Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys apt Now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and it's time for a terrific Tuesday edition.
Speaker 1: Shots Bill Joe moving Off, Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola. It
Speaker 1: was announced last late last night that there will be
Speaker 1: no Monday in this work. That's right, just eliminated it.
Speaker 1: The NFL eliminated it. We had to Saturday game against
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. So yeah, we would love love you
Speaker 1: have had a victory Monday. We would there's no victory Monday.
Speaker 1: We moved right on to its time to get ready
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. Right. And by the way, that or
Speaker 1: anything that Jimmy Johnson statement, that's an exclamation. But if
Speaker 1: you want to make it a question, how about them cowboys?
Speaker 1: Question Mark, I would say cowboys suck? That's what I
Speaker 1: would say. Actually, got it? Now? More about it's how
Speaker 1: about Yeah? Really that's an actual question, all right, question,
Speaker 1: not an exclamation. Okay, And so you don't want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and just move on to Philadelphia. There's things
Speaker 1: to discuss about what happened yesterday, I think Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: at age fans sitting there on the side of their
Speaker 1: seats waiting for us to talk about this. Oh they
Speaker 1: are what, ain't you know? Usually, usually, though Mickey, in
Speaker 1: the TV business, like the local TV sportscast business, the traditionally,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys lose a game on a Sunday, the
Speaker 1: ratings go way down at the clock on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: People do not want to relive that. Well I can.
Speaker 1: I can vouch for that because when I was working
Speaker 1: at the Dallas Times Harold, and the office was in
Speaker 1: downtown Dallas where back in the day they used to
Speaker 1: put newspapers in rats and you had to put your
Speaker 1: fifty cents in there or whatever it costs back then,
Speaker 1: after a loss, all the papers were still there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well here's the deal though. Wow. Yeah, one thing, that's
Speaker 1: the case for the night of a game or the
Speaker 1: day after a game in the newspaper business or the
Speaker 1: TV business. But the sports talk business, it thrives on raging.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, that's exactly right. So here we are in
Speaker 1: the sports I never watched. I never watched any of
Speaker 1: the first takes get ups. I don't I don't watch
Speaker 1: any of that. I thought that was just me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear any any any type of the
Speaker 1: same opinions or anything about that my own right, you
Speaker 1: don't know what the heck you're talking about. Do we
Speaker 1: know what the heck we're talking about, Mick, Yes, we do. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is an educational show, all right, perspective, putting things
Speaker 1: in the perspective. So so how about them Cowboys? Well
Speaker 1: check this out. And this is sort of what I
Speaker 1: began my column with for this morning. Is nearly every team,
Speaker 1: nearly that kind of a playoff type team, because remember
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, this is going to be like a
Speaker 1: playoff weekend. The games, Almost every team struggled and we're losing,
Speaker 1: just like the Cowboys. But they came back, and they
Speaker 1: came back and won. I said, almost the Rams were
Speaker 1: trailing the Bucks, Tampa Bay was trailing, twenty Jets end
Speaker 1: to the Jets. The Bills, right, the Bills were trailing,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati was trailing, Philadelphia was trailing, and they all came
Speaker 1: back and figured out a way to win it. New
Speaker 1: England was another one that the Cowboy they put there
Speaker 1: playing Jackson. Yeah, so so again I said, almost does
Speaker 1: he would you define on because I would love to
Speaker 1: move this on? So yes, because I've got stuff to say.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you get and there trailing twenty two seven
Speaker 1: and they could not can you believe that at the
Speaker 1: end twenty two seven to make the plays necessary to
Speaker 1: win the game, and they had a little help, and
Speaker 1: I left my white head. Oh man, how do you
Speaker 1: losing it? You can't leave it. You can't keep leaving
Speaker 1: it behind because they sucked as well this game. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: this is mit shots, this is not we don't have
Speaker 1: I could take the gloves off, right, please please do
Speaker 1: well the players didn't hesitate. Wow, And I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not blaming that, right, but it made a significant difference
Speaker 1: on all those third down holding calls. Whenever he sating
Speaker 1: what happened with the running game, Well, okay, they're big
Speaker 1: runs got called back because of holding. And I need
Speaker 1: somebody to define holding to me. What is holding? Can I,
Speaker 1: if I'm an offensive lineman, can I put my hands
Speaker 1: on their shoulders? If I don't rip the jersey off,
Speaker 1: I'm just blocking them and then the one that I
Speaker 1: think pissed me off the most was the NFL has
Speaker 1: got to come up with a year of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two to determine when there's a delay of game, like
Speaker 1: when the shot cuts expires. Like in basketball we know, right,
Speaker 1: buzzer sound right? Then in football in this day and age,
Speaker 1: where we put a guy on the moon or anybody,
Speaker 1: but the show can go up into space. There you go,
Speaker 1: there you go. That's better. We gotta wait for the
Speaker 1: back judge to look at the clock and then when
Speaker 1: it hit zero, then he looks down to the center
Speaker 1: to see if the ball has been snapped. And in
Speaker 1: that split second of time, they screwed up two calls right,
Speaker 1: two significant calls in the first half. When DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: got called for off sides, he was watching the clock, yes,
Speaker 1: and he basically said, when it hit double zero, I
Speaker 1: took off and they called him for off sides. Not
Speaker 1: a delayed game. And then the big one on that
Speaker 1: last drive for Arizona, the clock had expired. I saw
Speaker 1: it go zero zero, and then I looked down and
Speaker 1: a second later they snapped it. One second later, Yes,
Speaker 1: and it should have been a delay of game. Stop
Speaker 1: the clock, right, you don't get that eleven yard game
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys don't have to use their time out there,
Speaker 1: and then you have that left for a challenge that
Speaker 1: exactly Yes, So from a mechanical standpoint in the game,
Speaker 1: those things were really significant. I know everybody wanted to
Speaker 1: look at the holding calls and all that, So putting
Speaker 1: holding calls aside, those two calls, yes, were significant in
Speaker 1: the outcome of this game. How do they miss that?
