1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shots 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 5 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are for another week 6 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: of Mick Shots. Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey 7 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: Spagnola back home in his SWBC mortgage studio at Ford 8 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: Center at the Star in Frisio. It's yes, it's it's Mickey. 9 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Did you spend your whole holiday there at the SWBC 10 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: Mortgage studio? I am proud to say that I was 11 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: here on Friday, but not Saturday and Sunday. There you go, 12 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: all right, So you had your Thanksgiving holiday consisted of 13 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: a normal weekend day, Saturday and Sunday off. Of course, 14 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: you spent Thursday at at and T Stadium, And maybe 15 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: we won't have to talk about that for very long 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: here on this edition of Mixed Shots. But we've got 17 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: so much to get to since we last convened ever 18 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: sin hours. Your Thanksgiving, Ah, Thanksgiving was kind of normal, 19 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: except for the depressed part of it. You know, everything 20 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: was fine before three thirty, and then all of a 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: sudden things just went downhill. My weekend was just as 22 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 1: average as any trying to play it safe. So I'm 23 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:47,119 Speaker 1: kind of in a brooding mood right now. That's why 24 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: that's why I bought my hoodie. I'm all in, you 25 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Still all in, Still all in, 26 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: but nonetheless brooding. Can I can I take that stance? Can? 27 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: I can totally understand that I showed up with the 28 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: hood all I thought maybe he was doing it with 29 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: the windows open outside. Well, you got to have a 30 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: proper ventilation here in these COVID days, So I would 31 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,839 Speaker 1: advise everyone, even if it's forty outside like the day, 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, keep the keep those windows open. We went 33 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: good ventilation, all right, Mickey, There's so much to get to. 34 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: Where should we start on this edition of mix Shots? 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: How do you think? Bill? Uh? Last time we talked 36 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: was Wednesday? Right, So much has taken place, not only 37 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: with the Cowboys on the football field, not only with 38 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Marcus Paul passing away after 39 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: our show, and then all the stuff that's happening in 40 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: the league along with the Cowboys. Thursday night game being 41 00:02:55,560 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: pushed back to the following Tuesday. I'll leave it up 42 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: to you, since you're steering the ship, where you want 43 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: to exactly start this thing, because a lot of this 44 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: is tied together too, by the way, Yep, that's exactly right. Well, 45 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: I'm always start with Marcus Paul because on Friday morning 46 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: I taped the Mike mcco and I got the feeling 47 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: and of course he did a media availability I think, yeah, 48 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: Friday morning too, right, Yeah, And I got the feeling 49 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: that he had basically spent and by then he even 50 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: though it hadn't been officially announced yet, I think he 51 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: pretty much knew that the game against the Ravens was 52 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: going to get pushed back, so he didn't have to 53 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: do the normal things that you he would do on 54 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: a normal work week, which is what it would have 55 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: been had the game still been played on Thursday. And 56 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: so I think he spent a good portion, if not all, 57 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: of the morning on Friday morning taken in phone calls. 58 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: You know a lot of people knew that, you know, 59 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: he obviously had a game on Thursday, and they didn't 60 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: call about Marcus until Friday morning. Uh, And so I 61 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 1: think and he talked with the I believe the family 62 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: on Friday morning and so forth. And I think that 63 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: is you know, it's at a point after all that 64 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: had transpired in the previous seventy two hours, that you 65 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 1: sit there and you just, um, you reflect on one 66 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: what's happened, you know, you know. And in fact, he 67 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: apologized at the end of a taping of the Mike 68 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: McCarthy Show that he just didn't have the energy. I said, 69 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: I didn't either. I mean, none of us had energy 70 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: after that, And so I can only imagine what those 71 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: close to the family are still going through. And then 72 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: for the players too, as we talked about last week. 73 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: You know, the players are very close. We're very close 74 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: to Marcus and Natural Uh, you know, probably as close 75 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: as any coach to the team and the team. Lake 76 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: vanderash talked about it, uh, you know, especially for him. 77 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 1: You know, he had been side by side with him 78 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: throughout the offseason because coming office surgery, he could be 79 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: at the Star when he was at back home in Idaho. 80 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: And so anyway, Uh, that's kind of where it was 81 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: on Friday. Yeah, and it was it was it was 82 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: even emotional draining. I think after we got the word 83 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 1: here when the announced or the you know, the statement 84 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 1: came out. It was about quarter to six on Wednesday, 85 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: and you were just kind of waiting to see UH. 86 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,039 Speaker 1: And then after you know, the game and going over 87 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: everything the guys said. Mike McCarthy said on his press conference, 88 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: Jerry said, when he did his radio interview, and UH, 89 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: I got charged with writing about Marcus for the Game 90 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: Day upcoming Game Day magazines, and I'll tell you what, guys, 91 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: and I sort of wrote the story from the aspect 92 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: of after I read all this stuff that came out 93 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: about him, all the tweets from from Syracuse, the university, 94 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: from the former assistant coach Randy Edsel, who recruit recruited 95 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: Marcus to Syracuse, to Darryl Johnston, who I didn't put 96 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: two and two together. They were teammates and co captains 97 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: their senior year there, UH in eighty eight, to the 98 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: Giants coming out with statements and all the people that 99 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: he had touched. I was sitting there going, you know, 100 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: I feel cheated because I didn't get to know him 101 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: that well, but I felt like I got to know 102 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,360 Speaker 1: him by listening to everybody else react to him. And 103 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: by time I got done with that, I was emotionally 104 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: drained from just going through the whole thing and kind 105 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: of reliving it and seeing how much he meant to 106 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: so many different people and so many any different walks 107 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: of life, to the point that you know, he was 108 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: a teammate Ron Riverez at Washington and you know, and 109 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: he had to coach the game on Thursday, and it 110 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: sounded like they were pretty close. And even in the 111 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: pregame show on Thursday, Michael Strahan talking about how they 112 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,239 Speaker 1: were they were bus run or they were ride buddies 113 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: to the airport for the away games that they spent 114 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: that time together, and he goes, and if you know 115 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: about your ride buddy to the airport, you end up 116 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: being pretty close. So it was just amazing how many 117 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: people he touched in his not only professional playing career, 118 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: but when he became strength and conditioning assistant at New Orleans, 119 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: followed Mike Woissick to New England, he was with the Jets, 120 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: and then I guess what I missed was that he 121 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: spent eleven seasons with the Giants and won two Super 122 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: Bowls with them, three with the New England and Pat Hanlon, 123 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: who's their community vice president of communications. I had a 124 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,440 Speaker 1: couple of tweets that were very heartfelt, and yeah, it 125 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: was amazing how many people he touched. But as you said, Bill, 126 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coaches, they touch everybody. In fact, one 127 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 1: guy that I got a text from was who I 128 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:30,560 Speaker 1: hadn't put two and two together at all on it. 129 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: But it's just sort of an example of you don't 130 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: realize how close the fraternity is if you haven't been 131 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: in that fraternity like Everson has been in. You know, 132 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: a friend of mine, Brian Jones, who works for CBS 133 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: Sports college football analysts, he texted me back last week, 134 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 1: asked me what I knew about his condition and so forth, 135 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: and I was like, so, how do you know. I mean, 136 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: he was with the Saints and when Marcus Paul was 137 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: with the Saints twenty years ago, before he was with 138 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: the paid Reach. Remember Wisick was with the Saints for 139 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: a short time. Uh, and so he was his assistant 140 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: there with the Sataness. So that's how he got to 141 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: know him. And then he's and Brian said, he's one 142 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,959 Speaker 1: of the greatest guys that he has met that he 143 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: met in his entire time in the NFL. And you 144 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: know too, a couple of things in regards to what 145 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: you just mentioned, Bill, you are so right. Just being 146 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: an athlete going through the league and having many years, 147 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: you're blessed to go through it. And if you're blessed 148 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: to play with several teams, then you're going to have 149 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: a connection in some kind of way. There's always going 150 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: to be a six degree of separation, and that's just 151 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: as a player. And he continued to be part of 152 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: different staffs even after he played, and that really solidified 153 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: his relationship throughout the entire NFL with whoever he touched. 154 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry I don't know her name, but his 155 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: daughter Conspats what's her name, Tabitha, Tabitha Man. She really 156 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: personalized everything for us with the words, her words of 157 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: hope and and just her words of love and then 158 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: recollecting what her father meant to her and also where 159 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: he meant to so many other people. So I thought 160 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: Tabitha's addition to this entire emotional experience, I just thought 161 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: it kind of tapped it, topped it off in the 162 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: right way to where you know, yes, it's a game, 163 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: but right now, this is someone's father who's going through this. 164 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: And so that family U had had my prayers and 165 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone else's, and really that's that's what's more 166 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: important here than anything else. And by the way, she 167 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: posted uh Friday or Saturday that her dad was an 168 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,439 Speaker 1: organ donor and saved four people's lives. Right, I saw that. 169 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: I saw that bill Thanksgiving Day. Basically, wow, I didn't 170 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: see that. That's that's amazing, you know. And and the 171 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: thing that it kept coming out about him was that 172 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: he was such a sweet person and it was always 173 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: nice around here, and my only interaction would be passing 174 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: him at the training table during lunch, and always a 175 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: smile on his face, always kind of upbeat and moving quickly. 