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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
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Speaker 1: edition of Mick Shots. I'm Bill Jones. It's happy in
Speaker 1: my home office, and it's happy in Everson Walls home
Speaker 1: office as well. Because the Cowboys somehow yes yes on
Speaker 1: Sunday Afternoon today at and t cdm Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: I said. I stole the line from Jack Buck when
Speaker 1: Kirk Gibson came out of the clubhouse and hit a
Speaker 1: home run in the World Series against Dennis Eckersley in
Speaker 1: the A's in nineteen eighty eight. I don't believe what
Speaker 1: I just saw. That's what I said when Greg Surline
Speaker 1: had the most unique on side kick I've seen since
Speaker 1: Tony Fritch in nineteen seventy two. I remember that one
Speaker 1: one he had the right foot went behind the left
Speaker 1: foot right, Remember that behind the back one behind the
Speaker 1: behind the ankle behind the calf, Billy, you got companies bags.
Speaker 1: You don't remember that one too. I think I probably
Speaker 1: wasn't intimately watching the Cowboys in nineteen seventy two. We're
Speaker 1: gonna delete. We're gonna delete you from this conversation. Got
Speaker 1: All I got when in college was either the card
Speaker 1: the Cardinals or the Chiefs. That's all we got. Oh, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you saw the Cowboys kick plenty. But then if right,
Speaker 1: I like Brad Sham's final words was after we kicked
Speaker 1: the field goal, kiss that pig. I believe, kiss that pig.
Speaker 1: I love that one. I love that one. There was
Speaker 1: an ugly win, but it was still extremely exciting. So
Speaker 1: I guess kiss that pig would be the one that
Speaker 1: pretty much captures everything about that game. Yeah, if they
Speaker 1: could have just started in the second half, it would
Speaker 1: have There wouldn't have been a pig. You would have said, oh,
Speaker 1: what a remarkable performance, right getting rid of the first quarter? Cheese,
Speaker 1: oh pete. Maybe they thought it was a three o'clock start.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it sure didn't work out at
Speaker 1: noon for them for sure. Well, we were you know,
Speaker 1: the Falcons were on East Coast time, so they should
Speaker 1: have been the ones that had to wake up issues
Speaker 1: because they came out extremely aggressive. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they saw something in film or whatever, but they came
Speaker 1: out just punching at the ball every time they had
Speaker 1: a chance. Sometimes it wasn't just fumbles. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a calculated effort to knock the ball out of
Speaker 1: our receiver's hands. And that's including Zeke Elliott. So you
Speaker 1: know it was Zeke's high school team ain't doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knew something. He knew something, That's what it was.
Speaker 1: That's from an old school game plan that he came
Speaker 1: out with on that one so very unusual game, very
Speaker 1: ugly game, I gotta tell you, guys, but in the end,
Speaker 1: I did not care how ugly we won. Let's let's
Speaker 1: face it, guy, we have lost so many games in
Speaker 1: that same fashion. So I'm I'm not going to you know,
Speaker 1: Dallas water on this wind, you know, as as as
Speaker 1: little as I can. I mean, there's things that we
Speaker 1: have to sort out, but you know, we are so
Speaker 1: accustomed to losing games like this. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be ashamed to say that I was happy that we
Speaker 1: won the game that we should have lost. Let's just
Speaker 1: be real, we should have lost, and so let's just
Speaker 1: finally we get to flip the script on all those guys,
Speaker 1: all those fans that against the Dallas Cowboys. Well, how
Speaker 1: would you like to be in the falcon shoes and
Speaker 1: sitting there going, well, we should have won and you didn't.
Speaker 1: I think that's probably easy. We've been there. That's the problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so many times that's the issue. So I
Speaker 1: just thought, you know, if you can, you can get
Speaker 1: past the start, uh and basically get past past the
Speaker 1: majority of the defensive possessions other than the one that
Speaker 1: they had to have, uh, you know, from an offensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: I mean they five hundred and seventy yards. Think about that,
Speaker 1: Dat threw for four hundred and fifty yards. It's rather
Speaker 1: remarkable with the protection he was facing or wasn't facing,
Speaker 1: didn't have and playing with two undrafted offensive tackles, one
Speaker 1: a rookie, the other one in his second year, starting
Speaker 1: his second game, and you still threw for four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards. I mean, I just thought that was
Speaker 1: the most remarkable performance under those circumstances and falling behind
Speaker 1: so many times that you would ever see in a
Speaker 1: football game. So my point on this whole game is
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear nothing else about Dat can't
Speaker 1: do this and DAT can't do that. He can't come
Speaker 1: from behind, he can't win a close game. The guys
Speaker 1: got fifteen come from behind victories since the start of
Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen season, and that ties him for the
Speaker 1: most with guy named Drew Brees along with Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: So stop the nonsense from now on. Okay, that's my
Speaker 1: point on this show, and this is so weird s facts.
