WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Beware Da' Bears 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.720 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:14.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.959 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:24.239 official Dallas Cowboys apt now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:39.000 and Nicky Spagnola. It's noon on a Tuesday inside the 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.920 SWBC podcast studio here at the Beautiful Star in Frisco, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:49.200 and it's time for another edition of Mick Shots. Mickey 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:54.200 Spagnola is here, Bill Jones is here, Nate Newton is 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.200 here for the vacationing Everson Walls. How many times can 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.840 you come out of the bullpen and pitch five innings? Well, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.960 he's going back to back, Yeah, back to back days. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.080 Gonna have a sore arm. No, sir, that's what they 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:13.319 paid men. I'm not like these new kids. This is 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.880 Goose gassage. Yes, going back in the day, and yeah, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.839 I'll give you. He'll give you a three inning save. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.080 Back to back days. Yes, there you go. All right. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.240 You know he started with the white sex. Well we 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.720 always have to bring it back to Chicago as well. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.800 That's a good thing. And we're going to Chicago today. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:38.560 That's right, because all of a sudden, the Monsters of 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.560 the Midway are aheaded to Hear noon Sunday to take 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.400 on the Cowboys. They reared their bare heads last night, 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:51.400 didn't they. Boy? So that wasn't the team we expected 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.520 to say, it was not, and certainly not the offense 0:01:55.120 --> 0:02:01.600 um I would like to point out. And not only 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.480 was that the highest scoring game the Bears have had 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:12.359 since they drafted justin Fields, that was his absolute best performance, 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.640 just in time to come to AT and T Stadium 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.360 on Sunday. Now, I don't know if that was, you know, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:23.640 the blue moon but here, I don't know, but he 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.000 was awfully good. There was some kind of moon out 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:32.960 there in New England. And I've got a sportswriting college 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:38.239 roommate retired already, but he's the biggest Bears fan ever. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.360 He was one of those guys where so John In 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.120 nineteen seventy four the Bears played Dotta do and he'd 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.119 give me the score of the game. Right. He claims 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:54.040 that was fields best performance of his career. And I 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.920 don't think that's going out on a limb to look 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.640 at what he did in that game. Yeah, because he 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.960 threw for one hundred and seventy nine yards, that's right, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.480 and he probably he probably hadn't done that very much. 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.440 And he ran for eighty two. But here was the 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.560 key thing. He was eleven of eighteen on third down 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.480 and ten of those were in his hand, either running 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:24.760 or throwing. And that's what the old regime brought him 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.400 in there fourth to be a true dual threat quarterback. 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.639 And this kid has figured it out. Now. I mean, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.960 he had a couple of nice reads and when he 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.720 those reads wasn't there. He took the ball down and 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.920 he got into the floor of a game. And what 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.240 scared me, Mick, and what scared me Bill is once 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.560 he really stopped feeling confident. Now, you saw, well a 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.840 couple of times they had this kid totally bottled up, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.600 and like Houdini, he came out of there and got 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.800 almost a ten yard loss turned into a twenty yard 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.720 game for first now, and you saw his confidence started 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.800 to grow. I mean, he was nonchalant during the game, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.680 not but as as the game went on, you saw 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.120 him on the sideline, he kind of started being that 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.320 guy we saw is it Ohio State? As I got 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.680 him right right, yes, and uh, he stopped becoming that 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.600 kid and boy, it's just gonna be exciting to watch 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.039 him come in here and see what you do against 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.680 his top ranked defense. The other thing I thought was 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.120 of concern is with his eighty two yards rushing. They 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.080 ran for two hundred and forty three yards. Wow. Now, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.080 I don't know what New England's got, but well, New 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.320 England before last night seemed to be rounding in the form. Right, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:46.360 New England can stop to run that don't ever ask 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.040 Cleveland and asks the team before that, Detroit, Yeah, so 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.719 they can stop the run. Bill believes in that. Do 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.680 you out of want you running in the middle. I 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.120 do not want you running outside. I want to make 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.160 you one dimensional. What I can ga in third and long? Well, 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.800 I can put these top notch corners on you one 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.400 on one. He did not allow that to happen. They 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.760 stayed with the chains all night. Me well, and I 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.840 don't know if the other running backs that was it 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.880 Montgomery and Herbert Herbert. Yeah, if they were effective because 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.120 Fields is running for eighty two yards and it kind 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.480 of distracted the attention on maybe them, But that was 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:32.800 pretty impressive running performance. Yeah. Check the history of coach Belicheu. 