Speaker 1: Especially the last one when nobody moved. It wasn't offsides
Speaker 1: or anything. It was a delay of game period. They
Speaker 1: didn't get the ball off. Having said all of that,
Speaker 1: and I know you're not finished, but my thing is this,
Speaker 1: because I'm so anxious about this. Do they interview referees
Speaker 1: after the game? They can do a pool report if
Speaker 1: it's requested, and I'm sure having done it, it's a
Speaker 1: no wins situation because you go into the referees little
Speaker 1: locker room and they're all sitting there, right, and they're
Speaker 1: all looking at you like you got leprosy, and they're yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's eight of them or however many, right, and
Speaker 1: they're daring you to ask a question. And what they
Speaker 1: do is whatever your question is like, which call it is?
Speaker 1: The head referee is standing there with a microphone, right,
Speaker 1: I mean a recorder. Yeah. Uh. The NFL director of
Speaker 1: that game's official is standing there with a recorder, and
Speaker 1: they pull up the position referee that made the call,
Speaker 1: and he's there with a recorder. And you've got a recorder.
Speaker 1: Now you ask the question as they're they're shooting darts
Speaker 1: at you, right, And I think I would I would
Speaker 1: revel in that. And basically, I truly do think I
Speaker 1: would revel in Basically, you ask your questions, they give
Speaker 1: your answer, and you might get a follow up. If not,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, it's like Tom right when he didn't
Speaker 1: want Yeah, it's like a Belichick. Okay, there's your answer.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, and no one requested it because I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody was paying. But throughout the week, now
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to at least something about that performance
Speaker 1: of that team, the performance of that NFL. Well they don't,
Speaker 1: They don't release it, but they will review it, and
Speaker 1: then they give them points for postseason and they make
Speaker 1: a statement and they make a statement, well, they never
Speaker 1: make a state. They never make a statement. Now, No,
Speaker 1: and that crew as Mike McCarthy pointed out, was noted
Speaker 1: for making calls. And I looked it up and they
Speaker 1: were fourthmost. And in that game they're seventeen penalties they
Speaker 1: called in the game got their total to two hundred
Speaker 1: and eight. They were averaging nearly fourteen penalties a game.
Speaker 1: So the question is do they have a propensity to
Speaker 1: call it against the home team all the time? And
Speaker 1: the team hold broken down. It was more against the
Speaker 1: visiting team than the but not by much. So it
Speaker 1: was almost even. I know what happened to this game.
Speaker 1: I don't know about what the past is, but this
Speaker 1: game I thought that not just it's not just a number,
Speaker 1: it's the timeliness of it, all right, and how it
Speaker 1: affects the game, and how it affects our affectiveness. So
Speaker 1: if you have you said your speel, your initial speel,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be interrupting you guys throughout the entire shell. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've just finished, all right. But on the topic of
Speaker 1: the last drive by Arizona, which you're talking about there,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals did have a fifteen yard run by Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: an eleven yard passed to Zach Ertz on a second
Speaker 1: and seven play they got him a first down a
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds eleven yard run that got oh no, that
Speaker 1: was the one that would have been eliminated. Okay, eleven
Speaker 1: yard run. Okay, So all right, they run the same
Speaker 1: play and they get an eleven yard run after the
Speaker 1: penalty that gets them two second And where was the
Speaker 1: fumble a second and four? And then the next play
Speaker 1: was the fumble player? And how much time was left?
