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Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola has a report
Speaker 1: on the sun today. There's no music on Monday morning. No,
Speaker 1: but say what you always say when things go poorly
Speaker 1: for this team. The sun came up. There you go.
Speaker 1: The sun came up today and ain't got much shine on.
Speaker 1: I'll get what you could also say that, you know,
Speaker 1: at least we got the losing game out of the way.
Speaker 1: I try. You want to get that out of your sisters.
Speaker 1: Plus the game ended on such a positive too. Got
Speaker 1: a first down on the last play of the game,
Speaker 1: Elite Davis to avoid another three at hour. Was that
Speaker 1: maybe the longest run of the game. No, it was
Speaker 1: Das nine yard run. There you go, all right, so
Speaker 1: we've already we've discussed all we need to discuss about Sunday.
Speaker 1: I guess the Washington Commanders it's time to move on
Speaker 1: to Tampa. There is no twenty four hour rule this week.
Speaker 1: It was how long was the rule this week? Probably
Speaker 1: as soon as you got off the play, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say it was a four hour rule. It's not
Speaker 1: a twenty four hour rule. It's a four hour rule.
Speaker 1: Move on to Tampa. We pulled up to the charter
Speaker 1: site at twelve twenty five a m. And I would
Speaker 1: imagine that's when you got to put that away. But
Speaker 1: as will discuss going forward, As I wrote in my column,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of worry some factors coming out of
Speaker 1: that game that concern me greatly going into Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: next Monday. Can you speak on that, sir. Let's let's
Speaker 1: set the table. We're gonna do that, Okay. There's also
Speaker 1: it's a it's a hard breaking news Monday. Around the league.
Speaker 1: We've already had a several stories, right of course, Lovey
Speaker 1: Smith last night, Houston, Cliff Kingsbury today. Later on in
Speaker 1: the show we may get into some of that stuff too.
Speaker 1: And the GM also has resigned at Arizona Steve kim
Speaker 1: And but that's for later, so jobs open. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: It's around the league It is a contrasting day from
Speaker 1: teams that are out of it and going home cleaning
Speaker 1: out lockers and teams that are supposed to have a
Speaker 1: lot of excitement right now, which is included right here
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco. You got to put that
Speaker 1: thing to bed yesterday and have some excitement about what's
Speaker 1: coming up that we're really excited about having that chance.
Speaker 1: All we gotta do is just win this game. And
Speaker 1: so they go from that optimism, like you were saying,
Speaker 1: and now I'm cleaning that my locking that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's a that's a big fall. That's right, Yeah, that's right. Um, yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: at least the plastic bags aren't going into the locker
Speaker 1: room now now now you're in a mode or you
Speaker 1: put off the plastic bag the week to week to
Speaker 1: week and hopefully it's not happening until you after the parade.
Speaker 1: Then you have plastic bags after the super Bowl, that's right,
Speaker 1: and after the parade, that's right. All right, we get
Speaker 1: one ahead of ourselves there especially, but what we saw yesterday.
Speaker 1: So now answer ever since question, what was your question
Speaker 1: to Mickey? What was my question? Ah? What was my question?
Speaker 1: That's got yesterday. My two factors that concerned me coming
Speaker 1: out of that game going forward, Uh the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They need, uh somebody to go place hands on Tyler
Speaker 1: Beatish and make sure he's good to go from that
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain that created the offensive line shuffle that
Speaker 1: which did not work out well was disaster. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: Now that was crazy. Not only could they not run
Speaker 1: the football averaging two point seven yards that much? That
Speaker 1: much two points? I didn't think it was that much. Well,
Speaker 1: I meant to go back and count how many one
Speaker 1: yard runs they had and tackles. Yes, it went up
Speaker 1: because Malik Davis got nineteen yards on five carries, so
Speaker 1: that was nearly four yards to carry for Malik day.
Speaker 1: They must have been resting the front four because they
Speaker 1: were whipping our butts which helped them get to sixty
Speaker 1: four total yards rushing sixty four um. And by the way,
Speaker 1: and Dak had sixteen of that. Yes, a nine yard
Speaker 1: run I think was one of them. We scared the
Speaker 1: hell out of him, like how much farther should I go?
Speaker 1: So Zeke had eight carries for ten yards and Paullard
Speaker 1: had seven carries for nineteen yards, barely getting his thousand
Speaker 1: yards season. I think he needed twelve. He needed twelve,
Speaker 1: and so he wound up with one thousand and seven yards.
