WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Back Out West 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:16.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.079 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:32.640 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brats, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:38.800 and Bill Jones. Salutations from Mickey Spagnola here on Talking Cowboys. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.840 It's another week of Dallas Cowboys football for the two 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:48.800 thousand and eighteen season. First full week of two thousand nineteen, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.040 and it's always a good thing when your NFL season 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.320 extends into the new year. It's actually a Tuesday out 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.440 here at the Star because it's another Saturday night game 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.120 this week at the Los Angeles Rams. What a night 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.240 it was on Saturday. And happy you could join us 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.000 here on a Monday morning, a spring like Monday morning 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.640 in the Metroplex. It feels like March madness outside with 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.840 the humidity in sixty five degrees. Hello, Brian brought us. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.800 How are you doing well? Thanks? Bill? Good to be 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.800 fighting for another week. Yes, how about you? Rob Phillips, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:22.640 how are you doing great? Yesterday turned out to be 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.440 a Monday at seven o'clock with a missfield goal by 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.839 the Chicago Bears. All of a sudden, Hey, coach Garrett 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.760 conference call, it's like a Monday. So here we go. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.200 It's like a Tuesday. Now here we are. Yes, the 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.800 week is just motoring along in the season, motors along, Mickey, 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.119 another week of talking Cowboys. That's right. A full week, 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.759 full week. And wow, what a game on Saturday night, 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:48.640 And what a defensive performance by the Cowboys against the 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.200 Seattle Seahawks run defense. The story of that game, no 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.000 no question about it. You had a bunch of guys 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.880 playing square up front, and that's what you have to do. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.280 You don't get these guys any gaps or creases to 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.840 let him run the football. But I thought the tackle 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.880 play was excellent. You know, we talked coming into the game. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.960 We kind of thought about that the Seahawks were having 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.640 some problems with their with their interior, their offensive line, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.320 and you know they had Dj Fluker starting back after 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.920 the hamstring. Sweezy was a little nicked up himself, but 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.720 that didn't matter. Those guys inside Woods and Malie Collins, Crawford, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:25.560 all those guys, and they got an opportunity to play 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.600 against this bunch in the front and then stop the run. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.520 It was exceptional. Give the linebackers a lot of credit 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.040 for filling the run fits and stuff. When you play 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.960 good run defense, you got to play square and that's 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.120 what they did a great job of doing last last 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.600 time out. You know, Chris Carson came into the game 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.120 the NFC Offensive Player of the Month and he had 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:49.240 rushed for more than five hundred yards over the month, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.840 thirteen for twenty. Yeah, thirteen for twenty and they were 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.400 twenty four for seventy three, but they had a twenty 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.480 eight yard on so that means it was twenty three 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.880 for forty five. They leaked the one to Penny. Other 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.640 than that, they shut down their their running game. And 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.400 I I and it's a it's a darn good thing 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.320 because the opportunities they had in the passing game to 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.880 hit big plays, uh, they hit. But if they had 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.920 the running game going to the Cowboys likely would have 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.480 been in trouble. They had nine yards in the first quarter. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.880 Seattle did nine And to Mickey's point, I thought they 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.160 were Seattle was a little stubborn with the run game. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.120 To be honest, what do you think they're talking about 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.600 on talking Seahawks this morning? I should have been throwing 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.320 the ball. Well, but that's what they do exactly that well, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.400 that's that's that's that's how they got here exactly. Yeah, 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:43.880 you can't. I mean, I know what you're gonna say, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.320 and they and they use playoffs, play action off of it. Sure, sure, 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.760 but they had some success hitting some pass plays deep 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.680 at some point when you've got I think they had 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.040 three straight three announced to open the game. At point 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.640 you get behind, and I know you don't want to panic, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.080 but I was surprised that they stayed conservative way. I 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.680 know they run the ball away do but you do 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.440 have a Hall of Fame caliber quarterback there, and in 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.360 a way, I thought it did the Cowboys a favor. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.720 But you got to give them credit. They didn't get 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.760 enough credit for stopping the run in the first game. 