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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brovis, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Bill Jones, well at least Tiger one yesterday. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Talking Cowboys on the day after a trip to Seattle,
Speaker 1: which was a pleasurable experience for all who made the trip,
Speaker 1: I understand, except for three hours on Sunday afternoon. We're
Speaker 1: here to break it all down and kickoff Lions week
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. Here on Talking cowboy Boys Bill
Speaker 1: Jones with Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought Us and Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: How was your weekend? Three hours and three minutes? Is
Speaker 1: that what it was? Yes? For those who were counting
Speaker 1: three hours and three minutes of misery and now with
Speaker 1: a one and two record, the Cowboys head home, get
Speaker 1: back to work and try to figure out what went wrong.
Speaker 1: And that's what we will do for the next hour.
Speaker 1: We invite your phone calls as well. Eight eight eight
Speaker 1: eight five five two two nine seven. Rob, you made
Speaker 1: the trip to Seattle. You have a good weekend. I
Speaker 1: mean the CITC Northwest. It's beautiful up there. It's great.
Speaker 1: Took in a college football game. Oh you went to
Speaker 1: the Washington Arizona Show. Yeah, enjoyed that. That was great.
Speaker 1: Love it up there. Those three hours. Not good. Not good.
Speaker 1: I mean some good things, but continuations of problems that
Speaker 1: we saw in Week one that are really hurting this team,
Speaker 1: especially offensively. And Brian brought us was holding down the
Speaker 1: fort here at the Star and you enjoyed his fine
Speaker 1: work pre and post game. And now we hear from
Speaker 1: Brian brought us his first take on what happened. Now.
Speaker 1: I just think there's, like Rob said, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of the same things that happened to this team. I've
Speaker 1: never seen an offense that does more to get in
Speaker 1: its own way as far as they cannot overcome bad
Speaker 1: things that happened to them, you know. And it's whether
Speaker 1: it's a down and distant situation, it's an awareness situation,
Speaker 1: it's a mistake of not blocking a guy, it's a
Speaker 1: drop pass. This offense is just not good enough to
Speaker 1: overcome bad things that happened to them. And there's there's
Speaker 1: teams that take sacks. There's teams that fumble, there's teams
Speaker 1: that take that have interceptions. But when you watch this,
Speaker 1: it's not just the play calling, but there's so many
Speaker 1: things involved when you watch this team and the problems
Speaker 1: that they have. You know, Mickey talks about the protection
Speaker 1: that's a problem, the quarterback not seeing the field, the
Speaker 1: receivers not catching the ball. There's just so many things
Speaker 1: that when they do get a little bit of momentum,
Speaker 1: then something happens to them. They just the negative plays
Speaker 1: are just are too much for this offense to even
Speaker 1: overcome their challenged to move the football because of mistakes
Speaker 1: that they make. And because they're challenged to move the football,
Speaker 1: it's difficult to overcome mental mistakes that occur. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: and they had far too many of those. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: Brian mentioned it. You have three or four drop passes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: two of them end up being intercepted. You run the
Speaker 1: ball into the red zone, and then you fumble. The
Speaker 1: longest play of the day. You throw a touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, the running back didn't see the
Speaker 1: four foot wide white stripe at the end on the sideline.
Speaker 1: It stepped out of pounds Previously, it's it's it's just
Speaker 1: hard to keep overcoming those things. And then you get
Speaker 1: yourself in situations where Seattle all they gotta do is
Speaker 1: pin their ears back and come at you. You get
Speaker 1: a team that only had three sacks in two games,
Speaker 1: get five five and hit your quarterback ten times. So
Speaker 1: if we added up in the two losses, that's eleven
Speaker 1: sacks and twenty quarterback hits. It's hard to play football
Speaker 1: that way, and you can't and you know, don't sit
Speaker 1: there and just say, well, Joe Looney's playing center, or
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is the left guard, he's a rookie. It
Speaker 1: was across the board, yeah, across the whole five. Frank
Speaker 1: Clark had himself a day. They moved Frank Clark around yesterday,
Speaker 1: which was really smart on their part because they felt
Speaker 1: like that, really that Lyle Collins is not good enough
Speaker 1: as a right tackle to handle him one on one.
Speaker 1: So the smart thing is take him away from a
Speaker 1: guy you feel like, well, he's not gonna win every
Speaker 1: battle against Tyrant Smith, but move him over to the
Speaker 1: other side, and you know he made plays over there.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what that you know, It was very
Speaker 1: very clear that they had a plan of how they
Speaker 1: wanted to attack the Cowboys and offensively for the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: their plan was very clear. They were comfortable running the
Speaker 1: ball for three yards to carry because they saw how
Speaker 1: an FPP the Dallas offense was right. The Dallas offense
Speaker 1: never forced Seattle to change their game plan. One team
Speaker 1: was desperate and committed. The other team was just desperate
Speaker 1: and confused. And that's why that penalty at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half was so critical in this game.
Speaker 1: When when you get behind two scores against a team
Speaker 1: that realizes that it can just run the football because
Speaker 1: it's not being pressed by the other team's offense. It
Speaker 1: was almost like they were running the ball to eat
Speaker 1: clock because they certainly knew said Carolina did in the
Speaker 1: first week of the season. When there's big there was
Speaker 1: no reason for them to get out of any of
Speaker 1: their mode. I mean it was almost like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look at the numbers of the game, and
Speaker 1: again I don't always do this this way, but if
Speaker 1: a quarterback is sixteen to twenty six for one ninety two,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, no interceptions and they wins the game, that's
Speaker 1: kind of Dak Prescott like in twenty sixteen, and one
Speaker 1: of one of them was a huge, one huge play
Speaker 1: fifty two yards for a touch exactly. You take that
Speaker 1: away and it's yeah, he's not on the far side
Speaker 1: on the flip side. The losing quarterback was nineteen to
Speaker 1: thirty four for one sixty eight, one touchdown and two interceptions.
Speaker 1: Three turnovers were huge in this game. Mickey talked about
Speaker 1: it is you have the you have the Earl Thomas, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, first one off the ground, basically great job
Speaker 1: of him being in position. Michael Gallup has got to
Speaker 1: catch that foot to see that. That drive, to me
Speaker 1: is symptomatic of the whole thing we talked about. You
Speaker 1: people are gonna question the play calling. Okay, here's a drive.
