WEBVTT - Mick Shots: COVID Complications 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:16.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick shot 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.720 screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.439 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:32.480 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, two out of three ain't bad 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.919 on a Tuesday inside the s WBC Mortgage studios at 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.400 Ford Center at the start in Frisco is Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.040 But where all? Where is Everson Walls? Yeah? Jos in 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.879 my inside my own studio. Everson had a I think 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.040 a prior commitment, and I think he was doing some 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:57.520 judging for a school thing. Um, so I think it's 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:03.200 so Noah, He's volunteering to do something. So yeah, I 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:08.280 didn't know if the NFL decided that he he needed 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.160 to stay out of his own personal SWBC mortgage studio 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.119 until tomorrow, right, and they'll open back the facility again. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.720 I like you. I like your opening. Two out of 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.759 three ain't bad? Was that like a meatloaf song or something? 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.360 There was? It was something like that, that's right, Yeah, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.600 And in fact, it could apply to the Cowboys schedule 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.679 going forward. If the Cowboys were going to take two 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.480 out of three coming up here, and it would be 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.440 of course at Baltimore. We'll get into the rescheduling on 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.840 that next Tuesday tentatively right now, and then at Cincinnati 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.440 in San Francisco. Can you imagine, well, the Cowboys will 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.040 be in the NFC standings if they can just win 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.480 two out of the next three games, mickey, they probably would. 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.280 They could very well be in first place by themselves. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.920 If you look at the other team, there's no doubt 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.080 to play, right. That's that's right, That's exactly right. That's 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.480 what I did late last night after Philly lost to 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.600 Seattle and dropping them to three seven and one, just 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.320 as step ahead of the Cowboys at three and eight. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:23.880 And you've got the Giants in Washington atop the division 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.320 at four and seven right now, and I'm searching for 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.120 it as I speak here. Who do they play this week? 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.880 It's an ominous schedule for the NFC East this week, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:42.960 aside from Dallas playing at Baltimore next Tuesday. You have 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.320 it at your disposal there in a heartbeat, I can 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:56.320 call it up in a minute if I wrote it down, 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:58.360 and I've just tried to remember when I wrote it, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:02:59.919 you know, we had a lot of shows to fill 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.520 here the last couple of weeks, and I wrote it 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.920 down to make a huge point. And I guess it 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:08.959 was longer ago than I thought. In my big blue 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:12.480 Dallas Cowboy notebook here where I log all the games, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.120 so I'm going too far back. But anyway, one of 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:21.680 the teams plays the Packers. Anyway, as I find that 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.920 the it's it's pretty incredible. I did the math before 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.280 going to bed last night. I did the math on it. 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:33.040 Go ahead, Mickey. The Giants are at Seattle. The Giants 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:39.920 are at Seattle. That's a loss, okay, and without their quarterback, 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:50.120 although that might help them cope. McCoy starting. Washington plays Pittsburgh. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.960 They're at at Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh, that's right, that's a loss, 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.480 so okay, so let's carry it forward. The Giants then 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.520 fall to four and eight. Washington falls to four and eight, 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:04.800 and what are the Eagles doing? Well, it doesn't matter 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 who the right playing the Saints, all right? At the 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.040 Packers Okay, Oh no, I'm sorry, the Packers. Yeah, I 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.480 got ahead of myself at the Packers. At the Packers. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.800 At the Packers. So they fall to three eight and one. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.200 So let's just say, okay, so that if the Cowboys 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.760 were to shock the world and win at Baltimore, which 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.520 will now have Lamar Jackson next Tuesday, Okay, they would 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.800 be at four and eight in a tie with the 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.480 Giants in Washington for first place. How about that? They 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.920 would be all three of them would be four and eight, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.960 and Philly would be a half game behind them. But 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.680 let's just say, just for grins, that Dallas doesn't win 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.640 that game and they fall to three and nine. Let's 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:52.240 take it forward to the next week. Philadelphia plays New 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.599 Orleans the following week, all right, okay, loss, Let's say 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.720 they fall to three to nine and one. The Giants 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:05.360 play Arizon. Okay, could Arizona fully capable of beating the Giants? 