Speaker 1: And there was two forty nine before on that time
Speaker 1: out after the eleven yard run, it was two forty nine,
Speaker 1: so roughly in that area there there, so I would
Speaker 1: have had two forty nine left, you would have had
Speaker 1: a time out and want to review it, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: But because it was more than two minutes to go,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go upstairs. And we need a clarification of
Speaker 1: when it goes upstairs and when it doesn't because they
Speaker 1: do it all the time, right, all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they go, oh no, we're picking up that flag or
Speaker 1: oh no, this happened. They do that outside of the
Speaker 1: two minutes, yes, without a challenge, right, go ahead, but anyway,
Speaker 1: and then and anyway, second in four, Kyler Murray goes
Speaker 1: for nine yards and so I mean the point, My
Speaker 1: point is stop him. Oh no, the defense did not
Speaker 1: play well enough, and that not nearly well enough. And
Speaker 1: my thing is this, And yes, you're right, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have to do our job, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But when you're when you're a football player, you out
Speaker 1: there playing, all this stuff is going on, you're in
Speaker 1: fear of bodily injury and things that nature. The referees
Speaker 1: have no fear of bodily injury. The only fear is
Speaker 1: making a bad call. You say so, if you got
Speaker 1: the expience, see that. My problem with it is the
Speaker 1: fifteen yard or by Murray, but from his own twenty
Speaker 1: five to the forty and then the past and now
Speaker 1: they get into four down territory and they're not kicking
Speaker 1: a field goal. Okay, you got to stop him at
Speaker 1: some point, and now they did with the fumble that
Speaker 1: that they didn't have a time out to review it
Speaker 1: and so forth. I mean, if you're playing it out
Speaker 1: in reality, happened, uh, but at some point you got
Speaker 1: to stop them on that drive, and and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't stop them, and they got down in the end
Speaker 1: of the area where they could run out the clock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely disappointed in them not being able to stop them.
Speaker 1: But just like any game where you see comebacks happen,
Speaker 1: where you see greatness happen, where you know your your
Speaker 1: game plan is coming to fruition. Uh, even down to
Speaker 1: the last moment, you need everyone else to do their job.
Speaker 1: The offensive line, the quarterback, wide receivers, and the freaking referees,
Speaker 1: and they have to do their job. Bill, And my
Speaker 1: point also is go back to the third quarter and
Speaker 1: stop them to where do you get more than six
Speaker 1: plays in the in the quarter? Of course, right, you
Speaker 1: got nailed on that. Well, well, no, the fake punt
Speaker 1: was early in the game. I'm talking about third quarter.
Speaker 1: I thought the third quarter where they had the ball
Speaker 1: for eight minutes. They had the ball at the start
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, they had it for five minutes
Speaker 1: and twenty one seconds, and it's touchdown pass to Wesley
Speaker 1: that made it nineteen to seven. Then the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: a three and out, and then it was a forty
Speaker 1: nine yard nine play drive for a field goal. Now
Speaker 1: they're up twenty two to seven. Well where was the
Speaker 1: first quarter? Yeah, second quarter where they drained the whole quarter,
Speaker 1: right exactly, So you get back into a third quarter
Speaker 1: where it's a thirteen seven game at the half, and
Speaker 1: if you come out in the third quarter and you
Speaker 1: can stop them on either one of those drives. Now,
Speaker 1: you did have the three and out mixed in, so
Speaker 1: it's not all on the defense, but the third quarters
Speaker 1: where they took command of the game. So the three
Speaker 1: and out occurred after one of the holding calls, right,
Speaker 1: and that was the Connor Williams holding call, and that
Speaker 1: was a twelve yard run by Dak right first down.
Speaker 1: All the holding calls happened on third down. Right, Look,
Speaker 1: that's very timely. We've we've we've mentioned we've mentioned this
Speaker 1: before and I know I have that the biggest deficiency
Speaker 1: of this defense is giving up big place and when
Speaker 1: they when the well goes dry on takeaways, then it's
Speaker 1: up to them to get off the field. And they
Speaker 1: they have go back and look at the losses they
Speaker 1: have inability. The last time they didn't have any takeaways
Speaker 1: the Raiders game. What happened got beat right? Uh? Yeah yeah?
Speaker 1: So uh they had six plays of nineteen yards or
Speaker 1: more forty three and forty two. And if you remember
Speaker 1: last week, I pointed out that that was the Cowboys problem.
Speaker 1: They gave up fifty five pass plays of twenty yards
Speaker 1: or more and the Cardinals calling card was fifty six
Speaker 1: pass plays of twenty yards or more and they had
Speaker 1: like a dozen of thirty or more. So no takeaways
Speaker 1: and then the big plays come back to bite you bad. Well,
Speaker 1: what I saw was just I was at both games.
Speaker 1: I was there yesterday, and it's the familiar tone to me. Offensively,
Speaker 1: when we come out, I would rather we defer the toss,
Speaker 1: you know, I would rather we defer the ball. They
Speaker 1: didn't have that choice because you know, when we come
Speaker 1: out offensively, we are so lack of days ago. Were
Speaker 1: you at the game, Bill, I was, no, I was
Speaker 1: watching you had being there. It was so quiet as
Speaker 1: the offense was trying to like the old Texas Stadium crowd. Well,
Speaker 1: and let me say this, I agree with you on Matt,
Speaker 1: but I think this offense could come out and change
Speaker 1: that just like that. Just show me some type of initiative.
Speaker 1: Show me. Remer talked about trying to start the lawn more.
Speaker 1: Do I have the right type of gas? You know
Speaker 1: this is been in there? Yeah, it was it over
Speaker 1: the offseason, you know what I mean, during the winter.
