WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Shutout Summary 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:16.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.159 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headboars at the 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:32.720 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:37.839 and Bill Jones. Okay, moving on, let's talk Tampa Bay 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.680 this week Cowboys and the Buccaneers. Is that Cowboys have 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.519 a chance to clinch the NFC East on Sunday at 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.280 at and T Stadium. What a great Christmas that would 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.400 make for Everybosolutely, Absolutely, it would be a great Christmas. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.080 I thought you might have started off with the Dearest 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.760 Mother entry, but I'm playing oh yeah, no, no, no no. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:57.960 There were some people on There were some people that 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.440 were writing the dearest mother entries like we were able 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.920 to survive the Cowboys mother. You know, some people were 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.040 pretty creative. They were. He was quick to post right 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.520 after the game yesterday, but I'm not I'm not going 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.039 there was Mickey. Did he make it back from Indeed? 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.400 He did. Okay, so I'm expect his arrival soon. Yes, absolutely, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:26.559 I assume he's probably he's probably involved in some pretty 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.800 serious banter with the locals. I'm waiting six weeks three, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.920 the fans waiting six weeks to go after it. We 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.479 got we got, we got some dak anger. We got 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.720 to get out there in the air, you know. Oh yeah, 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.840 I can I can only imagine. Yeah. So anyway, um, 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.560 twenty three nothing yesterday, first time in fifteen The most 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.120 amazing thing about it, that's the first time in fifteen 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.160 years that the Cowboys have been shut out in the 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.280 game is the fact that Tom Brady and Bill Belichick 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.120 were part of that one. Yeah, back in two thousand 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.480 and three. Remember that was a Sunday night game, wasn't 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.880 It wasn't a Sunday night game. Pretty cold at New 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.840 England and New England, Yeah, I think it may have been, Yeah, 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.640 and Cowboys just couldn't move the ball. Well, it was 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.200 a part of that administration at well thousand and three. 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.760 Kent and I did that documentary on that season sort 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.359 of with Parcels. You know, they got shut out twice 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.480 that year. Tampa Bay got him earlier in the year, 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.160 didn't they. That was a team that offensively was challenged, challenged, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.640 and they made the playoffs. It went ten and six. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.520 Ourselves took that garbage that we all got together and 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.800 went to the playoffs with it. So I think of 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.320 all the quarterbacks that the Cowboys went through during that era, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:41.040 the Parcels era, Yeah and um and nobody got shut out. Yeah, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.120 there was some there was some bad days. But but yeah, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.240 you know what that that game yesterday, I'll tell you what. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.000 You know, I know I've had I know, Robin I 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.800 were kind of laughing out that. I don't know about you, Bill, 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.079 but people on Twitter were kind of getting on me, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.720 like why don't you ever say anything good about the Cowboys? 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.760 Why do you always say things about the other team? 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:01.720 And I'm kind of like, it's kind of like my 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.000 job to talk about the other team. But you know, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.560 it's when you when you play against an opponent that's 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.480 a really I mean, that's a good football team that's 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.800 not making stuff up right there. I mean that offensive line, 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.600 we talked about their ability for protection. You know, we 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.200 talked about some of their young defensive players. You know 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.679 that that team. Now, the one thing that I did 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.079 not realize is how well they could have run the football. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.680 That That's where I missed the boat in my evaluation. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.240 I didn't feel like that, you know, that they were 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.360 going to be able to dominate up front like they 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.240 were able to do in this game. You know that 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.600 it was there was a lot of times where Layton 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:46.440 vander esh and Jalen Smith and those guys were having 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.680 to deal with blue shirts right on top of them. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.400 And that's not usually something that happens to the Cowboys 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.600 linebackers because the front usually does a pretty good job 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.400 of keeping them clean and allowing them to run. But man, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.320 I'll tell you what that was. That was as impressive 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.040 as and they got their center Kelly back, Brian Kelly, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.960 and he made a huge difference in this football game. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.240 Him and well Quenton Nelson. Those guys. We don't have 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:12.440 to talk about those cats, even even that right tackle 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.280 that they have Braden Smith. You know, man, I mean, 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.840 they did a great job Braden Smith. If they If 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.360 Braden Smith wants to get a contract extension, he had 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.080 to he had to use this as one of his 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.040 games because he held the Marcus Lawrence and check, you know, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:28.680 and that's for a rookie guy to do that. It's 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.720 pretty impressive. That offensive line for the Colts was was 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.440 outstanding run blocking, pass blocking, and to me, the run 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.560 game was the difference for me, and you brought up 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.520 Marlon Mack. They don't run it that much, but he's 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.000 he came into this game averaging four point seven yards 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.080 of kerries, so they can run the ball, and Uh 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.200 and Jalen Smith talked about it afterwards. They just they 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.000 didn't get the job done in that area, and that's 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.800 what their defense starts with, that's what Marinelli preaches. And 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.320 during the five game win streak which is now gone, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.240 sixty six yards on the ground allowed per game and 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.280 they give up one hundred and seventy eight that's by 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.839 far a season high. And Luck wasn't sacked either. He 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:13.080 had all day, not all day, every play, but he 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.000 was pretty comfortable back there. And you talked about it 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.160 during the week. They're patient and take what they get 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.080 you give them. They'll nickel and dime you if they 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.520 need too. And he hit a couple of big shots, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.240 but they just kind of did what they wanted, you know, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.599 And that's just surprising. We don't expect that from this 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.320 Dallas defense because they have been by far the most 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.200 consistent part of this team this year. Kind of know 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.600 how the Cowboys opponents felt in the two thy sixteen 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:42.640 seasons with the domination of an offensive line. Sure, yeah, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.080 it's your team. Hello, Mickey, how are you? Good morning. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.600 I'm fine. How are you? I'm doing just fine. How 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.839 was your trip to Indie outside of the three hours 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.320 that you wish? Oh? Yeah, it was good. Yeah, and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.839 got home. Landed at seven oh five. Got off the 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.800 plane at seven twenty five. I have to wait for 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.800 Brad Sham in front of you. Oh, we drove forever. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:04.800 We should have flown a little further right, landed. We 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.360 had to wait a little bit. Oh really, okay, get 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.960 his bags together. You know, it was a long taxi. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.960 That'll happen on a Sunday night. My friend Keller said, See, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.880 this is what happens when the Cowboys losing lose because 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.359 the guy's up in the control tower. They probably lost 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.080 a bet. So they made us land on the furthest 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.640 runway from where we had to live. That's the problem. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.200 That's the problem when the Cowboys aren't playing a primetime 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.279 game too. When you're playing at noon on Sunday on 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:32.440 the road, then you're getting back at seven o'clock at night. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.080 It's so busy in the airport at seven o'clock at 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.840 now charter flight over the morning. Alight, So were they 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.480 getting on you on the radio this morning? Why why 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.200 are you late getting in here? Because they had a 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.159 lot to talk about? Okay, yeah they upset? Are the 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.200 masses upset? No? I don't, I don't think so. You know, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.040 sometimes you go out and you get your ass beat. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.800 And they got beat by a better team. Yeah they 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.640 have better offensive line, not better defensive line. Yes, yeah, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.240 their offensive line dominated. And I think everybody forgets who 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.279 did the Cowboys have on their offensive line for three quarters? 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.240 You know, this next man up sounds very great, but 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.800 when it's next next man up, yeah, you know you're 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.040 getting yourself in trouble. Yea. And I thought it showed 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.200 up in this game for three quarters. That's what I 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.840 thought it all boiled down to. In retrospect after the game, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.520 got on the elliptical, thought it through, and it's all 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.400 about it was all about the offensive lines in this game. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.800 And what and you mentioned they got Ryan Kelly back 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.840 for Indianapolis. Quinton Nelson's going to be a perennial All Pro. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.680 It will be this year, in fact, as a rookie 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.800 even and didn't you take a perennial All pro off 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.480 the Cowboys offensive line. You got two of them already, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.480 even Travis Frederick. Obviously we've been dealing with that all season. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.080 Then you lose the guy who's been filling in at 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.360 left guard, and it's it's a sort of a shambles 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.720 over there. But that doesn't mean that they couldn't have 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.600 competed all the way down to the wire in that game, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.560 even with the domination of the Colts offensive line. If 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.480 they make certain plays, don't have a blocked field goal 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.280 to start the game and give them a short field, 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.760 and they still could have had a chance of winning 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:19.240 the game. But the Colts, to their credit, took command 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.840 of the game. No. I thought they did a great 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.560 job Colts. I thought a great game plan. Defensively, flu 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.760 Is called a great game for them. If you look 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.640 at what he was able to do kind of create 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:32.480 some opportunities. They put their young linebacker Darius Leonard in 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.160 some covered situations. He was able to knock a couple 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.520 of passes down. You know, they were able to get 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.360 a couple of timely sacks taking advantage of some guys 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.200 you know, setting at different levels there. They sacked you 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.920 on a two man route by the way. The first 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.160 sack of the game was a two man route and 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.680 Dalton Schultz is trying to block his guy and Zeke 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.960 kind of runs into his back and then it throws 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.719 Dalton Scholtz off and Dak really kind of has to, 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.920 you know, hast to kind of you know, maneuver around 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.200 that and all. But yeah, it was it was tough. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.520 I mean, that's you know, they they missed some they 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.679 missed some throws. They had a couple of guys open, 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.440 and you know that that's what's going to happen. I've 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.760 learned this though. When this defense doesn't play very well, 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.120 they're gonna lose. Well, that's what I've learned about this 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:20.480 football team. Yeah, for sure. I mean this defense carries 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.760 his football team. It's not the offense. Well, because the 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.400 offense can still make the same mistakes that they do. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.080 They were down ten nothing at halftime. Yeah, and I 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.640 went back and I just because to your point, I 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.920 thought the same thing. Cowboys offensively even during the six 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.080 game winning stream at thirty nine plays in the first 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:41.360 three series, right oh yeah. Dominated NFL research said it's 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.360 the longest a team has held the ball in a 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.400 first half when scored boring scoring since Green Bay in 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.559 the season open or last year for over nineteen minutes, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:54.320 almost twenty minutes, and let and won the yardage battle. 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.920 You guys spoke about the block field goal. They had 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.480 yet another goal to go situation where they can't score 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.040 no points at all because they get stopped on fourth down. 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.080 I think Zeke technically fumbled. They said it was a fumble, Yeah, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.400 but he got hit at the five yard line when 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.440 it's it did fourth and one at the three didn't matter. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.640 They didn't get the fourth down. And then they're driving. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:19.439 They're they're inside the forty before the half and Dak 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.079 takes a ten yard loss on a sack. Yeah, and 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.559 it knocks him out of field goal range. And so 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.959 I think they had three drives in a row to 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.760 start the game, ten plus plays, fifteen fourteen plays. Yeah, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.400 you get nothing out of it. And that has happened 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.400 to this team this year, even during the win streak. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.280 I looked it up. During the five game winning streak, 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.040 they averaged twelve first half points even in those games, 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.959 and they need a little time to get going, and 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.640 they didn't have that time this game because the Colts offensively. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.120 We talked about what they did. They got a big 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.719 lead and they kept it. I just never felt like 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.080 they were going to stop the Colts. Right watch, they 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.679 scored on six meaningful possessions were leading up to the 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.120 five minute mark of the fourth quarter. They scored on 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:03.959 five of the sixth possession. I think, I think I 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.240 looked this sep with my masks right that when their 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.480 first half they averaged of their drives, they averaged four 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.920 and a half first downs a series. You know, think 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.520 about that. I mean, they were just they're just kind 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.120 of moving along. They're blocking you, they're blocking your front, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.520 they're you know, you're trying to do some things. You're 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.000 not tackling worth a damn. And some tackles missing tackles 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.559 in that game. I mean, you know, you got some 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.360 guys that normally tackle pretty well that missed some tackles, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.160 you know. And having said all that, they only drove 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.439 for one touchdown the Colts. It's one that started the 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.000 second half. And I sat in my seat when the 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.400 second half started and I said, this possession is going 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.640 to decide the game, because if they don't stop them, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.679 and it's seventeen to nothing, this team's not capable of 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.360 coming back. From seventeen to nothing the way they want 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.800 to play offense, the first touchdown thanks to the block 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.839 field goal, right, yeah, and with three seconds to go 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.280 in the half, it's still even than nothing. Right. So 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.600 all this notion that they didn't come out and play 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.960 they were flat, well, somebody was playing, right, because they 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.320 shut them down until they gave up the field goal. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.920 And it's still only ten nothing, right, so you know 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:18.040 they wait, wait, am I not right? They shut them down? 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.280 I don't. I don't following you. What was the score touchdowns? 