Speaker 1: Second drive of the game. They had a good design.
Speaker 1: On first down, they faker reverse the Tavon handoff to
Speaker 1: Zeke seven yards. Good position. Then they go into round
Speaker 1: a Tavon. Okay, they're trying to spread things out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some time things open up things inside. Yeah, Gallup has
Speaker 1: to make that catch on first and ten and it
Speaker 1: and hey, Earl Thomas teriffic awareness to be able to
Speaker 1: you know, scoop that off. His free actionary player amazing.
Speaker 1: But see, yeah, you're right, Rob, but you to your point.
Speaker 1: It's it was a lot of different things. You know.
Speaker 1: It was drops, it was the Mickey's right, the protection.
Speaker 1: It's not the same offensive line that we saw, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's not just the offensive lineman. The tight ends.
Speaker 1: Zeke did it again. He goes to cut a guy
Speaker 1: and a guy jumps over him and blast her quarterback
Speaker 1: stand up and hit him in the chest. How many
Speaker 1: more times has that got to happen? It affected the
Speaker 1: way that Dak threw the ball to the outside. They
Speaker 1: had Hearns open on the outside and Zeke goes low
Speaker 1: and now the guy's up in Dak's face, and you know,
Speaker 1: if you hit him square, you have a chance. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just go back to the quarterback has
Speaker 1: been struggling with some of his visional some of the reds.
Speaker 1: But what he does on the slant to on the
Speaker 1: slant that Gallop drops, he's looking away to set to
Speaker 1: give Gallop the chance to you know, so the safeties
Speaker 1: will day on one side of the field. So Prescott's
Speaker 1: doing exactly what he has to do to get Gallop open,
Speaker 1: and he puts the ball right where Gallup needs to
Speaker 1: catch it, and you know everybody knows the result. But
Speaker 1: here's here's a play call. Here is a execution on
Speaker 1: the quarterback's behalf to help you. But the Finnish is horrendous, right,
Speaker 1: So okay, how are you you want to know why
Speaker 1: this offense is not any good play call, execution, finish.
Speaker 1: None of them seem to work for this football team
Speaker 1: offensively right now? You know, Mickey brought it up and
Speaker 1: Zekiel running out of balance, and Garrett says, well, he's
Speaker 1: a very aware player. I understand. I mean he gets wide,
Speaker 1: he gets wide, he gets white, he keeps getting wide,
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna burst to try and make the
Speaker 1: turn up the field. But Dak is yeah, Dak is
Speaker 1: coming to him. And now it's like and once again
Speaker 1: what happens. Play breaks down, quarterback figures it out, athletically
Speaker 1: gets to the outside. Okay, here we go, play call, execution, finish.
Speaker 1: The finish is your is your running back? Who you
Speaker 1: who you trust to win games for you? Steps out
Speaker 1: of bounds? Is it a mistake? Yeah? Is it a
Speaker 1: minital mistake. It's an awareness mistake, he said it. I
Speaker 1: had terrible awareness on that play and the worst part
Speaker 1: he didn't know where he was. Yeah, and the worst
Speaker 1: part is it's it's it nullifies the play. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's not a penalty where you get the down over.
Speaker 1: It got to kick a field goal and you can't
Speaker 1: be kicking field goals. And then the other problem in
Speaker 1: what's been going on, and it goes back to what
Speaker 1: I wrote on Friday. This defense had to continue playing
Speaker 1: well to buy the offense time. And they have two
Speaker 1: busted coverages which they just can't afford. And then the
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory brain fart at the end of the half.
Speaker 1: Although having watched warm ups, Janikowski would have blasted a sixty.
Speaker 1: But this is where you also you take a chance.
Speaker 1: You know, you're giving him fifteen yards. You're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: you're a Hall of Fame kicker and you probably are
Speaker 1: gonna make a seventy yard field goal or whatever. This guy,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's rare. He's he's like that guy
Speaker 1: the cornerback from the Redskins that played for forty years,
Speaker 1: you know that Green, Daryl Green. These guys that you
Speaker 1: look at him and you go no way, and and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be But don't judge this Lake Lake strength
Speaker 1: by his shape. But but that's what I'm saying, don't
Speaker 1: give him fifteen yards yards because he makes that. He
Speaker 1: makes that every single time. It was a momentum play
Speaker 1: too for Seattle, and they get the park started by
Speaker 1: Seattle Joey Hunt the Joey TCU hornenfrog. It was a
Speaker 1: smart play. That was the only way they were gonna
Speaker 1: get fifteen yards on that particular play. Bade him into
Speaker 1: doing something and they did it. Yeah, but that just
Speaker 1: shows you. You know, we talked about it to discipline too.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about this blind you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to play. But Seattle, they played. Seattle played exactly how
Speaker 1: they wanted to play. Yesterday they played exactly how they
Speaker 1: want to play, and they protected the quarterback. They did
Speaker 1: a better job of that. They'd given up a dozen
Speaker 1: sacks and they're two lots, but there was always get two.
Speaker 1: You gave him no reason, you you know, you didn't
Speaker 1: put him in situations the guy went back to twenty
Speaker 1: six times. You know, you didn't put him in a a
Speaker 1: situation where he had to throw the ball thirty eight
Speaker 1: forty times. You're so right, though, I mean, Carson gets
Speaker 1: thirty two carries in this game for only one hundred
Speaker 1: and two yards. But but Brian Schottenheimer did the smart thing.
Speaker 1: He this is what you always talk about, know the
Speaker 1: condition of your team. He knew Dallas offensively was not
Speaker 1: going to do anything. He saw that, and so it's
Speaker 1: real easy for for Pete Carroll to click over and
Speaker 1: say run it here, run it, run it again, and
Speaker 1: just keep doing that. And what happened? What did he do?
