WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Championship Show 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.800 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:12.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Nick 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:17.040 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:22.320 official Dallas Cowboys app now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:51.800 and Nicky Spagnola yesterday figure of Dolls. M this is 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:58.200 the your guys, this is a new guy. I've come 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.640 to the realization to Cowboys art going to the Super 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:08.360 Bowl after all. Finally, just now with this victory Monday's Stampede, 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.360 I just realized it ain't happening this year. Well, there's 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:16.080 there's victories in two other places. There is there is 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.240 sorrow in two other places. Exactly, that's right, right, at 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.200 least we don't have to, uh, we don't have the 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.080 sorrow that they have in Kansas City this morning. Yeah. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.280 I was just telling the guard down the hallway. I said, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.960 you know, when you lose games like that, there's a 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.200 thousand reasons why, and they're having to go through that 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:41.120 today in Kansas City along with San Francisco. I think 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.840 the only thing about it if you look at you know, 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.320 failure this year, which guy, there was a lot of 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.320 with the upsets and it was a lot of it, 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.559 a lot of failure that you just didn't see coming. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.560 You didn't see the Packers losing. You just didn't see 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.960 it coming. You know. You you got a quarterback that 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.520 uh could be in VP and he retired it. You 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.760 know what I mean, he retired? Well did he retire? 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:09.880 We think everybody saying he has Adam Adam Schefter, he 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.600 came out first, rights come out of his mouth. Yes, 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.920 a lot of people would like to hear Adam Schefter retired, right, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:21.880 maybe Tom Brady will announce And it's amazing, Adam Schefter reported, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.840 Ian Rapperports suddenly had sources that told him the same thing. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.079 Not amazing. But when you look at it and you 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.079 compare failures, if it wasn't for the the you know, 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.919 them winning the Super Bowl, the Chiefs would be that 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.320 team that you would say, you know, they chiefed it up. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.320 You know what I mean, the chief They chief the 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.440 game up. So they become this verb. I think it's 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.760 just because they have so much confidence in what they're doing. 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.679 Sometimes they can get really foolish on the offensive side 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:53.639 of the Chiefs and it cost them this year. It 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.639 cost them. We'll get into that Tiver the course of 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.119 the next hour here on mix Shots on on Monday. Yeah, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.320 and then we moved to Monday. We switched with teammates, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.280 and so next week we will be back at our 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:13.280 normal offseason Thursday time. Yeah, what will I do? That's sad, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.840 but it's a great I love the fact that we're 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.680 doing Yesday this week because we can, uh, we can 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.200 talk about what everybody watched on on Sunday and uh 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.919 and spend it in a Cowboys way. What what can 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.880 this team learn from not only what happened on Sunday, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.320 but the teams that are making it to the Super Bowl, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.120 the Rams as well as the Bengals and how they 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.880 put their teams together. It's very interesting to to figure 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.240 that out and see what we can learn from them. Well, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.040 the thing we talked about after the Cowboys loss, and 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.760 I think after the next round of games that the 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:01.960 teams that advanced generally had the better offensive lines in 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:10.200 this one need you know, the second game, neither team 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.400 could run the ball much, right, but protecting the quarterback 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.120 in both games needed to be at a premium if 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.880 you weren't gonna win. You know, I saw somebody had 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:27.200 had a stat when Jimmy Garoppolo wasn't pressured. He had 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.240 completed eighty percent of his pass and then when he 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:36.520 was pressured, it was like two for nine. Well, shocking, right, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.160 that's the name of the game. Get pressure on a 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.080 quarterback and he's not gonna be as good as he 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.440 can stand in the pocket. Did you see that first 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.440 half the time Mahomes had in the pocket, he was 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.320 looking right, he was looking the middle. He was looking like, 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.800 oh no, I'm gonna go down this way. Unbelievable the 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.280 time he had. And then when the pocket disappe here 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:07.120 all of a sudden started making mistake he looked, yes, absolutely. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.960 So what I took from all this stuff is that 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.680 offensive line better be good if you're gonna succeed in 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.000 the playoffs, no doubt about it. Now you guys can 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.560 pick some well well, and I agree in going into 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.160 the Cincinnati Kansas City game with what Kansas City and 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.680 Kansas City realized that after the Super Bowl last year 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.160 they had to improve that offensive line. They acquired Orlando Brown. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.120 They have two rookies starting on the offensive line who 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.720 are very good players, and they shored it up and 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:42.840 then you saw, but you saw what happened with Joe 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.880 Burrow last week against Tennessee getting sacked nine times, And 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.200 so who would have thought that, Cincinnati, And you go 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 through the whole first half of that game, and I'm going, well, 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.560 we had some great games last week, but this, this 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.320 first one this week, it certainly isn't gonna shape up 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.200 that way. And then all of a sudden it's shaped 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.200 up that way. Yeah, And and credit Cincinnati for figuring 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.280 out a way to protect Borrow enough to where he 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.520 could make plays, and they were established able to establish 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.160 enough of a running game, you know, to bleed the 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.640 clock and can and gain control of that game. I 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.520 think what you saw was those stats and all of 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.640 that that we care about. Once again, first thing priority, 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.600 protect your quarterback as much as possible. But when it's 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.360 all said and done and you can't do what you 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:34.680 want to do, matchups are extremely important in the playoffs. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:40.000 You know, can your playmakers still come through no matter what? 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.480 You know? They don't. They don't sit back there and 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.760 start counting the sacks. They're like, Okay, we're still gonna 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.279 move forward in spite of the fact that we're giving 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.560 up sacks. They stay focused on the task at hand. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.120 And when it comes to the playoffs, you know, you 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.600 just gotta have a totally different attitude. You can't be 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.360 about numbers. It can't be about what your love like. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.560 It can't be about, Oh, we're inconsistent. Everybody's inconsistent in 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.120 the playoffs. That's because you come up with good against 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.120 good defenses. So we sit here in Dallas and we're 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.960 always worried about optics. We worried a lot about optics 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.800 and how it looks, and it affects the way we 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.280 make our play calls. To me, as far as I've 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.280 been saying matchups on the way to go, you tell 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.920 me you can whoop my man Michael Passes, You tell 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.160 me you can whoop my man trade var Did you 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.720 tell me you can whoop my man Gallimore? If you 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.040 can beat those guys, then you can have it. But 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:37.120 the game plan to me, is secondary to how well 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.280 you match up with the other team. You know, if 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.880 I had told you in the NFC game that Cooper 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.560 Cup was gonna catch eleven passes for one hundred and 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:50.240 forty two yards two touchdowns, Odell Beckham nine passes for 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.160 one hundred and thirteen yards, Matthew Stafford was gonna go 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.640 throw for three thirty seven, they would have scored forty points. Right, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.000 they end up with twenty twenty and one. And one 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.040 reason they end up with twenty and not twenty seven 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.480 is God Cooper Cup dropped a touchdowns, so they would 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.240 add another eighty yards or whatever the link of that 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:17.200 would be twenty. They're beatable. Right. San Francisco ends up 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.600 with seventeen. Right, they probably would have ended up with 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.000 seventeen against the Cowboys had they not had the interception 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.840 that gave him the easy kind of touchdown. And how 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.840 many they have against Green Bay? They had thirteen and 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.880 they and it was a special teams touchdown about thirteen 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.440 they didn't they didn't have it didn't So the hard 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.920 time those teams were beatable, they were beating This was 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.480 our us facts, this was it. I said that as 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.000 we were, they were. This was our year. If you're 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.160 gonna do it with this team this year, we could 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.640 have done it. And all excuses aside. You look at 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.560 how well we played Savvy even badly. As badly as 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.920 we played, still had a chance to beat San Francisco, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.360 who barely beat Green Bay, who barely lost to the Rams. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.360 The parody hate to use that word, but that that word, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.840 it's what we have. And it was really in spades 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.120 this year. This was the year that we really could 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.960 have done it. And really without even playing our best, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.960 we still could have done it. That's how that's how 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.319 weird this playoffs. These playoffs are and I'm telling you 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.640 it's all about matchup and just how many how many guts? 