1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Man Center Podcast. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: I'm Logan paulsa here with Fred Smooth and Santana Moss 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 2: and we as always have a. 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: Very very special show for you. Today we are going to. 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 2: Air an episode of hail Tails talking. 6 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: About the Monday Night Miracles. 7 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:18,159 Speaker 2: So we figured this would be a great opportunity for 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 2: our guys, Tana just to kind of give a quick 9 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: quick overview of maybe how he feels this connected him 10 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 2: to the fan base here. 11 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: I know, every time we go out to anything, people 12 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: are like Monday Night Miracle, Cowboy Killer. Yes, yeah, I 13 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: mean yeah, So how does this feel? 14 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 3: I think May Night Miracle basically stamped me as the 15 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 3: Cowboy Killer before I even got going. And you know, 16 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 3: having those bigger games, I think that game. Think about 17 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 3: it if your first game ever against a team in 18 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,240 Speaker 3: your division was a game that actually it was the 19 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 3: first game my first time ever playing against the Cowboys, 20 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 3: so it was the first time in the rivalry of 21 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: me being introduced to the rivalry. Yeah, I had a 22 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 3: performance like that, so prematurely I was stamped the Cowboy Killer, 23 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 3: and almost every time I got to face them, that 24 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 3: was the pressure I was carrying. I had to really 25 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 3: go out there and have big performances. But I love 26 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,680 Speaker 3: the fact that in all the memories of the fans 27 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: when it comes to this rich history we have as 28 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 3: a team, and they bring up that as their super Bowl. 29 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 3: So that's what I get. That's the gratification I get 30 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 3: out of it. 31 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think that's that's really cool, really exciting, 32 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 2: and again like it's such an iconic moment here for 33 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 2: the franchise. 34 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: For the friends, for the fan base. Fred, do you 35 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 1: have any I'm here. I renamed it No. 36 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 4: I was looking from Afar, I was in Minnesota. 37 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: I left. 38 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 4: I just left. 39 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 5: So I called it not the Monday Night Miracle. I 40 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,959 Speaker 5: call it the Monday Night massacre because I'm watching it. 41 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 5: Of course, I'm pulling for Washington at this time. And 42 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 5: then I'm like, oh man, we can lose this game, 43 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 5: and time running out. 44 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,480 Speaker 4: It just it looked like it wasn't a chance. And 45 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 4: then I see Tanner burning a coach. He burned coach. 46 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: Listen to me. 47 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 5: I was like, let's dude, the bullet not once did 48 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 5: they like? I was like, okay, he ran pass him once. 49 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 5: They ain't gonna let it happen no more. And he 50 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 5: ran pass him again and I could not That. 51 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 2: Is pretty wild, but that that happened in such a 52 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: short time frames basically the same player, right. 53 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, basically one of them was a post on the post. 54 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 3: The other one was just a straight post, you know 55 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 3: what I mean? But I think too, man, when you 56 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 3: think about it, and this is something that a lot 57 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 3: of football players can probably contest to, is just or 58 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 3: havn't had that experience. You visualize yourself having big performances, 59 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 3: but you couldn't imagine in a million years to have 60 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 3: one like that. 61 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, you see what I'm saying, Like, you know how many. 62 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: Times I don't visualize myself having a big game and 63 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 3: had a big game, but I never had a game 64 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 3: that just ended like that, like you took the game 65 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: over And I don't even want credit for saying I 66 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: took the game because it took a lot for us 67 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: to have that moment. Defensively, had to make stops, quarterback, 68 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 3: had to get the ball up so but just to 69 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: be on the other side of catching that pass and 70 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 3: being the guy that scored those touchdowns, man, it's just 71 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 3: in the world. 72 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,799 Speaker 4: And that's why you know, I walked so my head. 73 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 4: Did you feel like you was in a zone. 74 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 1: You know, we get to the zone, I. 75 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 3: Feel like I was Mario and I got the damn mushroom, 76 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 3: you know, feeling nobody it's the same feeling I felt 77 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 3: numerous of times. The one time it was the time 78 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 3: after that the next year against Jacksonville, like it's like, 79 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: no matter what they throw up at you. 80 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: Come down by the way, you know what I mean, 81 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,839 Speaker 2: So that I had that feeling. So Jason helps out 82 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: on that show too. You're a producer, right, Jason is. Yeah, 83 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: producers obviously they heard Tanna's perspective holes right to hear 84 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: about from the. 85 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: Episode Shawn Springs on there. 