Speaker 1: I thought he was going to end up losing all
Speaker 1: of it going back to nine. So once he got
Speaker 1: to one oh one, take him out of that, I
Speaker 1: am I am sure everybody is aware that without Tyler
Speaker 1: Beatish in there, Connor mcgovernn took a step to the
Speaker 1: right from left guard to center, Tyler Smith took a
Speaker 1: step to the right from left tackle to left guard,
Speaker 1: and in came Jason Peters, all forty years old, starting
Speaker 1: his first game since the last game of last season.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, uh, Tyrant Smith looked
Speaker 1: like he was struggling with their speed rushers at right tackle. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so when you can't run the ball, you have
Speaker 1: to throw the ball. And if you have to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, you gotta get your quarterback comfortable in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He never not the one tire game. And even when
Speaker 1: there was some protection, I felt like he felt there
Speaker 1: was ghosts around. Yeah, right, yes, and he was making
Speaker 1: just hurried decisions and throws. We tried to quick release, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was it was like he was just trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of it. Yeah, it was just because
Speaker 1: he knew what I mean, I know they only sacked
Speaker 1: him once and had four quarterback hits. But I would
Speaker 1: like to see the pressures because I bet it was
Speaker 1: double digit. They were always around him, always around him,
Speaker 1: and so that offensive line shuffle and there's really other
Speaker 1: than getting beatish back in there, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: It's not like Larry Allen's coming in around the corner, right,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Nate come around. Nate, Nate might
Speaker 1: be coming around. I want I want to know what
Speaker 1: his take is on this. And then speaking of the corner,
Speaker 1: that's my next concern, oh man, because I had flashbacks
Speaker 1: last night. I was thinking around. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: they just you know, signed uh Zabra Rhodes. Yes, this
Speaker 1: will be his third team in three years, a third
Speaker 1: team in three months too, yes, yes, yes, uh and
Speaker 1: released by Buffalo you know. Yeah, that was very surprised
Speaker 1: and they didn't need him. Uh and they tried so
Speaker 1: many different combinations. And then on top of it all,
Speaker 1: Duran Bland in the second half leaves the game with
Speaker 1: a chest injury and did not come back. Uh. So
Speaker 1: they've tried Kelvin Joe Seth. They've tried McKenzie Alexander, who
Speaker 1: now has a I believe it's a strained groin and
Speaker 1: he spent last week rehabit. So that's what's going on
Speaker 1: with him. Yes, So that was after fourteen plays, last
Speaker 1: fourteen plays, and he was kind of playing in the
Speaker 1: slot when they moved Bland outside. Uh. And then they decided, well,
Speaker 1: when it's two tight ends, are two receivers two tight ends,
Speaker 1: Let's put Bland at left corner, uh and go that way,
Speaker 1: and then when we go to Nickel, we can move
Speaker 1: him inside and we'll try somebody else out there. Well,
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph failed. They don't have McKenzie Alexander. They tried
Speaker 1: niche didn't. He didn't had no defensive snap yesterday. Snap.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to get him back in there
Speaker 1: and you know that. And then they tried nichean Wright
Speaker 1: with mixed results. I know he had the interception, but
Speaker 1: he keeps getting beat uh and just not aware. So
Speaker 1: then they tried, and we talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: trayvon Mullen who they had picked up and he got scorched. Wow. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: they've not given Kendall Sheffield any snaps Bill or even
Speaker 1: any game time, and we had to look up his
Speaker 1: first name. Now U and now you know Xavier Rhodes.
Speaker 1: Is he ready to go? Do they have to take
Speaker 1: a look at it? Because if Bland can't go, they're in.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, they're playing Tom Brady. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I don't care that they're eight and nine. No, uh,
Speaker 1: it's still Tom going to attack the weakness of And
Speaker 1: did you ever second and they had they had a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback playing his first NFL snaps in his first
Speaker 1: NFL start. Did you see him throw it? Trayvon Diggs?
Speaker 1: I think every pass went the other way? Right, he did?
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs ended up with one tackle, which tells me
Speaker 1: that whoever he was covering wasn't getting the ball because
Speaker 1: he didn't have to tackle him. And I think that
Speaker 1: tackle was on a running play, So that means Sam
Speaker 1: Hall had to wear with all to say, thrown over there?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm throwing over heres. Do the same thing,
Speaker 1: right and now the same thing, trust me? What I
Speaker 1: tweeted it. The good news is the Cowboys don't have
Speaker 1: to thank Sam All next week. Yeah yea. By the way,
Speaker 1: and I'll get to where I was going with that ball.
Speaker 1: I'll say it anyway. Oh why, by the way, there's
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and Chris Godwin over there also by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah uh, And did I not tell you or you
Speaker 1: brought it up? And then I multiple times said it.
Speaker 1: You better watch this kid running the football. And what
Speaker 1: did they do one year rushing? Yeah? Yeah, well you
Speaker 1: can see it. And they called the place. We all
Speaker 1: knew that in this room, we knew that. I don't
Speaker 1: even know did he get touched on the touchdown run?
Speaker 1: Let me say so. The cornerback position scares me to
Speaker 1: death right now. And I and somebody asked McCarthy, don't
Speaker 1: call me to play cuver before two and I can
Speaker 1: book the flat. I'm not going any further than fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: That's it. My latter movement is still okay. They were.
Speaker 1: They were throwing bombs away there for a while. What
Speaker 1: is so? How old? How old is Tom Brady? Forty
Speaker 1: two forty more? For you are closer to the Saint
Speaker 1: to Brady's age than what some of these young dbs are, right,
Speaker 1: you know, right? You think about it, so maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you are an option. I just gotta be spatted up
Speaker 1: really tight. Okay, make sure my ankles don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: So very important when we get the and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was asked the question about the cornerback spot and he
Speaker 1: goes um. His answer was something like, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I don't have an answer for you at this point.