176 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: And I wish I could remember who said this, but 177 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 1: they talked about what a nice guy he was, but 178 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: in the job he was in and so close to 179 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: the players, being nice was one thing, but also figured 180 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: out how to be tough to get guys to do 181 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,959 Speaker 1: what he wanted them to do. And that's not an 182 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: easy juggling act a lot of times for those guys 183 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: in that position. Because again, offseason, he's the head coach, right, 184 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: he's in charge because the coaches aren't allowed to be 185 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: around the players during that part of the offseason workouts 186 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: in training, and it sounded like, yeah, the guys and 187 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: you know, all they had to say after the game, 188 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: and the fact that I think a couple of things 189 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: stood out. It looked like part of the team meeting 190 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: Wednesday night, Mike McCarthy let the guys stand up and 191 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: say what they had to say about them, whoever wanted 192 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: to talk. And then, you know, before the game, after 193 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: they finished their pregame warm up, they all gathered in 194 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: a big circle basically kneeling, and it looked like Sean 195 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: Lee was kind of in charge of saying something, holding hands. 196 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,760 Speaker 1: And then the other thing I noticed guys before the game, 197 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: and I don't think this might have gotten on television, 198 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: but before they did that started the tribute on the 199 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: big video board, the offensive lineman. The whole group towed 200 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: the line together. They were the only ones there for 201 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: the before the start of it, like they were braced 202 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: for it. And after the tribute, they kind of went 203 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,439 Speaker 1: in a circle and they hugged each other and went 204 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: around and it was like, oh my god, you guys 205 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: are going to break my heart, you know. And so yeah, 206 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: there was a there was a lot of outpouring of emotion. 207 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: And the thing that you know, kind of occurred to me. 208 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: If you count fifty three guys on the roster, you 209 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: got sixteen guys on the practice squad. You got, however 210 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: many guys that are injured reserve. And I counted it 211 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: all up, and it got into you know, the seventies, 212 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: high seventies, and I wanted to see how many guys 213 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: were no more than twenty five years old, and I 214 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: counted forty nine, forty nine. And think about when you 215 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: were twenty five, people close to you, other than maybe 216 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: your grandparent, they didn't pass away. You were young, and 217 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 1: they were young. And for these guys to have to 218 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: deal with somebody that close to them passing away less 219 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 1: than twenty four hours before kickoff, I'm sure it was 220 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: a very very tough emotionally time for them that night, 221 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:02,600 Speaker 1: even you know, before the game started. And I'm not 222 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: saying it affected how they played, because those guys came 223 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: out and played hard, but just to have to go 224 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: through that a young age is very tough. And you know, 225 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 1: something else about that spacts When you think about society today, 226 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: everything is just more public. It's just the way it is. 227 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 1: It's hard enough having to deal with the loss of 228 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 1: a loved one privately, but that's something that you can 229 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: compartmentalize maybe easier because you don't have to necessarily share 230 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: it with everyone. But when it's when it's a and 231 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: after where everyone's involved, it can be taxing. It can 232 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: be emotionally taxing. It's like being at a funeral. You know, 233 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: you really don't the emotions don't come out until you're 234 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: around all of the sadness and the emotion. So when 235 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: everyone you know, around the sports world and everyone's commenting 236 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: on it, you know, now it's out there in public. 237 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: And to have to deal with something like that, uh, 238 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 1: like you said, at such a young age, and then 239 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: you know you mentioned just everything that's going on in 240 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, it's uh man, it's a lot to deal 241 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: with and and I feel for these young young guys, 242 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: but you know, they gotta get through it. They gotta 243 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: get through it. Well. I think that Uh. You know, 244 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: we talk a lot of times about the bye week, 245 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: whether it came in a good time or not. The 246 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: postponement of this game came at a good time, being 247 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: able to give them a long weekend here and postponing 248 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: it to where they didn't have to be back. Uh, 249 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: they're they're not back into to practice until Wednesday, um 250 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: and uh with a game push back till Monday, and 251 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: that still gives them an extra day to prepare for 252 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: the Ravens and Ravens play a game on Tuesday night 253 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: with with what's left of the Ravens due to COVID. 254 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 1: Uh right now, Yeah, we think Thursday a Tuesday night. 255 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: In fact, at least they'll have a quarterback, right at 256 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: least a quarter Yeah, so when we come back, and 257 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: there's so much to get to in terms of whether 258 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: a team has quarterbacks or not, whether the Ravens can play, 259 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: and so much more. But right off the top, I 260 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: thought it's appropriate for us to talk about Marcus Paul 261 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: and let the Paul family know our thoughts and prayers 262 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: are with them as they go through this time. Mix 263 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: Shots continues here in just a moment. Hey, they're Cowboys 264 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,600 Speaker 1: fans with Type Cleaners at home pickup and delivery. Cleaning 265 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: your clothes has never been more convenient. Simply sign up 266 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: at your local store, set out your dirty clothes, and 267 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: one of our tight cleaners professionals will come directly to 268 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: your home for a totally contactless experience. 