Speaker 1: Should I drain it. I mean, yeah, yeah, we tryed
Speaker 1: all that. Just go take it to the shop. That's
Speaker 1: what I do. I stayed to the shop and let
Speaker 1: them do the overhauls when we come on back. But
Speaker 1: it's the same familiar tone. Offensively, we seem to be
Speaker 1: going out there offensively waiting on something to happen. Well,
Speaker 1: in this one, they were moving right. They got the
Speaker 1: third and four at the Arizona forty eight, moved from
Speaker 1: the twenty to the Arizona forty eight, and what happened
Speaker 1: offensive holding right all right, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: third and four turns into three third and fourteen. You
Speaker 1: got a call for that play. And as I continue,
Speaker 1: and I think we need to be up and I
Speaker 1: get it. We have this game plan. Everything is so
Speaker 1: perfectly coordinated. We gotta fit this in here, fit this
Speaker 1: in there, and when this happens, that happened, they're gonna
Speaker 1: think we're gonna do this and know what's setting them
Speaker 1: up mentally, and we're gonna do that. Sometimes just go
Speaker 1: deep and I say that it sounds elementary, but here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You've got defensive backs that have no fear.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a cover two man cover one man or blitz.
Speaker 1: They have no fear of our wide receivers going deep.
Speaker 1: And if I had that, if I was playing against
Speaker 1: a team like that, I would squat on everything. And
Speaker 1: thus you have so many near interceptions from this offense
Speaker 1: because of the fact that they are not being threatened
Speaker 1: down the field. You're not running the ball well, you're
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball deep. And I'm surprised that we
Speaker 1: have the yards we have thrown the ball considering that fact.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, we get a lot of our yards
Speaker 1: because we fall behind and they finally loosen up a
Speaker 1: little bit on the defensive side. So I think we
Speaker 1: need to be more aggressive offensively. And this is nothing new.
Speaker 1: This is not any type of knee jerk reaction. I
Speaker 1: have always said that we are we have dbs sitting
Speaker 1: down on our routes and I'm telling you it's dangerous
Speaker 1: and it's gonna lead to a pick six. It's gonna
Speaker 1: need lead to more than one pick six. But done, okay.
Speaker 1: But so that was the first possession I talked about.
Speaker 1: The second possession, they go from their twenty five to
Speaker 1: first and ten. At the Arizona twenty six, it's third
Speaker 1: and four at the twenty and they call a false
Speaker 1: start on beyondish. All right, do you remember the play? No?
Speaker 1: I don't. Yes, Dak Prescott was in shotgun, he was
Speaker 1: moving up to change the play beyond a reset, He's
Speaker 1: got his hand on the ball, and they called a
Speaker 1: false start. They weren't. They weren't even like close to
Speaker 1: snapping the well see that every week, every week, every game,
Speaker 1: they called it because the cardinal player pointed. He got
Speaker 1: he stood up and he pointed, and that's why. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now it's third and nine. They have an incompletion
Speaker 1: and the kicker decides, I can't make twelve in a
Speaker 1: row field goals. I can only make eleven and he
Speaker 1: misses from forty three it could have been three three?
Speaker 1: How many points they lose by three three? I'm I'm
Speaker 1: already off the Greg the leg bandwagon. I've been off
Speaker 1: that thing. This guy missing too many field goals, extra points,
Speaker 1: give me a break. And then at home and then
Speaker 1: I think the wind was it too much wind in
Speaker 1: the stadium? And then the next yeah, it was the
Speaker 1: ball was heavy, you know what? He was on the
Speaker 1: left hash yeah, and he hooks everything. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: he adjusted and well, if you know that, then he
Speaker 1: should know that he adjusted, and then he nearly missed
Speaker 1: an extra point to the right at the end. By
Speaker 1: the way, I sat there and I went, oh he
Speaker 1: missed it. Yeah, because he was like, oh, he have
Speaker 1: no big deal, like, oh shoot. Now the third possession,
Speaker 1: they moved to third and one at the forty, they
Speaker 1: got an eight yard run by Pollard holding on Lale Collins,
Speaker 1: and Troy made it even worse. He said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there had to be a reason why that hole was
Speaker 1: so wide open on that side, right, and I'm going,
Speaker 1: can't be good blocking. Oh, he's a blocky. Can't be
Speaker 1: good blocking. So then you punt and they drive for
Speaker 1: a touchdown and it's like oh and the next possession,
Speaker 1: another hold on first and ten on Schultz. So either
Speaker 1: they got to figure out why they're getting called for
Speaker 1: holding and now you know why they were basically so upset,
Speaker 1: and worst of all, worst of all, the next time
Speaker 1: they get the ball, they score a touchdown and they
Speaker 1: lose Michael Gallop for the rest of Yeah, man, was
Speaker 1: that crazy? Wha the play weather play? There's the first
Speaker 1: half and what was it at a halftime? Thirteen seven
Speaker 1: thirteen seven? Because they came back and say, take a
Speaker 1: fifty three yard field and the half thanks to that
Speaker 1: five yard offsides on on DeMarcus Lawrence. So it's just weird.
Speaker 1: But they there. But again, you have to be good
Speaker 1: enough to overcome those things and offensively they were all right.
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Speaker 1: Shots continues. If you didn't get the memo the Cowboys
Speaker 1: playing on Saturday night this week against the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: game that was flexed late last night Sunday, Ronnie Coleman stretchers.