Speaker 1: You will still find commentary that talks about how his
Speaker 1: receiver has basically bailed him out on so many different occasions.
Speaker 1: And as I look at, you know so many great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are human and we still give them the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. Dak has always been that guy.
Speaker 1: They will concentrate so much. There will always be an
Speaker 1: asterisk by any stat that Dak Prescott throws up there.
Speaker 1: The asterisk is always going to be the key, and
Speaker 1: I think that's extremely unfair for a guy who's got
Speaker 1: the heart that he has. Okay, I got a question
Speaker 1: for you. Do you want me to do something about
Speaker 1: my dog, Romo? Please do That's not bothering your dog, Romo.
Speaker 1: Feed your dog. Is I got two beagles, uh Bo
Speaker 1: and Romo, and I've got that huggeting up to where
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be in the kitchen. It sounds like
Speaker 1: they might have got out. And Romo is the one
Speaker 1: barking in the background. And I think he's barking because
Speaker 1: he's upset because Deck has now matched Romo with four
Speaker 1: hundred yard games in his career. But two beagles, they
Speaker 1: were they were born in two thousand and seven, so
Speaker 1: they're thirteen years old, Romo's first year as a starter.
Speaker 1: And we name one Romo and the other one I
Speaker 1: wanted to name to but my wife and daughters said, no,
Speaker 1: we get to name the other. I'm sure Romo doesn't watch.
Speaker 1: Don't rename bow Deck because Romo would really really be pissed. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm leaving for one second to go close my
Speaker 1: office door so we don't hear Romo as well. So hope.
Speaker 1: So we don't need you, Bill, We don't need you,
Speaker 1: you know, And and and Everson. One of the remarkable
Speaker 1: things was that that was the when the Cowboys fell
Speaker 1: behind by twenty points to start the game. That was
Speaker 1: their largest deficit to come back. Our second largest deficit
Speaker 1: to come back in and win the game. And I
Speaker 1: was looking at the other games and I was there. Well,
Speaker 1: now I'm there for four of the top five the
Speaker 1: largest deficits they had with twenty one points. That was
Speaker 1: the season opener against Saint Louis in twenty fourteen. My
Speaker 1: first game I covered for the Dallas Times Herald of
Speaker 1: a Cowboys game was that Sunday night game against New
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints in nineteen eighty four. It was the
Speaker 1: overtime victory. Had fallen behind by twenty one points, and
Speaker 1: remember it came back in that last nit or two
Speaker 1: with two touchdowns to tie it up. I believe it
Speaker 1: was a Randy White forced fumble that Jim jeff Cote
Speaker 1: recovered uh in the end zone. Kenny Stabler was the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That was. Ken Stabler was a quarterback, and I have
Speaker 1: never seen Randy White act like such a child ever
Speaker 1: and was hilarious. Remember that video was watching him jump
Speaker 1: up and down after bumble was the funniest thing I
Speaker 1: had ever seen. And it was the coolest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, you know, because you're watching the manster of
Speaker 1: all people, who's one of the most honorary people you
Speaker 1: ever want to meet. I think he was the more
Speaker 1: proud of himself at that moment than he has ever
Speaker 1: been in his tire life, you know. And I remember
Speaker 1: he was like he was jumping on a pogo stick. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: like a little guy. I can imitate it, but I
Speaker 1: won't do it right now again. You know what in
Speaker 1: that game, if you remember, it was a Sunday night game,
Speaker 1: and it started late because the presidential debates went long
Speaker 1: and so and to set the stage for it, I
Speaker 1: think that at the time, maybe the Cowboys were four
Speaker 1: and three and they were you were falling off the face.