Speaker 1: So that is a spot, and they exposed it and
Speaker 1: it'll get exposed again. And so all the crazy crap
Speaker 1: that happened in that game, right, weird stuff. A punt
Speaker 1: snap dropped, dropped, a punt hitting the punt returner in
Speaker 1: the face, Prola pro bola, just fourth and one our
Speaker 1: most consistent specialties player in a long long time. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he can't catch it. And I get it,
Speaker 1: you got beat. Fine, but these two things don't go
Speaker 1: away going into the playoffs. You know, I don't know
Speaker 1: that the loss devastates them and kills their confidence. But
Speaker 1: what caused them to lose the game is what I
Speaker 1: worry about, and I don't know if they can fix
Speaker 1: it in time. How did we know that Tyler Biadis
Speaker 1: was so important to this offensive line? I just think
Speaker 1: not only him, but what the what the reaction to
Speaker 1: his loss was because now you've got two other guys
Speaker 1: basically playing out of position, actually three, because Peters was
Speaker 1: never meant to start. He was a backup guy at Experience. Right.
Speaker 1: I just looked it up, and Brady is forty five
Speaker 1: years old, and so so you, Everson, are closer in
Speaker 1: age two, Brady, than all of the active wide cornerbacks
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys roster, certainly closer than the Sean Right.
Speaker 1: I looked at all of them, and you are closer
Speaker 1: in at sixteen. Yeah, that's the only thing you gotta do.
Speaker 1: That's it. What do you mean, Lovey Smith didn't die
Speaker 1: his hair right now? Yeah? What happened to him? Well,
Speaker 1: it makes for an interesting week the cornerback, because I
Speaker 1: mean any position on the team you don't want to
Speaker 1: be in the seventeenth game of the season, basically doing
Speaker 1: in game tryouts to see who you want to play
Speaker 1: at cornerback next week and against Tom Brady. Well, the
Speaker 1: other thing they did, and I think this happened after
Speaker 1: Bland went out and I knew they were working on this.
Speaker 1: Their practice squad safety Tyler Tyler Coyle. How many Tyler's
Speaker 1: we got on this stage? They started working him as
Speaker 1: the backup slot corner, and so he got in the
Speaker 1: game and his awareness on that one crossing route out
Speaker 1: of the slot. I don't know what he was looking at.
Speaker 1: But again, it's one thing playing safety. Now you get
Speaker 1: closer to the line of scrimmage, you gotta be a
Speaker 1: little bit more aware of what's going on, especially if
Speaker 1: you're in man right. You know, hey, listen to me.
Speaker 1: If you are a cornerback, a young cornerback coming into
Speaker 1: a game, you should never try to break on any
Speaker 1: route less than fifteen yards. The first thing they're gonna
Speaker 1: do is go down town. They're not gonna test you
Speaker 1: with a curl route, slants and all of that. They
Speaker 1: are going deep on you. And that's what you need
Speaker 1: to realize. If you know he's gonna be deep, just
Speaker 1: line up deeper and go go wait on him. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can minimize these damages very easily, especially clutch situations.
Speaker 1: It's all kinds of coaching points that could have remedied
Speaker 1: everything that happened yesterday. First of all, if you're getting
Speaker 1: close to the fifty yard line, what do quarterback still
Speaker 1: It's not just Tom Brady. They're going to try and
Speaker 1: get you with the dagger. They're gonna go deep right away,
Speaker 1: because it's an easy, no brainer. You won't lose much
Speaker 1: feel position if you don't complete the pass. So just
Speaker 1: line up deeper and stop being in limbo when you're
Speaker 1: out there as a cornerback position. I get it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you're afraid, you don't know if you you don't want
Speaker 1: to get be eating alive by the short route, or
Speaker 1: if you want to make a quick, quick kill by
Speaker 1: going deep. Those are the two things you have to
Speaker 1: worry about if you're in limbo. You your best guests
Speaker 1: played deep first. It's the top priority. I tell the
Speaker 1: kids in camp, don't get beat by the quick six.
Speaker 1: I mean, make it last, make it. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: get meat by the quick six, it's over. Think about this,
Speaker 1: how only completed eleven passes. They didn't ask him to
Speaker 1: throw like seventeen yard outs or digs. They were short
Speaker 1: crossing routes and deep balls. And that deepness, for an
Speaker 1: inexperienced quarterback is the easiest owl. Easiest. You're just launching
Speaker 1: and hoping. And so credit Scott Turner offensive coordinator or Washington.
Speaker 1: You know, because you had in what you had on
Speaker 1: McLaren's the first one, the first NFL pass of Sam
Speaker 1: How's career that goes for a touchdown? What happened on
Speaker 1: that got him isolated? One? How could you get him
Speaker 1: on a linebacker? The safeties were back there, nobody helped.