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.120 They did a nice job against Carson in the first game. Yeah, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.400 it was a big pass play locket that kind of 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.360 opened things up, and they made some mistakes offensively. They 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.599 didn't make those mistakes this time. But it's like Carroll decided, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.360 especially after the rebuild job they were doing on their 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.200 team coming into this season, that they needed to run 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.039 the football, run the football, run the football, and the 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.760 game never got away from him, and the Cowboys finally 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.960 in the fourth quarter got up ten on them, and 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.159 so they were It was playing out like he probably 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.719 envisioned it, would you know, even though they weren't having 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.800 success running the ball, he wanted them to continue to 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.920 be persistent with it. Well, if you think about it, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.320 that's you know, that game against the Cowboys when they 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.280 kind of changed their philosophy we're gonna run the football. 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.080 They ran it thirty nine times and only ran it 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.799 for one hundred and eighteen yards, But they were persistent, 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.279 and if you think about it, they only scored two 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.320 fewer points than they did the first time around. Now, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.719 the key thing was, and you know, they had six 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.880 plays in the pass game for one hundred and ninety 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.800 four yards. Six one hundred ninety four yards. They had 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.240 two ninety nine in the game. That meant the other 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.080 forty six plays went for one hundred and five. So 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.920 they hit the big plays. They scored. But the difference 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:29.680 was the Cowboys didn't give them anything like they did 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.560 the first time around. The Cowboys didn't beat themselves like 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.520 they did the first time around. Zeke didn't catch a 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.520 pass and go thirty yards for a touchdown, but step 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.560 out of bounds before he caught the pass. This time around, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.719 he ran for one hundred and thirty seven. And I'll 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.719 tell you what, he had his big boy jersey and 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.680 pants on in that game. Yeah, you'll need him again 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.640 this week. Absolutely. Yeah. It's the thing with it. You know, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.240 to beat the Seahawks, they did exactly what they had 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.520 to do. You know, they make you s right, don't 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.000 beat yourself, and then you know, beat yourself. The Seahawks 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.680 is giving them turnovers. You know, they were plus fifteen 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.159 going into this game and then to only get one, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.200 I think is pretty remarkable. From the Cowboys perspective. You know, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.599 once again, this team is gonna this team, the Cowboys, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.760 to me, is going to continue to ride or die 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.839 with their defense. That's you know, that's just what they are. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.280 And we were talking about the Seahawks and that's how 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.800 they got here by running the football. Well, the Cowboys 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.200 really got here by playing great defense and that's what 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.560 they've been able to do. And you know, to to 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.039 limit the Seahawks the way they were, yeah, yeah, they 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.600 give up some big pass plays, but you knew going 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.080 into the game that that that's the possibility With Russell 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.200 Wilson and these receivers. I mean, that fourth, the fourth 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.279 and sixth play. You can't throw the ball any better 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.039 than what heat threw it to get it to convert 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.920 that fourth down. That was just a beautiful pass. And yeah, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:53.960 there might have been holding on the play, you know, 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.599 but these officials, Wald Anderson, his crew, they were not 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.640 gonna let it. They were gonna let him play it out. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.640 And he just threw a beautifu ball and then's and 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.159 that's what you gotta have. I mean, and they you know. 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.800 But for the most part, I thought the Cowboys held 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.760 him held up very very well defensively, and it allowed 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.760 them to kind of gain some traction offensively in the 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.400 second half. No one thing Jason Garrett talked about too 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.680 different from the first game is and multiple guys said this, 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.200 guys and coaches, they were a little more aggressive in 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.760 rushing Russell Wilson than that first game. You know, you 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.640 focus so much on being disciplined and you know, keep 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.760 him in the well and all that, but if you're 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.000 not aggressive enough, that gives him opportunities to do what 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.400 he wants to do. So I thought they did a 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.800 better job of just getting up field and getting after 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.080 him and instead of worrying a little bit at Rod 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.200 Marinelli said it during the week. If you slow down, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.880 then you get yourself in trouble. You gotta get after him. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.680 And they did a better job of it. The front 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.600 seven was outstanding, and we're seeing this linebackers continue to 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.960 float to the ball. The overall team speed on defense. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.880 It makes us a dangerous team going forward. We'll see 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.440 what happens Saturday. But they're dangerous. You know. One of 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.200 the things that I noticed, and they can go back 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.320 and count it up, but when they were like blitzing, yea, 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.160 the linebackers, vander Esh was blitzing off the left side. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.600 So if if they pushed him in the middle, right, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.200 where does he go? He rolls to his right right 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.200 and all of a sudden, oh here comes fifty five. 