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For information on delivery, take out, curbside pickup, 302 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: and dine in availability, visit the stardistrict dot com. Welcome 303 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: back to mick Shots, Phil Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. So, Mickey, 304 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: for your read coming up here, You're gonna have to 305 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: find something other than the start to talk about. Unfortunately, 306 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: I think those were forwarded to me, and I forgot 307 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 1: all about him. Oh that's why you didn't have it, okay, right, 308 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,400 Speaker 1: And so I looked at Dog, I'll look at Monday 309 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: last week. Oh, we got single game tickets for Washington. 310 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: You know, it brings us to the San Francisco forty 311 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 1: nine Ers, who the Cowboys will play on December twentieth. 312 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 1: They got a little issue there in Santa Clara, California, 313 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: where they cannot play any football games there, and they 314 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: got two home games the next couple of weeks. And 315 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: apparently San Francis forty nine Ers have reached an agreement 316 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: with the Arizona Cardinals to host their next two games 317 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:07,640 Speaker 1: against Buffalo and Washington at State Farms Stadium there in Phoenix, 318 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: which is now what they call the Dome Stadium there 319 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,640 Speaker 1: in Phoenix that the Cardinals play in. So I guess 320 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: the Cardinals must be on the road the next two weeks. 321 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:21,239 Speaker 1: And I was thinking, Mickey that it would be and 322 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: I looked up. Arizona is not allowing fans in the 323 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: stands now. There for a little while they were, but 324 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: the COVID outbreak has hit Arizona to the point where 325 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: they did not allow fans in the stands for the 326 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: latest Cardinals game, nor would they for San Francisco. But 327 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: I was thinking what the Niners ought to do is 328 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: come here to Arlington and seeing as how they play 329 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: the Cowboys the third game down the road, they could 330 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,719 Speaker 1: host their two home games this Monday night. It's scheduling 331 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: from Monday against Buffalo and then the following Sunday against Washington, 332 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,400 Speaker 1: and then they would play the Cowboys the following Sunday, 333 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: and they could just set up shop here for a 334 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: couple of weeks and work out at Globe Life Park, 335 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: the Rangers old baseball park which has now been converted 336 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,239 Speaker 1: to football. They'd have their own locker room they stay at. 337 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: The Omney. Would have been the great little bubble for them, 338 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: but they've decided to go to Arizona instead, and and 339 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 1: and the key on it would be they would be 340 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: able to play in front of as many fans as 341 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: they bought tickets up to what Cowboys have had thirty 342 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: thousand in there, but they decided to go to Arizona 343 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 1: route instead. Wow we've had thirty thousands. Yeah, yeah, Wow, 344 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: that's tough. It's a big stadium. You can better be 345 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 1: that only feel not only filled a lot of real 346 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: estate in there that only fills a third of it. 347 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: So it was thirty eight I think on third on Thanksgiving. 348 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, have they opened the suites back up yet? Uh? 349 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: Some of the suites. I think people had the right 350 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: to use their suites, A lot of them remained empty. 351 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: And remember the way they sold tickets. It was like, 352 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,960 Speaker 1: I think season ticket holders had the right to purchase 353 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: tickets to two games and then after that it was 354 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 1: general general public. But there was rules that you know, 355 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: if you bought four tickets then it had to be 356 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: four people sitting together. You can't you know, sell them 357 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: to some stranger. It had to be the people in 358 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: your group. So I don't know how well they can 359 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: enforce that, but yeah, yeah, man, it was weird last night, 360 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: you know, or yesterday watching the game the Packers and 361 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,119 Speaker 1: the Bears with nobody or there was a smattering of 362 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,280 Speaker 1: a few people at lambeau Field to watch that game. 363 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: That was strange, you know, I would think from the 364 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: forty nine ers perspective on that. Yeah, and if you 365 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: could pre sale tickets and you knew in advance it 366 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: was gonna happen, I mean, how many fans people are 367 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 1: hungry for football. But could you get twenty five or 368 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: thirty thousand for a Niners Bills game here, a Niners 369 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,240 Speaker 1: Washington game here. It's pretty tough to sell that many 370 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,240 Speaker 1: tickets in that amount of time. Yeah, I can't. I 371 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 1: can't see that. Yeah, and you just wouldn't do it. 372 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,720 Speaker 1: And the other part of that is who is going 373 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: to handle the cost of staffing it and everything. So 374 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 1: from the Niners perspective, they probably would just say, hey, 375 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 1: it's as you know, it's a loss. We're not getting 376 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: fans in the stands. We might lose money if we 377 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: took on that assignment. You got to have more staff 378 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: that comes here to handle it, or you hire people 379 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: here to handle it. They may have just to say 380 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 1: that said, you know what, it's easier to just do 381 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: this Arizona thing. From a travel standpoint, it probably was easier. 382 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: You know, they could have played the game at at 383 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: Global Life Park if they needed to. They could that 384 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: option too. They could go outdoors there, that's right, because 385 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: there's boxing there. There's boxing at AT and T Stadium Saturday. 