Speaker 1: I knew they were going to be Saturday games, but
Speaker 1: I thought they had already been scheduled. It did late
Speaker 1: last night. Oh, Cowboys are playing Saturday night. Okay wow,
Speaker 1: which probably sets the stage for the Cowboys playing on
Speaker 1: Saturday night next week. I think that's exactly what they
Speaker 1: had in mind. They knew that Philadelphia the game was
Speaker 1: important to them for seating. Uh, and that got rid
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys importance for seating because although if they win,
Speaker 1: then well in LA or whoever is the winner in
Speaker 1: the NFCED West, they better win otherwise they'll get in
Speaker 1: a tie with the Cowboys for the second seed, right right? Well,
Speaker 1: who they have? Uh? The Rams place Francisco, and San
Speaker 1: Francisco needs to win because they're trying to hold off
Speaker 1: New Orleans. New Orleans plays Atlanta, So if New Orleans wins,
Speaker 1: then San Francisco has to win to make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and the Rams have to win Arizona's play in Seattle.
Speaker 1: If Arizona wins, the Rams have to beat San Francisco
Speaker 1: in order to win the division and have that by
Speaker 1: We're not a bye, but the home field in the
Speaker 1: first round and the loser in that scenario, Arizona, I think,
Speaker 1: has the tiebreaker in the division run. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. That's why the Rams have to
Speaker 1: have to play to win to win the division. And uh, well,
Speaker 1: Arizona if if if the Rams win, Arizona has the
Speaker 1: fifth seed, right and uh but if the Rams lose
Speaker 1: in Arizona wins, Arizona becomes uh one of the top
Speaker 1: four seeds and um, and the Rams would be the
Speaker 1: fifth seed. For the Cowboys perspective, Um, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: why yesterday was I mean, they had everything right there
Speaker 1: for there they lost more than the second game, yes
Speaker 1: they did. Yes, I don't know if even the players
Speaker 1: on the team realized how much they lost. I think
Speaker 1: they do. You know, when you when you look at
Speaker 1: the scenario, because Tampa Bay came back in one, because
Speaker 1: the Rams came back and won against Baltimore yesterday. Now,
Speaker 1: what what has to happen for the Cowboys to get
Speaker 1: back to that number two seed is they've got to
Speaker 1: beat Philadelphia and Tampa Bay has to lose to Carolina.
Speaker 1: And the way Tampa Bay is playing, you never know,
Speaker 1: you know, and and the Rams would have to lose
Speaker 1: to San Francisco then they get right back up there.
Speaker 1: But if you don't know, no hold on. If the
Speaker 1: Rams lose to the forty nine ers and Tampa and
Speaker 1: Arizona wins, they're gonna win that division. Arizona is yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So the Rams are out and the Cowboys can't win
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker with Arizona because they got beat But if
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay three, that's what I'm saying, they got to be.
Speaker 1: Both of those have to happen for the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: move up to the two seed. They would have to
Speaker 1: have um whichever the West winner would would have to lose, okay,
Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay has to lose. Now, and here's the
Speaker 1: other part of that is okay. Let's say the Rams
Speaker 1: um lose and and Arizona wins. Okay, if Tampa Bay loses,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if the Cowboys cannot move up to
Speaker 1: the number two seeds because okay. So if or if
Speaker 1: or if Tampa Bay loses and the other the winner,
Speaker 1: the Rams win, whatever, the Cowboys still are not going
Speaker 1: to be able if if the higher seated teams win
Speaker 1: in the wild card round, they will not be able
Speaker 1: to avoid either going on the road to Green Bay
Speaker 1: in the divisional playoff round or on the road to
Speaker 1: say Tampa Bay. And just a weather note, when that
Speaker 1: game started yesterday in Green Bay, it was ten degrees. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the wind was good, not feel like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no chill, just ten I mean ten degrees. So it
Speaker 1: was it was a devastating loss as far as the
Speaker 1: playoffs skill, It really was. Bill. That's why I was
Speaker 1: so disappointed. And I know that they know this, especially
Speaker 1: those in the leadership positions on the team. They know
Speaker 1: where we were headed. This is something that was calculated out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought that the coaching staff was doing
Speaker 1: a good job of understanding where they were and how
Speaker 1: they could potentially finish. And I know they were optimistic
Speaker 1: about this before yesterday's game. That's what makes it so disappoined.
Speaker 1: So what do the Cowboys do as far as the
Speaker 1: way they approached this game against Philadelphia? It being the
Speaker 1: Kansas City plays Denver the afternoon, but it's the first
Speaker 1: of the NFC games this weekend, so they don't have
Speaker 1: any idea what's happening with the other ones. How do
Speaker 1: they approach it as far as playing time for Dak
Speaker 1: and everybody, And I'll guarantee you that went into this
Speaker 1: decision too, because the NFL wants everybody playing, yes, right, right,
Speaker 1: And so maybe what they were counting on is, well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can't coast. They got to play, and if
Speaker 1: they win, then the other teams got to play because
Speaker 1: they're still Philadelphia has clinched a playoff spot, yes they have,
Speaker 1: So what advantage do they have of winning that game?