Speaker 1: And Randy Galloway in the Dallas Morning News basically wrote
Speaker 1: an entire column that the Cowboys were dead, that they
Speaker 1: were you know, they're gonna lose this game, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are dead, right. Well, remember Tex used to sit
Speaker 1: in the press box and he sat right in the
Speaker 1: row right behind me, And this is my first game,
Speaker 1: and I don't know know what the protocol is or anything,
Speaker 1: and he's he's grumping up there, and everybody's on deadline
Speaker 1: because the game started late, and basically everybody had written
Speaker 1: their stories right ready to go, just needed the final score.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys come back and tie it up, and it
Speaker 1: goes into overtime, and you hear everybody banging the tables right. Oh,
Speaker 1: that text leads out. He looked, he leads out, and
Speaker 1: he yells, hey, Randy, you look dead. And then the
Speaker 1: Cowboys ended up winning the game in overtime. And then
Speaker 1: the other one was the season opener in in in
Speaker 1: UH nineteen. It was at nineteen ninety nine when they
Speaker 1: fell behind like thirty five thirty five seven or something
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, and and Troy Aikman came back with
Speaker 1: three touchdowns to tie it up, uh near the right
Speaker 1: at the end, and then through the deep ball to
Speaker 1: uh rocket rockmail after Rocket had dropped the same pattern
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. And the uh the name of
Speaker 1: the play was red glare. So it was a rocket
Speaker 1: red glare. So don't forget the only one would have
Speaker 1: been there against the Redskins down twenty points. Yes, and
Speaker 1: it looked like that was the reasons we were down
Speaker 1: twenty points. I was one of the reasons we were
Speaker 1: down twenty points. Uh. The Redskins had figured out I
Speaker 1: would flex defensive coverage. UH. They realized that you could
Speaker 1: easily put the Cowboys from a zone into a man
Speaker 1: to man just by the positioning of the backs, and
Speaker 1: coach Joe Gibbs figured that out, and that was the
Speaker 1: first time we had started seeing what you called hitch routes.
Speaker 1: They had. They had eaten us alive. They would put
Speaker 1: us in a man to man situation and they would
Speaker 1: throw five yard routes, knowing that we always covered off
Speaker 1: from a zone position because that was the zone call
Speaker 1: out of the Hubble, And what it did was put
Speaker 1: us at an extreme disadvantage, isolating the cornerbacks one on one,
Speaker 1: so they would have the little fun bunch that they had,
Speaker 1: those little smurfs, I believe is what they had called them.
Speaker 1: I think Howard Cosell started called them smurfs. So they
Speaker 1: had the little smurfs out there, one brown and they
Speaker 1: would catch the ball a lot of distance between us
Speaker 1: and them. They would shake us down. Next thing you know,
Speaker 1: they have a drive going down the field. We're down
Speaker 1: like twenty three to three, if I'm not mistaken. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we decided to change up the defense
Speaker 1: and go to a cover two. Now you can't run
Speaker 1: those hitch routes. They could not make the adjustments. The
Speaker 1: Redskins could not make the adjustments, Tony Hill and Danny
Speaker 1: White start to go off. I remember Tony Hill going
Speaker 1: down the sidelines and just eating up their dbs alive.
Speaker 1: I think he caught two touchdowns passes in that game,
Speaker 1: and we ended up coming back and winning that game.
Speaker 1: At that time, that was our most I think it
Speaker 1: was our most the big comeback we had ever had
Speaker 1: in Cowboy history up until that point. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I right, because the twenty one the twenty one
Speaker 1: point deficits came in eighty four, ninety nine, and twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: so yeah, you're absolutely right. And we also did that
Speaker 1: in RFK Stadium as well, So the second half of
Speaker 1: that game you would have thought it was a COVID
Speaker 1: game because you could not hear anyone in the stands,
Speaker 1: but Cowboy fans in RFK the best feeling in the world. Bill,
Speaker 1: Are you good? Are you done? Dog City? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying the conversation. We need we're up against
Speaker 1: her break. But let me give you now, you were
Speaker 1: just listening the top comebacks in Cowboys history in terms
Speaker 1: of how many points they were down overcoming deficits twenty
Speaker 1: and twenty one point deficits the top five in Cowboys history.
Speaker 1: I put this game in the way it finished the
Speaker 1: last minute comeback in my top five favorite Cowboy comebacks
Speaker 1: of all time. And I started in nineteen seventy two
Speaker 1: with the playoff game against San Francisco, the game we
Speaker 1: alluded to earlier. Tony Fritz had the on side kick
Speaker 1: and Roger had two touchdown passes, one to Billy Parks
Speaker 1: and the other to Ron Sellers. I think that was
Speaker 1: the game where Larry Cole was. I'm rolling around on
Speaker 1: the sideline. That's right. They were down twenty eight sixteen
Speaker 1: with two minutes left, and they came back and one
Speaker 1: thirty to twenty eight. I'm doing this in chronological order.