386 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: So I don't think they want to stay in Dallas 387 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: for three weeks. Bill, that be you'll just being a 388 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: forty nine er. You know, yeah, I don't think they 389 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: feel very comfortable no matter where they were going to 390 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: have to go because they can't practice that their their 391 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,199 Speaker 1: place in Santa Clara. They can't practice either, no no 392 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: contact anything. I don't think even high school sports are 393 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: being played, canceled everything. Yeah, I knew that, and in fact, 394 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: in California high school sports who was put on the 395 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: back burner till the spring. Yeah, Shanahan wasn't the most 396 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: happy with the NFL or with the CAB and they 397 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: didn't communicate with them at a time. They found out 398 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: when they were on the on the flight to the 399 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: to the Rams game, that that's what was going to 400 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 1: take place. Do you think that was a distraction? But 401 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,640 Speaker 1: they ended up winning the game? Yeah? Okay, let's say 402 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: let's move on to uh, speaking of the game, where 403 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: do you want to go to Thursday's game, Thursday's game 404 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: or yesterday? In the NFL, I would go to Thursday's game. 405 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,399 Speaker 1: Let's go Thursday's game. This is our first chance to 406 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 1: talk about it. How about we start with ever since 407 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 1: I saw you, hold on, let me get ready, hold on, 408 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: let me get ready, hold on? All right, here we 409 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: go he's going, Okay, now three days later, what are we? 410 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: Three days later later, there's still stuck in your crawl 411 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: on happened on Thursday? Four days later. You know, I 412 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: have to admit as a guy that you know was 413 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: a former player. Uh, there's a certain commentary that you 414 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 1: know comes from there, you know, But watching that game, 415 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: you know, when I watched the games, I my emotion 416 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: comes as a fan. I've been a fan since I 417 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: was I guess born, you know, been through the whole 418 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: hell Mary's all of that, all of that, played with him, 419 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: hated them when I had to leave, and then my 420 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,920 Speaker 1: family brought me back. So I'm watching the game as 421 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,239 Speaker 1: a fan, and I'm pretty suious, uncomfortable around me when 422 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: when it's a game like this one, because you know, 423 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: I just turned into my dad. I just started coaching 424 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: almost every play, you know, it just becomes kind of 425 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 1: ridiculous to watch. And so I saw how as Spags said, 426 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,399 Speaker 1: they came out so strong, they came out very determined, 427 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 1: and I and inspired. Actually it's what I saw. And 428 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the coaches got involved, and 429 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell is going on? I couldn't 430 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: help between a couple of things, the fake punt, those 431 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: things that it almost showed me. I don't know if 432 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 1: it showed me, but it hinted to me that McCarthy 433 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 1: is in panic mode right now. You know, I didn't 434 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: think it was panic time yet. I know he was 435 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,920 Speaker 1: trying to be aggressive. I get all of that, But 436 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: when you look the way this ball game was being 437 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 1: played up until the point to where we start shooting 438 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,919 Speaker 1: ourselves in the foot, I thought that we had a 439 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 1: great chance to win this ball game. I thought the 440 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 1: guys had played well and they deserved to win this 441 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: ball game up until the whole the disappointments started. And yes, fags, 442 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: I know what coaches always say, and I'm part of that. 443 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: That's eternity as well. Any play can work as long 444 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: as you run it right, okay, But you know, then 445 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: there's the whole analytics side of it, such as you 446 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: still don't you don't run, or you don't go for 447 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: a fourth and one on your own nine yard lines, 448 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,479 Speaker 1: so to speak. And I'm just speaking in general, general 449 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: generalities at this point. So I just don't think you 450 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:51,639 Speaker 1: gamble so much when you have a game that is 451 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: still fully intact and that you have a chance to win, 452 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: I think, and I was torn on Thursday when I 453 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: was writing my column between being too cute and being 454 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: too desperate, and I think desperation had set in if 455 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,639 Speaker 1: you look at how the game was going. You know, 456 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:25,360 Speaker 1: I know they stopped Washington the previous possession and they 457 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: got the interception, but think about this, the interception gave 458 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: you first and goal at the four, and your offensive 459 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: line was such a mess you ended up having to 460 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: kick a field goal from the six because you couldn't 461 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: gain a yard. And I think this was starting to 462 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: weigh on him, like, I don't know if we're gonna 463 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: be able to score and we're gonna run out of possessions. 