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.520 On that one third down play which he ended up 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.560 throwing high on the outpass, vander Esh is right in 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.840 his face uh and and so yeah, it was it 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.200 was a good way to keep him uh in the pocket. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.200 They did a better job of that. But we talk 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.560 about the defense. They did score twenty four points right right, 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.240 correct me if I'm wrong, but that was the most 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.680 anybody scored this weekend, right, Yeah, how about that? So 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.400 much for video game offense? Right, yeah, well you got 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.880 some video game offense, yes, play in this coming week though, 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.120 we'll see. There's I mean, there's a reason those uh, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.240 those video game offenses got first round buys. Yeah, yeah, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.880 in both conferences. But we saw both those offenses. You know, 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.960 those poet totals dropped a little bit in December, you know, 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.559 I mean, I'm sure, and so we'll see what happens. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.120 But weren't any fifty four fifty one games in December, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.880 but you're right, Kansas City Saints Rams, they were all 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:13.320 off Patriots too. We'll see what happens, yep um. All right, So, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:18.000 as yesterday played out, obviously the preference for the Cowboys 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.319 would be for the Eagles to win that game because 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.960 its the opportunity if things fall in place this week, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.080 the Cowboys win and an Eagles win, you can host 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.319 an NFC championship game. That's true, hope next week. But wow, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.920 wasn't it something the way that thing played out at 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.880 the end. Well, and I'll tell you what though. To me, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.400 I don't know about you guys, and I think we all, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.360 I think everybody here picked Philadelphia to win. I think 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.840 we did that. Yeah, we all said Philadelphia. I picked 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.280 the Bears to be different. Okay, well, the thing is 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.600 that the Bears are. The Bears are a year away 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.319 in my opinion, especially with that quarterback. Playoff experience matters, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.719 it really does. You look at what you know the 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.560 really all all game long, Philadelphia was kind of struggle along. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.520 But what happened. They had to have a drive. Who 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.280 did they have to go to? You know, they went 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.240 They leaned on their quarterback. At the end, he made 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.120 a play on a guy that they traded for, you know, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:12.520 much like that of the Cowboys. But what do they do? 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.760 They drafted a kid, they threw the battle a tight end. 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.520 They got another tight end. That's tremendous. You know, those 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.640 guys there's a reason why that. The you know, when 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.280 you get in the playoffs, you have to lean on 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.679 guys like that, and they were able to do that. 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.480 You know, I mean, I just didn't feel like that 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.079 the Bears could sustain enough, you know, they just I 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.280 didn't feel like that they were gonna go and and 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.520 finish this thing off. Their defense was supposed to be 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.480 the reason why, and their defense actually gave it up 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.960 at the end, falls gets the ball with four minutes. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.080 You're kind of like, oh, yeah, they've they've been in 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.400 this situation. He's been in the situation. Yeah. Well, and 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.240 then they get it down to a fourth down play 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.800 and help out with a minute left, and Doug Peterson's 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.520 got three time outs left, right, Okay, they's got them 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.720 back down facing fourth and goal at the two yard line. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.520 If you don't make it, you're gonna get the football 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.880 back if you hold him right, because you got the 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.640 three timeouts in your hip pocket, right, And he used 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.640 one and he uses one. Yeah, and I was shouting 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.560 at the TV, go on, how can you game's over? 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.559 He's putting everything on that fourth down play. Yeah, but 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.600 he wanted to make sure he had the right playing Yes, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.000 but he you know, we've always you know, when you 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.040 talk about coaching and stuff like that, there's game management questions. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.599 He felt like the point in time he needed to 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.839 win the game. I mean that's yeah, he's thinking I 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.440 might not you know, even even if I get but 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.520 he took any Yeah, he took any chance he had 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.280 out of that. But yeah, I I I I'm okay, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.599 get the right play. Well, but get the right play. Yeah, no, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.280 I mean it did. But but but get the right 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.160 play that I mean. I And it's funny because I 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.080 was watching the game with my folks and I said, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.560 whatever his best two point play is, he needs to 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.680 run it, and then and then here's the question. Then 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.880 and then who was doing the announcing Collinsworth goes whatever 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.640 his best two point play and my dad looked at 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.400 me like, you know, I'm like, yeah, that's what you 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.880 gotta do. I mean, whatever your best two point play is, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.240 you gotta work right here. Why they getting a good 