Speaker 1: The second one is the Hail Mary with thirty two
Speaker 1: seconds left of the game. The next one would be
Speaker 1: Rogers last regular season game in nineteen seventy nine, which
Speaker 1: is two touchdowns in the last couple of minutes, one
Speaker 1: to Ron Springs. All together Tony him yeah against Washington
Speaker 1: thirty five, thirty four, and then I'll fast forward all
Speaker 1: the way to two thousand and seven and Tony Romo
Speaker 1: throws picks against Buffalo Monday Night football, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: come back, and they scored ten points in the last
Speaker 1: twenty seconds of that game, a touchdown pass and then
Speaker 1: a Nick folk on side kick, and with six seconds left,
Speaker 1: and then with two seconds left he kicks a fifty
Speaker 1: three yard field goal to win it. And then I'll
Speaker 1: put this one in as a number five on the list.
Speaker 1: There's others in there, but for me, those are my
Speaker 1: five all time favorites. Those are good favorites. Bill, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, when we come back, let's break down what
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Speaker 1: and we'll need all week to discuss this. But mix
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Speaker 1: Cowboys on Sunday forty to thirty nine over the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons and now the Seattle Seahawks. This week and then
Speaker 1: what a win for Seattle last night over New England
Speaker 1: thirty five to thirty as New England had the ball
Speaker 1: down at the one yard line and Cam Newton was
Speaker 1: stopped short by a TCU hornfrog mister Collyer from a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick making the play. But we'll get
Speaker 1: into the Seahawks this the week progresses. There's so much
Speaker 1: to break down on Sunday's game. First off, I just
Speaker 1: love having fans in the stands. I know, I don't
Speaker 1: care whether they are just a smattering of fans or not,
Speaker 1: but but I like the fact that they were fans
Speaker 1: of the stands any so funny, no matter how small
Speaker 1: the amount of fans, you could still hear the booze.
Speaker 1: The booze were real loud, right at right at half
Speaker 1: time twenty one, seven hundred and eight. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: were all kind of spaced out, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if TV showed many
Speaker 1: shots of the stands, but they showed everybody was spaced out. Now,
Speaker 1: there would be groups of people, and remember you could
Speaker 1: buy as many as six and they put you in
Speaker 1: a pod. But if you were six in a row,
Speaker 1: there was nobody sitting in front of you and nobody's
Speaker 1: sitting behind you. And then the next row had some
Speaker 1: more people that way, and so they spaced everything out,
Speaker 1: and uh, the only thing I noticed was those masks
Speaker 1: didn't last for four quarters on the majority of the
Speaker 1: people sitting there. I mean, did you expect them to
Speaker 1: at all. There's no way you can keep your mask
Speaker 1: on because they were eating and drinking, yes, right, and
Speaker 1: of course yes, and screaming there that has something to
Speaker 1: do with it, and screaming their brains out right. You
Speaker 1: can't you can't boom, you can't boo effectively with a
Speaker 1: mask on. It just doesn't work. Well, there was a
Speaker 1: lot of boo on four of the first five the processions,
Speaker 1: well in the first quarter. I mean, it reminded me
Speaker 1: of the way the nineteen ninety four three Championship game began. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they were playing in ninety season. Yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: was a ninety four season, yeah, sorry, ninety four season, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: ninety four season January ninety five. The three turnovers that
Speaker 1: San Francisco turned into twenty one points the first seven
Speaker 1: or eight minutes of the game whatever it was, Uh,
Speaker 1: and then throwing in a fake punt that didn't work
Speaker 1: as well. Uh So the Cowboys actually could have been
Speaker 1: further down than what they were at the end of
Speaker 1: the first quarter, but they were as it was down
Speaker 1: twenty to nothing. Yeah, they were able to those last
Speaker 1: two possessions, the fourth and fifth one. They held him
Speaker 1: to field goals. After the fake punt failed, which should
Speaker 1: have worked if c J. Goodwin kept his feet, he
Speaker 1: slipped and fell. Uh and then Dalton Shoultz losing. Oh
Speaker 1: you're gonna put that on CJ. Well, you didn't think
Speaker 1: it was a horrible, horrible pass athlete. I keep hearing
Speaker 1: about what a great athlete our quarter our putter is,
Speaker 1: and he throws a duck. It never should have been
Speaker 1: that difficult guy. He had fallen before the baby got there.