464 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,239 Speaker 1: And while they said, yeah, they stopped him, but if 465 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: you look at what happened from the second quarter on, 466 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: it was field goal for Washington touchdown, end of half, 467 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: field goal, interception, and then they finally forced them to 468 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: punt for the first time since the first possession, and 469 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: the Cowboys were sitting there field goal at the end 470 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: of the half when they got to the twenty yard 471 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: line and couldn't get closer. Then they come out they 472 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: fumbled the first possession of the second half, and then 473 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: it was downs, and then it was field goal right 474 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: from the four yard line, or I'm sorry, it was 475 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 1: fumble punt field goal from the four. And I think 476 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: he was just starting to say, we're not getting anywhere, 477 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: and we're not doing a real good job stopping their 478 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:44,160 Speaker 1: running game. That's the only way. And he finally kind 479 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: of set it on Friday in his conference call that 480 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: you have to as a head coach kind of judge 481 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: the flow of the game. And even Jerry Jones said 482 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: it on Friday morning. He said, we were teetering and 483 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: they kind of were. Now I understand where they we're at, 484 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: and even if they picked it up, it certainly didn't 485 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: guarantee that you were going to go down and score, 486 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: right And you know, and he said, I don't. I 487 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: don't call a game from the negative, which means, oh, 488 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: if we don't get this, here's what we're gonna give up, right, um. 489 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: And the unfortunate thing is that you were relying on 490 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: a wide receiver who had been a quarterback in high school, 491 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: uh to make two reads, and when he made the 492 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: first read, he didn't ever got to the second. Because 493 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: if you go back and look at that play boy 494 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,360 Speaker 1: C J. Goodwin down the field is wide open, but 495 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: he never is. I don't even think he looked, because 496 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: he tucked the ball like this was a running play 497 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: the whole time. And I don't even know if he's 498 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: throwing it. As soon as he got it right, said 499 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: first he was going to throw it to nice Wander 500 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,719 Speaker 1: and the guy out there didn't go. He stood and 501 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: hung in there instead of following CJ. Goodwin, who was 502 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: the gunner. And but CJ. Goodwin I wrote it down. 503 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:21,440 Speaker 1: Uh when when? When when Wilson, When Cedric Wilson he 504 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: was he was at his thirteen. Goodwin was wide open 505 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 1: at the forty two. I mean why they just forgot 506 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: about him? And so yeah, it was a gamble, but 507 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: they would have had the ball at midfield if it 508 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 1: had worked. Unfortunately it didn't have. Then one play later 509 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: and I keep hearing this, but if you go back 510 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: and look at the play, when Gibson ran the next 511 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: one in for a touchdown, the Cowboys didn't give up. 512 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: I just thought they were in another bad alignment with 513 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: how they play on that offensive line or defensive line, 514 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: with only one linebacker in a linebacker position, one linebacker 515 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 1: in a linebacker position on the field. Yeah, and one 516 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: safety deep. That was it. So all they had to 517 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 1: do was blocked that side of the line, and there's 518 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,000 Speaker 1: no way that vander rash could get there because they 519 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: had Jalen Smith. I believe it was on the line 520 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: of scrimmage or it was just Smith as the linebacker. 521 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,000 Speaker 1: So you're talking on the thirty seven yard run. Yeah, yeah, 522 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: You're talking about the thirty seven yard run, not the 523 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: twenty three yard or right after the fake punt, right, yeah, 524 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 1: I mean, and in that situation, there's three minutes or 525 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: so left in the game. It's third and six at 526 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: the thirty seven yard line. It's it's a twenty seven 527 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 1: to sixteen lead for Washington. They are not throwing the 528 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: football there. Okay, they may give it a look that 529 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: they but they are running the football. They never really 530 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: like the football. Well, the entire game bill and why 531 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: you would be in in a dime defense and you 532 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: have your you're one linebacker that's on the field is 533 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: up on the line of scrimmage. It was just there's 534 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: no little wonder that the red sea opened for the 535 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: running back right there on that play. And Emerson's right, 536 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: because I went back and countered it up if you 537 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: if you count Terry McLaurin. And this was funny. Somebody 538 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,960 Speaker 1: this morning said, can you name can you name a 539 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 1: wide receiver on Washington other than Terry McLaurin, And I 540 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: couldn't do it. It was Edmond and sums. Right. But 541 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:35,080 Speaker 1: if you take mclauren's receiving yards along with Gibson's, the 542 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: tight end, Thomas the running back McKissick, those guys totaled 543 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four of the one hundred and 544 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: seventy seven yards passing. So everything Alex Smith was doing 545 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,120 Speaker 1: was little dump offs, little hooks, except for the past 546 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: that mclauren kind of got him on on the twenty 547 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: eight It was a was a twenty eight yard that 548 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: the touchdown pass, but that was it. They were nibbling. 