86 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 6: You guy there, Nick Novak kicked to the extra point 87 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 6: and touch down there. That was his first game. 88 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: Him and Tanna. Yeah, obviously bigger game for Tanna. 89 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 6: But yeah, coaches that were on the sideline with you 90 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 6: Tanner tell us about how Tanna was, like what it 91 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 6: was your attitude was like in the game, and like, yeah, man, 92 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 6: you know I was. I don't think I've told you this, Tanna, 93 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 6: but I was a kid when this was happening, really younger, 94 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 6: and I would watch games with my dad, and I 95 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 6: don't know, I didn't get this from my dad. But 96 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 6: I would watch every game till the whistle blew, until 97 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 6: the clock at zero. I never gave up. I don't know, 98 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 6: maybe I hadn't been too many times yet, but my 99 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 6: father had, so he was like, I'm going to bed. 100 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 6: So he went to bed and I and when you 101 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 6: caught that touchdown, I started screaming and my dad thought 102 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 6: something's wrong. So he comes out. I'm like, no, this 103 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 6: guy Moss, this guy Moss, He's just and then we 104 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 6: watched the rest of the game together. It was like 105 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 6: a bonding moment for me and my dad, Like just 106 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 6: a good football memory for us. 107 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, you provided that. But that was my intro 108 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: man to d C. And I mean the rest with history. 109 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 4: I was on a half of. 110 00:04:54,240 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: Next ten Years. Remember, well, it's a great episode. 111 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think it's always cool to hear from Tenne, 112 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 2: but I think it's also cool to hear those other 113 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: people that they can talk about. Its cool to hear 114 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 2: Jason's respective and why it's so important for the city 115 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: of DC. 116 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: And that's up right now. 117 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 4: Time Horizon's defense. 118 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 7: It's in the shut off. 119 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 8: Thirteen tons had turned off their televisions. Under five minutes 120 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 8: remained in the fourth quarter of a Week two primetime 121 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 8: showdown between Washington and Dallas. The air is hot and 122 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 8: thick in the domed Texas Stadium. 123 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 7: Cowboys are on top thirteen zero. 124 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 9: He's like a great relief pitcher who dunge in with 125 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 9: the lead and if he has a thirteen or more 126 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 9: point lead anytime in the fourth quarter. Seventy seven and oh. 127 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 8: The Burgundy and Gold hadn't won in Dallas in a decade. 128 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 8: In his entire Hall of Fame career, Dallas head coach 129 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 8: Bill Parcells had never lost when leading by thirteen or 130 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 8: more points anytime during a fourth quarter. 131 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 9: I'll tell you we have seen some improbables these years. 132 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 9: This was only a thirteen nothing game, but this new 133 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 9: ran right up there in terms of improbability. 134 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 8: A killer born, the heart of a team revealed. What 135 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 8: happens is one of the most exciting, one of the 136 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 8: most memorable spectacles in the last twenty five years of 137 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 8: Washington football. This is hail Tales Stories from Washington football history, 138 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 8: the Monday Night Miracle. Heading into the two thousand and 139 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 8: five season, there were embers of hopes smoldering in Washington. 140 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 8: A year earlier, the legendary Joe Gibbs had come out 141 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,239 Speaker 8: of retirement to become head coach of the team again. 142 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 8: All Pro defensive back Sean Springs remembers the crescendo of 143 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 8: optimism in Ashbourne. 144 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 10: Well, I think it started with four where you know, 145 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 10: we all have a whole bunch of free agents. Myself, 146 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 10: Marcus Washington, Clinton Ports scatted traded from Denver to Washington. 147 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 10: We had pretty good group of free agents that came in. 148 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 10: And coach Gibbs first year so he had pretty much 149 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 10: changed over the whole organization and team, and we had 150 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 10: a rough two thousand and four, but we felt like 151 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 10: we were building on something. Two thousand and five, we'd 152 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 10: had one year on that I belt with being with 153 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 10: coach Gibbs, we had a great offseason, great spring. 154 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 8: Springs was part of a Washington defense led by defensive 155 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 8: coordinator Greg Williams that had all the talent, toughness, and discipline. 156 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 7: The unit in two. 157 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 8: Thousand and five featured other difference makers like Sean Taylor. 