Speaker 1: They can one spot? They could move up one spot, right,
Speaker 1: because I think if they tie the Saints, the Saints
Speaker 1: the next well San Francisco. Right now, San Francisco is
Speaker 1: ahead of them, but if San Francisco lost to the Rams,
Speaker 1: the Saints would have to beat Atlanta to get in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And there is a scenario where Philade if
Speaker 1: you if they win this game, they can move up
Speaker 1: one spot, right, so they would be what if they
Speaker 1: lose if they move down one spot there, I think
Speaker 1: they're already in the they're already in sixth seed, the seventh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. They have the seventh se seventh. Yes,
Speaker 1: they have the seventh seed. Okay, so they're trying to
Speaker 1: schedule things so everybody has to play. That's what's happening, right,
Speaker 1: And I think the cow the Cowboys will think they
Speaker 1: got a normal game. I think they got Ye. There's
Speaker 1: a chance you can improve. You have to play just
Speaker 1: the way it is. You got to take care of that,
Speaker 1: right because how would you feel if you went out
Speaker 1: there and said, okay, we're pulling everybody and you lose,
Speaker 1: and then the other two teams lose. You could have
Speaker 1: been the second. So you got to play. You can't
Speaker 1: and you don't You want to go into the playoffs
Speaker 1: under two game losing street and figure it out for me.
Speaker 1: How many yet to lose two in a row after
Speaker 1: winning four in a row? Right now? I don't you know?
Speaker 1: Because you want a momentum, you want to be the momentum.
Speaker 1: When you go into it, you don't. I don't like,
Speaker 1: and I don't like offensively how we're looking as far
Speaker 1: as momentum. And if you have to, who knows, you
Speaker 1: might have to play Philadelphia again. You want them coming
Speaker 1: in thinking, Okay, we took care of them, right, we
Speaker 1: can beat them after they got their butts whipped the
Speaker 1: first time around. No, you gotta win. Yeah, if you win,
Speaker 1: if you win and things fall, I mean there's not
Speaker 1: a great chance of it. But the Jets were leading
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay yesterday and San Francisco has to win against
Speaker 1: the Rams to make the playoffs. So stranger things have happened,
Speaker 1: things fall your way. On Sunday, you could be playing
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's Tampa Bay, Tampa Bays playing Carolina's. Okay, said, that's
Speaker 1: a home game. Arizona's got a home game. Um, and
Speaker 1: the Rams they're all they're all three or at home.
Speaker 1: The road is the Saints got to go to Atlanta
Speaker 1: and we're on the road, and the Packers got to
Speaker 1: go to the bad We just blew everything. Come on,
Speaker 1: we were like riding high last week. That was so
Speaker 1: much fun talking about the game and digs and now
Speaker 1: my road to the Super Bowl instead of hosting, say
Speaker 1: Philadelphia in the first round and then hosting a second
Speaker 1: round game and then on the well, then a upset
Speaker 1: occurs and you're host of the NFC Championship game. The
Speaker 1: road now became hosting the Cardinals or the Rams, going
Speaker 1: on the road to Green Bay and then going on
Speaker 1: the road to Tampa Bay. And you know that's what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The Green Bay part. Oh yeah, green Bay's happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Or you're going on the road
Speaker 1: for the NFC Championship game to LA and you gotta say, guys,
Speaker 1: I think they played better on the road. Well, see,
Speaker 1: that was weird. All last week I kept hearing about
Speaker 1: this home field advantage, how the Cowboys win at home?
Speaker 1: And I'm going they lost two three games at home?
Speaker 1: How many was it they lost to Denver the Raiders here,
Speaker 1: So the worst losses were home? Yeah, okay, they scored
Speaker 1: a lot of points, right, ye throw the fifties the
Speaker 1: worst losses at home ever since. I got a question
Speaker 1: for you. As a former player. Let's say you played
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers, Okay, okay, and you had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to win home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Would you want to play in ten degree weather in
Speaker 1: the playoffs or would you rather just go ahead and play? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. We'll have the choice. They will
Speaker 1: go ahead and play at your place. How's that? I
Speaker 1: gotta say, if it was up to me, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: to you, just to me, just then, I would love
Speaker 1: to play in warm a weather, but indoors and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt bad, But that's fine. We'll come to your
Speaker 1: place and beat you there. Yeah, and that has happened.
Speaker 1: People have come to our place and beating us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it happens more than one more Texas Stadium
Speaker 1: and kicked out buttons. I'm watching the game last night.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering the Packers players mind, why would they want
Speaker 1: to play? I must say, though I felt playing in
Speaker 1: New York playing with the Giants, I felt extremely comfortable,
Speaker 1: even though I was freezing my testicles off. Everyone around
Speaker 1: me and the environment itself was extremely favorable for the team.
Speaker 1: I hated it because I'm from Dallas. Okay, this ain't
Speaker 1: my thing, but the entire atmosphere was still what you
Speaker 1: want for a playoff game. Put in personal this comfort aside. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: here's my point. How many times, like Green Bay, how
Speaker 1: many times do they play when it's below thirty degrees
Speaker 1: at home during the season? Twice? Maybe not that mud? Okay,
Speaker 1: and do you think not until January? And everybody says, yeah,
Speaker 1: well they lived there, they're used to it. I go,
Speaker 1: but they practice indoors. Same thing with the Giants, right,
Speaker 1: you practice doors? Right? Oh? Oh no, no, no, back then, no,
Speaker 1: there is no such thing as no. We just practice.
