could it was one of those things that Tampa people
Speaker 1: even knew that themselves that that was going to be
Speaker 1: an issue for them. I think the really the difference
Speaker 1: in this game is you you were able to affect
Speaker 1: Brady in a way with your pass rush that you know,
Speaker 1: and that goes with Goldston, Parsons, Osa, you know, all
Speaker 1: these guys. You know, they were able to just kept
Speaker 1: rotating those guys and and the more that the game
Speaker 1: wore on where it was like they're not going to
Speaker 1: run the ball, They're not even gonna try to run
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, when you get Tampa and they
Speaker 1: don't complete they try two screens that go nowhere, get
Speaker 1: tipped knocked away. All that you're thinking, Okay, now you're
Speaker 1: locked in to what's going on there. I think that
Speaker 1: I think having vander esh back was huge because of
Speaker 1: his ability to get to the football. Curse was an
Speaker 1: m effort two, and so was Wilson. Both those Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson was not going to let this team lose last
Speaker 1: night the way that he was playing. And I think
Speaker 1: that's a I think that's a real you know, plus
Speaker 1: to those guys that you know, I know in the
Speaker 1: pregame show and we've talked about it, make every ball
Speaker 1: a contested ball, and they did. They made every play
Speaker 1: that Brady had to throw a contested play, and I
Speaker 1: think that was going to be pressure contested ball. You
Speaker 1: saw the result last night. Guy averaged about five yards
Speaker 1: of completion throwing the ball sixty six times. That's a
Speaker 1: Hall of fame maybe the best quarterback ever to play
Speaker 1: this game, you know. And you went out and you
Speaker 1: you made him look really, really ordinary to the point
Speaker 1: where people are saying, do you really want Tom Brady
Speaker 1: coming playing for your team next year? Do you really
Speaker 1: want that? You want that? Okay, that's what you want? Y? Yeah. No.
Speaker 1: And again I think having Hankins back and late in
Speaker 1: venderation with Layton, I had my concerns prior to this game,
Speaker 1: just because I'm the mental aspect of things, because I've
Speaker 1: seen him come back from different injuries from like the neck,
Speaker 1: shoulder area, and it had taken him a while every
Speaker 1: time it just mentally he just wasn't just going out
Speaker 1: there and tackling without any hesitation, Like there was always
Speaker 1: something in his game that kind of was always like
Speaker 1: a step back. But he played so well and that
Speaker 1: was not a word or he was not thinking about
Speaker 1: his neck whatsoever. He played really really good And it's
Speaker 1: surprising coming back from what even last year. But I
Speaker 1: feel like maybe the last two years talking about a
Speaker 1: guy that you're like, Okay, should he even be on
Speaker 1: the team anymore? A guy that when you sign it back,
Speaker 1: it was kind of like trending down and he just wasn't,
Speaker 1: you know, having those type of games anymore. Us you
Speaker 1: had seen his rookie year, but then the year he's
Speaker 1: had so far this year has been very, very outstanding.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he played the way that he
Speaker 1: did after the injury, I think what was a really
Speaker 1: really good sign in this is usually in these games
Speaker 1: where it's a physical running team, Layton vander esh is
Speaker 1: the guy that always shows up. It turned into a
Speaker 1: passing game, and what was Layton vanderss doing having to
Speaker 1: play from depth almost like what they call a robber
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field and kind of like
Speaker 1: taking things away that way. And usually you don't think
Speaker 1: of Layton vander Esh, the the past defender. You think
Speaker 1: of Layton Vanderesh run go get ball, you know, ce ball,
Speaker 1: hit ball. You know. He broke up two passes, some
Speaker 1: of them they have been a touchdown if he didn't
Speaker 1: get his hands on it too. They could have had
Speaker 1: three interceptions last night. Yeah, they had their hands so
Speaker 1: many usually they had. I mean they got Brady. His
Speaker 1: eye level, as we always talk about, was bad. You know,
Speaker 1: the receivers were now Dallas didn't give him any room
Speaker 1: back there. They did not give them any room throwing
Speaker 1: that football. Put numbers of what you're saying, Brian about
Speaker 1: being able to put pressure and also being able to
Speaker 1: contest passes. Last night, the Cowboys had nine quarterback pressures,
Speaker 1: second most of any game this season in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Cowboys had ten I think earlier in the season. But
Speaker 1: they also had twelve. Yeah. Maybe they also had twelve
Speaker 1: pass defended defenses last night. So when you think about that,
Speaker 1: they had a ton of batted down balls and they
Speaker 1: also had a ton of pressure. Like all night, they
Speaker 1: had pressure, and you could see there was so much
Speaker 1: pressure that even on plays when they didn't get pressure.