Speaker 1: They didn't want him covering that guy in man, there
Speaker 1: was no way. There's a lot of holes to pass.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was zone and I went back
Speaker 1: and looked at it and no. Everybody was matched up
Speaker 1: on who however many receivers they had out there, and
Speaker 1: the safeties felt pressure because probably the backup defensive backs
Speaker 1: that they were trying to help cover they had their
Speaker 1: own problems with them. We can't worry about the linebacker.
Speaker 1: They got two receivers in the ends only we have
Speaker 1: to cover. Yeah, and he comes to third, so that's
Speaker 1: by design. So you got McLaurin on Mullen for the
Speaker 1: fifty two yard or right, and that was John Dodson
Speaker 1: on Tyler Coyle on that way. And let's just be bill,
Speaker 1: that was a hell of a pass. And it was
Speaker 1: a hell of a pass, yeah, because he hit that
Speaker 1: was the one that hit him in stride right, yes,
Speaker 1: on the sideline. Washington is hoping they just discovered their
Speaker 1: quarterback for the nearest Well all I know he was
Speaker 1: eleven of nineteen for one hundred and sixty nine yards.
Speaker 1: So it's a good it's a good with with what
Speaker 1: the situation. They had a quarterback. Yes, that's that's someone
Speaker 1: that they can work with. Yeah, look at Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be realized. I mean, defense was on the field
Speaker 1: so often and they hung in there and hung there
Speaker 1: was so they had so many negative plays for our defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's enough to help you win a ball game.
Speaker 1: But when your offense isn't contributing, then you're out there
Speaker 1: three and ounce three and ounce three and ounce ten times? What? Yeah? What?
Speaker 1: What did this game remind you of Denver a season finale?
Speaker 1: Remember the season finale at Washington fifteen years ago? Yes,
Speaker 1: and that was that the Cowboys had clinched home first
Speaker 1: the first round by the number one seed. But Tony
Speaker 1: Romo did start that thirteen three season. The thirteen and
Speaker 1: three season in two thousand and seven, fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: that was one of the worst performances in the history
Speaker 1: of this franch Guys that final score to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and well in Washington actually made the playoffs that year, Okay,
Speaker 1: but it was a twenty seven to six Washington win.
Speaker 1: This was twenty six to six. Cowboys had the first
Speaker 1: round by the next week, and then to your point,
Speaker 1: then they lost to the Giants. What does the stuff
Speaker 1: always happen at Washington? That's what happens with the rivalry.
Speaker 1: You know, it's the arrival. But those people don't know
Speaker 1: anything about the rival ry. You think Sam how knows
Speaker 1: that this used to be a bitter rivalry. Now and
Speaker 1: they were without their top two running backs two by
Speaker 1: the way, and three offensive alignment run Well, that's why
Speaker 1: I'll the line kind of kind of destroy it there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they had the sacks, they had the pressures, and
Speaker 1: if you think about it, thanks to um slide missing
Speaker 1: two field goals and next play now that was up.
Speaker 1: It was a moment. I'm gonna tell you. The win
Speaker 1: was weird. It wasn't really the one was a no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that strong, but it was going across the field.
Speaker 1: And then it was swirling because I saw mar make
Speaker 1: one from sixty in warm ups, right, and then he
Speaker 1: misses an extra point. But that guy misses two ugly,
Speaker 1: ugly field goals. But they tried to let us. They
Speaker 1: tried to keep us in the bar. But if you
Speaker 1: take away the touchdown, they scored on the drop punt
Speaker 1: and the interception returned for a touchdown. The defense gave
Speaker 1: up thirteen points. My score was thirty to thirteen, by
Speaker 1: the way, about that something, and mine was nineteen to ten.
Speaker 1: We were all over it, right, but the defense did
Speaker 1: hang in there as as many big plays they gave up.
Speaker 1: It was thirteen points. Treyvon Diggs picked a click. He
Speaker 1: shut him down. He did that was thin. I know.
Speaker 1: I did not win. I did not win the pick
Speaker 1: to click Everson because and because they retired Sonny Jurgensen's
Speaker 1: number nine, I went with Cavante Turpin. There's my pick
Speaker 1: to click. Also, in honor of TCU, I expected to
Speaker 1: get a phone call from him saying when they saw
Speaker 1: he was questionable with an illness. Which is another thing
Speaker 1: that affected too, because Connor McGovern said he lost nine
Speaker 1: pounds on Friday and Saturday because he couldn't keep anything down.
Speaker 1: He was that sick and he played through it because
Speaker 1: I'm sure he wasn't one hundred percent. What was your
Speaker 1: pick to click? Didn't matter? Yeah? I don't think it
Speaker 1: didn't matter. I'm sorry. I didn't realize you're about to
Speaker 1: say something else. Oh and and Turpin was sick. He
Speaker 1: didn't practice Friday or Saturday. Same thing. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: hadn't sick people on that team as well. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: they had ten missing. See there you go. So so
Speaker 1: we're done talking about Washington. No, if you want, I
Speaker 1: want to, I'm gonna all right, beat that druma okay,
Speaker 1: we'll do that more of that when we come back
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Speaker 1: figure out what color is that shirt you're wearing today.