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.079 What kind of guts do you have? You know what 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.240 I mean? I mean, I mean you're gonna get hit 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.440 in the mouth in the playoffs. And Burrows got hit 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.600 in the mouth. Not how many times he gets sacked 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.920 nine times last week against Tennis. No, this week they 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.520 did good. He he only got sacked I think once 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:46.480 or nuns or nuns. I gotta think I've ever said 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.160 that word. I got it right here one time. And 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.559 he was only only hit four times coming off of 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.440 last week. That's a great adjustment, exactly, That's a great 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.240 adjustment to make no one thing he felt so by 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:02.920 the way, I didn't realize former Cowboys offensive line coaches, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:08.880 Cincinnati's line coach Frank Pollock, who these guys really liked here, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.120 and they let him go for Paul Alexander. If we 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:17.040 remember there's a trade with Cincinnati. The former long time 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.720 Cincinnati Bengal offensive line coach came here and Pollock landed there, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.000 and he's still there. And they you know, they spent 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.920 a first round draft pick on the tackle from Alabama, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.559 but he's still he doesn't have all that much to 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.880 work with. They haven't invested like a lot of people 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:36.040 in Cincinnati had wished they did in their offensive line, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.439 but they made the investment they needed to make in 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.120 and that was at the quarterback position. I had forgotten. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.599 I had forgotten that until I saw him on the 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.040 sideline in a shot and I go, wait a minute, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.200 that's Pollock. He's still there. And you know what else 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.719 was missing from this Basically this entire weekend. I just 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.679 did not see a lot of it at all. And 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:03.520 it made for good football. All penalties about that? Come on, man, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.440 and guess what. It was so enjoyable watch the game, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.599 Kansas City Cincinnati game, and the Bill Vanovitch was the 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.120 referee on that game. And I understand his crew during 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.880 the regular season, his crew, not this crew, but his 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.839 crew during the regular season called the fewest penalties in 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.400 the entire league. Now, you probably can referee even with 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:33.160 an all star cast of officials around him, the referee 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.160 can set the tone. They Okay, we're not going to 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.920 we're not gonna call tiki tax stuff. We're not gonna 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.240 do this or whatever. Yeah, and uh. And by the way, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.600 there was a couple of plays in the opening drive 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.720 for Kansas City where yeah, you could have made interference calls. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.480 You know, I'm sure, I'm sure Cincinnati fans were yelling. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:57.080 And if it was Anthony Brown, they would have called it. Yeah, yeah, exactly, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.439 that's right. But it was they would We were into 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.800 the second quarter before the first penalty flag was thrown 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.920 and it was an obvious false start or something like that. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:10.959 And well, and how about this the other crew for 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:15.119 the NFC game, Carl Scheffer's the most penalty most penalties 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:20.320 call and in this game they only called eight. Came 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.920 from the top of the league there and only against 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:29.199 the Rams only two. And I saw I think it 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.079 was the second game a couple delay of games that 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.480 didn't get mad and it was obvious. I'm thinking of 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.720 the horn. You're thinking of me, Think of the horn? 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:46.880 Where's the because you're it's crucial times of the game 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.160 as well, cruial times of the game, yes, and they 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.320 just let it slide. They just act like it didn't happen. Yeah, 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.960 it was there at least a half a second. All right, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:57.600 there was one, you know what. And by the way, um, 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.679 I ran into a guy that does some college games, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.360 and basically he kind of said that if it's like 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:10.959 really close, the conferences want you to just let it go. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:15.920 Let it go, unless it's like two. They did have 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.600 one of those. Yea, yeah, yeah. But but if if 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.360 it's like on zero and then they're snapping right whatever 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.480 TV right, they want to see offense, right, they want 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.800 to say they did. Yes, they don't want to stoppage 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.080 and play, especially as long as college games are. Yeah. Right. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.800 But to that point, there was one. And the second, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:37.240 I guess it was in the It was in the 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:38.839 I think it was in the second half of the 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.000 Kansas City game. It was a long pass crossing route 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:45.679 to Tyreek Hill and uh and on the when they 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.120 ran the play, he was in the inside. They had 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:53.280 three receivers to the left, they had the receiver on 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.400 the line of scrimmage out wide, they had one flank 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.160 and then he was the inside slot and he was 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.400 closer to line and I'm telling you he was on 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.040 the line of scrimmage, so he was covered by the 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.360 outside wide receiver. He makes the catch, and I said, well, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:09.760 there's got to be a flag on it, right, And 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.319 I went back and looked at it, and I took 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:12.679 a picture of it. I can send you the bit. 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.720 He clearly was at the line of scrim and they 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.520 didn't call it. No. Romo pointed it out, Oh really, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.880 I didn't. I didn't hear the point. I was probably 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.280 backing up my dvyard and he pointed out, he goes, look, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.800 that's too many guys on the line of okay, right, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.200 he goes, they can't have eight, right, and and they 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:35.360 let it go. And and uh, the sideline was complaining too. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.640 By the ways, he may have been a different play. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.240 It may have been they may have been done it 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.200 on multiple plays where they were just ignoring it. That 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.040 was the formation, that was the heavy formation. They went 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.240 that all the time. Yeah, and uh. And I went 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.520 back and I texted it to Babe Luffenberg and Babe's like, oh, yeah, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.000 it's good. And I said, well he's even with the 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.320 tackles even either, tyreek, what do you call the Babe 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:03.800 got me over here, I'll take a call and uh 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:10.480 so they visit aficionado of rules. Yeah, he just doesn't 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.880 see him. Well, you know, and the amazing things with 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.560 what Cheffer's his crew being the lead he beat hockily. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.920 After Hockeleague called twenty eight penalties in the Cowboy game, 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.280 he still wasn't first. So that tells you how many 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.640 penalties they were called. Ye, but they backed off. They 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.880 let him play, right. There was a tawning penalty that 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.160 was stupid. Yeah, yeah, it was dumb. That was dumb 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.640 or something. I think he stepped over the guy or 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.680 something and they called tawny and it's Z's al Sharier. Yes, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.000 very good. Um, all right, do you want to get 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.200 to the end of the first half Kansas City game? Yes, okay, 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.280 all right? Five seconds first off? His nine seconds left. 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:59.240 They ran one play. Now it's five seconds left. They 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.920 have no time him outs left. There had twenty one 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:07.720 to ten. What are you doing in that situation? You 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.920 mean the great Andy Reid didn't do it right and 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:17.400 the Homes Yeah, and Mahomes thought he had a time 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.240 out left at the end of that play. At the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.440 end of that play, he's called he's yeah, he looked 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:29.400 and beyond that, perplexed, beyond the sense of timing. As 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:34.560 soon as the first read wasn't there, okay, and he 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.920 double clutched, and then he threw it out to Tyreke. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.800 It was the halfs over. It was okay because he 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:44.280 did it on first down right with nine seconds to go. Uh, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.400 it wasn't open and he threw it in the ground 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.280 in the end zone. Right. You should have done that 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.520 again exactly if it had another it's it's a plant. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.720 I mean, five seconds left, it's a plant. First read. 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.280 If it's there, go for it. If not, you're throwing 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.680 it away. Because Romo pointed out that, and then you 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.600 got one seconds. You can get three plays off. He goes, now, 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.639 now Romo thinking right, but but but he was thinking 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.320 three plays you know, snap throw, yes, snap throw yes, 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.359 four seconds each time. You can't pump fake. Yeah, that's right, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.000 And that's three. If you pump fake easily, that's going 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.680 down to two plays. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And so 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.200 and you just did it. He went from nine to five. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.720 Now you can go five to one and just it's 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.280 the same principle. And I but if it's not there, 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.879 you can't double clutch and then throw it. Now okay, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.960 now half's over. And I just thought it was amazing 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.879 that he didn't have the Mahomes, didn't have the presence 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.960 herewood Reid did. No, he took took the fall. Four 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.800 fell on the sword. He said, I could have given 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.639 him a better play, right, And it's like, okay, maybe, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.400 but it didn't work. But to throw it in the ground. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.600 But you have to get points there, yeah, okay. And 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.080 I know it felt like that they were so in 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.640 control of the game. But I mean, huge, huge touchdown 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.959 for Cincinnati was getting it to twenty one to ten. 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:09.480 Yo boy, Yeah, I love that name. There were two 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:14.880 great runs that are both of them. Yes, that one, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.680 uh no, the one Mixons was good. But Debos oh yeah, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:27.560 my goodness. Wow. Yeah Joe John because ran right through 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.359 a lineback. But he just became a superstar. Yeah. I 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.240 know a lot of people loved him before, but now 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.080 everybody knows him. Yeah, so everybody's late to my party. 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.199 But at the end of that half, even if they 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.480 had kicked the field goal, you don't know that. Okay, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.480 those three points would have changed the whole game. It 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.280 had made a little difficult, but Cincinnati did a heck 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:54.080 of a job that second half, especially Burrow keeping his composure, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.840 not trying to win the game on one play, and 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.480 when he didn't have something there, he upped out his 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:04.000 offensive line running. His running backs helped him out a lot. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.800 They were outlets for him, and when they threw the 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.200 ball to him, they weren't surprised. Right. Sometimes Zeke looked 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.160 like he's so surprised that Dak fills in the ball 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.040 out the flat. So these guys, they when they called it, 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.440 they were ready to go. The running backs did a 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:21.600 lot in this game. Pete Ryan and h Mixing. They 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.399 did a great job. And that's where the matchups come in. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.160 They knew that they were gonna be so far deep. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.119 I mean, the linebackers were nowhere to be found for 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.639 for for Casey, because they thought they can control it 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:38.000 the front. It was the same thing they the Cowboys faced. Right. 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.920 The team's thought, especially San Francisco, we can control your 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.560 run game with our front, but you're not going to 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.000 throw the ball down the field. And I gotta say 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.520 I hate giving quarterbacks too much credit, but probably one 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.880 of the better players of that game was in Burrows. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.960 Came Broke, Chris Jones. Yeah, sactackle. Oh yeah, yeah, that 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.360 to me, that huge that he broke it twice, right, 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:07.639 even when he escaped feet and down, that was huge 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.719 and it uplifted the team itself. You know. The other 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.840 thing that was big in that game was the fact 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.040 that Kansas City was clicking on offense in the first half. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.800 I mean they were and it was all underneath stuff. 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.040 I mean it was you know, they were taking what 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.040 the defense gave him. But the key on that was 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.359 and I think in the game, Kansas City only completed 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.080 only had two plays of over twenty yards. That's what 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.359 I heard this morning. I'm not haven't confirmed it, but 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.359 but when you look at it, look at the number 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.800 of possessions that Kansas City had in the first half. Yeah, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.960 they were scoring touchdowns on them, but they only had 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.280 twenty one points. Yeah, okay, and they and they they scored, 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.639 They scored on their first three possessions, and then that 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.399 they only had four possessions in the first half of 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.000 that game. And then they get the ball again to 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.840 start the second half, which was the other reason. Why 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.280 take the point. You got to get points. You're getting 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.600 the ball back again, you know, And that's some of 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.119 the things that that that quarterbacks don't see. That the 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:12.000 guys that I definitely noticed during the game. I just 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:15.240 hate watching wide receivers just release off the line of 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:20.480 scrimmage with no one hindering their progress. Tyree Hill was 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.800 coming off the line of scrimmage. No one was touching 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.359 him when he was in that slot position. He was 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.960 the guy that they're going for the dbs. If you're 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.520 if you're a cornerback and you're lined up on him 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.720 and you just opened up they called the saloon door. 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:37.520 That's what they called. You opened up the saloon door, 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:41.280 your safety is immediately under pressure. So that's why he 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.200 was so successful in the in the first half. And 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.159 I remember fussing that my son. I'm sure he like 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.240 God Dad with your shouther. I remember fussed that my son, saying, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:52.240 why are they giving him a free release? Well they 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.560 did the same thing to cup what in in the 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.760 Cincinnati game second half? They changed, They changed, they did, 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:00.480 they did. They gave him free at least when he 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.040 was lined up outside, but if you lined up inside, 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.760 they finally started pressing him and now there's no more 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:08.840 pressure on him. So that's why you're looking at my 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:12.080 homes going and my Homes gets rattled because he's looking 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:16.920 for the guy in the opening before he goes. Mahomes 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:20.080 really eyeballs his receivers way too much and if any 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.320 defensive coordinating, I'm sure that's what they're catching up to 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:24.880 right now. They're finally catching up to him that he does. 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:27.800 He does not do well coming off of his first week. 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.520 They had two hundred and ninety two yards in the 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:35.359 first half, second half, Kansas City eighty three yards, eighty 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.800 three looking for him. They're looking for him all day long. 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.280 And what happens when they finally try to force it 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.880 into him safety. Did you notice what they were doing 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.000 with Kelsey in the second half, Okay, because that's the 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.640 other thing. It's either Hill or Kelsey. His guys, it's 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.639 probably Hill. First three, Kelsey saying yes, but yeah, you 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.159 got Kelsey for fifty. But then I'm sorry, you got 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:56.400 Hill for fifty, but Kelsey might go for fifteen. I'll 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.359 take the fifteen. You see what I'm saying. And they 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.720 did the same cup when he went in the slot, 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.359 they gave him like a five seven yard release. It's like, 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:07.879 what are you doing? You gotta get up on that 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.680 one touchdown which was a great route on his part. 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.439 So he gets on the safety right and how did 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:17.520 they get on the safety re release for for like 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:20.720 ten fifteen yards? Right? Yes? And then he cuts in 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:25.200 and the cornerback for some reason, it's a thirteen. It 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.680 was third and thirteen or second. And he's up on 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.200 the short guy and he's supposed to follow underneath, right. 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:34.720