158 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 11: Is intercepted by Sean Taylor his second pick today. Sean Taylor, 159 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 11: Tanner Tanner, my God, Tannler. This Sean Taylor at the 160 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,479 Speaker 11: knockout punch maybe. 161 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 7: LeVar Arrington. 162 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 9: He's a big hit for LaVar Arrington if he did. 163 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 7: And Marcus washington. 164 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 8: Life where most of the questions swirled was around the 165 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 8: other side of the ball. Former Washington Beat writer Jason 166 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 8: lock and Form explains. 167 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 12: Really for me, it was about is this going to 168 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 12: be a modern NFL offense or isn't it? 169 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 4: Are they going to be able to produce an. 170 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 12: Offense that's even close enough to league average to allow 171 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 12: what had been a really good defense to kind of 172 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 12: lead them somewhere? Could they be a playoff team or 173 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,119 Speaker 12: wild card ish team. 174 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 8: Moves were made in the offseason to ramp up the offense. 175 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 8: Quarterbacks coach Bill Musgrave joined the staff, adding the shotgun 176 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 8: formation to Washington's playbook. Left tackle Chris Samuels was given 177 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 8: a contract that included the richest signing bonus in franchise history, 178 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 8: and a very important weapon. 179 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 7: Was added to Washington's wide receiver. 180 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 13: Room wide receiver Lavernius Cole traded to the Jets for 181 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 13: Santana Moss. In Moss, the Redskins obtained an explosive wide 182 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 13: receiver with blazing speed who is also a dynamic punt returner. 183 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 13: We're excited to have Santana Moss Vice president Phinnis Ferado 184 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 13: said yesterday, he's been a touchdown maker and he has 185 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 13: great speed. 186 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 3: Just looking at that season as a whole, two thousand 187 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 3: and three to two thousand and four, I was trending upward, 188 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 3: you know, especially still on my rookie deal, and I 189 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 3: remember coming into the season at four with perhaps an 190 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 3: agreement of verbal agreement with my agent and the ownership 191 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 3: of Hates to be gonna take care Tana, you know, 192 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 3: probably before the season or why the season going on, 193 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden in three sixty things changed. 194 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 3: So to come to get into the offseason after a 195 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 3: playoff Berth that would have been my third playoff appearance 196 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 3: in four years, and to hear that I'm about to 197 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 3: be traded, I scratched in my head. But at the 198 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 3: same time, when I understood what was going on, I 199 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: was ecstatic about the opportunity and just knowing that I 200 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: had some guys over here in Washington that I couldn't 201 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 3: wait to play with him Now. 202 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 8: The storylines about Washington's offense and defense would be underscored. 203 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 8: In the team's season opening win against the Bears. 204 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 9: Everything expected close defensive battles. 205 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 4: Curingly offensive numbers except for Porters. 206 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 9: One hundred and twenty one yards not a lot to 207 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 9: look at, but the Skins win the game. 208 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 8: No touchdowns scored by Washington. Defense was the star of 209 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 8: the show and the task ahead would only be tougher. 210 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 14: Anytime you go going to Dallas, certain playing the Cowgirls, 211 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 14: it gets even more intensified. 212 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 8: Clinton portis NFL offensive Rookie of the Year, two time 213 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 8: Pro Bowler, member of Washington's ninety greatest. 214 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 14: You know, the city is kind of an electure, especially 215 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 14: coming off of wad So the Sydney electure. Everybody Cowboys, Cowboys, 216 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 14: Cowboys week, Cowboys. 217 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 15: We people ask you know what do you miss about 218 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 15: the NI not being there? 219 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 4: It's that rivalry. 220 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 8: Joe Gibbs, three time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Famer 221 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,719 Speaker 8: and coach of that two thousand and five team. 222 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 15: As much as when you say Redskins and Cowboys, nobody's 223 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 15: on the fence here. 224 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 4: You are one or the other. 225 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 15: That's what makes I think the NFL really special because 226 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 15: you do build up rivalries, and that comes from playing 227 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 15: somebody twice a year. 228 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 8: And in this era of the rivalry, two renowned coaches 229 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 8: were facing off in Gibbs and Dallas's Bill Parcells. 230 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,599 Speaker 15: Bill Parcells to me was I think one of the 231 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 15: most talented guys to ever coach in the NFL. I 232 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 15: had great respect for him. 233 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: I laugh. 234 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 15: I said, now sometimes when I wake up in the 235 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 15: middle of the night with the or it's Billed parcelsick. 