WEBVTT - Mick Shots: The Day After 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:17.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.840 streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.520 Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:37.560 and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time for another edition of 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.879 Mick Shots. As the Cowboys on the day after a 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.800 twenty four nineteen loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers at AT 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.320 and T Stadium start there bye week, and there is 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.559 news already happening around the Star in Frisco as this 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:59.560 week begins. Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage studios at 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.920 Forward Center at the Star in Frisco. We expect to 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.520 be joined by Everson Walls here shortly as we look 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.800 back at Sunday afternoon at AT and T Stadium. But Mickey, 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.880 about right off the bat. First off, how are you 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.399 doing on this fine Monday. I'm doing fine on this 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:24.080 fine Monday here in my SWBC mortgage studio, and you 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.520 look like you're doing great. You got your ball cap 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:31.040 on on a Monday after That's right, yep, it was. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.360 I've been studying up so much on the game from 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.280 yesterday and this bye week opponent this week that I 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.520 will take my shower after we get done with mick shots. Well, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.240 very good, because there was when you when you end 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.000 up playing close games like this, there's always a lot 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.920 to go back and look at. You know, when you 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:54.160 get wiped out, it's like, okay, just got beat. But 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.880 I know in this game, Bill, I went back. I 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.760 don't know, I probably got home about eleventh last night 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.320 from the stadium, and of course I had to go 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:08.520 back and check out several plays and rewatch them, and 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:12.520 I ended up with a full page here and then 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.840 the back page here of critical plays in this game 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.600 that I know we don't have time to go all 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.280 over all of them. But when you lose twenty four nineteen, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:26.320 there's a lot of different things that lead to that outcome, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:33.720 good and bad. Well, isn't it nice to have here 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.119 a couple of games in a row now where you 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.560 can actually fill up both sides of a sheet of 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.680 notebook paper with critical plays. Yeah, that's two weeks in 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:47.519 a row, right, And you know last week we talked 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.880 about how well, okay, the defense looked like they took 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.320 a step forward, but it was against the Eagles. Well, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.440 they took another step forward. And this wasn't just against 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:02.200 the Steelers. This was against the Steelers that came into 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:07.240 this game averaging thirty points a game, had not scored 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.359 fewer than twenty five in any game, And the Cowboys 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:17.200 really did a nice job defensively to kind of hold 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.640 the Steelers down to a manageable amount of points. That 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.920 gave yourself a chance to win and really not have 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:30.040 to come out of your game plan since, by golly, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.600 the Cowboys had a thirteen point lead in a game, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.320 the biggest lead they've had all season long, So again 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.640 encouraging steps. Unfortunately, they did not get a rewarded for 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:51.280 playing much better defensively. And then a really fine performance 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.520 by Garrett Gilbert on offense, starting his first NFL game, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.200 and I don't care if this is his seventh season 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.760 or not. He had not played a full game since 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.640 like March I think it was March thirtieth of twenty 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:10.520 nineteen with the Orlando Apollos, by the way, and had 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.280 only thrown six passes in the NFL in his career 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.719 to this point. So we almost had another really really 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.040 fairy tale story about a Cowboys backup quarterback coming in 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:28.360 to save the day. And the other thing that I'm 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.480 taking away with taken from that game yesterday is the 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:38.159 fact that there's really not that much difference between the 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.640 best teams in the league and the teams that are 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.960 sitting there with two and seven records right now. I mean, 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.320 when you break it all down, you take a couple 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.000 three players off that Steelers team, and they might be 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.800 sitting there at two and seven also right now. Everson 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:58.719 Walls I think might be joining us here. Hey not, Everson. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.680 Not only did two or three players make a difference, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.960 two or three bad calls also make a difference in 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.479 the ball game. I mean, we talked about it. We've 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.520 always said that, you know, I go on my little 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.599 rants about we get the worst officiating crew because we're 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.200 at the bottom now as far as wins are concerned. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:25.280 It seems as if you know, nothing's critical to the referees, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.360 whether there's critical to us as fans and as Cowboy fans, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.120 as Cowboy players. And I'm a little bit different from 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.600 you Spags in regard to the fact that I expect 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.479 more from these guys. You know, you're giving them a pass. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.520 I'm not giving them a pass because I see just 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:50.120 how good they can be, and I'm really encouraged by that. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.440 So of course, if you see that they're finally realizing 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.800 their potential, then I'm going to expect more from them 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:05.720 physically and mentally. Gilbert, good game. But I'm sitting there 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.160 on the couch with my family. I'm thinking about you 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.680 two guys. I'm wanting to build courses like I do. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:20.440 You know, the last thing that you do is have 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:26.120 a turnover in that situation. My daughter knows it, my 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.839 son knows it, my wife comes walking in the room 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:36.120 even she knows it. You do not throw that into 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.040 And it just got me off of my couch. I 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.640 think I texted Spags Bill. You know, I didn't think 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.159 of you at that time because this is mix shots 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.760 and I know Mick was gonna go off, but I 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.159 can't give them a pass on that one. I am 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.240 so sorry, guys. I expect more from them. We should 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.280 have won this game going away. When you realize what 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:07.800 you're doing before you wake up, you say, let's go 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.600 forward with this, because if I wake up from this dream, 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.160 I'm never gonna be back here again. Right now, the 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.240 Cowboys had the perfect situation. They had many situations. You 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.920 could have gambled a little bit more. You could have 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.920 believed in yourself, you know, and you could have played smart. 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:33.160 So right now, I'm happy about what we did, but 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:39.480 I'm also so sad about how we lost it. Okay, Everson, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.920 I got it, Micky, I gotta jump in there. Yeah. 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.920 I was trying to get in there, but he wouldn't 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.440 let me in. I'm not letting you in, damn. And 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.280 that was my time. I give it to you, Mickey, 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.080 I give it to you. But I just got to 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.840 say I did the exact same thing you did, Everson, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.680 watching the game at home on my couch and I 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.400 was watching it by myself help. And right before that, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.480 my wife had come in from shopping, her sister in 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:11.600 laws intown, just got intown, my nephews with them, my 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.120 daughter is they all walk in and I'm just oblivious 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.000 to them. I mean, she just got into town and 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.320 I'm not even I'm focused on this game and I'm 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.920 not even paying attention to them, and I'm yelling at 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:29.280 the TV when that interception happened, and they quickly got 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:35.080 their beverages and went out on the back porch. Thank god. Yeah, 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.560 the game, Yeah, this is this is not a place 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.600 for the faith of hard exact same thing you did, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.960 all right, that's exactly right, all right, what you got man, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.840 So he should have never been put in that situation 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.480 at the five yard line, throwing passes into the end 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.960 zone or attempting to throw passes into the end zone. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.079 If you look at the second down play, seconding goal 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.480 at the five, had that pass not been batted at 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.679 the line of scrimmage by TJ. Watt, that ball was 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.360 going to get intercepted in the end zone. And the 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:19.000 next play you've got a field goal in your back pocket. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.800 And I'm not a fan of field goals, but when 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:28.160 you can go up twenty two twenty two fifteen, then 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.200 I think you've got to protect the field goal and 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.800 you've got to protect your quarterback. Should have ran the 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.840 ball twice, even if Pittsburgh is stacking the line of 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.680 scrimmage with seven eight guys at the line, six guys 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.440 blitzing all the time. I just think you had to 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.080 be conservative there and protect your quarterback and not asked 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.920 him to do something that he hadn't done since March 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.040 thirtieth of twenty nineteen. And I think you had to 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.120 take that into account. And know that you had a 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.160 field goal in your back pocket and not try to 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.320 do something fancy. And it wasn't his fault. He's trying 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.640 to throw the ball away and he gets blasted and 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.920 unfortunately the ball pops up in the air and it's 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.480 an interception. So I think you had to protect your 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:25.200 quarterback at that spot. And I agree wholeheartedly, and in 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:31.120 fact that you're in the field goal range. Yeah, go ahead, Everson. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.360 I think my thing was we just have to we 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.560 have to go. We have to make sure that we 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.520 secure one thing. At least. I want to go for 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.520 the score, but we've got to make sure that we 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.640 end up with no less than that field goal. Yes, 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.120 and you went a little, you went out on him. 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.240 My internet is horrible over here right now. But but Spats, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.720 I don't know if you can hear me, but you 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.080 know that was the passing offense call. I've got a 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:06.360 list of bad plays by the referees, and that was 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.240 one of them. Should have called the passion affairence on Cooper. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.560 It's easy to call. I don't I don't understand why. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:20.040 It seems that when the Cowboys need a play and 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.040 we make that play, they always find one of our 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.000 dbs holding and rightfully so, I see it all the time. 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.160 They're holding. They shouldn't have held. They deserved the call. 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:36.720 Let's move on. Pittsburgh does the same thing. Blatant hook 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.920 moved by the slot deb dB as Cooper was about 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.800 to beat him inside that past still should not have 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.880 been thrown. I see. I think that's where Gilbert was looking. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.040 But at the same time, we need that call to 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.040 be made. It's only fair that you call PI in 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.360 the end zone. You call it all the time, all 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.960 of a sudden, want to swallow your whistle. And I 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:07.079 don't understand this reticence on these referees in these Cowboys games. 