Speaker 1: He did slip. Now he was on the ground, no reason,
Speaker 1: because he's always known, even for him to even have
Speaker 1: to be on the ground, that ball should hit him
Speaker 1: in the chest. That's all. That's the problem. That's the
Speaker 1: problem with running a fake punt when Danny White's not
Speaker 1: a punter, saying billing a pass to a defensive back,
Speaker 1: none to a wine receiver, No, no, no, It depends
Speaker 1: on the defensive back let's be really yeah, okay, unless
Speaker 1: the defensive back has fifty seven inter subjects, then you
Speaker 1: can run that thing cornerback. I just I just really
Speaker 1: felt that this was one of the ugliest winds we've
Speaker 1: ever had. I said it earlier and even when we
Speaker 1: started off the fourth quarter. I mean, you talk about
Speaker 1: the first part of the game. Of course, these fumbles.
Speaker 1: You know, Schultz finally gets them to make a catch.
Speaker 1: You know, he's looking forward to having a good game.
Speaker 1: They puss the ball out on him. Zeke comes out
Speaker 1: of I don't know how Zeke fumble twice. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, they only recovered one, and so we once again,
Speaker 1: we could have been a much better situation. What worst situation?
Speaker 1: And the other thing I say is I can't believe
Speaker 1: I'm giving the defense credit after a game they end
Speaker 1: up forty to thirty nine because when you look at
Speaker 1: three of those four turnovers, they actually held, which was unusual.
Speaker 1: They actually held the Falcons to a couple of field goals,
Speaker 1: which you know, when you when this is a game
Speaker 1: like this, every victory helps, you know, any individual win,
Speaker 1: any situational win helps in a game like this, because
Speaker 1: as we go on, we will note many times where
Speaker 1: that particular play kind of held the game in balance.
Speaker 1: So this is this is one of those just topsy
Speaker 1: turvy games. Well, if you look at if you look
Speaker 1: at the defenses part in this. After the first two possessions,
Speaker 1: the Falcons scored on eight of ten possessions, eight of ten,
Speaker 1: all right, and and the one they stopped them, they
Speaker 1: had to stop them to get the ball back, and
Speaker 1: that was the first sack of the game. Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: got a sack on second down which led to them
Speaker 1: having to actually mount the ball and Mikky the other one,
Speaker 1: Jones dropped a touchdown. Yes, absolutely so they were. They
Speaker 1: were like, oh fer after the first two possessions. Yet
Speaker 1: when they needed to get the stop to create that
Speaker 1: next possession for the Cowboys offense, they got it somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, which was rather remarkable because the defense, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, they better hurry because that front gave
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan the time of day in the pocket to
Speaker 1: the point where he's running out in gaining yards when
Speaker 1: no one's open. Uh. We we talked all training camp
Speaker 1: about this pass rush, this, this and this, and it's
Speaker 1: non existent. They're not getting there. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the deal is, but they're not even coming close to
Speaker 1: putting pressure on an opposing quarterback. And you know, and
Speaker 1: now they got it next week, you know, next Sunday
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson and this guy. If you don't get
Speaker 1: pressure on him, you know, he's either completing it or
Speaker 1: he's running by you. So they better figured it out
Speaker 1: real quick. Russell Wilson last night. Russell Wilson last night
Speaker 1: against the number one defense in the league last year,
Speaker 1: which returned virtually all of their secondary is back this year,
Speaker 1: and he threw five touchdown passes to five different receivers
Speaker 1: last night. Yeah, he doesn't get picked up, didn't he
Speaker 1: get picked off for a touchdown right the start of
Speaker 1: the game, And then after that m according to start
Speaker 1: the game pick six, and then after that the roof
Speaker 1: came in. So yeah, this defense, you know, Meal, you
Speaker 1: got to score forty points to win a game. You
Speaker 1: gained five hundred despite the turnovers. They gained five hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy yards, five hundred and seventy yards, four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty passing, scored forty points, and you had to
Speaker 1: score forty to win by one. It's just absolutely remarkable.
Speaker 1: So you know, this defense starting to look like stuff
Speaker 1: I saw in that twenty that you know that twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen season when they gave up forty five, thirty seven,
Speaker 1: forty nine, thirty one, and fifty one to Denver and
Speaker 1: got fifty one forty eight. So they better figure things
Speaker 1: out quickly. Well. Yeah, the thing that I can point
Speaker 1: out as well, the Falcons did their best to give
Speaker 1: us the game, and there were moments where we were like, nine,
Speaker 1: we don't want it. You know, you can have it.