236 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 15: I found he was really gifted as a coach. Didn't 237 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 15: like going against Parcels. And when he was with the Giants, 238 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 15: we had some classic battles. 239 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: And then. 240 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 15: I said, it's the worst thing that happened. Now they 241 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 15: get in coaching the Cowboys. I said, that's not a 242 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 15: good thing. 243 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 7: So the stage was set. 244 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 8: Week two of the two thousand and five season, Washington 245 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 8: heads to Dallas for a showdown at the iconic Texas Stadium. 246 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: It was different. 247 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 3: I mean, even though the stadium was considered old at 248 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 3: that time, it was star studded. I mean, you can 249 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 3: honestly feel a different energy. 250 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 4: In the building when you're there. 251 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,439 Speaker 1: The way it was. 252 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 3: Set up, the way it looked, I mean just the 253 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 3: arrival alone, how the fans greeted you. It was like 254 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 3: you was coming into a place where you wasn't liked, 255 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 3: and the fans that you know out the gate, but 256 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,839 Speaker 3: beyond that is just when you entered that stadium, when 257 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,360 Speaker 3: you saw that big star in the middle of the field, 258 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 3: you knew this is what I watched before, you know, 259 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 3: as a kid man watching big games being played in 260 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 3: this stadium. 261 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 8: The pregame buzz was particularly amplified for kicker Nick Novack. 262 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 16: My first NFL game was a Monday night game. 263 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 8: Novak, a Charlottesville, Virginia native, who had played at the 264 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 8: University of Maryland, had just been signed a couple of 265 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 8: days earlier after spending time on Dallas's practice squatch. 266 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 17: Getting the opportunity to go from Maryland to now the 267 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 17: Washington Redskins was was a rare opportunity. I think a 268 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 17: whole lot of guys I think had played for their 269 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 17: hometown team. And I even stayed in Nashburne with my cousins, 270 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 17: stayed at their house so i'd be. 271 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 16: Close to home. I was. 272 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 17: It was during the season, so I got picked up, 273 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 17: you know, I didn't know where I was gonna stay. 274 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 17: Definitely heard what the neighbors had to think about the 275 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 17: game and all that stuff after every game, so that 276 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 17: was fun. 277 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 16: But yeah, I knew it was it was. It was. 278 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 16: It was everything to try to beat that team. 279 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 17: And I'm sure if I stayed on the Cowboys back 280 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 17: in preseason it'd be it would be the opposite thing. 281 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 9: Here we go at the end of the week. Number 282 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 9: two Tyson Thompson, a great looking rookie out of San 283 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 9: Jose State, maybe the fastest guy. 284 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: On the team. 285 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 9: Nick Novack just signed as a click cup against John 286 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 9: hold his hurt to put it in the ear and 287 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 9: the Cowboys would take it from the seven yard. 288 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 8: The game does not start off well for Washington. Former 289 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 8: center Casey Rabach remembers. 290 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 4: Offensively, we were just flat. 291 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: We really were. 292 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 4: It wasn't from lack of preparation or anything like that. 293 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 18: It just it just came out flat, just kind of 294 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 18: not not in tune with each other. We couldn't get 295 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 18: the run game going, the passing game was was non existent. 296 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 4: Protection wise, We're horrible up front. I've started at the 297 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 4: Washington thirty one yard line. 298 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 9: Brabelle out of the shotgun, a formation that Washington did 299 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 9: not use. 300 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: It all last year, and maybe that's one of the 301 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: reasons Brenell loves the shotgun. 302 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 7: But dad Win was. 303 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 9: Able to let they did not lie a single play 304 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 9: out of the shotgun last year, and their first play 305 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 9: is that. 306 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 7: Second and sixteen. 307 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 10: Here's Rena out of the shocking slings because the outside 308 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 10: it's in a second. 309 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 9: By moment at the forty yard line. Newman will sit 310 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 9: Dallas up in great field position at the beginning of 311 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 9: the second quarter because that's the play that ends the 312 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 9: first period. 313 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 14: A lot of the stuff that we practice we weren't doing. 314 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 8: Dallas gets on the board with a field goal in 315 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 8: the second quarter. 316 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: Then ty your first half. It's like we won those matches. 