Speaker 1: It's hard to tell. A little red in it. I
Speaker 1: couldn't tell it. It kind of has a little purple
Speaker 1: tinge to it though. To me, Yeah, that's blue. There's
Speaker 1: a kind of there's a purple tint to it. Don't
Speaker 1: you think it's got a flannel? That it is flannel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've been flat. That's the second flash cold in the morning.
Speaker 1: Well you got povers like these. I wear something different,
Speaker 1: I was. I don't I have outside of ties and
Speaker 1: dress shirts. I have no purple in my wardrop because
Speaker 1: I was gonna wear some purple today for the TCU
Speaker 1: Horned Frogs, and I couldn't find any without dressing up.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna dress up in his case, though, you know,
Speaker 1: as older guys in this building, we want to look
Speaker 1: a little bit athletic, you know, like you know that
Speaker 1: that gives more of a grandfather. You know, wait till
Speaker 1: I come in, you know, like he just came in
Speaker 1: from from digging up cabbage or something. I come in
Speaker 1: with my overalls. He's help in the garden, all underwear. Look,
Speaker 1: come in my yard work. All right, So just a
Speaker 1: little tease here. I've got a prediction on the National
Speaker 1: Championship game. You want to stick around for at the
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Speaker 1: and I can't I can't wait this thing out. So
Speaker 1: I did the whole place. They need, They need to
Speaker 1: fill out the whole thing. They did. The truck needs
Speaker 1: to come in and all right, Mickey is perusing his
Speaker 1: legal having got past the first quarter. She's how many
Speaker 1: bad things can happen in one game that are just weird?
Speaker 1: That was weird, even the first quarter, just the first
Speaker 1: quarter loan, and that all just kind of continued. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ended up with one hundred and eighty two
Speaker 1: total yards. Wow, And I was wondering, when's the last
Speaker 1: time they had less? Twenty twenty October twenty fifth, Washington,
Speaker 1: they had one hundred and forty two two games. That
Speaker 1: was the Denucci game, two games after um Dad got hurt.
Speaker 1: That got remember, and they were a quarterback carousel always
Speaker 1: Dalton played songs game. Maybe it was I think Denucci
Speaker 1: came in after Dalton got knocked out, right right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They ended up with one hundred and forty two yards
Speaker 1: whole season. So I was wondering how many times the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had less than one hundred eighty two yards in
Speaker 1: a game? Yeah? Oh, there must have been twenty of
Speaker 1: them going all the way back to you know, the
Speaker 1: beginning of Man. Yeah, okay, there was a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, Okay, this is going to be. This
Speaker 1: was Dack's lowest completion percentage in his career. It was
Speaker 1: his lotal total yardage in his career. Not percentage was
Speaker 1: also percentage his rating his his it was his yeah percentage,
Speaker 1: but his rating was the lowest ever. It was forty
Speaker 1: forty five five eight. He had a forty five seven
Speaker 1: his rookie year against the Giants. I remember that game.
Speaker 1: That was a tough game. That game it's Washington Dalton
Speaker 1: did start. His rating was thirty six point one in
Speaker 1: that game, nine out of nineteen for seventy five yards.
Speaker 1: And Danucci came in. It was actually two out of
Speaker 1: three for thirty nine yards. But remember he was sacked
Speaker 1: three times and he was running for his life. This
Speaker 1: is one of the best defensive lines we will ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they had two guys missing, I know, but they played.
Speaker 1: They played John Ridgeway who had four tackles before. I
Speaker 1: think that pisses you off right there. They lost Hill act.
Speaker 1: They had one guy missing because they ed Payne and
Speaker 1: they had sweat and they had Chase Young Jonathan Allen.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen was all that miss all you need. Those
Speaker 1: three guys are amazing, and we know they are all
Speaker 1: und draft picks. You take away one guy and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're not. What the crap? No, we
Speaker 1: knew this is gonna be a tough defensive line to go. Well,
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys the first time around, they played they
Speaker 1: scored twenty five points against Washington. If I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: I would have to double check myself, but I think
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, a home field, you got the natural grass,
Speaker 1: and it's not on our turf. The confines are not
Speaker 1: nearly as friendly. And what do you make of that
Speaker 1: about not being on our turf? Jason Garrett was talking
Speaker 1: about it on the pregame show that he thinks one
Speaker 1: of the problems that the Cowboys have in generating a
Speaker 1: pass rush is on grass fields on the road. And
Speaker 1: looking at the Cowboys record in road games playing on
Speaker 1: grass fields, oh, grass fields, that they can't generalize much.
Speaker 1: Four of the five losses or on the road, And
Speaker 1: where are we going next week on the road? On
Speaker 1: the road again, and where we're going the following week?
Speaker 1: They're going to Philadelphia, but at least it will be
Speaker 1: on turf. What are the chances like the Giants beat Minnesota, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You think Seattle can mess around
Speaker 1: with San Francisco? No, no, no, no, no. San Francisco wins.