Speaker 1: You could sense that Brady was just getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball really quick because he felt like the pressure
Speaker 1: was coming. So they really affected him. And that's how
Speaker 1: you have to beat to Brady. The great example of
Speaker 1: that is like after every play when it was an incomplete,
Speaker 1: you see Brady kind of you know, he's like tell him.
Speaker 1: You know, you can see he's mad. He's like run
Speaker 1: you know, and right, no, dude, you just couldn't get
Speaker 1: him the ball, right, you know, I mean you got
Speaker 1: you threw it out there a little bit too soon.
Speaker 1: You threw it not to get hit. That's what you did. Yeah, all,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break when we come back,
Speaker 1: we kind of talk about special teams. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about the kicker. Rough night for him, And to
Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, if you go out of
Speaker 1: leave a game where you win thirty one to sixteen
Speaker 1: and the worst thing to happen was the kicker, you're
Speaker 1: probably in a pretty good position. But we do have
Speaker 1: to talk about it. We'll go when come right back.
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Speaker 1: about who he saw him to the stadium. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was crazy so not w No, not only was there,
Speaker 1: not only that was there. I tell you who I
Speaker 1: didn't see. I walked down there. I was a little
Speaker 1: bit ahead of you guys going down in the field
Speaker 1: before the game went I mean at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, went down there, and I could tell everybody
Speaker 1: was looking did you see and I mean Tom Cruise, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just missed his tiny just went over there and
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Speaker 1: a Mike. I don't see him. I see the bodyguards,
Speaker 1: but I missed him. But anyways, that had been cool
Speaker 1: to see Maverick. But before the game, you're not surprised
Speaker 1: you missed him some auto race one time. Maybe I
Speaker 1: saw him, Yes, I think yeah. Um we're walking And
Speaker 1: if you've seen this on social media, the video that
Speaker 1: we posted after the game about about the captain Dak
Speaker 1: saying I'm the captain now he Derek is showing me
Speaker 1: this video. We're in the we're in downstairs under the
Speaker 1: stadium for the game. He's showing me this and he's
Speaker 1: just like, and I know it scares you to think, like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Like, hope nobody posts this, because if
Speaker 1: we don't win this game, that better going to trash,
Speaker 1: right right, And so he's like, and so he's saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys win and Dak has a good game,
Speaker 1: that we're gonna post this. And as he's saying this,
Speaker 1: we kind of look up and man, I tell you,
Speaker 1: there's one guy by himself except for this one person.
Speaker 1: No no entourage, no camera crew, nothing, just Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and his jaw walking right at this and we and
Speaker 1: all the four of us, we had four people with
Speaker 1: this Patricks with us in and we just stopped. Were
Speaker 1: just like like we were eight years old. We were
Speaker 1: just like, hey, how's it going. He's just like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up and just walked on by as he's got
Speaker 1: this video out of this street, you know, like with
Speaker 1: a dak and a pirate hat. You know, it's saying
Speaker 1: I'm your captain. He walks by, and I really wish
Speaker 1: I would have said, hey, captain, but I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: So we just kept going. And then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden we look back and we're like, okay, so then
Speaker 1: we're gonna put play this video and then yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't want to see what would have happened if we
Speaker 1: could say it, Hey, Tom, what do you think about
Speaker 1: Like I want to see what you think about this.