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.360 two point yeah, I mean, why would you use your 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.079 best two point play on on any one of the 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.920 three previous plays? Yeah? Well you know what a game 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.360 credit though? They tried to run. They tried you know, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.120 the middle two. Yeah, you say, okay, let's try. I 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.880 mean you're thinking all the game long that they're having 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.120 to throw the football. I mean, justless the game of 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.480 the radio was driving home and James Lofton's like, you 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.040 gotta they can't run, you gotta throw, you gotta throw 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.240 the ball. You just gotta keep throwing it. And you 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.720 know they did. They threw it. That's what's funny about 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.880 it is Doug Peterson, you know, last year, gets all 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.959 the credit for all the inventive plays and two point 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.040 plays and stuff like that. And so the Bears are 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.199 sitting there. They've stopped him three straight times and all 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:48.960 they did had to do is stop him one more 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:51.680 time on a two point conversion. Basically, it's what it 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.480 came down to. Yeah, I guess they used up the 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.360 Philly Special already, kind of out of ideas, I don't know, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.760 but but I mean trying to run it. I mean, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.240 maybe that's you don't want to turn over in that situation. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.120 That's the last thing you want, so maybe that's what 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.800 you try to do first. And then you know, the 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.560 guy leaks out in the back of the end zone 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.320 right at the end. Is a good playing. But having 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.320 said that, don't let the playoff game come down to 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.080 a kicker, just don't. Because they allowed him to come 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.760 right down the field and in position for a makeable 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.319 field goal. Look like you got tipped von Hester? Yeah, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.600 that tip trayvon Hester is trending on Twitter this morning 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.000 because finally people went back and looked at the tape 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.719 and sure enough, you look like he tipped the ball? 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.440 Did he get how I mean? How much did he 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.959 get because it started right down the middle and then 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.840 it enough enough to enough to make it go left. Yeah, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.360 but no, it did a close up view and I'm 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.520 I'm I'm gonna go see I should have done that 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.960 this morning. I went in here and started looking at 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.040 the rams already. But I'm gonna see if on that 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.679 special teams if you could actually tell it. But it 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.560 looks like from from the from the close up angles 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.840 that were I saw this morning that that he got 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.760 a hand on the ball so or partially got a 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.400 hand on the ball or finger on the ball. That 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.440 kind of changed the trajectory a little bit, which is 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.440 weird because I guarantee you for twenty yards that thing 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.240 was good. All of a sudden, there it goes. And 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.520 how many times he had to set a record this year? 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.680 Five times for hitting? No, he didn't one four one game, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.280 six six times six time overall? Yeah he went he 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.360 went doink four times this time, Yeah, four times against 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.800 the Lions, one time against the Vikings last week, and 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:33.960 then this one this week. Right, he gets too this 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.680 time just booed off the field mercilessly. Did you see 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:43.160 the Bears mascots sideways? I didn't see he was behind 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.680 the gold post ready to you know ed he just 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.320 they should have put the bands on. Suicide wise, well, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.680 your whole season, twelve wins, young quarterback. You think he 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.800 got momentum and it comes down to that, well touchdowns, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.680 well they did. They didn't get that too. A two 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.760 point conversion they didn't get turned out to be really 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.720 costly to only go up five instead of seven. Yeah. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.200 I was really the play of the game right there, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.320 when you think about it, Yeah, it really was. The 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.320 The thing about it though, two is that I believe 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.120 if I read correctly that Parky was eleven of twelve 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.320 and fourth quarter kicks he was. They flashed it down 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.760 the script. Well, and before they iced him, that first 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.480 kick looked perfect, right, It was good right down the middle. Yeah, 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.720 it was good. That's because there was no pressure because 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.800 he knew there was going to crop time out. Probably 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.520 he said, okay, I'm just gonna take a warm up 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.240 shot here. Yeah. Well, at least didn't come down to 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.040 your kicker having to make one. Yeah, that would have 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.680 been the same reaction. You know, fans would have been 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.680 on watch as well if you missed that one. But 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.960 the dude sat in front of his locker and answered questions. Yeah, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:52.040 sure did give him credit. Sports hate going on right there. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.520 Yeah yeah, I hate to see that. Yeah, but it 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.600 makes for an interesting week this weekend. How about the 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.680 storylines that we are going to be talking about for 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.080 the next few days. Here, you're leading up to this 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:10.760 Cowboys Rams matchup, starting with the running backs Zeke and Gurley. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.840 You got Wade Phillips, the defensive coordinator on the other side. Um, 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.640 I mean there's there's and really you look at the 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.520 history of the Cowboys in the Rams. I've seen a 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.440 lot of playoff games my day. Yeah. Yeah. There was 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.360 a stretch there of six seasons in the late seven 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.000 mid to late seventies where the Cowboys are Rams every 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.880 game there. I was very five. Six years in the playoffs, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.880 Preston Pearson had one of the great games I've ever seen. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.680 It was played the call scene by a running back. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.880 I mean he cut three touchdown passes in that game. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.680 I think the Cowboys were underdogs in that one as well. 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.440 It was Yeah, they It was a great history between 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.680 these two franchises when it comes to when it comes 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.080 to playoff games, and they've lost the last two to them, right, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:57.960 five was the last time the three playoffs which one 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.560 day they get shut out. One of them they got 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.520 shut out. I think it was the most recent one. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.280 Twenty to nothing, Yeah, twenty to nothing again beat in 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.080 eighty three two. Yeah. Yeah. The other storyline is too 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.800 Wade Phillips, Wade Phillips. But you know, Jared Goff goes, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.200 would you go number one in twenty sixteen, Yes, yep, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.240 Zeke goes three picks later, and then you know Daki 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.000 Scots worked out pretty well in the one hundred and 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.720 thirty something picks later. Yeah, yeah, with a compensatory pick. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.400 Yeah yeah. A lot a lot going on. I think 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.199 I think a lot of the back and forth this 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.400 week is going to be ken. The Cowboys defense play 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.600 is what it needs to at the level to stop 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.360 the Rams, and I think both. I think that you're 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.840 gonna look at the Rams defense. We we're surely going 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.800 to talk about you know, Aaron Donald quite a bit. 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:44.360 Rams struck. Yeah, Rams struggled playing run defense though five 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.560 over five yards to carry a little bit. Now, maybe 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.439 that's a little bit about you know, being ahead, being 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.479 aheading games and stuff like that. But I'll tell you 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.800 what though, the storyline will be about the Cowboys defense 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.760 and the Rams offense. But again, don't sleep on the 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.320 on the Cowboys offense. You know, as far as you know, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.400 they we're seeing some some better things. I mean with 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.119 I'm sure Sue Sue Field will be back in there 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.760 at left guard. But Connor Williams wasn't terrible in this game. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.840 And the one sack they gave up was on a 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.800 twist stunt that they tried to man where they'd passed 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.119 some stunts earlier in the game, I mean passing passing 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.359 guys off. They just got caught in a situation where 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.199 you know, Clark just the they did it. They did 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:26.919 a couple of twist stunts to that side, and they 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:28.679 did it just find picking it up. It was just 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.680 that once one time they had they had problems, but 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.679 so so I saw that they manned the Scnor not 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.720 supposed to come off and pick him up in the middle. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:41.000 They manned it. And know how was Tyran was supposed 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.920 to get over there in time. That's that's how they 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:44.879 That's how the long way to go. Yeah, well, they 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.160 they they usually what they'll do is they usually will 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.960 bump the stunt and at that particular time, it might 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.439 be something to do with protection. It might be a scheme, 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.359 uh thought that they have that. They just played the 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:01.120 twist as a man twist and they and it's it's 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.440 a tough way to block if you're gonna man stunts, 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.119 and you know, you have to be able to to 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:08.720 make that work. I mean you have to be able 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.320 to cross behind the block and pick it up. But 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.600 that was that was the only blemish that offensive line 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.959 really had. When it came to pass protection. They did 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.480 a pretty good job holding up against the group that's 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:21.720 that's got some pass rushers on it. It was that 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.080 sort of a situation where the Seahawks had the right 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.040 the right call for they ran. They ran the stunt 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.359 earlier in the game and got blocked and then and 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.640 then they came back to it and got a got 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.800 a sack. So it's something that they obviously felt like 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.800 that the Cowboys would man the would man the stunt 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.760 and they got him for the one time. The other 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.840 time they didn't, but that time they did so. But 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.359 I they tip of the cap to Connor Williams. There 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.600 was a lot of concern about how well he could 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.840 really play. We talked about how well he could fit though. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.520