317 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 3: You know it's a gross match and you know one 318 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: of us going to come out on top. 319 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 10: We knew that we could keep you know, any week 320 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 10: we played, we could keep us in the game, right 321 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 10: regardless office score thirty points of the score twelve, we 322 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 10: work and give up a lot of points that will slot. 323 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 7: To the right shotgun. 324 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 9: Here, let's Shay a third guy in thepos over the middle, 325 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 9: and that's caught the shy of the first down as 326 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 9: Sean Springs made sure Jason Wentton doesn't get the first 327 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,159 Speaker 9: down and Dallas is forced to punt. 328 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 19: Now, that's one thing that really impresses me with his 329 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 19: Washington redskin corners is that they're good tacklers, and the 330 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 19: play before we saw Walt Harris make a good open 331 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 19: field tackle and then on that one Sean Springs make 332 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 19: a good open field tackle. 333 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 8: At halftime, the score is three to zero Cowboys. 334 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 20: Well I spoke to both coaches at the half, starting 335 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 20: with Joe Gibbs. I asked him about his defense being 336 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,840 Speaker 20: on the field almost seventeen minutes in the first half 337 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 20: in this heat. He said the reason for that turnovers, 338 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 20: returned the ball over twice. 339 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 7: For his offense struggling to move the ball. 340 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 20: In the first half, he said, we have to do 341 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,760 Speaker 20: a better job with the ball. Ask for Bill Parcells, 342 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 20: he said, hey, we are struggling just like they are, 343 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 20: despite having the edge in time of possession, a decent 344 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 20: field position. He said, Beef slowed. 345 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 7: Down a bit. 346 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 20: We gotta get a running game going. 347 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 12: It wasn't like I wonder what amazing you know halftime 348 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,919 Speaker 12: adjustments they were going to make. It was more like, 349 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 12: can anybody take advantage of a busted coverage and make 350 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 12: a play? Like can somebody catch a screen pass out 351 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 12: in the flat? They catch a couple of blocks and 352 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 12: get fifty yards at yack and turn nothing into something 353 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 12: like it was. 354 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,440 Speaker 4: The bar was was set pretty low. 355 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,879 Speaker 8: Dallas pulls even further ahead in the third quarter. 356 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 9: First in twenty year, the toss could lets from Jones 357 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 9: and nineties telling him to a touchdown. 358 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:50,320 Speaker 15: That game was so disappointing because really there wasn't much for. 359 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 4: A Redskin fan to cheer. 360 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 8: Four In that game, although down by ten and struggling 361 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 8: to put points on the board, Washington still is within 362 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 8: striking distance and there was a belief that this team 363 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 8: could still turn the game around. 364 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 4: I never give up. You know, anything could happen. 365 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 14: The only thing you like, especially for us back in 366 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 14: that day, it's like, man, we need to get eternally 367 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 14: or we just need to score to get points on 368 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 14: the board. And again it was weird situations. When you 369 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:30,800 Speaker 14: got Tanner, you got Coolly myself, it was always a 370 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 14: man like, somebody can make a play. We don't have 371 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 14: a suantee of having a defense that we had at 372 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 14: the time, Like anybody could make the play. 373 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 4: But it was kind of on us. We always took 374 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:44,360 Speaker 4: up like as a challenge. 375 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 8: In the fourth Dallas adds a field goal. Washington is 376 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 8: down thirteen zero. 377 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 18: Amazingly, when you went to the sideline. You never felt 378 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 18: the panic button pushed. And guys still believe. Guys still 379 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 18: we're into the game and you know, had had faith 380 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 18: that we're gonna win this game. 381 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 3: Somehow, some way, I took my hammet off and I 382 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 3: had this frown on my face. 383 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 4: And then that's when Porters walked up. Tanner was kind 384 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 4: of hot. 385 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 14: You know, we were on the sideline, couldn't get nothing 386 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 14: going on at Tanna like, man, like, what's up? You 387 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 14: know you got this crazy look on your face? 388 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? 389 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 16: He just like you know and old tann Away like, man, 390 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 16: we've been practicing. 391 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 4: Name needs to calling it like whatever was right. 392 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, It's never been about me. I 393 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 3: mean any team I played on, I won't even mention 394 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 3: that I'm not getting the ball if the ball did 395 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 3: come away, because I believe everybody has a job and 396 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 3: I shouldn't never have to tell a coach or coach 397 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,680 Speaker 3: is that your number one receiver needs to get the. 398 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 10: Ball, you know, saying Tanner Man, we call him Tanna 399 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 10: Man eight and nine. He won't speak up for himself. 