549 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: So why are you playing the way you were when 550 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: they were just going to run the ball? And we 551 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,800 Speaker 1: this is nothing new, right, We've said this before, playing 552 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,439 Speaker 1: that nickel and playing that dime when teams are kind 553 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: of in running situations, And that part is the part 554 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: I still don't understand. Yeah, well, you know, here's my thing, Bill, 555 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: I have to say this last what was that last 556 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: Sunday we were just all over the coaching staff or 557 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: the great adjustments that they made. I don't know if 558 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,280 Speaker 1: them staying in our nickel package and being able to 559 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:44,200 Speaker 1: control Cook the way they were that Sunday, I think 560 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,280 Speaker 1: that gave him a little confidence that they still could 561 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: stop the red Skins with the dying package. I don't 562 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: know why they continue to do that. But even when 563 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: you look at the lack of defensive adjustment, because they 564 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 1: came out running the ball from the get and they 565 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: never disguised anything about what they were trying to do. 566 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: They all they ran it the entire time. And when 567 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: you looked at the passing yards, I think at one 568 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 1: time in the first half, Alex Smith may have had 569 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,680 Speaker 1: fifty eight yards passing, maybe seventy five yards passing, something 570 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: very minimal to where I'm not even going to put 571 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,319 Speaker 1: an extra defensive back in the ball game if that's 572 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,560 Speaker 1: all they're gonna try and do to throw the ball. 573 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: The second thing is we've got our defensive corder, got 574 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,799 Speaker 1: offensive corder killer Moore, I get it. Spacts, you've got 575 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,520 Speaker 1: two offensive lineman hurt. I can't even recall if they 576 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: were hurt yet before we got into that scoring position, 577 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: they were still I'm sorry they were. Well, here's my thing. 578 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: You still have to attempt to run it in spacts. 579 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: You can't just say, oh, well, here we go. They've 580 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 1: got five first rounders on the front, so it's not 581 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:05,240 Speaker 1: even try to run it. We got too cute too soon. 582 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 1: To me, you got to be solid, okay, Or you're 583 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: talking about the first series of the game. I'm talking 584 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: about the first series of the game. You do now, 585 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: you got on the running player. I don't care if 586 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 1: you're in the team. If you're inside the ten yard line, 587 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: then to me, this Dallas Cowboy team they need to 588 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:30,080 Speaker 1: try to establish a running presence at that time. You 589 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 1: can get cute sometimes and it works. That depends on 590 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: what the defenship. Playing against the Washington football team. I 591 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: almost said it, the Washington football team. Yes, they have 592 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,200 Speaker 1: the best front line you've seen. So you're not gonna 593 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,240 Speaker 1: have time for a bunch of junk and cute stuff. 594 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 1: You have to come with the bread and butther you 595 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 1: have to run the ball as best you can. Yah 596 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,759 Speaker 1: Zeke fumbled the ball again, but that had nothing to 597 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: do with blocking. I'm talking about a guy to need 598 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 1: to that was hungry enough to where I think we 599 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,360 Speaker 1: could have gotten him mban zone if we would have 600 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: stopped with that game plan instead of relenting and trying 601 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: to be more fin this. Well, all right, we gotta 602 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 1: take a break. Yeah, go ahead, Wait about all right? 603 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,879 Speaker 1: Breaking when we hold that thought? I got all right 604 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,560 Speaker 1: and I won't just a moment here on mix shots, 605 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,840 Speaker 1: all right, back a moment. 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And then on third and 653 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,799 Speaker 1: five at the fifteen, obviously you're you're throwing the ball right, 654 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,800 Speaker 1: but he tried to throw that slant down the slot 655 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: to to Coop and I'm not sure what happened there, 656 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:38,920 Speaker 1: if he just missed him or Coop didn't see the ball. 657 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: And then when they got down to the goal line 658 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: after the interception return, it's first in goal at the four, 659 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,520 Speaker 1: they tried to run Zeke. He barely got the handoff 660 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: because the offensive line broke down and he ended up losing. 661 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,960 Speaker 1: He ended up losing two yards. And then he basically 662 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,920 Speaker 1: threw the touch down past the CD in the in 663 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,960 Speaker 1: the end zone and he drops it. It was a 664 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,040 Speaker 1: little high, but I think he catches that right. And 665 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 1: then the third the CD won't even accept that excuse 666 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,000 Speaker 1: for him, right, and he didn't either, by the way. 667 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: And then third and goal at the six, they tried 668 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:22,120 Speaker 1: that smoke screen because he didn't think his offensive line 669 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:25,440 Speaker 1: could hold up. And I think a lot of what 670 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 1: happened in that game and decisions were made was because 671 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,960 Speaker 1: they lost their starting two offensive tackles, especially Zach Martin 672 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,480 Speaker 1: on that first possession, and they just couldn't hold up. 673 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: I just think trying to run the ball too much 674 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,279 Speaker 1: in the in those situations, they couldn't run it and 675 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,359 Speaker 1: they couldn't protect. So I don't know what you do, 676 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,360 Speaker 1: and that's why I think he gambled, you know. And 677 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: the first gamble, by the way, on the fourth down 678 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,160 Speaker 1: past the CD, how does that guy miss the interference? 679 00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,920 Speaker 1: It was so blatant. Man, Oh my god, I mean 680 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,359 Speaker 1: he bout strangled him. Right, and he hit him away 681 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 1: before the ball got there. How do you miss that? 682 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: I told you we have the We always get the 683 00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:14,240 Speaker 1: COVID teams. They're the one there there there referees in training. 684 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,359 Speaker 1: We get the worst teams every week. I'm sorry, just 685 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,920 Speaker 1: the way it is. And I and I and I 686 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: wrote down the guy's number. It was one sixteen, I 687 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,040 Speaker 1: told Bill, and I looked at finally looked at my 688 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,640 Speaker 1: flip card. Mike Weatherford was the guy on that side 689 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,759 Speaker 1: of the field. How do you miss that ball? I 690 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:39,000 Speaker 1: don't understand it. That's why you need I will say this, 691 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,759 Speaker 1: you get at least thrown a flag. All right? Do 692 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,760 Speaker 1: you know why the fake punt didn't work? In my opinion? 