Speaker 1: He had he had three new starters inside into the
Speaker 1: interior offensive line, right. He not only did Schottenheimer protect
Speaker 1: his offense, he protected his to his offensive line, he
Speaker 1: protected his quarterback as well, especially when Dallas has the
Speaker 1: length of the field to drive offensively. I mean, and
Speaker 1: which is why that roughing the passer penalty on Tyrone
Speaker 1: Crawford on the third offensive play for Seattle, which critical
Speaker 1: in the first quarter of that game, because and now
Speaker 1: Dallas needs to get off the field. Have to overcome
Speaker 1: that adversity and get them off the field. But if
Speaker 1: they're punning on that after that third down playoff, they
Speaker 1: don't throw the flag on that, cowboys are getting the
Speaker 1: ball at the forty their own forty yard line instead
Speaker 1: of they wound up getting it at their own fifteen yard.
Speaker 1: There was a time where his team could be able
Speaker 1: to drive the example, and they don't do that anymore.
Speaker 1: Two years ago they could do that's right. Here's another example.
Speaker 1: First drive of the third quarter, get a holding penalty
Speaker 1: on the return or punt return. Then Rico gets a
Speaker 1: false start, and all of a sudden, you're at second
Speaker 1: and fifteen at your own six. After Zeke gets stopped
Speaker 1: for no game, Tyron gives up a sack. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's when when an offense struggles this much, it's always
Speaker 1: a lot of different things except that Atlanta game. Then
Speaker 1: they have a situation where they had Rico jumped off sides. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's the play, and they completed They completed a pass.
Speaker 1: Thompson got a ten got ten yard game. Okay, so
Speaker 1: now you're thinking if it's first and ten or second ten, Okay,
Speaker 1: they've got the they've got the yard, they've got it.
Speaker 1: They got a first down with the ten yard pass,
Speaker 1: but they come up five yards short a third and five,
Speaker 1: they have a third five. Now they're having to throw
Speaker 1: the football and they get the sack. Like this is
Speaker 1: just I wrote about that last night. This is just
Speaker 1: typical of what this offense is right now. It can't
Speaker 1: it can't help itself. There's no you know, the one
Speaker 1: energy plays that it the energy plays that it has
Speaker 1: is generally when they get the ball to number ten,
Speaker 1: that's the one guy that's got some juice, the kind
Speaker 1: of got going they get. They get the jet sweeper
Speaker 1: eighteen yards poom, everybody's blocking up front. I mean, he
Speaker 1: gives you a little juice. And there's no other jew
Speaker 1: a spark that's happening with this team offensively, And it
Speaker 1: shows you how weird the game was. Zeke ran the
Speaker 1: ball very well, I mean seven point nine yards a pop,
Speaker 1: but he also just hurts you so bad in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the irony of it. Was he I
Speaker 1: mean he admitted it. He thought he well, he thought
Speaker 1: they'd cost him the game. I wouldn't go that far,
Speaker 1: but they left maybe at least a touchdown, maybe ten
Speaker 1: points on the board right there, with a couple of mistakes,
Speaker 1: not to mention a third down that he might have
Speaker 1: completed on third and nine, might have I went back.
Speaker 1: It was there. It was It was Kendricks. Was it
Speaker 1: Kendrick Kendricks, And I mean he was on the upfield hip,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be if you the ball's out in front,
Speaker 1: and if he catches it, he breaks that tackle, it's
Speaker 1: an easy first. But if he if Kendricks makes that tack,
Speaker 1: which is probably what's gonna happen because his offense can't
Speaker 1: get a break, you know it's gonna be four yards short.
Speaker 1: But I'll take my chances throwing the ball to Zekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott on the move. But what happens. He had the
Speaker 1: crazy Tony Dorset hands and he's usually he could Yeah,
Speaker 1: and everybody, everybody's like, get him involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: get him involve the passing game. Okay, you're trying to
Speaker 1: get him involved the passing game. You know you're trying.
Speaker 1: And that happens. Now you're like, but does that mean
Speaker 1: you stop trying to get him involved? No, But gosh,
Speaker 1: it just makes you think, like, Okay, who else can
Speaker 1: I throw it to? If my best players not making plays?
Speaker 1: Who is going to make plays? Who is Jeff Swayin
Speaker 1: went five catches, and a lot of that was, Hey,
Speaker 1: we got to get the ball out quick. Let's get
Speaker 1: it out first read, Let's go to sway Let's try
Speaker 1: to get in a manageable situation here on third down
Speaker 1: and Seattle did, which is the boy to get into
Speaker 1: a rhythm, right? You know? You know Cole Beasley was
Speaker 1: interesting after the game. He's talking about communication issues that
Speaker 1: they're talking. Yeah, I mean communications as far as not
Speaker 1: hearing on the outside or oh no, I think that
Speaker 1: the problems that they're having offensively related to communication issue.
Speaker 1: And I don't know. I just heard the SoundBite. I
Speaker 1: didn't hear the full context of it. Didn't But I'm
Speaker 1: wondering where. I wonder if he's going crowd because we
Speaker 1: didn't mean crowd. Let everybody not on the same page.
Speaker 1: As far as the past execution, the passing, well, that's
Speaker 1: in a terrible indictment of what's going on then in
Speaker 1: those meetings. If that's the case, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's if that's what he means, that's a terrible indictment.
Speaker 1: Right least they didn't try to be twelve men on
Speaker 1: the field twice and twice twice. This again goes back
Speaker 1: to the offense. You get a break, it's third and six,
Speaker 1: you get twelve minut on the field. Now you're third
Speaker 1: and one. I'll take Zeke Gillett running the ball for
Speaker 1: third and one every time chuck for two hundred police
Speaker 1: and they got and they got stuff. No, they don't
Speaker 1: block Bobby Wagner. How did he not talk him? How
Speaker 1: do you not block their best player? See, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it looked like to me that maybe
Speaker 1: that once again, you know, and I'm not pointing to
Speaker 1: figure here, but just looking at scheme that everybody's down
Speaker 1: blocking but Lyle Collins and they're trying to get the
Speaker 1: they're trying to get Jeff swam around the corner to
Speaker 1: maybe trap or log that guy in press could have
Speaker 1: pulled the ball and then gone forward for a yard,
Speaker 1: you know, if he wanted to. Earl Thomas was sitting there,
Speaker 1: but they there was some confusion on the outside between
Speaker 1: Swaying and hearns what was going on over there. But
Speaker 1: you don't block Bobby Wagner and he runs through for
Speaker 1: no game. Okay, I thought about you in that play.