Speaker 1: We're thinking about it after the game, after kick your butt, Like,
Speaker 1: we want to see what you think about this. Dad,
Speaker 1: there it goes. You want to know exactly how to
Speaker 1: lose this game? You don't have to him and just
Speaker 1: show him like, this is what we're gonna play after
Speaker 1: the game, and it would have been it would have
Speaker 1: been a little different. I'm guessing Tom, you're really good
Speaker 1: with the social media stuff. Hey, what do you think
Speaker 1: about this one? Yeah? You know, can't give him your phone,
Speaker 1: he might break it. Wow? Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 1: That's what Brad Sham said last night. He goes, if
Speaker 1: you can make this a two iPad game, you're probably
Speaker 1: doing pretty well. Bunny. Nobody, none of y'all know, bad Bunny,
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny. Most people here, your crowd not the right crowd.
Speaker 1: Trying to say no, I'm just saying, well, but the
Speaker 1: thing is to say where like really, he gets really
Speaker 1: like frustrated when fans come up to him with like
Speaker 1: the phone in his face. So he's kind of no
Speaker 1: now from for taking people's cell phones and just throwing
Speaker 1: it away or like throwing it in somewhere else just
Speaker 1: and nobody's punched him over there. Huh No. Usually it's
Speaker 1: people that kind of invade his space. He's like, I'm
Speaker 1: cool if you asked for or whatever he's get Is
Speaker 1: he a spokesman for Apple? Now? What he's Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got he's got a little loot up guessing. All right,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this because coming out of this last game,
Speaker 1: there really weren't a lot of things that went wrong
Speaker 1: for Dallas, but this area went really wrong. Um Brett
Speaker 1: Mohar goes one of five on extra points, not field goals,
Speaker 1: extra points. When you guys are able to look at it,
Speaker 1: was there anything that was happening with the operation that
Speaker 1: that could have been the culprit here? I found only
Speaker 1: one time where Overton snapped the ball inside and then
Speaker 1: they had to move it. The last week we talked
Speaker 1: about the commanders mismiss extra point, a great job, you know,
Speaker 1: anger smothering it, getting up laces away, and then you
Speaker 1: do have to worry about operation. You do have to
Speaker 1: worry about is he on the correct hash? For him,
Speaker 1: that's the correct hash. He kicks the ball to the the
Speaker 1: left hash, he tends to push it right there through
Speaker 1: the middle, and or he can even little draw it
Speaker 1: a little bit. And but I didn't see anything where
Speaker 1: laces were to him. I didn't see any foot slippage.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything that would make me say other
Speaker 1: than that it's just maybe it's not Maybe it's a
Speaker 1: concentration problem. You know, you overcorrect, you push one, you
Speaker 1: push one, you hook one, you know, trying to make
Speaker 1: that to make that work. But yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: look at everything, you know, you have to study the
Speaker 1: timing of it, steps, approach, equipment, you know. Um, like
Speaker 1: Christie Scales, We're gonna have her on today on a
Speaker 1: one oh five three the Fan on our show from
Speaker 1: two to seven to day, and I think she's got
Speaker 1: something that she learned from the sidelines yesterday. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward, if you know, maybe tomorrow we can kind
Speaker 1: of revisit that. But there was nothing on tape that
Speaker 1: I saw that was just that, Oh that's the issue.