Speaker 1: You can have this game. We'll go oh and two,
Speaker 1: We'll be fine with that. That's just the way that
Speaker 1: game seemed to go out. As many mistakes as we made,
Speaker 1: the Falcons probably made a few more. I thought one instance,
Speaker 1: it was a very understated moment. But while the Falcons
Speaker 1: are up with all these points and that the clock
Speaker 1: in their favor, I believe it's about fourth something left
Speaker 1: in the game, they throw the ball on like second
Speaker 1: and ten or something like that. You know, there was
Speaker 1: no reason for them to even attempt to throw a
Speaker 1: ball at that time. The Cowboys hadn't stopped them doing anything.
Speaker 1: When they threw that ball that stopped the clock. I
Speaker 1: think we ended up getting the ball back again with
Speaker 1: about three thirty left. If they would have just kept
Speaker 1: running the ball, the Cowboys would probably have gotten that
Speaker 1: ball around the two minute warning at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, still down by fifteen. So just small things
Speaker 1: in that game where the Falcons really showed how they're
Speaker 1: just as incompetent as we are as Dallas Cowboys. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a game where it seemed like two teams
Speaker 1: really didn't want to win, you know, they just wanted
Speaker 1: to go out there, and I think they wanted to
Speaker 1: extend the game. They looked like they wanted to just
Speaker 1: play more. Probably ever, was when they ended up there
Speaker 1: was four thirty nine left the Cowboys that called a
Speaker 1: time out. It was second and twelve, and that's when
Speaker 1: Griffin sacked Ryan to make it thirty and eighteen and
Speaker 1: forced them to punt, and the Cowboys got the ball
Speaker 1: back with two fifty seven left, down thirty nine thirty
Speaker 1: and then that's where things even got the more interesting, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But to your point, I think he was on the
Speaker 1: previous possession. If we were on Atlanta Falcons Radio today,
Speaker 1: we'd be talking about the previous possession where they're ahead
Speaker 1: thirty six to twenty four and I don't have the time.
Speaker 1: It was with about eight or nine minutes left in
Speaker 1: the game, and they've got a first and ten at
Speaker 1: the twelve yard line. They ran girly for four and
Speaker 1: then on second down a second and six, they throw
Speaker 1: an incomplete pass. And on thirty six they throw an
Speaker 1: incomplete pass. They could have they could have if they
Speaker 1: run the ball there. They they got a twelve point lead,
Speaker 1: and they wound up kicking a field goal. Anyway, on
Speaker 1: second and third down, they could have run a minute
Speaker 1: off the clock, and that's about giving the Cowboys the
Speaker 1: ball back with a third with a fifteen point lead.
Speaker 1: They gave the ball back with seven fifty seven left.
Speaker 1: There would have been six fifty seven left. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's things like that you make. You make offensive play
Speaker 1: calling decisions like that, and you're gonna blow a twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three Super Bowl lead. And you know what
Speaker 1: that was the first time. You know what that was
Speaker 1: the first time I think Alden Smith actually you knew
Speaker 1: he was in the game because he got pressures on
Speaker 1: both of those incomplete passes. And they finally got around
Speaker 1: Ryan on second and seven and third and seven at
Speaker 1: the night. Yeah, they got a little greedy. You're you're
Speaker 1: exactly right, because the Cowboys did get the ball back
Speaker 1: with seven fifty seven to go. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break here and let's talk about who really
Speaker 1: stood out for you when the Cowboys made their comeback.
Speaker 1: There's several players who stood out, but who's the top
Speaker 1: of the list for you? And the Cowboys come from
Speaker 1: behind when over the Falcons on Sunday, that's when mick
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Speaker 1: All right, do you remember who your picks to? Click?
Speaker 1: We're on Friday? Everson Walls reminded me, why are you
Speaker 1: smiling so much? Spagnola? He is? You know, he just
Speaker 1: pulled that out of his butt last week, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Z line comes and does Well, I
Speaker 1: think I called like four field goals or something like that,
Speaker 1: and he would hit the game winners, So basically I
Speaker 1: can credit for the onside kick too. Right. I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever I'm not sure I've ever seen one
Speaker 1: like that. It was almost you know what, I doubt
Speaker 1: I thought that they were going to call a quick kick,
Speaker 1: you know, like in baseball you quick picked somebody. He
Speaker 1: quick kicked it because I think they thought he was
Speaker 1: standing there, set the ball up parallel to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage on the ground, and then he was going
Speaker 1: to back up. And he just stood there flat footed
Speaker 1: and kicked it. And the thing went like sideways, and
Speaker 1: he kept going and going and going, and you know,
Speaker 1: and c. J. Goodwood, God bless him. He had the
Speaker 1: patience to know where he was and win to pounce
Speaker 1: on the ball. It was incredible. There was a reason
Speaker 1: he was the Special Team's captain yesterday. Yeah, J, let's
Speaker 1: be let's let's let's be one thing. I've always known
Speaker 1: about great plays like that, and I've been a part
Speaker 1: of them. Of course, Uh, great plays happened for one
Speaker 1: team because of the failure of the opposition. The failure
Speaker 1: of the opposition has as much to do with the
Speaker 1: completion of a great play than the team that made
Speaker 1: the play, than them being able to carry through with it.