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.199 But let's take for in. No, I'm not saying the 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.040 Cowboys offense the Colts offense. Okay, they scored the touchdowns 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:30.920 on off the block kick. They only have to go 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.960 forty four yards. But the Colts get the ball back 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.720 with one fifty three to play in the first half, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.880 and they drive it from their own sixteen yard line 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.880 to the Cowboy twenty five yard line to kick a 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.040 field goal to make it ten nothing at the half. Okay, 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.800 it's only ten nothing, it's only ten nothing, but it's 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.640 still Yeah, they didn't score a touchdown on that drive, 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.920 but they drove a one hundred and seventy nine yards 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.000 I got you. I got you, I mean, but it's 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.240 still nothing. Every possession of the game. I wrote it down, 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.000 all their possessions. Where is it. They went forty four 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.680 yards in eight plays for a touchdown? Yeah, Then they 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.360 went second quarter sixty three yards and eleven plays and punted. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.440 That was the only time they did not score against 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.920 the Cowboys. Was that the penalty ridden? But what tribe 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.719 was it when they got all the penalties? Guy, I 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.280 think it was that one. Yeah, and then it was 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.640 ended up being third and thirty, I think is what 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.640 happened there? Yep, yep. But they hit they hit some 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.720 huge plays on you in that one. That's right, and okay, 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.040 So then they go with they get the ball with 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.000 two minutes left and a half. That was only their 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.199 third position. They only had the ball three times, three 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.839 times half. The Cowboys offense was holding the ball for 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.400 so long, and they went fifty nine yards in twelve 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.719 plays to kick a field goal. Then they start the 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.960 third quarter, they go seventy five yards in eight plays 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.480 for a touchdown to make it seventeen nothing. Then they 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.920 get the ball back later in the third quarter, they 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.720 go sixty three yards in ten plays for a field goal, 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.400 and then fifty six yards and twelve plays in the 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.360 fourth quarter and it's twenty three to nothing. I mean, 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.000 but they were were kicking field, but they're holding the foot. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.600 They held the football in the second half more than 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.760 the Cowboys held the football in the first half. They 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.400 had the ball for twenty one minutes in six seconds 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.719 in the second half of that game. Yeah, but my 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.360 point is in the first half, when everybody says they 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.560 didn't show up, nobody said it. They didn't show Oh 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.080 that's what's well, we're saying that I didn't say, you 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.120 said it. We're giving Colts credit for what they did. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.480 I'm saying. I'm saying that. Folks out there are saying, well, yeah, 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.440 they didn't show up. They got fat and happy. Well, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.120 they were playing, they just weren't playing well enough. The 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.600 Colts have won seven of the last eight games for 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:42.520 a reason exactly. And and if you if you drop 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.880 a touchdown pass, okay, if you get a field goal 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.080 blocked and give them a short field to start, it's 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:53.160 like a turnover, right, and you're gonna and you fall 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.560 behind against a team with that quality offensive line. They're 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.040 gonna do to you what you like to do to 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.000 other teams, and you know, we talked about it last week. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.520 Brian brought it up. We agreed. Are you a little 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.240 worried about the kicker? That kick was low? Yeah, the 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.440 guy blocked it with his armpit, I'm sorry, and he 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.160 didn't jump. Yeah it was I mean, he got a 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.960 little penetration, but still, then you went back and looked 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.480 at it. Yeah, it was between I thought it was 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.680 off the right side. It was actually between Sue of 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.800 Philo and then Lattisur, so it was on the left 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.360 side actually, yeah, Autry came from here there right side. Yeah, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.800 it was on the Cults right side, your left side. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.160 I thought maybe it started from that other side, from 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.840 the Cowboys right, but it wasn't. It was from the 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.960 left side. That's because TV didn't show to poor. We 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.800 really didn't see it, and we really didn't know what 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:42.280 was going on. And we know the ball was on 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.120 the ground and all that, and they were showing like 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.960 the crowd and stuff like that. It was kind of 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.960 a crazy sequence there, but yeah, it was. It was 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:53.000 Sue of Philo and between him and Latisur there on 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.680 that left side. And he never got a chance to 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.560 redeem himself obviously there was they were at the twenty 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.760 six late in the game. I thought they might kick 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.040 the field goal fourth and twelve, But that's not the 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.840 way Jason Garrett thinks. You know, you think, you go 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.800 for it, you try to get a touchdown with three 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.040 minutes and change left and kicking on side and keep 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.680 this thing extend the game. But