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:14.079 That seems to be a virus going around of ignorance 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.400 when it comes to these referees, because it's a clear 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.720 call that should have been made. And when you're talking 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.680 about a crucial situation like this, if you're talking about 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.240 a team that's seven and old, you're talking about another 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.680 team who's, you know, the most renowned team in the world. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.840 So you gotta send in referees that know what the 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:39.319 hell they're doing. McCarthy's gonna have a freaking aneurysm over 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.559 there if they keep on screwing him over in these 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.760 critical situations because he sees it and he's letting them know. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.440 And I'm hoping that he continues this throughout the week 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.199 because the Cowboys have been getting hosed by the referees 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.880 way too much this season. I don't think there's a 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.080 vaccine for that virus either. By the way, I hope 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:07.480 y'all heard that, because my internet is horrible. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.720 we did. We did. Hear you ever soon, and I'll 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.079 reiterate that when I was yelling at the TV, it 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.360 wasn't at ed Gary Gilbert. It was I agree with you, 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.880 Mickey wholeheartedly that that you just can't put your quarterback 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.840 who's got three practice well not even all of three 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.880 practices with the first team the past week, out there 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.320 in that situation. You got to protect him from making 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.679 a mistake against the number one pass rush in the league, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.640 and you gotta come away from that situation where a 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.719 twenty two to fifteen lead and then the rest of 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.600 the game might play out a little bit differently. So 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.400 that's just the way I look at that as well. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.800 While we're on that subject, Mickey, maybe one of the 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:55.640 decisions on your little play sheet there was kicking the 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.120 field goal on fourth and inches. How did you feel 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:03.480 about that? Yeah, you're absolutely right, And I think uh uh, 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.520 Tony Romo and I were on the on the same 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:12.000 page on that one. I just think and think and 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:18.520 taking into consideration who you are, who you're playing, where 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.480 you're at, how hard it is to get that close, 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:26.080 uh to scoring a touchdown and you just got inches 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.840 to go. I just think you got to gamble there 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.920 and not take the field goal, uh, and and go 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.880 for it, I think and that and it was early 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.760 enough in the game, uh to to go ahead and 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.440 do that. And as I've always said, especially in that case, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.080 the more field goals you kick, you're getting closer to 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.720 getting beat because you're allowing that other team to get 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.320 back into the game. And I just think they had 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.440 to gamble. And I don't even know if you call 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.160 it a gamble at that point. I think you just 0:14:55.240 --> 0:15:03.160 had to go for it at that At that point, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:08.680 your rights fad that that's no gamble at all. You're 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.520 talking about inches, and you know, even when you go 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.479 to that situation once again, I'm going to my referees. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:16.920 I'm sorry, guys, I thought that was a bad spot. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.880 I really did. I thought that was just a bad 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:25.400 spot by the referees. I thought, Uh, if I'm not mistaken, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:29.400 that that run by Zeke of ten or eleven yard run, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.680 whereas elbow came down, that was the that was what 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:39.600 preceded that decision. Correct, Is that to play the decision? Yes, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.400 there's eight yard runs. To me, as he before, he 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:48.880 felt he used that one leg and he used just 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.320 a little bit more of a push off to stay 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.440 off the ground. The elbow was there. To me, the 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.840 elbow was there. Base called it a good spot. A 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.440 matter of fact, Romo called it a perfect spot. I 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.720 called it a bad spot. It seems as if teams 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:08.000 are that are losing, referees never give them the benefit 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.280 of the doubt any other time, any other game. They're 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.480 gonna come up, they're gonna put that ball down, and 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.600 they're gonna say move the chains. That's what they should 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.600 have done with us. I just don't. I think that's 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.120 just a no brainer. I don't know what you guys saw. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.000 I thought his elbow was down at the first down marker. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.080 When when? When? When that referee on that side. Uh? 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.280 The official on the Cowboys sidelines initially spotted the ball. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.240 He put his foot right on the first down line. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.520 And then when he came in and set the ball 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:46.800 down here back about six inches and moved the first time. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.280 He sure did. And that guy, that guy really critical 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.320 calls in the game that I'm surprised McCarthy just didn't 0:16:55.360 --> 0:17:02.800 beat him up. Wouldn't that be a sight right because 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.240 he was in that guy. He was in that guy. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.879 That's the same guy I think it was on that 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.640 side of the field when they called the big play 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.359 back for steel not being on the line of scrimmage. Uh. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.280 And even Romo said, normally when that happens, they'll give 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.800 the guy a warning and say, hey, you better bring 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.720 it up and you get a warning, right, And he 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.920 got no warning. He threw the flag no warning. And 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.480 it's like I thought, yeah, McCarthy was gonna come unglued. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.840 But there's you know, there's a bunch of them. And 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.560 I'll go back to the interception. By the way, in 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.320 the end zone, Cameron Hayward should have been called for 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:48.480 hands to the face. He had he had his hand 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:53.080 right in the chin of Connor Williams pushing the whole way, 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.359 which caused the thing to collapse and it was obvious. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.080 I saw it real time. It was like, whoa look 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.399 at that? And and no call? How do you miss that? 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.240 How do you miss that? I got I got one 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.159 for you, and I got one for you, then I 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.760 got personal. No one, no one made reference to it. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.040 I don't know if you saw a bill because you're 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.000 at home by yourself. Your wife wasn't there for distraction yet. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.760 And I hope you guys can hear me because my 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:23.440 internet once again is Harbor. First quarter, ten fifty at 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.200 the ten fifty five mark, No, no, no, I'm sorry. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:33.080 Let me start over. First quarter? Was it seven thirteen mark? 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.560 Pollock breaks through. That's his first big run. Did anyone 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:46.600 notice of Fitzpackrid Fitzpatrick horsecollar on that play? He was 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:51.000 tackled at the fourteen yard line and Pollock gave a 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.919 good stiff arm to him. And in order for that 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:58.000 guy to to maintain a grass on Polot, he had 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.720 to grab him around the show the pad and he 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.240 brought him down hard. That was at the fourteen yard line. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.400 If the referee is on his job, then we get 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.359 half the distance after that and we're at the seven 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.040 yard line. We end up kicking the field goals. After that, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:18.120 you put me at the seventh, I might score a touchdown. Look, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.359 things like that just really make a difference in the 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.959 ball game when you have the just ineptitude of referees. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:27.760 And really there wasn't even a tough call to make. 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.240 There were the only two people involved in the play itself, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.280 So for them not to see that, it just seems 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.480 like they're just out. They're just out to lunch. They're 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.880 just out to lunch. I'm sorry, all right, we gotta 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.240 go up against a break. I do want to say 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.399 this about the fourth and inches decision. I initially and 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:51.480 I agree with you on the spot, although the last 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.520 replay made me wonder if it was whether it was 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.360 good or not. But anyway, that's beside the point. I 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.919 did not have an issue with kicking the field go 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.120 there because I going into this game, this is my philosophy. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.840 With a quarterback who's had three practices, I just don't 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.879 think he's going to be able to convert touchdowns in 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.720 the red zone myself, and I think that the chances 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.760 were greater that there would be a negative play that 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:20.359 would get you either not out of field goal range 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.600 necessarily at that point because you're at the twenty yard line. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.080 Although it could have happened with a sack, but coughing 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.440 up the football or whatever where you don't get those 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.960 three points. I want those three points so badly because 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.760 of the situation. If it was Dac at quarterback, if 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.240 it was Dalton at quarterback, I'd say go for it. 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.760 But also I looked at the last three times that 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.600 Zeke carried the football. He went for zero yards, one 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.320 yard in zero yards prior to that eight yard run. 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.399 I thought you were fortunate that you got within inches. Okay, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.640 you didn't get the call go ahead and take your 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.080 three points a ten point lead late in the third quarter. 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.520 That's the way I looked at it. But I totally 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.520 understand going for it as well. It's just in my mindset, 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.600 with a quarterback making his first start with three practices, 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.920 I just don't think you're gonna be converting to having 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:10.959 much success in the red zone at all. 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Yeah, 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:42.680 and he also so on Tyler Bottish ended up pulling 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:47.320 a hamstring muscle and it sound like from what he said, 0:24:47.359 --> 0:24:50.439 he'd be out two to three woody warmups in warmups, 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:55.120 in warmups. Go figure you finally you were gonna get 0:24:55.160 --> 0:25:01.159 your same combination of offensive linemen for two consecutive weeks 0:25:01.480 --> 0:25:04.119 and you couldn't make it to the game and warm 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:08.960 ups and Looney's got to come up. Mickey ever said, 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.959 how how often do you hear about an offensive lineman 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:20.080 pulling a hamstring? Uh? Never? Are you trying to take 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:27.080 away that they're not built. You just off to uh 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:32.040 to have always he doing in a young man, especially 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:36.000 a young man especially, I mean he's a young man 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:37.960 to have one problems and warm up and give me 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:39.879 a break. I didn't even start stretching until I was 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:43.680 thirty years old. Come on, man, this guy's twenty seven 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:47.560 years old. He pulls hamstring. I wonder who was a back, 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:56.240 who was the backup center after that loony right? And 0:25:56.320 --> 0:26:05.080 then after him? Yeah, unbelievable, wouldn't it. I don't know 0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:11.040 if McGovern's yeah, you know, when I when i've seen 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:15.359 him do the quarterback school, I hadn't seen McGovern over 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:18.239