693 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 1: I can't wait. I got him an opinion. I got 694 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: two opinions. Why, but go ahead? Well they had it, 695 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,759 Speaker 1: they had it pretty figured out from the from the 696 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,480 Speaker 1: get go right, Yes, all right. I think the Cowboys 697 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: have run so many fake punts that in special teams 698 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 1: meetings each week, the one theme of special teams meetings 699 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: each week is watch out for the fake punt. This 700 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,839 Speaker 1: team might run a fake punt from its own ten 701 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,120 Speaker 1: yard line, and so the element of surprise is totally gone. 702 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,759 Speaker 1: You are not going to surprise any team with a 703 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,879 Speaker 1: fake punt. And that's okay, Bill, that's okay. It's good 704 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,760 Speaker 1: to be known as a team that's not just gonna 705 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,919 Speaker 1: line up with the same old status quo. You love 706 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,240 Speaker 1: that because now you've got them does not necessarily alert. 707 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,879 Speaker 1: Sometimes you have the lake the heels and now they 708 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,359 Speaker 1: don't have the punt return on and so they're going 709 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,920 Speaker 1: to fair catch it, okay, because they're watching for the 710 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:51,520 Speaker 1: exactly we're gonna get the you're gonna get the total 711 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,320 Speaker 1: distance out of your spunt. Now, okay, we dictate this 712 00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,279 Speaker 1: situation is gonna go so to me. I get it. 713 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 1: People are hurt. Yeah, we're flailing at this point. But 714 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,080 Speaker 1: you don't just throw what they say throughout the baby 715 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,279 Speaker 1: with the bathwater. You can't do that. You still have 716 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,640 Speaker 1: to pump that ball. That does mean we just said, 717 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,719 Speaker 1: oh well, let's just forget conventional football here. Now let's 718 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,440 Speaker 1: just start doing anything. Who was at it says, oh, 719 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,040 Speaker 1: Willie Nilly. Now, let's not go Willie dilly yet, and 720 00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:28,439 Speaker 1: and let's still be a professional football team that has 721 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,880 Speaker 1: still a chance defensively to make some plays. And so 722 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,600 Speaker 1: just gonna go out and give it up. That means 723 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:38,479 Speaker 1: the defense might go out there and make a play 724 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,000 Speaker 1: for you and put you in physicians exactly and make 725 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,839 Speaker 1: Alex Smith beat you. Okay, load up and stop that 726 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: run and see if Alex Smith can be Patrick Mahomes. 727 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,399 Speaker 1: I don't think he can be, because what you saw, 728 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,200 Speaker 1: what I say, what you saw defensively from them, they 729 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,080 Speaker 1: knew as facts said, you can't protect, you can't run. 730 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,360 Speaker 1: We're still tru I ain't to run our conventional pass 731 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:08,000 Speaker 1: routes on a secondary that is squatting down on every 732 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:12,839 Speaker 1: route that was run. So to me, that's where you 733 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,759 Speaker 1: get the willy nilly going. If you want to be 734 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,080 Speaker 1: if you want to gamble, then that's where you have 735 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: some deep passes that are disguised from what you normally run. It. 736 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: Trust me, it works. I've gotten toasted several times while 737 00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,960 Speaker 1: jumping short routes. I know it can happen. It happens 738 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,960 Speaker 1: to the best of us. To me, that's where you 739 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,160 Speaker 1: start to gamble. You can't go into a shell offensively, 740 00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,839 Speaker 1: but yet when it comes to special teams, you want 741 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:47,200 Speaker 1: to gamble away any opportunity you might have instead of 742 00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,520 Speaker 1: the ball game I think they got a little twisting 743 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,680 Speaker 1: in that regard. All right, Niky, you got the final 744 00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: word here. Oh damn. I tried to talk it out. 745 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,799 Speaker 1: My bad. I didn't talk about well, since it's called 746 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: mix shots, I thought i'd give him. They I just 747 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,759 Speaker 1: I just think that, as I said, they got desperate, 748 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,120 Speaker 1: and I understand, I understand that you probably don't want 749 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,279 Speaker 1: to take that chance at your own Where were they 750 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,680 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three yard line or so? Man, I 751 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,359 Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen that the four yard line. 752 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,440 Speaker 1: It's like, that's why the surprise was supposed to give him. 753 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:35,799 Speaker 1: Who the world wouldn't do that? Oh wow, you know what. 754 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,680 Speaker 1: I at a time, it's like, whatever can go wrong 755 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:44,359 Speaker 1: go wrong with this team, from injuries to play calls. Uh. 756 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,919 Speaker 1: When I saw the two guys go down, I thought 757 00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: it used bags. When I saw Irvan and and I'm there, 758 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,080 Speaker 1: go down, Martin, go down. By the way, they are 759 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,640 Speaker 1: out multiple yeah, And I kept qualifying because it was like, 760 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,440 Speaker 1: this is gonna be the first consecutive week with the 761 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,960 Speaker 1: same five in the same game in the same spot, right, 762 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,800 Speaker 1: And I kept saying, it didn't even take one quarter. 763 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,120 Speaker 1: I didn't take one quarter. One serious, Maybe we can 764 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,200 Speaker 1: get through the national anthem this time. And they oh 765 00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:17,879 Speaker 1: my god, they had him for six plays. Yes, they 766 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,240 Speaker 1: had him for six plays. Unbelievable. All right, it doesn't 767 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,200 Speaker 1: for mix Shots. We'll talk at you again tomorrow live 768 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,440 Speaker 1: at one thirty on mix Shots. It's been a production 769 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,320 Speaker 1: of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.