400 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,200 Speaker 10: He will not like he's not the typical receiver where 401 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 10: he'll be like tell me the damn. 402 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:07,119 Speaker 4: Ball or I'm gonna He's not that guy. He won't 403 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 4: do that. 404 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 10: He'll just he'll just be like, you know, sitting on 405 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 10: the bench or whatever. 406 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 4: And I saw Seepe talking to him. 407 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 14: And I just will told coach like man trying to 408 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 14: say he can he can get get the safety, like 409 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 14: let's run X, Y Z. 410 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: And then he go. 411 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 3: Coach Gibbs come back and like, hey, you want to 412 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 3: run the DNA if we get the ball back, and 413 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 3: I'm like, look up at the clock and no disrespect 414 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 3: I didn't want to be disrespectful. So I'm like, sure, coach, 415 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 3: like you know, I had to look him up and 416 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 3: he's like, now you want to throw this ball to me? 417 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 7: Washington does get the ball back? Suck tell me from the. 418 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 9: Thirty eight pressure on Bruno and you've got one Williams 419 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 9: coming into free is a good chance you're gonna see 420 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 9: your sack. And that's what happens here. 421 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 18: Mark Maya got sacked either on second down or third 422 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 18: down somewhere around there, and I think Mark said something. 423 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 4: I remember him saying something the holloway we hallo up. 424 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,159 Speaker 18: After that, one of the effect of get your head 425 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 18: out of here, let's go win this game. 426 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:11,159 Speaker 8: Under four minutes left to play, fourth and fifteen. 427 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 9: Bob rosen Ard school fast the push in his shutout 428 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 9: thirteen nothing. 429 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 7: They'd have to get through the twenty four yard round. 430 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 4: With new George. 431 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 9: Brunel hanging in, going deep and it pass touching out 432 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 9: my saf tan on long and boom. 433 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 3: The first touchdown was strong. 434 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 4: It was it was. 435 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 3: It was a Deno route that I had, you know, 436 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 3: saw previously ran by Marvin Harrison when he was playing 437 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 3: at Indy against Aaron Glenn, when Aaron Glenn played with 438 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 3: me in New York, and so I was a young 439 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 3: pup watching Marvin Harison run this route and it was 440 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 3: always closer to the end zone. Coach said, Hey, what 441 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,919 Speaker 3: the heck, Tanna can run that. Just run it from 442 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 3: wherever we had on the field. Like if you look 443 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 3: at that play over and look how close it was 444 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 3: for me not making that catch, Like I believe Roy 445 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 3: Williams was right there. If he was just launched and 446 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 3: took the pass interference, I probably get hit. The ball 447 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,000 Speaker 3: probably bounced off of both of us and it's no catch. 448 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 3: But Roy didn't want to pass an afference call, so 449 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 3: he just kind of like swiped that my hand and 450 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,040 Speaker 3: boomed the ball fit perfectly, great pass throw by Mark Brunell, 451 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 3: and come job or trot to the sideline, and everybody 452 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 3: kind of like it has a it's like a breath 453 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 3: of fresh air now on our sideline. And Coach Gibbs like, hey, like, 454 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 3: I guess this kid know what he's talking about. 455 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,479 Speaker 10: Damn we caught it like he started, We back in it. 456 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,959 Speaker 10: So then it was like defense, get up, We just 457 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 10: need to stop. We just need to stop. And everybody 458 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 10: was just like re energized, and we just went out 459 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 10: there and then I. 460 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 9: Think I'm trying out sposed to two win of running 461 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 9: left for Washington. You think that we know the way 462 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 9: for ourselves. Just played through the years. He loves to 463 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 9: play clock Bullish had the running game. But tonight that 464 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 9: Washington defense is stemy. Dallas, You've got Jones carrying nineteen 465 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 9: times sixty five yards only two point nine per. 466 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 7: Rush tonight or doubts the defense holds strong. Dallas is 467 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 7: forced to punt. 468 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: Nick Buyers punt is two deep. 469 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 9: And that will come out to the twenty yard line, 470 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 9: So don't have to go eighty yards in two point 471 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 9: fifty two not. 472 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 4: A game is closer. Now, offense getting the ball back. 473 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 4: You know we weren't you know, we had that one. 474 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 10: Big explosive play and you're thinking, all right, Dallas is 475 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 10: gonna wake up now. 476 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 4: They've been playing good defense all game. 477 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:40,240 Speaker 8: Washington has the ball under three minutes left. On the 478 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 8: first play of the drive, Brunell dumps the ball off 479 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 8: to Portos for ten yards first and ten on Washington's 480 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 8: thirty yard line. 481 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 19: Yeah, this is when you find up out about your 482 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 19: offensive defense. And this is what good offense is when 483 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 19: you can make plays in this situation. 