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.400 And so they fall to what would that would be 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:16.560 four and nine? Right? Washington plays at San Francisco in Arizona, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.400 and you know, and the way San Francisco is playing. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.000 San Francisco beat the Rams on Sunday, I mean, they 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.960 are as many injuries as the forty nine ers have had. 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.080 They are. What a terrific coaching job they're doing out there, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.560 Kyle Shanahan and getting that team geared up to play 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.800 each week. But let's say San Francisco beats Washington. Okay, 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.799 they're now four and nine and the Cowboys are playing 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.040 at Cincinnati. So if the Cowboys beat Cincinnati, they would 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:50.120 then be tied with the Giants in Washington, and then 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:56.640 the following week. The following week, Philadelphia plays at Arizona, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:03.560 the Giants play Cleveland, in Washington plays Seattle. These other 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.880 three teams in the division may not win a game 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.000 until the last couple of weeks of the season when 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.480 they start playing each other, until they play the facts. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.880 In fact, the Giants in week sixteen play at Baltimore, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.760 and Washington plays Carolina. Well, Dallas plays Philadelphia. I mean, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.159 this thing crazy as it sounds, this thing and as 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.800 devastating as what Thursdays seem like for Cowboys fans, the 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.880 way that thing ended. This thing is far from over 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.280 in the NFC East. So now, having set all that, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.240 can you piece together an offensive line that can help 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.560 the Cowboys score more than something in the teams in 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.680 these next couple of games. That'll be the key, right, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.840 because chances are, all right, they're probably saddled with the 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.200 same guys they finished the Washington game with going forward 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.760 in these at least these next two games at the 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.600 backle position. Okay, all right, here's what I'm looking at 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.000 with the schedule of the NFC East teams. If you 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.119 can just be within a game going into the last 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.440 two games against Philadelphia the Giants, So if you can 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.960 get Zach Martin back for the last two games, you 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.760 got a shot to win this division at five at eleven. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.800 I'm telling you it's possible. So uh, and I got 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.080 I got a I should have brought my NFL hat 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.960 today because I got a bone to pick with the NFL. Okay, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:41.520 So they've pushed these games back. Right for Baltimore the Cowboys, Um, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.680 they're end up playing Tuesday, right, It's a night game 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.440 at Baltimore, Okay, and then the next game they play 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:55.200 is at Cincinnati on Sunday. So two road games in 0:07:55.240 --> 0:08:01.400 a row, right, Uh, two games within six days. And 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:06.160 if you think about it, since they're playing at Baltimore 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.800 a night game on Tuesday, Wednesday's gonna be a wash 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.600 for the Cowboys because by time they get back on 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.400 their charter flight, it'll be three o'clock in the morning 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:22.120 here or close to it. So Wednesday's at wash you 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:28.120 got Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you're flying to Cincinnati, all right, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:34.520 But how about this Baltimore, because they've caused this whole thing. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.560 They get to play at home on Tuesday night, so they, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.480 you know, if they want, they can be in bed 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:46.120 by midnight. Their next game it's a Monday night game, 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:52.840 so they get an extra day rest after these games 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:59.400 had been pushed back, and somehow that to me didn't 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.480 Now there on the road, but it's not that far. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.520 They're at Cleveland, but it's a Monday night game, so 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.520 they've got an extra day to prepare for their game. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.240 Where the Cowboys get cheated out of an extra day 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.920 to prepare for their game, and they're they're no fault 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.160 through their own now. Jerry was asked this morning on 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.480 his show if he thought they would push the Cowboys 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.560 Cincinnati game to Monday night, and he didn't sound hopeful. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.079 He didn't really want to answer the question because I 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.040 bet in his mind he's thinking that's what needs to happen. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:37.480 So you know, I saw he was playing it close 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.440 to the vest because because all things are subject to change, right, right, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.440 and so there was no reason for him to go 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.960 out and say and make a statement about it, you know. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.240 But the NFL's statement about all these games was this, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.120 these decisions were made out of an abundance of caution 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.200 to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches, and 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.160 game day personnel, and in consultation with the medical experts. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.640 I wonder if they asked the medical experts if it's 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.679 a good thing to play two games in six days 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.400 and both on the road and not have the normal 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:15.000 preparation time, like do the Cowboys have to start spending 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.120 time this week preparing for Baltimore and Cincinnati because they're 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.280 going to get cheated out of a day of preparation 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.880 and a day of rest going into that game. So 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.480 you got to hope whatever they can store up this 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.720 week getting ready for a Tuesday game will last them 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:37.840 for getting short sheeted going into that Cincinnati game. Well, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.080 and the other part of that is you're coming off 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.959 two games in five days, all right, and then your 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.280 next two games would be now that granted it is 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.960 twelve days later, but your next two games or two 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.560 games in six days. Yeah, so four games and someone 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.000 much smarter than me would and who knows about how 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:04.000 an athlete recover from our NFL players recover from a game. 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.400 How much that tax is a body to come back 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.480 on short rest for your next game. It's one thing. 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.160 Every team in the league does it once during a season, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.280 but to do it twice in the span of a 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.599 couple of weeks, I don't know. Yeah, and and and 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.959 you know, and I mean, I understand what's going on 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.200 in Baltimore. I get it, and it's part of this year. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:30.840 But again, you know, they they are responsible for their guys, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.640 and their guys are responsible for their actions. And they 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.079 admitted that it was their guy that did it. Yea, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.800 And they discipline the guy who started it there and 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.319 it's still and it's still going to their staff member. Yeah, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.839 and it's still going. So they've had I was reading 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.120 the story. They've had twenty two players test positive or 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.320 get identified for high risk close contact over the past 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.319 nine days. You know, we've been doing this for three 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.080 or four months, and all of a sudden, uh, you 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.400 know it it breaks out. Uh. And even what they 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.400 had somebody test positive again yesterday that they wouldn't have 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.839 available twenty on COVID ridge, I saw they had like 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:18.240 thirty eight guys that were eligible to play. Uh, I 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.640 guess I was gonna say tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow night's Wednesday, right, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.680 I've lost track of the days in the order of things. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:30.760 But it's an afternoon game because the White House. Yeah, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:38.559 he's a Rockefeller Center tree lighting is on that. Yeah. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.920 And maybe they didn't realize it. It was the Cowboys, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:46.400 by the way, because going forward, I saw a note 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.359 on Twitter if I can trust it, that the Cowboys 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.600 Redskins game was the most watched NFL game so far 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:58.560 this season. The Cowboys Washington Football. Yeah, okay, I got 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:05.120 it was the So it was the most watched, isn't 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.840 it annually the most watched the Thanksgiving three thirty in game, 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.280 or maybe everybody was making up for they knew they 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:16.360 couldn't watch another game at you know, And I haven't 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.920 seen those ratings, but I would not be surprised if 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.520 those numbers are higher than they have been. You know, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.800 the way they the way they do the TV ratings, 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.840 it's you. It's you know, you basically have to be 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.160 at home and have your your TV turned on. And 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.040 there wasn't as much travel this year, and so more 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.360 people were at their home where they would be monitored 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:44.200 for the ratings. So I wouldn't be surprised if the 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.440 ratings were higher just because of that, and there's not 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.200 and they're not going over to you know, to mom 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.920 and Dad's house maybe to watch, and so instead of 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.120 using one TV, you're you're using three TVs. So that's 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:05.280 a good point. So, well, there's a lot still to 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.960 get to from that Thursday game because we just had 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.400 one show since then, and we talked about some of 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.360 the some of the aspects of that game. But how 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.679 about we start with before we go to break, And 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.840 we just got a couple of minutes