Speaker 1: It wasn't good in pre game either, really, yeah, not
Speaker 1: really at all. And uh but you know that was
Speaker 1: a lot of the long field goals, you know that
Speaker 1: you see it. Don't really study the shorter ones, but
Speaker 1: the longer ones. I know, he was having a hard
Speaker 1: time getting it through there. So you never tried a
Speaker 1: field goal, you know. And and I thought there were
Speaker 1: some times in the game where I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: there was what what was it when it was twelve
Speaker 1: to nothing and they got down there about the two
Speaker 1: yard line they ended up scoring. I guess I can
Speaker 1: go eighteen to nothing. But I think that was the
Speaker 1: possession where I said, you know what a field goal here,
Speaker 1: especially down at the two or three yard line when
Speaker 1: they short Dak ran it in on that play. The
Speaker 1: play that yeah, I know what you're saying, kicked the
Speaker 1: field goal. Yeah, it just tried. I mean just was
Speaker 1: when it was. This was when it was probably eighteen
Speaker 1: to nothing because because you obviously knew there was a
Speaker 1: problem going on. But but I didn't think that way
Speaker 1: at six nothing. But when was the eighteen nothing, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, let's get it, let's get that
Speaker 1: field goal here, especially a short one like this. Yeah
Speaker 1: it was eighteen because I was thinking go up twenty
Speaker 1: one to nothing. I don't know how did they score
Speaker 1: to go at twenty four? What was that touchdown? I
Speaker 1: have it here? Gallop two yard pass? Yeah, gallop two
Speaker 1: yard pass. So that was the one where I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, be conservative, kick a short field goal, get
Speaker 1: him on the board at twenty one to nothing, because
Speaker 1: that would probably be easier than your extra point, right,
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of time to miss when
Speaker 1: it's pretty short like that. But they scored, you know,
Speaker 1: greedy red zone offense scores again, was there any point
Speaker 1: in the game where you thought they should just not
Speaker 1: bring him back out, they should go for two or
Speaker 1: do you think it was a situation and they needed
Speaker 1: to stick with the trying it And even though he
Speaker 1: dug himself into a massive holes and there was the
Speaker 1: side of me that almost and I was listening to
Speaker 1: I had this thought in my head after the Commander's game,
Speaker 1: was Greg Olsen saying, why are these guys continuing to
Speaker 1: play on offense? It's getting worse? You know, what kind
Speaker 1: of confidence are you building with Dac and the offense
Speaker 1: is it's getting worse. And I also I was thinking, no,
Speaker 1: as long as the score was what it was, keep kicking,
Speaker 1: keep kicking, keep kicking. And then Greg Olsen came in
Speaker 1: my head and goes, it's getting worse, you know, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately you made that last extra point. Yeah. Fortunately that
Speaker 1: you know, that's the one thing. And you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that guys like Dalton Schultz, I know, you
Speaker 1: guys are in the locker room. You know, hey, we
Speaker 1: got your back, you know. And he stood up there
Speaker 1: and answered the questions and stuff like that you had to.
Speaker 1: But I'm man just laughing because she Chilton, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: don't bring it to the air. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Schultz didn't talk to the media. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the what the issue there is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did say that with mar gained a lot of
Speaker 1: respect from Mahard for talking like that and not only
Speaker 1: talking once, but then twice when the NFL network shows up.
Speaker 1: So's sorry we didn't get the first time around. But
Speaker 1: he seems like he's always Yeah, he's always been He's
Speaker 1: gonna stand upy I think now, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can afford to do this. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you. I mean, if you bring a practice squad
Speaker 1: kicker on and you have him ready for game day,
Speaker 1: do you make another kicker on the forty eight? Do you?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know you have those extra
Speaker 1: call ups. Can you afford to elevate a kicker? You know,
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden in San Francisco, it's the
Speaker 1: opening drive and you you know, you drive it and
Speaker 1: you're you need points and you miss a field goal,
Speaker 1: do you just immediately say we're going to the other guy.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna We're not gonna go through this again.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. For me, I would I
Speaker 1: would feel better if I was a person that was
Speaker 1: coaching this team having another option. Now that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: I have to use them, but like you get into
Speaker 1: a tight game and you've already had a couple opportunities
Speaker 1: where you missed. I would I would be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta have some kind of option other than just
Speaker 1: going for two every time, Like, I've got to have
Speaker 1: some other options. I think this week to me, because
