WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Lance Dance 0:00:02.440 --> 0:00:05.000 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:13.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:17.200 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:22.479 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:28.440 and Nicky Spagnola. And it is a Tuesday inside the 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:34.560 SWBC podcast studio on a beautiful day here in Frisco, Texas. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:40.080 Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. And as I 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.040 arrived here at the Star in Frisco, I was thinking, 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.479 what a beautiful day it would be, Mickey, if I 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.000 could look out over that practice field, frackball players on 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:54.200 the football field getting ready for us Saturday night in Tampa. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.600 But it's not gonna be. Not so much. So here 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.840 we are picking up the pieces once again. Yes, so 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.280 how are we doing? Not good? Still not good? Still 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.840 still not good. I got the beef, guys, all right, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.760 beef out. We can't blame the referees. We just can't 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.480 a lot of those calls self inflicted bs that we 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.440 put on ourselves, number one. And I gotta say I 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.399 was very disappointed in Dak's little dig at the referees 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.120 that that that comment after the game. You know, you 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.240 just expect so much better from him, you know, but 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.880 one of the classiest guys in the NFL. You know, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.479 the frustration was there after at the press conference. I'm 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.160 sure he was still feeling it, and his reaction to 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.720 the Cowboy fans, you know, throwing garbage and whatever at 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.920 the referees. You know, you might want to believe it, 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:50.800 you might want to be angry all you want, but 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:57.440 you just can't say that. And I'm hoping that I 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.760 wish he would have done it already, that an apology 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.040 would be sent out, because that's just not him. And 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.600 when you start reacting in these kind of situations, you know, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.240 everybody wants you to lose because your Dallas Cowboy. Everybody 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.519 knows that there's nothing new. I mean, they take joy, 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.840 you know, in the demise. But you can't as a 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.000 leader of this team and one of the classiest guys 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.639 in sports, you cannot do that as Dak Prescott the 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.080 leader of this team. That's something that you know, I 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.720 don't want to dwell on it too much, but it's 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.440 it's glaring when it comes from a guy like Dak. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.680 So that's all I gotta say. So you think he's 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.960 done with the being nominated as the NFL Man of 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.799 the Year is what you're telling, you know, the way 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.840 he came back and played this year after that, I 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.880 hope it has nothing to do you're talking comeback player, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:58.280 but you're talking to okay. Yeah, yeah, well even so, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.040 and you know, so he's done so much for a 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.960 lot of people. Yeah, that I thought. I thought initially 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.519 when he said it, he was just kind of being 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.320 kind of a smart alec trying to make a joke. 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.960 But then he got an opportunity to walk it back 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.040 and he kind of doubled down. So yeah, And the 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.440 unfortunate thing is the whole thing came up wrong because 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.440 the question to him initially was what is your opinion 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.920 of the fans throwing stuff at you guys when you 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.880 left the field? That was the first question, okay, right, 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.880 and he and it was and I'm and I don't care, 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.119 I'll throw the guy under the bus. It was Mike 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.120 Leslie a Channel eight, And he had the question wrong, right, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.920 because the referees went under the same tunnel as the 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:50.360 Cowboy players, And so that got corrected and he goes, oh, 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.600 and then he said credit to them, and it was like, oh, okay, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.560 but you're right, then there is the opportunity to walk 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.080 that back, and I thought he was just kind of 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.880 tongue in cheek. Well, credit to them, and then he 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:05.840 got the chance to walk it back and he didn't 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.920 do it. And that when you double down on it, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.960 and it makes the apology even more different. There won't 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:18.960 be another press conference. Till OTAs right, But we all 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.640 have our social media accounts. That's yeah, well yeah, if 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:27.919 he wants he could, yeah right, yeah, uh man. But 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.880 to you, and also to your point on the officiating, 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.640 I'm with you too on the you just can't blame 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.160 it on the refs. You know, there were so many 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:42.400 opportunities in that game to take business into your own hand. Well, yeah, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:47.800 time's time. But but going back and looking at the game, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.360 first play of the game, it was a false start 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.960 and they got called for offsides. And he did it 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.560 again somewhere in the second quarter. And someone told me 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.360 that watches the game more intimately than I do, that 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.599 that's what Trent Williams does. He digs his left foot 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.679 into the ground just before it's time to snap the ball, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.839 and he flinched the first time, it wasn't just digging 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.680 his toes in the ground. The second time he dug 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.480 his toes in the ground, and it was offsides and 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:25.599 the member the kickoff return by Pollard got to the 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.800 thirty five and then they called holding on Gifford. He 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.000 didn't hold him. He pushed the guy to the ground. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.720 And I was wondering when I saw it first that 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.839 Fossil was going crazy on the sideline. Well, whoever called 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:46.800 it wasn't within twenty yards of Gifford, and they called holding. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.360 It's like, okay, how do you do that? So the 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.600 danger sometimes is going back and watching the game a 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.480 little closer. Not the replays, but just going back and 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.679 watching the plays and you pick things up. And boy, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.760 I don't mean to go on a rant here, but 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.880 I thought the offensive line didn't play well. They played 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.599 worse than I thought they did. And I don't know 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:22.240 if this is a sign of the future, but they 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.880 better not let happen that happened in twenty ten, because 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.800 in two thousand and nine, if you remember, they went 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.880 up to Minnesota and got waxed. The offense was awful. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.599 Offensive line didn't play well that game, and it was like, well, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.240 you know what, they're in a dome. It's hard to hear. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:47.280 The defense has the advantage. And then twenty ten, that 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:53.040 same offensive line got old overnight. I mean just it 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.760 was like, oh my god, and then they had to 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.320 reconstruct it. Right, well, they better not let that happen again, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:06.200 because it's time for whatever reasons. If Lale Collins did 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.040 not have a good game, the guys in the middle 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:14.240 didn't have a good game, and then even um Tyrann 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.360 Smith struggled at times, and so they got to they 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.360 better take a close look at that and make sure 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.360 that they do what they have to do to try 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:28.400 to not let that get old. And all of a sudden, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.320 year here next year and it's like there were so 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.720 many plays. Dad didn't have a chance on it. He 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:43.280 didn't have fourteen and they had a play. Um they 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.600 were it was at the end of the half. They 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:51.120 were after they got the roughing the kicker penalty, and 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.120 they got another set of downs and they got a 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.480 first down and they were third and seven at the 0:07:56.560 --> 0:08:02.960 forty five and he gets hit. He gets hit just 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.960 as he's releasing the ball and it's incomplete and now 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.920 they got a punt right and It's like, gosh, you 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:13.200 just everybody was wow, his accuracy was bad. Well, it's 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:18.160 it's hard. Got somebody always somebody in your face. And 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.280 I just wish people would go back and look at 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:24.040 it critically instead of emotionally as the game's going to 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.600 Actually what you what you's as a fan, you you 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:32.160 are frustrated because he seems to always be surrounded. You know, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.360 even with the four man rush, you can't see your 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.160 quarterback in the pocket. He was trying to remember the 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.560 one that he tried to dump off to Zeke. He 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.600 was under pressure and it was high. Well there was 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.720 everybody was around him and he had to get us 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.360 an arm up and he had to do that many times. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.240 Bags And so what you look at is you're looking 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.080 at the offensive line that we're all getting beat the 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.800 same way, you know, So is it technique? I mean 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.000 these guys, let me say this. We have gone up 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.400 against offensive lineman I've never heard of, no Pro Bowls, 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.200 no All Pros, and here they are running on our defense. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.320 It just depends on the team. Could I could pick 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.959 the Broncos, you know, I could pick any team that 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.640 ran well on us. I've never heard of those guys 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.439 but their technique is solid and they keep all players 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.760 off of their running back. And I've seen over and 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.040 over again our offensive linemen are over extending it themselves. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.720 They're getting thrown out of the way, and it is 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.680 no one between the D lineman and that running back 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.520 to stop the collision from happening. It's not like you 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.199 can go in there and say, okay, I can lean 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.960 on my offensive lineman here until he gets rid of 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.160 that guy can lean here, and I can have ways 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.000 where I can have patience to wait for the hole 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.319 to open up. No, it's not like that with us. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.200 The lineman is on the ground, the old lineman's on 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.560 the ground, but D lineman is coming to attack. That 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.559 is not comfortable, and that's what really It causes the 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.160 big hits on my running backs. And that happens over 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.280 and over against bags. It's not it's not something that's 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:11.080 old just the last two weeks, you know this is happening. No, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.400 this has been happening for really the second half of 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:19.280 the season. And uh, I had a feeling even if 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.360 we would have won this game, come back and everything 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.160 would have happened on that play, I see, it wouldn't 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.000 have felt good. About us, Yeah, because we should have 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.559 done better the entire game. I felt that we lost 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.800 the game before the clock ran out because we weren't 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.400 playing well and we keep relying on this same you know, 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:44.600 captain comeback situation and for us to be squabbling over 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.400 one second referee grabbing the ball with his dumb self 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.400 grabbing the ball again and again. I don't know what 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.960 the hell he was trying to do. But we should 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.520 never have even gotten today. It should not even be 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.440 part of the conversation, you know. And I'll take it 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.080 back to the drive. The law stop tunity late in 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.840 the game was when you get the football with two 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.199 forty two left, you have three timeouts left. Now you're 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.439 at your own sixteen yard line. But but you're you 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.160 made it to midfield. Here's here's something I haven't heard 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:17.320 anyone talk about that I don't understand. And in Romo 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.079 on the broadcast as the Cowboys, it was second and 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.280 eleven and whatever yard line the Cowboys were at at 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.200 that point, it's around midfield. And Romo said, well, they 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.040 might be able to get a playoff before the two 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:34.040 minute warning, and hurriedly, the Cowboys ran a play before 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.920 the two minute warning. And I'm sitting there thinking, why 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.200 do we care about running a play before the two 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.640 minute warning? The clock is not an issue here. There's 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.720 three timeouts left. Get the play that you want to run. 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.200 Don't hurriedly run a play instead of a prize that 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.840 they ran. And so they run a play was acted 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.200 at two one, two oh one. They like, okay, they 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.640 snap it, and that was what was the result of them. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.800 It was an incompa It was a sharp pass to okay, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.520 it was like a crossing route or something about five 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.920 yards down field, something like that, okay, and it was incomplete. Okay. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.360 So instead of at the two minute warning, you're facing 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.360 second and eleven, instead it's one fifty six left and 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:18.760 you're third and eleven. Okay. I much prefer okay, just 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.760 chill out, Okay, things are under control. Don't hurry up 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.000 and run a play that you necessarily don't like. Get 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.400 the play you want to run, and at the two 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.040 minute warning on second and eleven, run that rather than 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.160 you're faced with at one fifty six, third and eleven. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.560 And they were at the San Francisco forty seven. So 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.080 it wasn't like time was a vessence. And I would 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.200 say if you are going to run a play, that's 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.880 a great opportunity to run the ball. To run the ball, okay, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.840 because you're getting a time out. The clock's gonna stop 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.959 at one fifty six, which will give you a third 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.080 and five or I mean presumably they're not thinking. They're 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.280 not thinking you're gonna run the ball, and so you 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.320 might be able to pop something, or at worst you 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.199 don't gain anything, okay, which is what you're not getting 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:08.280 anywhere still, right, But my preference is get the play 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.800 that you want and just let it go to the 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.280 two minute warning. And then on third and eleven, uh, 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.560 incomplete and because he dumped it to Zeke and then 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.680 Tyrn got called for holding and they declined it. Right, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.840 they could have had third and twenty one. Uh, and 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:32.440 then you had to punt. Uh speaking of that. Uh 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.920 also they were they they didn't you meant they had 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.120 to punt if they took No, they did find a penalty, right, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.840 and so they went forward on fourth and eleven. Yeah, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.720 and that was the incomplete path to centric Wilson. Yeah. Now, now, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:50.480 now having said that, if you wanted to, okay, you 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.880 could have gone ahead and punt. You have your three 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.080 timeouts left. And I understand this, this is goes against 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.640 all analytics and everything. But if you were got from 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.520 bad and if you were confident in your defense okay 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.560 to stop them, you could have punted the ball. And 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.480 as far as field position goes, if it played out 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.400 and you stopped them and hadn't, they had to punt. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.360 Then instead of starting at your own what yard line? 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:19.000 Did cowboys started out on the last drive, all right, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.800 at the twenty on the last drive you might be 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.000 starting at with thirty two seconds left, you might have 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.960 been starting at your own forty five with thirty two seconds. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.360 I don't like that. I don't like it yet. I 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:29.880 don't like taking the ball out of my hand. No, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.480 I don't either that. I'm not saying that they should 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.760 have done that, but but with the three time outs left, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.840 you had enough time where you could actually do that 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.680 if you were cared about it. And by the by 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.400 the way, the other thing that I noticed that and 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.240 no one would do that at the end of the 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:51.440 at the end of the first half, um they were 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:58.280 facing third and nineteen and the past that Cedric Wilson 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:03.720 couldn't see. If they catch that, he's at the thirty 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.920 for thirty five, thirty six somewhere in there. They would 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.760 have at least because it was thirty nineteen, it wasn't 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.880 going to be a first down, they would have had 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.000 an opportunity to kick a fifty five yard field goal 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.640 and three points. And let's at the end of the game. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.320 Let's say, I am just saying and and and and so, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.880 but here's wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, lucky I know 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:33.600 oblivious teen ever, so wait always something. So he's blinded 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:39.720 by the sun before the snap, just about where he 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.760 was trying to catch the ball. They're San Francisco's linebacker 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.960 Fred Warner. He's standing right where Cedric was going to 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.440 catch the ball, by the way before the stap, right 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:54.840 and you know what he's doing. And for everybody that's 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.360 not watching, he's crouched down and he's got his hand 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.000 up shielding his eye so he can see before the snap, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.680 and the ball ended up right at that spot. What 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.960 are the chances now, the big chances for us, because 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.560 this is what happens to us when we lose. There's 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:19.360 always these little quirky things and then you're feeling, okay, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.200 you know what, though, we're gonna get the ball to 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.000 start the second half, right, the Cowboys are gonna get 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:30.640 the ball first series. Uh it's it's uh third and 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:37.080 four false start, third and nine false start, And what 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.440 happens on third and fourteen a sack And it's like 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:48.960 that's your offensive line. That's it. And they just I'm 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.360 saying right now, we're two months and a half from 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.160 the draft. They just better keep that in mind when 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.960 they started looking, and they better hope they hit on 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.440 Josh ball U Tarrance Steel may give them something. But 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.240 and I know the money they've got spent up there, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:11.520 but you better look at this thing pragmatically. And you 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.239 know that you gotta be a smart team too, Spacs's all. 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.399 It's not just about the physicality. You know, sometimes just 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:23.240 being smart really takes away from from these these small 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.879 incidents that lead to failure. You know, you could just 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.240 pick out so many things when we lose games to 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.880 where you say, wow, I never thought that could happen, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.600 but it happens to us. And the other thing, they 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:41.080 better keep their eye going forward. On linebackers. You bring 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.040 that up, Yes, yes, talking about we need three linebackers. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:50.840 Vannoresh is a free agent. Um, okay, you you got Parsons. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.760 But what else, because when they loaded up with a 0:17:54.800 --> 0:18:00.320 fullback a tight end or a fullback in two tight ends, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:05.720 they got overpowered. And but spas, what a surprise, right, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.719 what a surprise. We weren't ready did we think that, Okay, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.159 let's just do what for the next line? I mean, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.720 you know, I think must have to be made. Jay 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.639 Ron Curse is a boy. They got more out of 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:22.040 him than I ever dreamed. But he's a safety. He's 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:26.159 still a safety. And they got overpowered up front. And 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.680 the other thing I noticed is it seemed like when 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:37.480 San Francisco's offensive line had double team block, they gashing hole. Right. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.760 I didn't never see the Cowboys offensive line do that, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.199 but they it seemed like they were always outnumbered up 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:50.120 front somehow, someway, it's an ever evolving game. And um, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.440 how many times the Rams carry the ball? Last night? 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.640 They ran the ball over thirty times? Right last night 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.320 against the Cardinals. All Right, the Niners are a team 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:04.440 that as much as as much as offensive coordinators are 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.120 spreading it out now, they're going to come back now, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:09.840 well and it's getting in, They're going to come back 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:15.160 right that, And just the game evolves. He goes back 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.119 and forth. He goes to a spread and then it 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.840 goes back to power football exactly right, and so you 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.200 have to be able to defend either one. Okay, if 0:19:24.240 --> 0:19:27.600 you go up against a spread team that doesn't have 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:31.439 a power running game, then you have personnel for that, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.359 and the Cowboys I think have done a great job 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.440 with that kind of personnel. But one of the things 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.960 that happened this year, of course, is that Jalen Smith 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.560 didn't play to the level that they wanted him to 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.040 be playing at, or they expected him to be playing at. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.480 They had to release him. So now you get into 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.600 a situation in a game against San Francisco, who likes 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.920 to run the ball, and if you had the two 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.199 linebackers Vander esh and Jalen Smith that you hope to 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.080 have had to start the season, Parsons wouldn't even have 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.879 to play linebacker in that run defense. He could be 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.880 you could use him on the edge. You weren't able 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.280 to use him on the edge at all in this 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.080 game because you had to play him as a linebacker 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.879 because of their threat to run nickel. For two years 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.240 now I know, and it never works, and it's a 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.040 it's we thought when we came in nickel. Is that 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:22.359 what it's called no because but the Niners have that, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:24.760 they run a big nickel all the time. They've got 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.920 Fred Warner and um Drey Greenlaw who just came back, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.400 and then they got a third linebacker, and so they've 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.040 got three linebackers that they're confident they can play in 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.320 their Warner goes out in the fourth quarter of that game, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.399 the other guy comes in and and so they were 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.480 able to work it that way. Luke Gifford is not 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.479 at that point in his career. Maybe Luke Gifford can develop. 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:46.919 I don't know, but I know they liked him, but 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.040 he was an undrafted guy. You haven't invested there. Think 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.359 about how the plan was when they started the season 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:58.720 before they had uh injuries or whatever on the defensive line. 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:03.960 At the defensive ends art the idea was assuming Jalen 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.280 Smith was going to play well, Jalen Smith was going 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.760 to be the middle guy, Vander esh was going to 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.080 be the weak side guy, and Parsons was going to 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.640 be the strong side guy. And if you think back 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.600 the training camp with him lined up on the line 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.120 of scrimmage as the strong side linebacker can do right 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.960 and teams wouldn't know is he playing linebacker or is 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:29.800 he rushing the quarter? Quarterback? You want him as your 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:33.800 jack linebacker, right exactly, move him around all over the place. 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.840 And then it didn't turn out that well. Jayleen Smith 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:42.239 somehow was lost. They didn't have a fourth linebacker, and 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.880 so when they got rid of him, it was two 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.159 linebackers and Jayron Curse who did well. But when teams 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:53.640 decide to load up like that, boy, you're at a disadvantage. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:58.119 I can't see how you would expect our linebackers to 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.920 all of a sudden be different from the historically bad 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:08.200 running defense that we had. Right, So that was come 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:12.480 in with thinking that going to be better than what 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:15.080 he had been. Yeah, that's right. Historically bad, that's right. 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:19.680 That was not good good forecasting to me. So you 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.000 just hope when they look at this thing that, okay, 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.960 let's be honest here, right, And they're going to have 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:31.720 salary cap problems, so it's not like you're going to 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.480 go out and put somebody right and say, Okay, we're 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.320 gonna fill this hole with that you're gonna have to build. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.520 But they did a good job last year of coming 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.840 up with guys exactly, like Kean O'Neil, like Jay roun Kerrs, 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.399 like Kayzy. I mean there's a number of them Urban Watkins. 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.520 I mean there's so many of them like that. Even 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:53.320 the thing with Keyan O'Neill, he's not a linebacker. I'm sorry, 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.320 he's a strong safety, and you put him there at 0:22:57.359 --> 0:22:59.879 linebacker and he gets his three hundred and thirty pound 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:02.119 eye on them. It's like, well that's kind of one 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:09.080 hundred pound mismatch. So um, but yeah, they're running. Yeah right, yeah, 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.480 we have we have big nickel. But big nickel didn't 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.359 work last year, and it didn't really work. This didn't 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.479 even try big nickels last year. They sacrifice Anthony Brown 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.720 or no, not Anthony Brown. Who was the poor cornerback 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:24.199 that ended up coming up there? Well, no, it was 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:31.160 the little safety. The safety well, um, Xavier Woods. Yeah, 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.400 they had him playing the linebackers. So what they need 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.600 to be honest about two positions. Then we're talking linebackers 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:42.600 and the entire offensive line. Yeah, yeah, probably be honest 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:45.440 about the entire offensive line. They are no longer that. 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:47.879 And you need a couple, You need a couple guys. 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:50.680 The way I look at and somebody asked me today 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:54.600 on the fan, that's it's like what you get a tackle? 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:58.199 And I said, get me a tackle who can play guard? 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.720 And he can tell got one guard spot, but if 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:04.800 the tackles don't perform well, then he can go out 0:24:04.800 --> 0:24:07.600 to tackle. That should cost you a lot of money. Well, 0:24:07.640 --> 0:24:11.040