Speaker 1: I was like, mic linebacker right, got identify him because
Speaker 1: he was the one guy that can make the tackle
Speaker 1: at the point of attack. And so you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: it's how many times the third and one handed to
Speaker 1: Zeke first down? Should be automatic first down. How many
Speaker 1: times now this team can't even block the damn mic
Speaker 1: linebacker to get a first down and they catch a
Speaker 1: break on a twelve minute on the field, right, Not
Speaker 1: third and six, it's third and one. All right, we're
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Speaker 1: I've got a theory on this whole quarterback thing. Okay.
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Speaker 1: running the ball, especially in the red zone. Well, I
Speaker 1: think everyone's conclusion was that Tony was check now to
Speaker 1: run plays into throwing plays. I think it's time to
Speaker 1: put the handcuffs back on Dak. Dak's first year, the
Speaker 1: ball was always snapped with ten or more second left
Speaker 1: on the play cut he was actually running the play
Speaker 1: that was called. I think that. I think if he
Speaker 1: ran every play that was called yesterday, I think it
Speaker 1: would have at least looked a little bit better. I
Speaker 1: just think it's time to put him back in kindergarten
Speaker 1: and just take put the handcuffs back on. That's my theory. Hell,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that would work. That's aw
Speaker 1: you do that, Thank you Palmer. Sorry I was confused.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want Dak to have the ability to check
Speaker 1: to check. He feels like and if you talk to
Speaker 1: some NFL people around the league about that the first year,
Speaker 1: that and there's coaches that will say, it's kind of
Speaker 1: nice to have a rookie quarterback. So because a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback never qu since your call. A rookie quarterback just
Speaker 1: runs the play whatever you And there's some guys around
Speaker 1: the league with veteran quarterbacks, you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: really good example. But he's really good at it. Is
Speaker 1: the guy down in New Orleans, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: really good at getting in and out of place. But
Speaker 1: there's something too. Play callers kind of like a guy
Speaker 1: that will say, Okay, I'm not gonna question what you're
Speaker 1: gonna call. I mean, I'm not going to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna question what I'm gonna call. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call this play and we're gonna see if we can
Speaker 1: execute it. But I don't know if necessarily, if it's
Speaker 1: Dak changing plays at the line, not be that every time.
Speaker 1: I don't think so every time. But I mean he
Speaker 1: threw out a theory and we'll need to see that.
Speaker 1: That's it's a thought. And we did talk about that
Speaker 1: in the press box. It's like, all right, this is
Speaker 1: down to one second and they know exactly when the
Speaker 1: ball is gonna be. It helps him get off this
Speaker 1: off the ball. There is something too. I had some
Speaker 1: people on Twitter and you guys watch the game too.
Speaker 1: Are they tipping their snap count? Though with a touch
Speaker 1: from Zack Martin, a head turn from Joe Looney and
Speaker 1: then the snap or or or or guys good enough
Speaker 1: on the defensive line to kind of go into a
Speaker 1: game and say, Okay, when I see Joe Looney turn,
Speaker 1: I'm going you know, I'm just asking this question, Clark.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just asking today. Yeah, because he jumped
Speaker 1: the count one time against him against Tyren Smith, not
Speaker 1: the sack, but one time before the Tyron Smith, just
Speaker 1: being the athlete he is, was able to get enough
Speaker 1: of him to lyle Prescott to step up in the
Speaker 1: pocket a little bit. But I wonder if if you
Speaker 1: want to tell me that maybe that dat needs to
Speaker 1: play with the snap count a little bit more. I'll
Speaker 1: buy into that, because there's there was several times where
Speaker 1: I saw him frantically going to the line of trying
Speaker 1: to get and and then I looked up and it's like, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, there's fourteen seconds left, right, what's the
Speaker 1: hurry slow down? I don't but see what happens. It's
Speaker 1: not like he's going up to the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: when he changes the call and he has the roller
Speaker 1: decks of plays when they give them that play they've practiced. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you don't like this, look, then check to this.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's just going through his mind and going, well,
Speaker 1: let me try this. That stuff's all pre planned. Now
Speaker 1: he is he making the wrong decision getting out of
Speaker 1: a run to throw the ball, or getting out of
Speaker 1: a throw to run the ball. That's maybe what's going on,
Speaker 1: But I don't know in that environment, I'm not checking
Speaker 1: a lot of place. That's just me. I'm not going
Speaker 1: in with the idea of like, Okay, I'm gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and just go through while my tackles can't hear,
Speaker 1: my receivers can't hear. I mean, my backs can't hear.
Speaker 1: I'm not going in there with the idea of doing that.
Speaker 1: So I understand his question. But I think to Mickey's
Speaker 1: point is it's not every single down that you're seeing
Speaker 1: him do this. You know, I just don't. Can I
Speaker 1: throw out one more thing offensively? That surprised me, you guys,
Speaker 1: surprised that the lack of his own read looks in
Speaker 1: the game. As I went back and watched it this morning,
Speaker 1: the first one I saw was eleven fifty three left
Speaker 1: to go in the game. Oh, they the one where
Speaker 1: he pulled it that one way. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of them where they actually Zeke's one of Zeke's seven
Speaker 1: yard runs, Yeah, was a was a was a read option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he and he and he, I could said on
Speaker 1: the third and one on the first series, he could
Speaker 1: have pulled the ball and doe for the first down
Speaker 1: on that one. Instead, he trusted that Zeke could come
Speaker 1: how get past Bobby Wagner. I just didn't notice much
Speaker 1: of it in the game compared to last No, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm almost a half. You know. We got the film
Speaker 1: late and I was in this morning after parent teacher conferences,
Speaker 1: and I I've noticed, though not as prevalent so far
Speaker 1: as what it was last week, and it was pretty effective. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that can they can see things like at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and say, oh, this is not a
Speaker 1: good situation. Well enough, y'all of a sudden you have
Speaker 1: a safety walk. And then they had the safety walk
Speaker 1: and down. The other day they played a lot of
Speaker 1: single safety high with Earl by himself. But they still
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and sixty seven yards. Did that
Speaker 1: was not a problem averages eight yards a carry. Running
Speaker 1: the ball wasn't the problem. Okay, I made the point earlier.