Speaker 1: I can see the Giants beating the Vikings. So then
Speaker 1: if that happens and the Cowboys win, then Philadelphia gets
Speaker 1: the Giants right sixth seed, and the Cowboys would get
Speaker 1: San Francisco and have to play now the Giants coast
Speaker 1: on a short grass and a short weekend. Giants just
Speaker 1: played at Minnesota on Christmas Eve and lost twenty seven
Speaker 1: to twenty four. Mm. So there's that who knows about
Speaker 1: minute well, who knows about the Cowboys? Who knows about
Speaker 1: any of this? You know, as I was looked at
Speaker 1: that game, I wasn't nearly as disheartened as some of
Speaker 1: the other strange games that we've had, because this seems
Speaker 1: to be what we do. We put ourselves in this
Speaker 1: position and all of a sudden we have to prove ourselves. Right.
Speaker 1: It seems to be they test their resilience there you go,
Speaker 1: right there, their their model resilience right right. Yeah we
Speaker 1: bring it on and yeah we bring it on ourselves resilience. Well,
Speaker 1: and think about it. You know, at halftime it was
Speaker 1: thirteen to six. Yeah, and you're thinking, oh, okay, I
Speaker 1: knew we were just gonna come back and just just
Speaker 1: walk them down. And it's like like the last six games,
Speaker 1: like the Texas game, like the Texas game especially, and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, we'll be okay. Plenty of time
Speaker 1: after this game, and they start the second half with
Speaker 1: the three and out right before you go, before you
Speaker 1: go on, Here's what I would have done after we
Speaker 1: did that drive at the end of the half. I
Speaker 1: would have sat everybody down. I really wouldn't have tried
Speaker 1: to finish that game, because that was Philly was Philly
Speaker 1: was ninth. It was nineteen nothing. I think they were
Speaker 1: sixteen nothing at that time, and then they made it
Speaker 1: nineteen nothing, right, because that's why nine was nine, because
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews asked McCarthy at halftime, it was sixteen nothing
Speaker 1: and we're gonna I would have sat. I definitely would
Speaker 1: have sat most of my offense. I just wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have even that was a
Speaker 1: good note, a nice drive, Everything worked as planned. He
Speaker 1: had some hustle players that I thought it was gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt diving for the first down. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: then what you're getting at, what is the mindset in
Speaker 1: that locker room right now after laying that egg yesterday
Speaker 1: to me, if you would have sat them down after
Speaker 1: you made that drive, it would have been a lot
Speaker 1: more positive than how you failed miserably After that let
Speaker 1: me tell you. Yeah, they go ahead, there you go,
Speaker 1: and they stopped Washington three and out. Third and one,
Speaker 1: they drop Williams for minus two. So now you get
Speaker 1: the ball at the twenty three. Zeke has a nice
Speaker 1: run and Schultz gets called for holding and then it's
Speaker 1: three and out. They stopped Washington the next time, three
Speaker 1: and out. The Cowboys go three and out. Washington ends
Speaker 1: up punting three and out. Dallas gets the ball back
Speaker 1: unfortunately at the fourteen and now no, that was the
Speaker 1: he got tackled and the Cowboys go three and out.
Speaker 1: See this is how you don't generate positivity in that
Speaker 1: locker room they're going into this week. Dak Prescott is
Speaker 1: does not have his legal pad out and telling his
Speaker 1: teammates that out doing exactly what he is doing right now.
Speaker 1: See this is what we did. Yes, I get you, Dak.
Speaker 1: Not not when he got off the plane last night,
Speaker 1: but when he got on the plane last night, he
Speaker 1: had he was already spinning this thing positive for the
Speaker 1: for the current week because he played like crap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's That's one of the great attributes of Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: as a leader is no matter how bad it looks,
Speaker 1: he will he will have a positive frame of mind
Speaker 1: and then the working next day and it's a contagious
Speaker 1: always come back to well that's right. I mean, we
Speaker 1: joke about it, but that is his formula, not just
Speaker 1: he is, but that's his entire team's formula. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell just happened, but we
Speaker 1: screwed up. We're not gonna screw up like that this week.
Speaker 1: I won't say it's not gonna happen again, because of
Speaker 1: course it does. But but is it still the elephant
Speaker 1: in the room that how bad you played? Is it
Speaker 1: still the kind of like the elephant in the locker room?
Speaker 1: And how do you get past that room? Is just
Speaker 1: like Spags always said, you gotta know who you are.
Speaker 1: We are who we are. We create this for ourselves
Speaker 1: and we seem to come out of it. And with
Speaker 1: this team, it seems like when we are at our worst,
Speaker 1: here we come. We write the wall. It seems like
Speaker 1: the coaches okay, guys, let's get serious now. I mean,
Speaker 1: but they're always there, but it just seems as if
Speaker 1: internally they do not feel like this can happen two
Speaker 1: weeks in a vow and they've never really let it
Speaker 1: happen two weeks in a vow this year. So so
Speaker 1: we're coming out ball and coming out right, coming out ball.
Speaker 1: You'ready to make your picks for next month. You know what.