Speaker 1: We actually practiced in the stadium in the state. But
Speaker 1: then they built an outdoor that's on the bubble things. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: who's used to No one's used to it. No one's
Speaker 1: used to playing in two feet of snow. Well, Belichick
Speaker 1: makes his team, remember two years ago, last year, they
Speaker 1: made them practice outdoors. Last year, two years ago, they
Speaker 1: made them practice outdoors. I remember the video, snow all
Speaker 1: over the place, and they were going to be to
Speaker 1: be playing outdoors. So Belichick made them practice. That was
Speaker 1: two years ago, and I'll in the snow. How good
Speaker 1: is that practice? I don't know that that was not posted.
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Speaker 1: is riled up today ever since, even more riled up
Speaker 1: about what happened on Sunday. And so you all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wind both of you up. You got six
Speaker 1: minutes to keep talking ahead. What else sticks in your crawl?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to every much. It's so much. Um. We
Speaker 1: went over the defense, all right, right, and when by
Speaker 1: the way, let's give Kyle Kyler Murray credit. He played
Speaker 1: a hell of a game, right. He hit plays that
Speaker 1: you know normally are fifty fifty and he was much
Speaker 1: more careful with the football, and he chose his spots
Speaker 1: when he went down the field, and he hit the throws.
Speaker 1: He seemed right at home in that shield. Right. Yes,
Speaker 1: I just when I look at the team, I go
Speaker 1: back to the sense of urgency and I get it.
Speaker 1: We've got once again, the game plan is put together
Speaker 1: in particular fashion. I get that. But there are times
Speaker 1: you just have to play from your gut. There are
Speaker 1: times when you have to step away from the game plan.
Speaker 1: And just like we talked about at the Turing thing
Speaker 1: with on the pregame Saturday, you know, like when Jimmy
Speaker 1: Johnson said, don't take the foot off the gas. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: we got to have that attitude. Sometimes bacts and I
Speaker 1: don't mean in a panic sort of way. I mean
Speaker 1: we have to force the issue. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: an issue that's at a turtle's pace. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: an issue that's going to make you have to think quicker.
Speaker 1: It's going that that could cause the defenders and the
Speaker 1: opposition to be off balance. You can't do that by
Speaker 1: being meticulous. You have to do that by being urgent.
Speaker 1: And I was at the game, I've been at the
Speaker 1: last two games. There is a lack of urgency in
Speaker 1: this game plan, in the way we play sometimes offensively,
Speaker 1: and it always seems to be while we're playing at home.
Speaker 1: And once again I'm telling you, as a player, you
Speaker 1: have got to open that thing up. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean from an adeliup standpoint, meaning the quarterback got chase
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, then he went deep to gallop
Speaker 1: and all that. I mean we need to have more
Speaker 1: plays down the field, and we need to trust our
Speaker 1: quarterbacks on because here's the thing. You can't the timing
Speaker 1: of throwing a deep pass. It doesn't just come to you.
Speaker 1: It has to be worked on in all types of situations.
Speaker 1: We have not tested Dak Prescott's deep throwing abilities nearly
Speaker 1: as much as we should have because it would be
Speaker 1: to our advantage. Number One potential passing affairs calls. They
Speaker 1: mentioned that against the Raiders that they should have done it,
Speaker 1: and I still think that to continue to do that.
Speaker 1: That observation was spot on by Dak and they need
Speaker 1: to follow that up as the season goes on. Did
Speaker 1: you like Cedric Wilson throwing deep? I did. I did
Speaker 1: do that in the first series, and you saw how
Speaker 1: they set that up. Yes, yep, with the same same
Speaker 1: series and tossed it out to them on a traditional
Speaker 1: wide rast. And once again I'll qualiter back and do
Speaker 1: the same thing. We don't have to be tricked. We
Speaker 1: have tricks to go deep. We can just go deep.
Speaker 1: We talk about Cede Lamb, we talk about Coop, we
Speaker 1: talked about now not Galla, but Cedric can go deep
Speaker 1: as well. We've seen it. Let's continue to do that.
Speaker 1: How much has the inability to establish a vertical passing
Speaker 1: game been affected by the inability to run league football directly?
Speaker 1: Twelve carries for twenty five yards in the second half
Speaker 1: of that game. The running backs had two carries for
Speaker 1: zero yards. They did it. If you can't, if you
Speaker 1: can't do it by running, then let's open up the
Speaker 1: passing place. Let's open up the passing game. If you
Speaker 1: can't do it by running, if the safeties are down
Speaker 1: tight because we can't run the ball, then we need
Speaker 1: to at least give them the thought of being having
Speaker 1: to cover that deep round. Well, you know what they've
Speaker 1: done to go deep, don't you. They line up in
Speaker 1: too tight information to be able to block it. Because
Speaker 1: the amount of pressure they were bringing. The Cowboys A
Speaker 1: weren't picking up the extra guy or B. They they
Speaker 1: they were overwhelmed with too many and the one play
Speaker 1: that ended up getting them, and it was significant. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Simmons came in and was it Pollard was z did
Speaker 1: a nice job, busted the guy off, but then he
Speaker 1: circled back around and when Dak went to run, he
Speaker 1: came back, doubled, bashed it out, punched it out. Uh.