you know, well, at 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.040 that point you're thinking, I mean, it's crazy, but you're 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.360 down twenty three nothing. I mean, you're thinking, it's a 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.080 three score game. You got to do in two point 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.240 conversion three times, right, And so he went for and 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.320 I don't want to you know, he did go for 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.600 it on fourth down five times. He did for five, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.640 but he went for it on fourth down. So yeah, 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.920 So did you like the decision to go four on 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:38.880 fourth and one after Ola Wally dropped the pass? You know, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.200 I'm I'm I'm banking on it. That I The interesting 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.680 thing that happened on that play was they got in 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.760 thirteen personnel and they tried to run it away from 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.720 the strength. And what happened on the play was that 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.440 Marcus Hunt was playing on the left side of of 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.480 Looney's shoulder on the left side, So what happened was 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.000 when Looney went for the hard reach to his left. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.800 They were running everything trying to get it to go 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.200 to the left. Margus Hunt went behind him and then 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:11.240 Connor Williams got caught like you see Collins trying to 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.920 push him to get him over to get in the 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.480 a gap to take Margus Hunt. But he's he's locked 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:21.240 up on Autry and they So what happens is when 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:27.159 Hunt swims him and then he's able to redirect, Elliot 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.320 had nowhere to go. I mean, it was just a 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.520 clean but it was a great move. It was a 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.080 great move by Hunt, not only to show I'm in 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.080 the right gap, now I'm in the left gap and 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.600 then redirect. But they just couldn't get him cut off. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.400 And you know, again you have a rookie playing right 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.000 guard and you got to tackle trying to push him 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.879 to get him into the into the gap, and it 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:51.960 doesn't work. That's it. Yeah, absolutely they did. There was 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.520 no way you got the NFL's leading rusher. Sure you 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.040 got four fourth and one, you gotta go for it 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:01.680 there touchdown about third down. I thought the third down 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.199 call was actually pretty good. Oh yeah, and he had 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.000 he had, he got what he wanted. Out of the 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.320 play because he's runner run Rico gathers across, he's gonna 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.920 have he's gonna have Jarwin on the backside coming and 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.080 they're gonna run a pick that. If he wanted that, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.320 they could have done that. You know. I was trying 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.520 to think, did dat need to float the ball because 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.639 of the defenders. But Walker was far enough to the 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.280 inside where if he could kind of put it on 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.640 the line. What happened olda Wally's feet got or bad. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.200 He almost tripped on the goal. Yeah, he his feet 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.879 were really bad. And it might have worked if you 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.880 throw it on him that he catches it cradle wise 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.000 and just falls in. But he couldn't because they were 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.280 two defenders there. And well I looked at that Mickey 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.919 and and and from the end zone copy the defenders 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.640 Walker being one of them. They were inside enough where 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.000 I thought I thought initially, I said, Okay, he's got 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.399 to float that ball. But it wasn't. It wasn't. When 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.720 you watch the end zone copy of it, there's a 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.120 good line of site that he could have. He could 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.399 have he could have fit that thing because he had separation. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.280 He had separation on the safety odom uh, you know 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.159 Odom was trying to run over and cover and he 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.680 their separation there and then Walker was trying to get 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.040 over to make the play, but he just couldn't get 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:14.960 in the line of sight. I thought he could have 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.320 just you know the other wing about old a Wally, 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.040 He's been a decent receip he could catch. The guy 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.320 could catch. He can catch, but he couldn't make his 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.600 third reception of the season. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.359 a unique play call because again you're taking advantage of 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.719 a guy that doesn't get the football all that much, right, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:32.800 but the way didn't even get it. Yeah, but then 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:34.560 we wonder why, okay, well why did they have a 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.800 golden gold problems? Well, they have a cold Beasley drop. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.600 They have an older Wally stumble. They wonder how he 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:42.960 did in practice this week on practice and that I 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:44.720 bet they caught that one. I bet I bet he 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:46.600 caught it. Every time. I wonder, I wonder if it 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.880 came up the pass because I thought when Dak initially 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.879 did it that he wanted to run. Yeah, they stopped 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.680 that right they got to the outside and it was like, okay, 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.879 now I gotta throw it. It also looked like he 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.639 might have lost it in the lights. No, he let 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.919 me ask you this. Guys looked away before he can. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:05.399