Speaker 1: I've always said that, So when you're gonna make a
Speaker 1: great play like Goodwin did well. It was because of
Speaker 1: the ignments of the Falcon Special teams and the hold
Speaker 1: up his was crazy. They called the time out when
Speaker 1: they saw what Spags was just illustrating just what he's
Speaker 1: talking about. So what the hell did they talk about
Speaker 1: during the time out If they do not know that
Speaker 1: they can test the ball before ten yards, that made
Speaker 1: it even more ridiculous. This guy, in my eyes, and
Speaker 1: when really made it ridiculous. We've all known since we
Speaker 1: started playing football when we were seven eight years old,
Speaker 1: what the rules are on an onside kick, all right,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, and to think about it, okay, when
Speaker 1: the coaches get or in their special teams meeting in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: All right, you were going to have to fall on
Speaker 1: that football at some point. You might as well do
Speaker 1: it before it goes to ten yards where it is uncontested.
Speaker 1: Where you jump on the football, your chances of recovering
Speaker 1: it are much better if the other guy's not jumping
Speaker 1: on the pilot the same time. Right, they could have
Speaker 1: had three guys jump on it. One guy could have
Speaker 1: jumped on and two guys could have covered up. Right,
Speaker 1: and they sat there and waiting, waiting and waiting and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh my, it was like they were hypnotized.
Speaker 1: You know. The only excuse I've heard, the only excuse
Speaker 1: I heard. I had a great lie. Let me go, okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead. I had a great line. They said they
Speaker 1: thought when they were competing in curling. Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: best line. They just didn't have. They didn't have room
Speaker 1: trying to blow it foul. Tony Gonzalez said on the
Speaker 1: postgame show that he goes the only excuse I could
Speaker 1: even come remotely to give him is that they didn't
Speaker 1: think it was gonna make ten yards, so it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, but still it was almost stopped.
Speaker 1: All you had to do is fall on it. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen one like that before, and
Speaker 1: think about it. In fact that I thought of this,
Speaker 1: this was the first time the Cowboys have ever played
Speaker 1: a game the same day as the final round of
Speaker 1: the US Open, and I thought it was it was fitting.
Speaker 1: It was fitting that they win the game on a
Speaker 1: perfectly lagged on side punt by Greg Zurline. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he if he had a putter out and he
Speaker 1: was he was putting a seventy yard putt he could
Speaker 1: not have lagged it any bad. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was amazing. You know, they're they're also see that's that
Speaker 1: that is that lets you know the Falcons are just
Speaker 1: as in or even more in as we are. Because
Speaker 1: what you saw, the failure you saw with the Falcons,
Speaker 1: that's what we were accustomed to, like especially the second
Speaker 1: half of last season. The entire second half of last season,
Speaker 1: we always had some type of backle that led to
Speaker 1: some unusual loss on our part. So it's just good
Speaker 1: to be on the other side of it. Great to
Speaker 1: be on the other side of you know, if you
Speaker 1: go back and watch the replay of that after after
Speaker 1: a good one fell on it, I thought John Fossil
Speaker 1: was going to jump on the pile to cover him up.
Speaker 1: The official had to yank him off the field and
Speaker 1: get him behind him so he could come in and
Speaker 1: make the call. He was so exciting. I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 1: he needed fail after two failed faith right, he needed that.
Speaker 1: Boy did he need that. We all needed that. Okay,
Speaker 1: the other thing that had to happen, and the other
Speaker 1: thing that had to happen. The Cowboys weren't in field
Speaker 1: goal range and they came through, and I would like
Speaker 1: to let you all know that reminds you that my
Speaker 1: pick to click was a guy named CD Lamb. And
Speaker 1: how about CD Lamb and the way he played in
Speaker 1: this game, and how about the veteran move that he made.