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.440 He's nervous the only thing ever made him nervous is 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.520 a running quarterback, a very athletic quarterback. Check him, check 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.279 him in that and that. He'll tell you you mentioned 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.599 running quarterback, and he'll say, well, just you know, he 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.440 kind of muddles out. Do you know what I'm saying? 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.960 Did you see any of his postgamee No? No? What 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:55.599 did he say? What did he say? Oh? God? Did 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:02.240 you did you change quarterbacks from Fields to ZAPPI from 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:07.200 John No, I mean Jones to Zappy because of performance? 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.279 That was the plan, was that the plan like to 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.920 go to him so much the rest of the game. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.520 We were going to play two quarterbacks. They just kept 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.800 going odd and they kept trying, and I don't think 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.440 he gave one answer more than eight words. Here's here's 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.960 what I loved about it. Okay, So it's only Belichick 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.320 could do this or would do this. All right, So, 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:39.239 assuming Jones is healthy, which he was because he started 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.120 the game right and that was another of the questions. Okay, yes, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:47.640 all right, So he elects to go with the quarterback 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:53.039 who two years ago was the quarterback of a one 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:58.239 in three Houston Baptist team in a COVID shortened year. Okay, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.680 over the guy that two years ago was the consensus 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.279 All American Davey O'Brien Award winner for the national champion 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:11.240 Crimson Tide of Alabama. And it's a meritocracy, and that 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:15.400 it's a meritocracy. It was it was for it was 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.560 for one half, right, because if you look at the 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.480 two touchdowns that they scored, the kid came in and 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:26.040 through those were like kind of one in one hundred 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.840 completion passes that the guys made great catches on. And 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.760 then the whole second did they even score in the 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.680 second half. But Mick he went, He went against the 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:42.000 parcels Jimmy Johnson theory. They they believe in riding the 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.840 hot hand. They look at their locker rooms and see 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.240 who their players, that player made that play for that kid, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:54.080 right receiver. Right, that ain't been happening for Jones, even 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.880 though Jones has been And so what coach Belichick is 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.320 gonna have with his coaching staff is who do we start. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.880 We can't. We may play this game, but we know 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.480 it's not gonna work because you're gonna split your locker room. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.480 You're gonna this ain't what we have over here with 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.640 the Cowboys where it is a big difference. This kid 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:20.640 is winning, and he's winning by him, not not He's 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.080 not the problem that how you put that, He's winning 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:28.080 because he is he Okay, he makes no mistakes. It 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.640 ain't no. Well like we did Cooper Rush and and 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.720 I didn't want to bring this kid into it. Well 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.960 we win in despite of him. The defense is okay, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.319 whatever you want to put This kid is zappy whatever 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:44.640 his name name, the piece of guy name. Yo. Yeah, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.760 he winning because he's a bad man. That's what I'm in. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.360 Except he got shut out the second half. It's okay 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.679 to different games when you're playing down thirty three to fourteen, right, yes, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.559 or twenty to fourteen, right, because that's where it's Well, 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.679 it was twenty six fourteen at one point, I mean right, no, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.800 what I'm saying, But the picks came after they it 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.160 was twenty six spots. Now you got to throw the ball. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.480 But that was a Bears defense that looked very much 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:16.559 like Matt Eberflus. Yes, Louse had him playing. How about 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:21.880 Robert Quinn. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you something. Uh, you know, 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:23.679 a lot of people probably don't remember. It was a 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.840 little bit of a debate when he was leaving. They 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.600 wanted to hold on coach Eberflus because who he was, 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.520 young talent. You know, it wasn't a big rumble, but 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.120 it was just enough to know that we let loose 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.040 a good guy. And you go back and check him 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.160 with the Colts. He had them boys playing, Yeah, he 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.680 had them and you wasn't gonna run the ball. But 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.320 he was not going to run the ball. You know. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:50.240 He was destined to be a defensive coordinator. Yes, maybe 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.679 you know he was a pretty darn good defensive coordinator 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.839 in college. I might add, yes, sir, what college was 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.560 that mean? The University of Missouri? Oh? Real, Okay, I 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.320 figured it. He needed it. He's a disciple of Gary Pinkel, Okay, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.880 from Toledo, I think that's right. That's right, Toledo and 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.960 came to Missouri with Pinkel and became the defensive coordinator, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.040 and then went to Cleveland and came here with Rob 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.080 Ryan and outlasted Rob Ryan by the way. Yes, and 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.880 then it was on Marinelli with Marinelli's staff here and 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.680 uh and did a good job with the Colts too, 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.160 And that's how he got the head coaching job. And 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.080 you know, and I was always a little concerned to 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.920 how he would handle the big room, like to have 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.640 the voice. And then I saw his postgame uh speech 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.320 in the locker room right afterwards, that that he's grown. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.800 That that that's the you know, the Matt Everflus I 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.160 think people knew when he was growing up in Ohio. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:11:02.080 So no walkovers in this league, that's yeah. Asked Tampa Bay, right, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.480 asked Green Bay. Watch out list goes on and on. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:14.200 So the Chicago Bears coming to town, and you know, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:19.360 and the other thing with the Bears the type offense 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.040 they run. I understand it's you know, different than than 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.040 the Eagles. However, when you've got the threat of the 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.600 running quarterback, that's that's the interesting matchup this week now 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.920 against this Cowboys defense, yep, because they've had problems. I mean, 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.760 we just got to look at Philadelphia, right. They had 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.480 problems with hurts Um. You know, they even and I 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.560 remember the numbers, I can look it up real quick, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.319 but even a little bit with Daniel Jones when he 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.440 took off running in the Giants game. They had problems 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.319 with that too. So um, you know the interesting one 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.080 that they didn't have problems with Tom Brady because they 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.120 knew where he was going to be that loss. You 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:06.400 know what, it's starting to look bad. Well, teams change 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.400 as the season goes along. Well, you know it, it's 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.200 gonna remind if it keeps going this way. Reminds me 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.680 of last year when they should have beaten Tampa Bay. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.680 All the points they left on the field and what 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.280 lost on the walk off field goal. That game cost 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.600 him being the second seed in the playoffs and they 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.480 would have bypassed San Francisco in that first round. That's 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.400 how close they were to getting their tops, you know, 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.600 the way I look at that, and how many games 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.000 do the Cowboys win in a row after that last year? 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.280 Sometimes if you win that first game, you're not gonna 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.640 on the same role because a lot of when you 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.120 look back at it, that was a game they could 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:55.079 have won and got to Steam wins. And now you say, wow, okay, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.600 we lost the opener. It was New England and Brady. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.120 Well they ain't New They're not I mean Tampa Bay 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.120 and Brady. They maybe not be Tampa Bay and Brady 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:09.720 just yet. We got we got two more games before 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.240 we get the thing in around about the Thanksgiving or 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.120 of November, because we got a game this weekend and 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.640 we got the breaking right yet and so now we 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.640 come back and we're in the middle of the season. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.480 So all right, So the preseason ended in September after 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.600 four games, so the regular season startled nine October. Yeah, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.240 and so the middle of the season will be out 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.880 of this bye week. The bye week is what you can. Yeah. 