Speaker 1: Was one coordinator committed and the other one not. And
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to put the It sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: trying to place the sole blame of this on Lenahan,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you, I'm sorry, Joe and Flower, Mountain,
Speaker 1: Vic and Ventura. I'm not trying to offend you here
Speaker 1: as a fan, but I don't know if you necessary
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to defend Linahan. But I'm saying
Speaker 1: here and I'm asking you guys, did he Were they
Speaker 1: not as committed as say Seattle was well? And there
Speaker 1: is there time? Should we be more committed now? If
Speaker 1: this offensive line is not He threw He threw thirty
Speaker 1: four passes. Yes, okay, two were in a miserably failed
Speaker 1: two minute drill at the end of the first half.
Speaker 1: Right ten came after they were two scores down with
Speaker 1: five minutes left in the game. Last twelve of his
Speaker 1: passes came in either two minute drill or desperation with
Speaker 1: five minutes to go, when you're down twenty four thirteen.
Speaker 1: So twelve of the thirty four attempts happened in that situation.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you had thrown twenty two passes and you ran
Speaker 1: it sixteen times. So those numbers get skewed because of
Speaker 1: the situation. But he but he he had good enough
Speaker 1: balanced in for you guys, and is that what is
Speaker 1: is that what you're trying to just saying majure half
Speaker 1: a third of his passes came when they were in
Speaker 1: situations where I think I think it was very similar
Speaker 1: both teams commitment to the run and myself. Okay, when
Speaker 1: you look at Chris Carson, he had ten carries in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter after they were up twenty four or
Speaker 1: six ten of us end of his thirty two and
Speaker 1: so he had twenty two carries through three quarters of
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, and Zeke wound up with sixteen carries
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty seven whatever. Yep. And I
Speaker 1: just think it was very similar as far as their
Speaker 1: commitment to the run. And I think if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: led twenty four to six, Zeke would have had thirty carries.
Speaker 1: Zeke would have run the ball for thirty two times, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: He might have had when they had the lead right
Speaker 1: after they got kind of it's kind of the same
Speaker 1: principle with with what's talking about the Dallas defense. All right,
Speaker 1: I think some of those numbers are hollow as far
Speaker 1: as the Dallas defense. I'm I'm keeping I'm tapping the
Speaker 1: brakes on how great this defense is based on how
Speaker 1: poorly this Cowboys offense has been so far, because the
Speaker 1: other teams have not in Carolina and Seattle have not
Speaker 1: had to press the issue on offense. And so let's
Speaker 1: let's wait and see what happened. And this offense is
Speaker 1: clearly a handicap for the defense, not not just putting
Speaker 1: them out there a bunch, but just the fact that
Speaker 1: they scored no point. There's there's very little margin for error,
Speaker 1: as Mickey said, a bust or two, and that that
Speaker 1: blows the game wide open. Really because now your two
Speaker 1: scores down, as Bill said, that's a that's a huge
Speaker 1: lead to overcome the way this offense is playing. Also,
Speaker 1: tell me how much time Sean Lee's gonna miss now,
Speaker 1: and you know, anytime you've got recurring hamstring problems the
Speaker 1: second time around for a month, and see what happened.
Speaker 1: Laden Banderesh looked like he played pretty well in this game,
Speaker 1: But we all know what Sean does in terms from
Speaker 1: communications standpoint and getting guys in the right spot and
Speaker 1: all that, So I don't know if he would have
Speaker 1: helped the safeties out. Yeah, now, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you can't play without Jeff Heath on the field. Speaking
Speaker 1: of safeties, how big of a difference was the guy
Speaker 1: for Seattle yesterday? Uh yeah, I don't think you could
Speaker 1: write a better script than what unfolded with Earl and
Speaker 1: all the stuff around it yesterday. And Mickey. I know
Speaker 1: what Mickey's gonna say. Well, he's just you know, he's
Speaker 1: a safety. He caught a couple he caught a couple
Speaker 1: of balls that were just right there for him. But
Speaker 1: he hasn't That's the thing about him. He has a
Speaker 1: knack for just being around the football and being in
Speaker 1: the right spot and have Michael Gallup drop a pass right,
Speaker 1: but he was there to make the play. How many
Speaker 1: times have we seen the Cowboys secondary like almost be there.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a heck of a player, man, you
Speaker 1: gotta give it to him. I've never seen a guy
Speaker 1: so fortunate in my life. How many times did the
Speaker 1: second one get tipped before it landed in his hands? Twice?
Speaker 1: It's a heck of a play by Bobby Wagner and
Speaker 1: even make it a contested and then Jarwin tries to
Speaker 1: bat it down like he's playing. I think he was
Speaker 1: actually trying to bring it in. At first, I thought
Speaker 1: it down to keep it from catch it. But on
Speaker 1: further review, I think he was flailing at it trying
Speaker 1: to bring it in. And you have to put yourself
Speaker 1: in position to make those plays. And that's where this
Speaker 1: guy instinctually is one of the best to ever play,
Speaker 1: because he knows exactly where he needs to be. It
Speaker 1: might not always, uh you know, with him. Uh, he
Speaker 1: is a difference maker. And I'm sorry, Mickey, I'll disagree
Speaker 1: with you all day. Oh. I think he's a good player,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't he was so great yesterday. He's safety
Speaker 1: can make a difference in a football game, and a
Speaker 1: safety yesterday made a difference in a football game. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys safety's made a difference too. They did. They cost
Speaker 1: him to lose. They are asking for it. Man. That
Speaker 1: Bowl though, by Thomas, come on, yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: well spent fifteen exactly much better than Randy Gregory's. All right,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna put this to bed after today because now,
Speaker 1: I mean Seattle's one and two Cowboys are one in two.
Speaker 1: I mean by Seattle, Thomas, he's gonna not practice for
Speaker 1: three days a week, so I just get ready for that.
Speaker 1: As long as long as he's in Seattle, he's not
Speaker 1: going to practice on Wednesday and Thursday and maybe in Friday.