484 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: A good defense is when you can stop those plays 485 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: from the thirty green yard do. 486 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 10: Touchdown. 487 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 3: Wow, it wasn't the same play, but it was. Coach 488 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 3: was like, what they playing flat footed back there? I 489 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 3: see Roy Williams want to play up in a box 490 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 3: more so than he want to be be a be 491 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 3: a deep safety. So and just from where the corner 492 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: was playing me was he was out wide and he 493 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 3: was deep. So I'm like, I knew right there in 494 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: there some kind of bracket going on against you know, 495 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 3: for me just basically saying, all right, both of us 496 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 3: got them. We're gonna disguise this in a way to 497 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,680 Speaker 3: where it looks like we're playing one position, but we 498 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: both have them. And so the the second touchdown was 499 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 3: just a post route, a deep post, and being a 500 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 3: receiver that I am, I was looking at the lineman 501 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 3: and I say, instead of me running this with the 502 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: angle that I will normally give it, I'm going to 503 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: run cheating a little more towards the safety, so I 504 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 3: can already give myself a good jump away from the 505 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 3: uh dB the cornerback. And when I by the time 506 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 3: I put my foot in the ground, that means I 507 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 3: would be on top of the safety because he's already flat. 508 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 3: So I angled towards the safety more so than you're 509 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 3: straight up the field. So when I put my foot 510 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:09,880 Speaker 3: in the ground, the safety won't have a clear cut 511 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: to come, you know, ring my bell. So by doing that, 512 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 3: when I was able to get on them gain ground 513 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 3: and knowing Roy Williams wasn't going to back up by 514 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,639 Speaker 3: the time I took that, what I guess I was 515 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,879 Speaker 3: counting in my head probably my twelfth step when I 516 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 3: put that foot in the ground and go to the post. 517 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 3: You know, normally when you have a deep post, you're 518 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 3: telling yourself by my second count. You know, my second 519 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 3: step out of that post, out of that initial plant, 520 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 3: the ball should be in the air. When I planned it, 521 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 3: I was like in my head, I'm like one, two 522 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 3: and getting ready to say three to look back now 523 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 3: for the ball. The ball was coming down. So I'm 524 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 3: like Mark Brunell, the genius of Mark Brunell. He just 525 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 3: knew Tanner's go on to beat him. So let me 526 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 3: get this ball up high and with an arc and quick. 527 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 3: And he did so, man, And it made it simple 528 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,680 Speaker 3: enough for me. It made it easier for me to 529 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 3: be able to catch it without having to worry about 530 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn coming into the picture at the last minute. 531 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 4: If you go back and watch it. 532 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 7: Aaron Glenn's hand just barely misses it. 533 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 3: So being that Mark b'nell pull it up with a 534 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 3: with a perfect time and just knew where I was 535 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 3: going to be at man, it was like you would 536 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 3: have thought me and Mark Brnell had been doing that 537 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 3: all summer alone. 538 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 10: Come out again, Mark those a bomb in Santana and 539 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 10: you're like, what, like like this, where was this? For 540 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 10: the first three quarters while wasting Andy gave everybody a 541 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 10: heart attack. And then when Santana caught it and ran 542 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 10: it in. I just remember him spinning the ball, you know, 543 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 10: his classics tanner Man spinning the ball. 544 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 8: Thirteen thirteen, Nick Novak steps up to hopefully kick the 545 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 8: game winning extra point in his first ever NFL game. 546 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 16: You know, extra point's a little different now. 547 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 17: Back then, if you're kicking from the ten yard line, 548 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 17: so it's only a twenty yard trip shot, you know. 549 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 16: Now it's from the thirty three, So you got a 550 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 16: thirty three arfield goal now. But uh, you know, I 551 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 16: just normal routine. 