Speaker 1: Even even at twenty three six, it was like there
Speaker 1: was fourteen nineteen left, they drove. They drove to the
Speaker 1: Washington forty six. That's a great drive there, all the way,
Speaker 1: all the way to their forty six yard life, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, which just one pitch Everson, by the way,
Speaker 1: was just the second time in the entire game that
Speaker 1: they got past the fifty yards two first downs in
Speaker 1: one possession. They only had two first downs in the
Speaker 1: first half. They're rolling and it's it's fourth and one
Speaker 1: and they run the quarterback sneak. The was a horrible spot,
Speaker 1: terrible spot. The guy came in and foot down to
Speaker 1: the first down mark. Then he spotted the ball. Six.
Speaker 1: How does that happen? They gotta left foot, right foot,
Speaker 1: left foot, right foot man and always said it left
Speaker 1: foot right. He went on the right foot instead of
Speaker 1: going on the left foot, which is that's how it happens. Which,
Speaker 1: by the way, also did you see after Turpin's muff punt?
Speaker 1: Uh was shooing on the gay. Yeah, yeah, because they
Speaker 1: could have called fair catch interference because you can bobble
Speaker 1: the ball when you call a fair catch, as long
Speaker 1: as it doesn't hit the ground, you still have the
Speaker 1: right to catch the ball. But I think they will.
Speaker 1: And here's my because it bounced into the guy. That's
Speaker 1: what yeah, yeah, and that's what was it. Pereira was
Speaker 1: in the booth and that's what he said. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do get the benefit of that. But unless it
Speaker 1: bounces off your face mask into the face mask the
Speaker 1: other player, he had no choice but the grab. Oh
Speaker 1: I got the ball because they both had it when
Speaker 1: he went to the ground, right, but he isn't what's
Speaker 1: that player is supposed to do? The bunk is right
Speaker 1: in his hits. I don't want to interfere with you.
Speaker 1: Here you go. Mccrothy was on it. Yeah, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fossil, fossils all over. That fossil knows everything. Every
Speaker 1: special team's ruling fell backward his back and they were
Speaker 1: on it. I did like that. Yeah, And I tell
Speaker 1: you what, another part of that game I really did enjoy.
Speaker 1: It didn't tell out to be anything, but those two
Speaker 1: deep passes in one series. I mean with just back
Speaker 1: to back deep passes, I'm like, whoa, this is different
Speaker 1: and the one he almost had man the two he
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, two of them, right, I mean my son
Speaker 1: said this, why we why can't we just go for
Speaker 1: making a great play. I mean, like Noah Brown, dude,
Speaker 1: he could have caught that. That's the hell of a pass.
Speaker 1: And he decides to catch it like this for some
Speaker 1: reason if you keep running, I don't know it's you.
Speaker 1: Just when I tracked the ball. You gotta know when
Speaker 1: you can catch it like this, and then when you
Speaker 1: can catch it with this, And I thought he had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to catch it if he would have just
Speaker 1: kept running. He stopped and jumped. I said the same thing.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing was the one to Hilton.
Speaker 1: You know, if he was another inch taller. He asked
Speaker 1: that as well. I mean, it's job is got up there.
Speaker 1: You know, we can't be allergic to great plays. I
Speaker 1: mean it was like the play he made before the
Speaker 1: ten the Tennessee game, right, they gave him momentum. Well,
Speaker 1: I still love his best catches of the Texans game
Speaker 1: on the nine year Drive. Yeah, that's right, and so
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerning, we you know you saw
Speaker 1: great plays being made all day yesterday. We need to
Speaker 1: make those. I mean we made it on third and
Speaker 1: thirty in our stadium. We need to do that on
Speaker 1: the road. That's when you need those kind of catches.
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Speaker 1: get rowdy. Okay, here we go. We got three minutes left,
Speaker 1: by god, how do you want to spend this three minutes? Mickey?
Speaker 1: I know you want to pick TCU. I didn't. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying who I'm picking yet. Oh, we got a
Speaker 1: national championship game that is now less than six hours away.
Speaker 1: It is a six thirty kickoff tonight at SOFI Stadium.
Speaker 1: Why sixth I have no idea so they can finish.
Speaker 1: So that's four thirty. The ten o'clock news starts. I
Speaker 1: guess it's for the East coast, so that I think
Speaker 1: that just tie. The sure's not for the West coast.
Speaker 1: Four thirty out west. Yeah, and it's a bad rainy
Speaker 1: day apparently in southern CALIFORNA way it's still rainy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course they got a roof on the stadium. But
Speaker 1: for those who are going to the stadium, they get
Speaker 1: to have their umbrellas. And buddy that lives out in
Speaker 1: Knoxnward I said, so's the ocean come on to you yet?
Speaker 1: And he goes, no, but the streets are flooded. How
Speaker 1: amazing is it that TCU is playing in the National Championship? Yes, tonight,
Speaker 1: so who are you pulling for? Just as amazing as
Speaker 1: TCU T two lane beating Southern Cow at the Cotton Bowl. Right,
Speaker 1: we didn't get to talk much about that game there
Speaker 1: we No, that was the hell of a game. Will
Speaker 1: that Southern Cow coach be coaching at Southern Cow next
Speaker 1: year or that Southern Cow coach that Southern Cow coach? No, no, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: where that quarterback there are? There? There is one, no,
Speaker 1: there is one opening that just became open today in Arizona.