Speaker 1: And he was well coached by somebody on that staff
Speaker 1: with a receivers coach, Adam Henry whoever it was that, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the game plan. We recover this on sidekick and
Speaker 1: now we do not want Atlanta to have the football again.
Speaker 1: We're going down to score. And so he uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he broke the ankles of the DP that was covering
Speaker 1: him and then he's running down field twenty five yards
Speaker 1: and he didn't go out of bound bound. He doesn't
Speaker 1: take it hit, doesn't risk losing the football. He were
Speaker 1: in field goal range at that point. A very heavy
Speaker 1: moved by a rookie right there. No, he was. He
Speaker 1: was removable in the game, man, you know, and he
Speaker 1: would have had, you know, another great play if not
Speaker 1: for I guess the block they called him on. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was a real heavy play on his part.
Speaker 1: And you know there was another tackle that that did
Speaker 1: a tough call Scags, that was such a tough call,
Speaker 1: absolutely yes, it was, but he showed it and I
Speaker 1: got his hands. Yes, I like the way you had
Speaker 1: certain guys, and once again I'm going back to defense.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. I thought Joe Thomas, Yes, especially
Speaker 1: the second half of the game. I thought he came
Speaker 1: through and played the way a linebacker should play. I
Speaker 1: thought his blitzes were time like him. I thought that
Speaker 1: he read a couple of plays. I think he shot
Speaker 1: the gap on his own a couple of times. The
Speaker 1: Latists some big losses, timely losses for the Falcon's offense.
Speaker 1: So I just had to give up give him some
Speaker 1: love because I saw a different type of play out there.
Speaker 1: You saw a guy shooting the gaps. You saw a
Speaker 1: guy making plays. You saw a guy that made some
Speaker 1: big plays that made a difference in the game. Ended
Speaker 1: up with twelve tackles, one tackle for a loss, and
Speaker 1: one quarterback hit. Is quiet. It was kept Jalen on
Speaker 1: the game. The game stats had thirteen tackles. He had twelve,
Speaker 1: So yeah, awfully good game for him filling in for
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderish. Then I'll throw it out Dalton Schultz too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: like I really like the way Dalton Schultz plays and
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys. You know, yeah, there's now because
Speaker 1: of his threat down field. But but I like Schultz
Speaker 1: a lot. Just talked about it last week. I talked
Speaker 1: about it last week. I think Schultz is just as
Speaker 1: athletic because jar One. I really do. He just hadn't
Speaker 1: had his opportunities yet. Jarlin may be a bit more athletic,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we'll see much of a drop
Speaker 1: off for this season. Schultz is gonna be big for us.
Speaker 1: You just wait and see. As a blanker, yep, you know.
Speaker 1: I like the way he's built. He's got the length
Speaker 1: as a blanker. He's got a toughness about him. Yes,
Speaker 1: and black melan as a blocking tightens the second tight end.
Speaker 1: I think Blake Miller is one edition. Even though it
Speaker 1: was called back, I just thought that was an amazing
Speaker 1: catch by him and his his his hunger to to
Speaker 1: continue to keep going down the field. Look forward to
Speaker 1: the block by CD. He kind of read that well.
Speaker 1: CD came in I thought just in time and perfectly.
Speaker 1: I wish he could have they could have kept the tackle.
Speaker 1: In regards to to Bell's reception, but I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: how he stepped up to the moment we ended everybody
Speaker 1: at that time. He ended up playing the snaps Bell
Speaker 1: did so from a two tight end situation. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was working. That's why I think if
Speaker 1: people watch this game, you know, all right, Jarwin's hurt. Okay,
Speaker 1: who can we go get? Well? Sometimes you just got
Speaker 1: to rely on the guys you have. They're they're there
Speaker 1: for a reason and give them a chance, you know,
Speaker 1: Schultztein Not everybody's a reason. They kept mckeinn too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: there's a reason they kept Sean McKeon too, because they
Speaker 1: could have exposed him to waivers and might have got
Speaker 1: into the practice one. But they liked him enough to
Speaker 1: keep a fourth tight in. All Right, we just uh,
Speaker 1: that flew by, and we've got so much more to
Speaker 1: get to tomorrow here on mix Shots. So much to
Speaker 1: even break down from that game, and we'll start paying
Speaker 1: some attention to the Seattle Seahawks as well. It's a
Speaker 1: big game coming up. But wow, what a much needed
Speaker 1: win that was on Sunday over the Falcons. All Right,
Speaker 1: we'll see you again tomorrow here on Mick Shots. This
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