before break, and 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.000 we were talking a little bit about this prior to 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.040 coming on. You know, in the NFC East, it's been 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.600 sixteen years since we've had a repeat winner. And when 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.640 you look at what's going on in Philadelphia, you know, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.760 obviously here in Dallas, the Cowboys have as many problems 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.760 as anybody, and so this is not casting stones at 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:44.160 someone else, but they really have to be disturbed with 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.320 what's going on. And they've had injury issues too. I 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.200 understand that in Philadelphia, But what's going on with Carson 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.600 Wentz and the Eagles right now, I think it's pretty 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.680 safe to say as jumbled up as it is in 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:03.600 the NFC East. We're probably going to have another different 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.920 winner this year in the NFC East. I think it's 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.600 going to be New York, Washington or Dallas. No, No, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.280 well think about it. So all three teams right now 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.320 are basically and I don't know how you want to 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.680 count Alex Smith, right, but all three of those teams 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:25.000 are playing with backup quarterbacks. That's right, because it looks 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.200 like Daniel Jones is out for at least a couple 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:33.320 of weeks. And the way he looked going down, so 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.920 I think they it was a calf strain is that what? 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:42.040 I what? I or hamstring? I can't remember which, but again, yeah, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.600 that looked bad. I know Alex Smith is a starting quarterback, 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.360 but he hasn't played and if you look at you know, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.920 his performance against the Cowboys, I mean he was dinking 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.400 and dunking underneath, throwing to the running backs, the tight ends. 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.840 Do you think the Cowboys defense might have caught onto 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.320 that at some point? By the way, because he certainly 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.760 wasn't stretching the field. Their defense may give them the 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:11.920 best shot the way they're playing defensively, because they're shot. Yeah, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.280 they're they're they're not lighting it up and playing up 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:19.200 front against you know, the NFC East teams that are 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.960 basically all seem to be having problems on the offensive line, right, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.400 and keep in mind that the you know, the Giants 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:30.600 had one of their tackles opted out to start the season, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.840 and they they're starting a rookie at at left tackle 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.760 and Cam Fleming at right tack But I laugh because 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.800 you saw the Giants game on Sunday, didn't you? The 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.720 end of the Giants game, Yes, the penalty on Cam Fleming, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.240 I don't know, almost way to the end. Yeah, there 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.520 is a there is a penalty. The Giants basically put 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.480 the game away. I believe it was a pass to 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.440 the right side. I can't remember, but anyway, Uh, Cam 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.640 Fleming was called for a hold. It was away from 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.960 the play and I thought, of you did your love 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.879 for Cam Flevi at that point. And now, as it 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.040 turned out, they wound up winning the game anyway, but 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.879 he they came close to losing because of the Cam 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.640 Fleming holding call and could I think I can't even 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.959 remember the specifics of it. But anyway, because they've had 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.720 issues on their offensive line, Yeah, Washington, you know, Washington 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.040 might be the healthiest on their offensive line. But you 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.320 know they're still you know, they lost Trent Williams, who 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.840 is their main stay. 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And 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.480 so when you were donning Mickey, you're donning your your 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.439 referees hat, it was in regard to what the NFL 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.040 is doing with the Cowboys schedule, right, Yeah, there wasn't 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:39.600 something else. So I didn't see, Okay, I didn't see 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:44.600 you threw a flag on them? Yeah, okay, all right, 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:50.159 all right. I'm still at a loss on the thirty 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.679 seven yard touchdown run that put the game away the 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:57.040 other day. And uh, you know when it happened, I 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.320 went back on the TV copy. You know, I'm watching 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.560 on my back porch because I was socially distancing for 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.600 my brother in law who is here much too long 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:13.399 over the weekend. That was a joke. He exceeded the 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:16.760 forty eight hour rule. He exceeded the forty eight hour 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.480 rule that is normally in effect. But he thought he 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:22.199 could stay because he's already had COVID anyway, and he 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.960 wasn't a threat to me, he thought anyway. So I'm 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:28.120 on the back porch watching the game, and I said, 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.479 I see that touchdown run, and I backed it up 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:36.600 four or five times, going what defense are they in? 