Speaker 1: And look what they did is similar to what Denver did. Similar,
Speaker 1: you know, And that's what they're going to keep seeing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Saints. They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: put guys on the line of scrimmage. They're gonna come
Speaker 1: after you. You either got to hit the hot receiver
Speaker 1: and there's gotta be one over the middle. Uh. And
Speaker 1: you know they were some using Schultz right, uh and
Speaker 1: doing a nice job. But again some of the blocking
Speaker 1: in the in the running game, the tight ends aren't
Speaker 1: doing a good job. They tried to they set up
Speaker 1: the was that the first series when they tried to
Speaker 1: throw the little screen with McGovern out there with the
Speaker 1: tight end and the wide receiver, Sprinkle just let Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker come running right by. He looked and he didn't
Speaker 1: do anything. Then he picked up somebody else. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: you should have picked up the first guy, right. And
Speaker 1: at times Schultz gets thrown to the side in blocking
Speaker 1: they need to use. He's somebody two years ago. He
Speaker 1: never let those things happen. I don't know, amazing how
Speaker 1: he's he's gone, He's he's jawing now. You know, he's
Speaker 1: the guy that's nifty down the field catching the passes,
Speaker 1: but he's not the guy that's making those key blocks.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are times when we need him to
Speaker 1: hold that guy off because it's essential to the succession
Speaker 1: of the play. And they must not like what McEwan's
Speaker 1: been doing because he had been out there when he
Speaker 1: got back and in this game the two tight ends
Speaker 1: were Sprinkle and he might be on his way back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that performance, but he could be back here. You know,
Speaker 1: you say, ye got two tight ends in here because
Speaker 1: we're gonna block and go heavy, But I don't know
Speaker 1: how well they block. You only need two guys going deep.
Speaker 1: If you give me two wide receivers going deep, that's
Speaker 1: all I need. I need to try this arm out.
Speaker 1: I need us to be more adept at going deep.
Speaker 1: You can't just all of a sudden say all right, guys,
Speaker 1: the playoffs is here, we're gonna open it up. We
Speaker 1: have to have a dress rehearsal. I have not seen
Speaker 1: that yet. And the other teams there, I see their
Speaker 1: safeties make plays. The Cowboys safety curse brought up. Office
Speaker 1: should have had the interception in the right that was
Speaker 1: three points, by the way. Yeah, but the time Diggs
Speaker 1: got beat, where's the safety there? Casey was like ten
Speaker 1: yards away from the play. The corner's gonna get beat.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And you know they say, oh, he gambles
Speaker 1: too much. Well, he didn't gamble. The guy stuttered and
Speaker 1: he stopped and then he took off and he didn't
Speaker 1: take off fast enough. And hey, look, if you want
Speaker 1: to get interceptions, then you gotta try to make some plays, right, okay,
Speaker 1: and that that's gonna happen. But I need a safety
Speaker 1: back there to help me out. You know, Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: made a great play in the open field tackle that
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Saw that it was a run player
Speaker 1: dumped it over the middle. Yes, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he got no shot here and he nailed the guy.
Speaker 1: But other than that, the safeties don't make plays other
Speaker 1: than Kate Kate jay Ron. But he's close to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. But in coverage that sometime the corner
Speaker 1: needs help and they don't get it. And when they
Speaker 1: don't get takeaways, there's your twenty five points. Somebody said,
Speaker 1: well they only held they held him with twenty five points,
Speaker 1: you should win. It's like, well, no, if you hold
Speaker 1: them the seventeen, you should win. Right, If you hold
Speaker 1: them to twenty, you should win. If you hold them
Speaker 1: to nineteen, you should Well, they say that spact because
Speaker 1: they think that the offense is a special offense and
Speaker 1: we just haven't shown that, not in the last four games.
Speaker 1: That's correct, well three out of four games, yeah, right exactly,
Speaker 1: all right, Well that does it for a Monday Slash
Speaker 1: Tuesday edition. The thing were consistent, So didn't hear much
Speaker 1: from Bill today. Different. He was back at it. He
Speaker 1: was back at it tomorrow, rights Wednesday. For the team,
Speaker 1: I would imagine they can't go to light this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get get the practice in pads they might need.
Speaker 1: Are they done? Are they have they used up their
Speaker 1: pad days? I thought they had one. Think they have
Speaker 1: one left. I think they got one left. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: this might be the week you need to get guys going.
Speaker 1: We'll see if you get an extra job. But it's
Speaker 1: a short week, so you know, to see all kind
Speaker 1: of excuses not to be aggressive. That's us. We're so delicate,
Speaker 1: all right. Well you know Mickey and Everson won't be
Speaker 1: delicate tomorrow when we can vene again for another edition
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