Speaker 1: it's a short week. I mean today's Tuesday, tomorrow's way,
Speaker 1: and you got a game of Sunday night. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're you're in a short week right now. And if
Speaker 1: you if you have a kicking derby out here and now,
Speaker 1: maybe they won't show the kicking derby out here to
Speaker 1: you guys. You know, maybe they'll go inside. But man,
Speaker 1: if you if you look at the wave we kick
Speaker 1: on grass please well but if we if we you know,
Speaker 1: if we look at the waiver wire today and they
Speaker 1: are on Wednesday and they brought in four kickers, you know,
Speaker 1: hire Allah who and everybody else that you know, Gara
Speaker 1: Bay and whoever else, then you know, then now you
Speaker 1: know what they're thinking. Yeah, but that does that even
Speaker 1: hurt the kickers confidence even more? Can't you get any
Speaker 1: worse though, I mean, I don't has to know he
Speaker 1: has to know that that is a concern. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't. I don't understand. I can't get mad about that.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: yesterday was bad, but I feel that historically bad. Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but he's has such a great season, and I keep
Speaker 1: going back to, Okay, this is not who he's shown
Speaker 1: us this year. He's been one of the best play
Speaker 1: yers on the team, just doing his job and getting
Speaker 1: it done. At the same time, Gotta remember there are
Speaker 1: games where people just simply have a bad game and
Speaker 1: things click, and I get it, like the kick. The
Speaker 1: kicking thing is a very mental thing, like we know
Speaker 1: how much it affects, like it all it takes is
Speaker 1: a game like going for it to go down. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but I do have confidence, and I really appreciate even
Speaker 1: though by the third time I'm like, okay, start going
Speaker 1: for two now, let's just put that to the side. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: I do appreciate the fact that the team stuck with
Speaker 1: it and kept giving him tries and let him at
Speaker 1: least make that last one, which was very important, important
Speaker 1: for him to end that game like that, but just
Speaker 1: in general, to see the support that the team showed
Speaker 1: Sideline erupted. Yeah, I mean a couple of bucks man
Speaker 1: that even cheer after he made that last one. But
Speaker 1: I just appreciate the fact that everyone's staken by him
Speaker 1: because again, we've all had pretty bad days, and based
Speaker 1: on what he's shown us through the season this year,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to say, Okay, you saw get out
Speaker 1: of here. But it's the playoffs too, and I get it.
Speaker 1: I would bring a second option just in case you
Speaker 1: never know, but I would stick with this. Yeah, my thing.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think you don't get rid
Speaker 1: of him because he's had such a good year, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you don't have a backup option like
Speaker 1: I think. And to me, it wasn't just one game.
Speaker 1: If this was just this game he didn't have the
Speaker 1: missing in Washington, I might feel a little differently no
Speaker 1: matter how bad it was this one game, I might
Speaker 1: feel like it was just one game was terrible. I
Speaker 1: get it, but it does it does for me starts.
Speaker 1: I get it, but when my point is it's still
Speaker 1: spanned two games, and that's where I start to say,
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little bit worried about the mental side
Speaker 1: of this for him, And yeah, and what and that's
Speaker 1: we've seen this in the NFL a number of times.
Speaker 1: You have kicking is a mental thing because all they
Speaker 1: do in practice, like that's your only job every day.
Speaker 1: You're just kicking, kicking, kicking, so they can do it.
Speaker 1: It becomes a mental thing at some point where just mentally,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I can't quite do what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do. Kick. There's such a thing as kicking too much.
Speaker 1: You can't allow them to kick, to just spend the
Speaker 1: whole practice kicking and kicking and kicking. It doesn't work
Speaker 1: that way. So there's like a limited amount of kicks
Speaker 1: they make him do. But we'll see how he does
Speaker 1: I practice. But I think I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was last night. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what from the environment. They weren't even close.
Speaker 1: They weren't even close. That's the problem. They weren't either
Speaker 1: of the one where hit the upright right. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: weren't even pretty hard gloss, I mean, how bad those
Speaker 1: kicks were. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. Man's a
Speaker 1: short week. We got to jump right on it. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: we will be talking about the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: It's right here. Cowboys versus forty nine. Is this Sunday
Speaker 1: Sunday evening? I guess depending on where you are, depend
Speaker 1: on where you are. Back here in Dallas, it'll be
Speaker 1: a night game, but there it'll be an afternoon game.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that starting tomorrow. We'll get into San
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