Speaker 1: Where they quarterback who played for that Southern Cow coach
Speaker 1: in college? Okay, do you think that Southern Cow coach,
Speaker 1: who by the way, his brother is that offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for the TCU horn Frogs tonight there got there? He did?
Speaker 1: Come on, he just got there, Where are we going?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna take that quarterback with him then? As well?
Speaker 1: There's also rumors about the Rams. Sean McVeigh doesn't even
Speaker 1: have to move out of his mansion, the Southern California
Speaker 1: mansion if that job comes open. So what do you
Speaker 1: think of that now? Or he could get Kingsbury's house
Speaker 1: in Arizona. You've seen that one, yes, yeah, oh, so
Speaker 1: many vacant houses. It was a vacant house next to
Speaker 1: Davante Adams as well. What do you mean his quarterback? Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah he's yeah, they're moving on their neighbors.
Speaker 1: He's going to Carolina. Okay, So who do you like
Speaker 1: in the game tonight? Oh? I just pick who I
Speaker 1: want to win? Me too. Missouri's not in it, No
Speaker 1: grabbler Oklahoma, Missouri's in it because they came the closest.
Speaker 1: That does not. He just wanted to bring that up
Speaker 1: to you while you were here. He was talking that
Speaker 1: crap before we were came. Hey, Hey, what what what
Speaker 1: makes you? How does it have anything to do with you? Guys?
Speaker 1: MISSOOVII has nothing to do with that. They came with
Speaker 1: him do with it because we have similar school colors.
Speaker 1: His school got beat by thirty, all right. They knocked
Speaker 1: out the quarterback. Yeah, and we didn't have a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's part of the who was proven. The next week
Speaker 1: he gets gotta I gotta go with TCU. You're going
Speaker 1: with Tcukay, guys, me too. You know what That quarterback
Speaker 1: for TCU, Max Duggan. It's gonna be very interesting. He's
Speaker 1: already declared for the draft. It's gonna be very interesting.
Speaker 1: How high he has drafted and how well he plays
Speaker 1: against this Georgia defense could go a long way to
Speaker 1: determine how high. Remember a guy named Baker Mayfield. He
Speaker 1: was a number one overall pick, and one of the
Speaker 1: reasons he became the number one overall pick was how
Speaker 1: he played against a great Georgia defense in a rose
Speaker 1: bow where they put up half a hundred points. So
Speaker 1: does TCU put up half a hundred points against this
Speaker 1: Georgia defense like they did against Michigan last week? And
Speaker 1: now they had two pick sixes last week? They do
Speaker 1: not They're gonna put up forty. They're gonna put up forty.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's how many george you're putting up.
Speaker 1: Georgia can score okay, if they have athletes on that defense.
Speaker 1: As I said, I filled up my tank on the
Speaker 1: way in, so here it is he's got fifty to forty. Well, again,
Speaker 1: it was a slow pumping up. Okay, the gas was
Speaker 1: not flowing. Patience. Yeah, I was like, okay, I gotta
Speaker 1: make it on time for this little podcast I'm doing.
Speaker 1: So I had to abbreviate my fill up. And this
Speaker 1: is the number I came at. Okay, the first number
Speaker 1: should be the Georgia score. Right, you're the second. No, no,
Speaker 1: the second because they're the higher seeded team. So the
Speaker 1: first number is Georgia. The second number is TCU. Here
Speaker 1: is your final score, if you can see it on
Speaker 1: my if we get it and watching it is fifty
Speaker 1: two to forty eight fifty. My amount was forty eight
Speaker 1: dollars and fifty two cents. So there it is your
Speaker 1: final score. The Georgia Bulldogs forty eight, the TCU horn
Speaker 1: Frogs fifty two. The horn Frogs are national champions. You
Speaker 1: heard it here. First, where do you sell your gas?
Speaker 1: That's like three dollars a gallon? It was it was
Speaker 1: like it was two eighty nine a Gallon's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not last time. I think they've gone up. Now
Speaker 1: he just got It's still the same amount of two
Speaker 1: eighty ninety gallons, no matter how big your take. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought no, he did the math sixteen point seven
Speaker 1: gallons times. I thought you're gonna say forty eight to sixteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Walmart Sam's yeah, same thing. So there it is fifty
Speaker 1: two forty eighth final school. Right, I got you down. Okay,
Speaker 1: I thought you gonna say forty eight to sixteen. Why
Speaker 1: is that because it's his sixteen gallons? Yes, Oh well, okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's the other option. Or it's either TCU wins
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty eight or Georgia wins forty eight
Speaker 1: to sixteen. That's probably more like time to go. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. We're we'll have a wrap up tomorrow
Speaker 1: and we're gonna look ahead Tom Brady and the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers tomorrow and the next edition of Mix Shots
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