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:38.480 And so but one thing you cannot say, whether it's 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.079 injuries or whoever you know who you are, coaches know there, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.160 whether they should know who they are. One thing that 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.880 I'm amazed at this year, and I may didn't notice 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.240 the next year. Last year, Mick was the griping and 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.320 the willingness of players to come out and say I 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.160 want to play, get rid of me. So I'm saying 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.640 a lot of that. But other than that, the season 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.560 is playing right alone. Just playing right alone. I mean 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:12.920 evra Flus, he is clearing the room of mistakes. And 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.240 what I mean by that minimal mistakes of We're not 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.240 going to play games waiting on somebody to do something 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.960 to make a mistake. We're going to play games. It's 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.280 like who we're gonna make Who's gonna make the play? 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.520 And that's what Jimmy had to clear our just clear 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.400 our system of all case the fourth quarters, five minutes left, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:35.480 who's going to make the mistake to lose the game? 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.640 You know, like kind of like Detroit did last week. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.960 It's like, who's gonna make the mistake to turn the 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.000 game around and put us in a bad way? And 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.280 that's what I think coach Evra Flus is doing with 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.520 this young team. Even though he didn't draft this quarterback 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.240 and he brought in his own staff, they're starting to 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.560 figure out who their players are, who can do what, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.400 and they're starting to believe as players, you know what. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.240 And it kind of reminds me a little bit of 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.880 this roster. He's not afraid to play those young kids. 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:09.880 Oh you can't. Yeah. I remember at the very first 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:15.280 meeting where they were in thought and you got Missus 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.080 Jones and the whole crew up there, and he said, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.120 we gotta play the young guys. We can't be afraid. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.000 He said, He's never been afraid, and they are playing 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.920 the young guys. In saying with Coach Everflus, you if 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.880 you're gonna go down, you gotta go down always trying 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.000 to improve. You can't go down waiting, you know, if 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.160 you feel a guy in your heart. You could be wrong, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.680 but if you feel a guy's not right for your system, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:40.920 you gotta move him over if you got somebody that's 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.080 a competing with him, you know. So I'm with you, man, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.240 And they've got in their secondary, they've got two second 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.240 round draft picks, Kyler Gordon, who had an interception late 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.760 in the game, and Jaquan Brisker out of Penn State. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.640 That guy was pretty cool. We are both playing um 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.080 playing well, and they're relying on them. And you can tell. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.200 You could tell Kyler Gordon on that interception. He's got 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.400 some playmaking ability about him. Yeah, so yeah, no, so yeah, 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.320 heads and I guarantee you eberflus them being defensive guys, especially, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:20.400 he had a big say in picking those guys. Yep, yea, yeah, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.520 I agree. So heads up to the Dallas Cowboys. All right. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.200 So a word of warning there, and we got much 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.360 more to get to on a Tuesday in which the 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.560 practice field is empty out there as we walked in 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.640 to do the show today. A player's day off here 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.880 at the Star, but there's no day off for us 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.400 here on mix Shots in a Moment. 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They 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.240 do what you got after the Giants. After the Giants 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:39.399 is Indianapolis, Houston, Jacksonville, Philadelphia gets in the way, and 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.680 then Tennessee. So four out of the next five you're 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.639 going to JFC South. I don't know, it's a scheduling 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:52.000 quirk there. So looking ahead, Indianapolis has win week thirteen. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.080 Who will be the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts when 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.439 the Cowboys play them in December? Is there somebody behind 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.520 Sam ellen It's Nick Foles. So you got so yesterday 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.000 Matt Ryan and he's got a shoulder issue, but he 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.439 got benched for Sam Allinger, and Frank Reich makes the 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.280 announcement that Ellinger is going to be the quarterback the 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.240 rest of the season. It's not just for this game. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.560 They're going forward with Ellinger as their quarterback. So my 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:20.960 question is Ellinger's going to still be the quarterback week 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.359 thirteen when they come here, He'll get hurt. Now, isn't 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.440 that his deal? Didn't he have like injury problems at Texas? No, 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.959 he was just running quarter tough guy. Yeah, tough guys 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.560 are like brave pie. Here's what's interesting, and it's cowboy related. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:42.119 On that move by Frank Reich. It reminds me of 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:48.359 two thousand and six. Week six, Cowboys were three and three. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.640 This was Week seven. The Colts are three three and one. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.960 Kay the Colts with thirty seven year old Matt Ryan. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.320 The Cowboys had thirty four year old Drew Bledsoe, and 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:02.919 the Cowboy always had a quarterback that they liked behind 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.600 him who hadn't played in a game outside of holding 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.520 on field goals and extra points. And here's Ellinger who's 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.080 twenty four years old. Romo is twenty six years old. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.639 So Romo replaces Bledsoe at halftime of that game against 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.359 the Giants in Week six. Cowboys wound up losing that game. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:22.840 And what people may not remember is Romo actually through 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.280 three interceptions in the second half of that game. Also 0:21:25.320 --> 0:21:28.120 two touchdown might have been the first passing through yeah, 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:31.040 there you go, and uh, always a pick six, I 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.200 think yes. And so then the next week they played 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.240 Carolina and at Carolina, and I think it's three straight 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:41.520 road games that Cowboys had coming up, and they win 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.159 that thirty five fourteen, and the rest is history. And 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:47.480 now Tony Romos in the CBS broadcast booth alongside Jim Nance. 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:55.960 So if Sam Ellinger gonna follow the Tony Romos, securitous roy. 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.320 But it's interesting. I mean, it was almost like the 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:03.000 same situation. Even if you look at the stat Bledsow 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:07.680 that year had thrown eight interceptions against seven touchdown passes. 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:10.119 He was the number one pick in the draft. Ryan 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.320 was the third pick in the draft. Okay, and Ryan 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.320 this year nine picks, nine touchdown pass this place, he's 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:19.960 fumbled a ton of times. And so it's it's kind 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.560 of the same mindset that Reich has with his Colts team, 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:25.520 and what happened with the Cowboys that year in two 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:29.080 thousand and six up ended up in the playoffs. They 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.119 go six and four the rest of the way, and 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:36.840 so people are thinking Frank Reich's crazy for saying that 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.640 Ellinger is his quarterback the rest of the season. Well, 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:43.440 I don't know if Parcels actually came out and said 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.879 Romo is the quarterback the rest of the season, but 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.480 it was obvious he was giving the reins of the 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.040 team to Romo at that point. It turns out they 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:52.920 went six and four and made the playoffs. He saw 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.959 one too many interceptions in that game against the Gihonas, 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:59.920 and Frank Reich saw one too many interceptions from Matt Ryan. 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:01.959 It was at the end of the half and he 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:05.040 threw a pass and I could still see parcel saying 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.440 I told him not to throw passes like that. I'm 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.920 sick of them. And he walked into the locker room 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.400 and said, we're going with Romo. And see, that's what 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:16.760 I think. I think the Indianapolis coach is hoping that 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:21.000 he has found a Tony Romo here. And now what 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:23.840 Ellinger had that Romo didn't have. He was a draft pick. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:25.720 He was a sixth round pick and Romo was not. 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:33.040 So I mentioned the Cowboys playing young guys. Let's count 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:37.199 him up, because they've put some young guys in, you know, 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:42.600 significant situations, right or less experienced guys. I should say 0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:48.520 the Tyler Smith deal. They kind of went with him. 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:51.240 I don't know your take on it, Nate, but he 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:56.119 seems to get better with each game, like he's improving. Yeah, 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:58.320 what it is. I was trying to figure out why 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:00.879 he was giving up give it the sacks in the 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:04.320 last three games. You're giving up four sacks, I think 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.400 three or four sacks. And I was listening to Broadest 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:11.640 because you know, Broadest Scout's pretty good, and because one 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.679 thing Broughtest said is he gets up high. But my 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:19.159 thing is he lets people get to his body before 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.240 he stabs with his left hand. He's a left handed guy. 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:24.000 He plays on the left. I don't know if he's 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.640 left handed natural, but he's normally a left handed guy 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:29.320 who played on the left side. What I've been taught 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:32.560 is that your hands gots your feet, you know, let 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:35.160 your hands guts your feet. And so as I'm sliding 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.120 and kicking back and my foot is trying to split Bill, 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:41.560 I get my hand on the nearest point. I'm hoping 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:44.240