552 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 17: It's pretty common to be post one hundred percent on 553 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 17: still go or extra point accuracy from that range. So 554 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 17: I wasn't worried about missing or any of those thoughts 555 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 17: weren't creeping in my mind. 556 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 16: It was it was just get the job done. 557 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 9: And Novak bangs one crew in his NFL debut. So 558 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 9: with two thirty five remaining in regulation, it's now fourteen thirteen, 559 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 9: the job. 560 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 7: Gets done on that part of special teams. 561 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 8: Novak is then called into action in a different capacity 562 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 8: just seconds later. 563 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 9: So one there's night when the crowd and they're always 564 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 9: into the Redskins and the Cowboys had things in hand, 565 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 9: and all of a sudden, hit a gold fight down 566 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 9: by one. Tyson Thompson is back to return to did 567 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 9: novaccians at skyward. It comes down with the two rod 568 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 9: lines Workie Tyson Thompson pass looks funny that big curst, 569 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 9: the speed and no back. The kicker makes the tackle 570 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 9: at midfield. 571 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 16: Was able to stop him and it was for sure 572 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 16: going to be a touchdown. 573 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 8: A touchdown prevented, but Dallas does get great field position 574 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 8: for a chance to rip the victory from Washington's hands. 575 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 15: The really intense thing for me was then we had 576 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 15: to stop them on the drive. 577 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 4: I got to tell you, I was so uptight. 578 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 15: Those are the things that I just wonder sometimes, how 579 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 15: how fast was my heart beating, because now you know 580 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 15: you're you are so wrapped up. 581 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 9: In that and now you're down to one last play 582 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 9: barring a pass interference call which could also set up 583 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 9: a field door. And it rolled under knee and it's 584 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 9: drolls and the lad in the world to gwin. 585 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 8: Then look a look up the team. 586 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: I'm actually where the ball game will land. 587 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 4: After that, you looked at their sideline and just pure defeat. 588 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 4: It was freaking awesome. It was absolutely awesome. 589 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 15: Means so much to me so much to the fan base, 590 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 15: for everybody that pulls for the Redskins in those days, 591 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 15: all those people to be able to celebrate that is 592 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,760 Speaker 15: just It's one of the great thrills in life. 593 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 8: That odds defying, heart stopping win showed who Washington was 594 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 8: and where this team could go. 595 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 4: I think that the game was like we needed that, 596 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 4: we needed that, we needed that win. 597 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: I think it's kind of bronow. 598 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 4: It seemed again that year was magical. 599 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 3: You know that that team, you know, we really fought 600 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: and and went through games that year. I don't know 601 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 3: if you can consider or call that game one of 602 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 3: the starting points to us knowing that we was pretty. 603 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 14: Good and it was just one of those tough teams 604 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 14: that we knew we had bought into. Uh, Coach Gibbs 605 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 14: and staff just like, hey, Greg Williams gonna call it 606 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 14: a tough defense, a tough game. You're gonna hit people 607 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 14: and offensively, who's gonna grind it out? 608 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: We're coming down here. 609 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 14: So it was like everybody had brought in to our 610 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,480 Speaker 14: identity and we knew who we were. 611 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 16: Like that lump, We're gonna leave lumps. 612 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 4: That's what Coach Gibbs so We're gonna leave some lump songs. 613 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 8: We know you played us for Santana Moss. The performance 614 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 8: immediately endeared him to his new city. 615 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 14: Two touchdowns within three minutes, four minutes, Sue mcbombs, and 616 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 14: that created the cowboy killer. 617 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 3: That's the way you want to be recognized. That's the 618 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 3: way you want to tell them, like, this is what 619 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 3: you're getting, you know, And I think that's what That's 620 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 3: what I was more pleased with than anything. I didn't 621 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 3: care about how we wanted, how I always care. I 622 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 3: went into both of those games week one and week 623 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 3: two of like I'm gonna show you who sent Tanamoss is. 624 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 8: Like subscribe, comment and stay tuned for more Hailtales episodes 625 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 8: this summer. This episode of Haletal's was narrated, produced, and 626 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 8: researched by me Hannah Lichtenstein, senior copywriter for the Washington Commanders. 627 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,479 Speaker 8: It was produced and edited by Jason Johnson, edited by 628 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 8: Nick Lianos. Executive producers are Ryan Yokum and Kevin Klein. 629 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 8: Additional voiceover help comes from Bram Weinstein. Graphics designed by 630 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 8: Zach Osborne and Matt Cashman. Thank you to our guests 631 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 8: for their contributions and thank you for listening.