Speaker 1: Did you see his comments after the game basically said yeah,
Speaker 1: basically said, I'm protecting myself. I'm protecting my own investment
Speaker 1: and if they won't do it, I will. So is
Speaker 1: it our understanding that at the draft a second round
Speaker 1: pick could have got him fifty? Yes, number fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Dallas came back with a good offer for a
Speaker 1: second round pick, and just recently here before Earl decided
Speaker 1: to report back. The problem you're running into now is
Speaker 1: John Snyder believes that. And he made an end season
Speaker 1: trade for Dwayne Brown the tackle and it was after
Speaker 1: they played Houston, and exactly right, and it was John
Speaker 1: gave up a player, and he gave up a two
Speaker 1: in this draft, this coming up draft and a five
Speaker 1: last year's draft. Yeah, and he thinks that Dwayne Brown.
Speaker 1: It thinks that Earl Thomas is a better player than
Speaker 1: Dayne Brown. I would agree with that. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: nobody's going to give him anything for this unless he
Speaker 1: unless he wants to get unless. And the point is,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to get Earl Thomas, you have time
Speaker 1: to get him. Was the draft night when you could
Speaker 1: get him for a second, and would you would you
Speaker 1: have had had time then to negotiate a long term
Speaker 1: deal Draft night? Draft night? Oh yeah yeah? On the
Speaker 1: clock seat. This is this is where to me, this
Speaker 1: is where if you have a player that wants to
Speaker 1: be there, he's not gonna hold you up. I just don't.
Speaker 1: He'll hold you up if it's somewhere. If John Snyder
Speaker 1: trades him, to say, he trades him to Tampa or
Speaker 1: Atlanta or one of these other places, He's gonna hold
Speaker 1: you He's gonna hold he's gonna hold you up. He's
Speaker 1: gonna hold you up. But the fact that he has
Speaker 1: been adamant that he wants to be here and John
Speaker 1: Snyder doesn't owe him anything. John can take the best
Speaker 1: offer he gets from anybody. He can also be very stubborn.
Speaker 1: So I guess I had people in Green Bay asked me,
Speaker 1: They go, you usually offer two for this guy? All right.
Speaker 1: So so my question as it relates to yesterday, and
Speaker 1: I'm dropping this after after this segment, okay, because I
Speaker 1: think it's all a moot point. Now, if Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: is playing for Dallas yesterday instead of for Seattle, how
Speaker 1: does that change the game. Well, he doesn't get two
Speaker 1: interceptions for Seattle, and maybe maybe his back up there
Speaker 1: doesn't make those plays. I think to me, this is
Speaker 1: I think this is where the game changes. Because we
Speaker 1: all had confidence. Okay, I shouldn't say we all. I
Speaker 1: had confidence into Dallas safeties. I felt like that Heath
Speaker 1: and Frasier deserve my respect. They after two weeks, they
Speaker 1: deserve my respect. Does Earl Thomas make a difference when
Speaker 1: you know, is he back there and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he sees a route develop on the outside or
Speaker 1: he knows the down in distance and he says, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the way they're gonna go. Maybe he maybe
Speaker 1: he makes a play on that back end over there
Speaker 1: instead of them trying to disguise coverages, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, you get Frasier caught up short
Speaker 1: fifty two yard play. Yeah yeah, yeah, And maybe if
Speaker 1: he's on the field, you know, Schottenheimer's whole strategy changes
Speaker 1: if they've got a veteran safety, if you have a
Speaker 1: guy that has an understanding of how it goes back
Speaker 1: to positioning, how do you position yourself in order to
Speaker 1: make plays? He did in a Week one against Denver.
Speaker 1: They run a vertical route up the seam, and what
Speaker 1: does he do. He reads it all the way, cuts
Speaker 1: in front of it, gets an interception. That's what this
Speaker 1: guy does. That's the type of player he is. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you not want a guy like that,
Speaker 1: but that's the way it goes, all right, We continue
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Speaker 1: let's go to Matt in Oklahoma. Next up, I'm talking Cowboys. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: lifetime Cowboys fan here. I got a couple of points
Speaker 1: I wanted to introduct there, and if you guys could
Speaker 1: talk on a little bit. First, one is Scotland Hand.
Speaker 1: Not a lot to say about him. I haven't been
Speaker 1: a big fan of his. I haven't. He hasn't done
Speaker 1: well since Romo left the Cowboys. I don't think, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that was the biggest reason for Dak's success
Speaker 1: in that first year was because Romo was there on
Speaker 1: the sideline. So I don't have much use for him.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, my mentality is produce or we'll
Speaker 1: get somebody else at will. I'm just afraid the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna stick with him, which brings me to the
Speaker 1: next point, which would be that Crescott. You know, I've
Speaker 1: watched the Cowboys stick with guys longer than they should have,
Speaker 1: things like and you know, I'm just not seeing it
Speaker 1: from Dak Prescott. I don't think he's the guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna get us to the super Bowl. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a franchise quarterback. So far, it seems like everybody
Speaker 1: kind of like puts around him. Uh and you know,
Speaker 1: doesn't really just say, well, he's just not that not
Speaker 1: that good. He's not the guy that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: He's not Aaron Rodgers, you know, or one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Can I ask a question, sir? So? So the question is,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you guys think that this is gonna
Speaker 1: be another one of those you know, Quincy Carter. He
Speaker 1: they stuck with him too long? Are we gonna stick
Speaker 1: with that too long? Are we gonna move on? So? So,
Speaker 1: Dak's success in twenty sixteen was because he had Romo
Speaker 1: in his ear? Is that what you're so? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think you know Romo and Lenahan's
Speaker 1: ear and and Dak's here. You're familiar with the term
Speaker 1: urban legend. Well, you know, yeah, we're just we're just
Speaker 1: trying to educate, man, That's all we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody light foots around Dak Prescott. No,
Speaker 1: I think when I think, you know, if you watch
Speaker 1: what I'm going to write today. I mean, when he
Speaker 1: makes good plays, I write about that. When he makes
Speaker 1: poor plays, I write about that. I think Mickey Spagnola
Speaker 1: is the same way Rob Phillips Build Jones does a
Speaker 1: nightly sports broadcasting station here in a major market television market.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody lightfoots around anybody as far as
Speaker 1: sticking with him. You know. Yeah, I think they'll stick
Speaker 1: with him. I think they'll stick with the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, they're going to add
Speaker 1: all these up, and if it's good enough for the
Speaker 1: general manager, the owner, then he'll say, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on. We'll be fine. This is what we'll do.