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.320 And then going back and looking at the coaches film 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.560 on it. I just don't understand it. I do not 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:50.719 understand why they would be in that defense in that situation. 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:55.400 Thirty six from the thirty seven with three thirty left 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:01.760 in the game, and Washington hasn't shown a propensity in 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.679 that game or any time to throw the football to 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.960 a wide receiver. There's a tight end on the field, 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:12.200 there's two running backs, they're in twenty one personnel, and 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.600 you've got six defensive backs. Jalen Smith is the only 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:18.440 linebacker on the field. It didn't appear. I thought, maybe 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:21.639 on the previous play, did vander Esch look like he 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:25.080 had hurt himself or anything, and didn't see anything like that. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:30.960 Vander esh played over sixty snaps in the game. But 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:36.760 even more than that, the alignment is you've got they 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.520 had a pass rush alignment on the field in that 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:45.440 you had at Randy Gregory at right defensive end, Alden 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:52.000 Smith inside at tackle, playing basically a three technique. Tyln 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:56.359 Crawford was between the guard and center, basically your one technique, 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.359 and DeMarcus Lawrence says the left defensive end. And you 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.040 had Jalen come up to the line of scrimmage in 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.600 front of one of the best guards in the NFL, 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:11.919 Brandon Sheriff, And all it took for Sheriff to knock Smith. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:15.720 I mean he bailed at the time of the snap, 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.399 but all it took for Sheriff was to it was 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.919 to get his hands on Smith, and he wasn't going 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:22.720 to get be able to get over there and stop. 0:23:22.960 --> 0:23:26.400 But it was a huge hole there to the left 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:30.919 of the center, and I'm going, and besides the fact 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:33.760 that there's no safety held back there, but there was 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:38.200 nothing on the second level, And I'm going, why why 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:41.520 would you have a defense like that in that situation? No, 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:44.800 You're You're absolutely right. And I had I had written 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:49.440 down on my notes two running backs, one tight end, 0:23:50.080 --> 0:23:54.639 one linebacker, and the linebacker was on the line of scrimmage. 0:23:55.040 --> 0:23:58.639 So off the line of scrimmage, the closest guy to 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:02.360 the line of scrimmage one of the safeties, So they 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.960 were at the thirty seven. One of the safeties was 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:08.760 at the Cowboys twenty eight, and the other one was 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.720 at the twenty three. And the two cornerbacks were playing man. 0:24:13.200 --> 0:24:16.040 So they're out of the play right because they're they're 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:20.520 they're watching the wide receiver. The tight end was kind 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.280 of in the slot off the line of scrimmage. So yeah, 0:24:24.359 --> 0:24:29.160 there once he cleared the line of scrimmage, basically, there 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:32.080 was no one there to make a tackle. One linebacker 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:37.840 and I don't get it. And all you gotta do, 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:44.520 even if you don't even forget about identifying that they're 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:49.119 in a dime defense, just identify the personnel on the 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:52.840 defensive line. They are in a defense that is designed 0:24:52.840 --> 0:24:55.919 to rush the passer. What Alden Smith does is not 0:24:56.040 --> 0:24:59.520 play run defense. It's been his ears back and get 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:02.200 after the quarterback. And that's why you would put him 0:25:02.280 --> 0:25:05.600 in that inside position to you get your best pass 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:09.439 rushers on the field. And so but it just it 0:25:09.520 --> 0:25:13.439 made no logical sense from a Washington perspective why they 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:16.600 would throw the football in that situation because they want 0:25:16.640 --> 0:25:20.680 to run the clock they don't have Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. Now. 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:23.520 With Mahomes, as he showed the other day, you can 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.840 you can, you know, throw to Tyreek Hill and it's 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:30.320 it's and get that first down to in the game. Uh. 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:32.680 And it's much more effective than running the ball because 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:35.640 you can. You've got the best quarterback going right now. 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:42.040 But anyway, it's just it. I was beside myself, and 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:44.720 I think and that it was a game at that point. 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:50.680 Still it was twenty seven to sixteen, Um, so anyone, no, no, 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:56.600 I absolutely agree with you on all that. And and 0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:02.920 I'm not sure where the Cowboys were with their timeouts 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.120 at that time, but still I think they had used one. 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:08.119 They had used an early time out, and so they 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:10.560 only had two timeouts left. There was two timeouts left. 0:26:10.560 --> 0:26:13.120 They used the first one on third and one at 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:18.640