Speaker 1: Let's redraft this thing, let's see what we have to do,
Speaker 1: let's go out and get some free agents whatever. But
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, then I think he'll make that decision,
Speaker 1: you know. And there's no and I take it exception
Speaker 1: to that trying to get the word out because I
Speaker 1: think that we are critical of this football team, and
Speaker 1: I think that we when it needs to be said,
Speaker 1: we say it. So you know, if if Dak is
Speaker 1: not good enough, and I don't know how many other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks out there, guys or Aaron Rodgers or or Tom
Speaker 1: Brady or Drew Brees. You know, I would, I would.
Speaker 1: I would give my career in scouting I have. I
Speaker 1: was with one. I was with one like that, and
Speaker 1: that was the only one. You know, and Tony Romo
Speaker 1: was good player. But you know, let's not you know,
Speaker 1: Tony Romo had nothing to do with Dak Prescott in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. And yeah, and I think that again, let's
Speaker 1: not let's not forget that, Let's not get the story
Speaker 1: messed up here. I give Scotland a hand a lot
Speaker 1: of credit that year, that first year of designing and
Speaker 1: trying to figure something out around what Dak did best.
Speaker 1: And the other thing was that was the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in football that year. And Dak, I think had
Speaker 1: a lot more time. If you go back and you
Speaker 1: watch this game, there's times where he does, there's times
Speaker 1: where he doesn't. And I think some of the pressure
Speaker 1: that he faces affects the way sometimes he's throwing the
Speaker 1: ball and trying to complete passes when he does have time.
Speaker 1: I think they're trying, if you go back and watch
Speaker 1: this game, they try to spread him out, but they
Speaker 1: were also making an effort to try to get the
Speaker 1: ball out quickly because it's not the same offensive line.
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman spoke to it yesterday on the broadcast. It's
Speaker 1: not the same set of receivers either out there running.
Speaker 1: It's just not it's a it's a completely in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, it's a completely different offense from two
Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, and so trying to compare those two things,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of time has passed since then, a
Speaker 1: lot of faces have changed. And Zach Martin spoke to
Speaker 1: it last night. They've got to figure something out up front.
Speaker 1: They said, blocking up front for the run game is
Speaker 1: one one thing they're doing that, okay, but if we
Speaker 1: can't protect our quarterback, we're not going to win a
Speaker 1: lot of games. That's taking a lot of hits, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of hits. So what do you think the
Speaker 1: answer is? Up front? I want to I'm I'm committed
Speaker 1: to allowing that left guard to grow. You know, I
Speaker 1: am committed. I'm committed to allowing the right tackle to
Speaker 1: try and develop a little bit more. Am I concerned
Speaker 1: about what's going on at left tackle? Some Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1: You know, center is a backup player. Center is really
Speaker 1: a journeyman players. He's done the best he can and
Speaker 1: it's probably and I don't see you going out there
Speaker 1: and getting somebody better because you don't have anybody. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe this Redman kid that they picked up one day,
Speaker 1: we'll be a serviceable backup that it shouldn't use. Serviceable
Speaker 1: because that's what Joe Looney is right now, Joe Looney
Speaker 1: and getting you killed. But Joe Looney is not Travis Frederick.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't expect that. We can't expect him
Speaker 1: to play like that. They're gonna have to figure out way.
Speaker 1: It's like Rob said, maybe a little bit what we
Speaker 1: saw with Seattle, you're gonna to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of your hand a little bit quicker. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's that's gonna put it on people on the outside.
Speaker 1: That's gonna put it on the outside for those guys
Speaker 1: to have to win a little bit more. So. We
Speaker 1: don't have a tight end that can always win too.
Speaker 1: That's another safety blanket that these guys use. We just
Speaker 1: don't have that guy. Seattle played with two backup offensive
Speaker 1: lineman three Actually yeah, all inside, well he's a backup,
Speaker 1: he's not a back guard. But he was your point,
Speaker 1: you're right, No, you're right. Draft pickin yea hunt center
Speaker 1: and Sweezy at the one guard spot. And Sweezy started
Speaker 1: games before he started. He started the the Chicago game,
Speaker 1: and he started for in Tampa and then in Seattle
Speaker 1: before he was Oh, that was a scary site when
Speaker 1: I saw Cameron Fleming had left tackle for a grief
Speaker 1: a milen of time. Yeah, And Dak didn't assign blame.
Speaker 1: After the game, he said, look, when when I go
Speaker 1: back and watch, I gotta see is it me Sometimes
Speaker 1: is the protection? And I thought there was one sack
Speaker 1: he took where he just needed to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball and he held he held it a tick
Speaker 1: long and he took the sack. So again it's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different things that go into this. When
Speaker 1: you struggled this much and putting up thirteen points a game.
Speaker 1: When Zack Martin gets knocked back on a play, and
Speaker 1: then Prescott feels that white jersey in his lap and
Speaker 1: then he tries to duck it and go forward, and
Speaker 1: now he's trying to throw the ball to Beasley coming across,
Speaker 1: but he can't get his feet set. You know. Usually,
Speaker 1: I mean nine times that attend. Zack Martin's got that
Speaker 1: block and then boom, Now you got to step up
Speaker 1: in a throw yep. You know this is what this
Speaker 1: team is right now there there there every play you
Speaker 1: could go, well where's okay, who made that mistake? Who
Speaker 1: made that mistake? Well okay, oh that was Zach Morton?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you know, I mean even the guy Ezekiel,
Speaker 1: it's stepping out of bounce. We talked about that. When
Speaker 1: your best players are making mistakes, you're not going to
Speaker 1: have much success. And that's where they're all right now.
Speaker 1: And this includes the OC. You know he's got to
Speaker 1: do a better job too. But you know he can
Speaker 1: call plays and they don't finish the plays. You know,
Speaker 1: then there's not much I mean, it's it's I call
Speaker 1: it low hanging fruit. You can blame him all you want,
Speaker 1: but you know, there's the general manager has to look
Speaker 1: at the play calling. He has to look at the players,
Speaker 1: and that's on him too. The players are on him too.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if people understand the quarterback hits that,
Speaker 1: because that means he's getting hit. He's getting hit either
Speaker 1: right before he throws the ball and he eludes it,
Speaker 1: or it's right as he's throwing the ball. That's what
Speaker 1: a quarterback is stepping up. So when you can't step up,
Speaker 1: it's hard to be accurate. It's hard to get the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. Don't have time to get the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. Zach spoke yesterday we got Zack
Speaker 1: was the only one that came forward. He said, if
Speaker 1: we don't do a better job protecting number four, we
Speaker 1: can't have a good offer and letting routes develop. And yeah,
Speaker 1: and letting routes develop. See, that's another thing I'm getting
Speaker 1: a little tired of, is Dak Prescott standing up there
Speaker 1: taking all the shots and quarterbacks. Quarterbacks have to do that.
Speaker 1: But he but you know what they ought to treat
Speaker 1: He ought to be on the injury port every week
Speaker 1: for stab wounds that he has to deal with because
Speaker 1: he and hey, he's up there saying, hey, I've got
Speaker 1: to get better. I've got Yeah, he knows that he
Speaker 1: knows what he knows what he is. We know his limitations,
Speaker 1: what he is, but we've also seen him play great. Right,
Speaker 1: But you're everybody's right here. They better damn we'll figure
Speaker 1: something out. You know, you cannot go into these games
Speaker 1: and Mickey's right. You go back and watch eight games
Speaker 1: before the Kansas, you know, up until the Atlanta game.
Speaker 1: Maybe something psychologically is a affected him the way he's playing.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe all those hits are now starting to
Speaker 1: add up a little bit more. Maybe he's not trusting
Speaker 1: what he's seeing. You know, guys are open, but he's
Speaker 1: not going to make that throw because all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he throws a ball. You know how many interceptions
Speaker 1: this guy had now where he throws a ball and
Speaker 1: it clangs off somebody's hands, it ends up in somebody
Speaker 1: else's hand, and Mickey's talked about it. This is how
Speaker 1: could that psychologically help anybud. It's an entirely new group
Speaker 1: almost that he's dealing with. He's got a couple receivers
Speaker 1: from last year and a tight end who got minimal snaps,
Speaker 1: and it's other than that, it's an entirely different group
Speaker 1: and they're trying to grow. Like you said, this is
Speaker 1: the group they selected said, you know what, we don't
Speaker 1: need to have a number one receiver. We don't need
Speaker 1: to have a big time tight end. If you want
Speaker 1: to point the finger, you could point. You could circle
Speaker 1: everybody involved here. You know, that everybody needs to wake
Speaker 1: up in the morning when they're driving to work. If
Speaker 1: they're listening to me bitching about how they're playing, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you know, maybe that's right, Maybe that maybe you
Speaker 1: need to be a little bit better with your players selection.
Speaker 1: Maybe you need to be better with your coaching. Maybe
Speaker 1: you need to be better with your offensive play calling.
Speaker 1: Maybe you need to be better at playing at quarterback
Speaker 1: or blocking it right guard, or not getting caught in
Speaker 1: looking inside of the safety. Maybe you need to be
Speaker 1: a little bit better doing that. That's why we're sitting
Speaker 1: here having bitch fest right now because of things that
Speaker 1: are going on. They're just not good enough. And it's
Speaker 1: everybody's hand in this one. Well, we've got all week
Speaker 1: to talk about this, you know. I do want to
Speaker 1: mention this because there's breaking news this morning. A former
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: passed away this morning. Tommy McDonald. Tommy McDonald was with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in nineteen sixty four, remember the College Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame as well, Oklahoma Oklahoma. In fact, in
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, he was part of that forty seven game
Speaker 1: win strate. He did not lose a game in college,
Speaker 1: playing for Bud Wilkinson in Oklahoma. He was drafted by
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles, played with the Eagles for six and
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure he is. And U came to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in nineteen sixty four, played one year with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and then was traded for Danny Villeneuave a
Speaker 1: place kicker after Bob Hayes became a Cowboy in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty five. So Bob Hayes basically replaced a Pro Football
Speaker 1: Hall one Pro Football Hall of Famer replaced another one
Speaker 1: in this day and age exactly. And uh. And the
Speaker 1: other thing about Tommy McDonald is he was the last
Speaker 1: non kicker not to wear a face mat yea. So
Speaker 1: Rogers is another one passed away at age eighty four
Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah, so condolences to the McDonald family. Quite
Speaker 1: a character too, and it may have been one reason
Speaker 1: why he was only here for a year. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the Tommy McDonald character meshed real
Speaker 1: well with coach Landry those I no, they had a
Speaker 1: lot of characters on this and that's true. That's the
Speaker 1: sixties and the seventies. By the way, I don't know
Speaker 1: how Tom put up with it, tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: That's probably why he lost all his hair. Yep, that's right.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. It's time you surprised that
Speaker 1: last night before I know, we got a couple minutes.
Speaker 1: You're surprised that New England went in there and took
Speaker 1: an l Detroit. Sure it was our desperate team theory
Speaker 1: again kind of working there. How about the Giants going down,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the Husto, Yeah two, one of
Speaker 1: them had to win. How about Buffalo Buffalo? Here you go.
Speaker 1: You can't figure this league out? No, I really can't.
Speaker 1: We say it's a strange lady, it is. It is
Speaker 1: Brian T shirt. Put it on T shirts. Winless teams
Speaker 1: one five, five was eight winless teams have played so far,
Speaker 1: including oh one and one Cleveland right on in one
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh as a chance to win Pittsburgh to nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: five and one of them had to lose because they
Speaker 1: played each other. So only two other ones, you know, lost.
Speaker 1: I think it was Arizona and the Raiders. So you
Speaker 1: contend it's a good thing for the Cowboys got off
Speaker 1: the schneid to get off first, they got their WEDT
Speaker 1: night way to get some points though, Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: know you don't really want Matt Stafford getting in a
Speaker 1: rhythm offensively, not here, not when he's from here. Then
Speaker 1: you gotta because then you got to come back and
Speaker 1: match that mixed Yeah ye out fast. Yeah. Well they
Speaker 1: lost two to row. All right, that doesn't for talking Cowboys.
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