WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Search For Solutions 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.639 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:20.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.400 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:36.000 Star in Friscot. Now your hosts Nicky Spagnola, Rob Phillips, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.720 Everson Walls, and Bill Jones, and we are inside the 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.200 SWBC Mortgage studios here at the Star in Frisco, ready 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.800 to start rams week as the road to the super 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.720 Bowl now starts at AT and T Stadium on Sunday. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.320 I've got my super Bowl cap still on after a 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.240 long weekend. Yes, it was a long weekend after a 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:01.520 long Thursday night in Chicago. It was a well deserved 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.880 long weekend, by the way, for whom, for us? For us, 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.160 the cab was for the team. We had to go 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:12.280 through four games in nineteen days, that's right, and miserable 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.800 about everyone, well yeah, well the last three for sure. Yeah. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.880 But it is a new day, a new week, and um, 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.840 we're gonna figure things out here, or at least we're 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.959 gonna try to figure that our way out here. We'll 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.640 let Jerry know we came up with there you go. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.960 And it was an enjoyable Sunday of watching football, wasn't it? 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:40.320 Did you watch football, watch watch for ten ten hours? Yeah? 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.920 Pretty much. Yeah, I was trying to do the math. YEA. 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.399 A couple of good games, yeah, I mean really that 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:49.400 New game in New Orleans, New Orleans game, the Baltimore game, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.560 Baltimore and Buffalo. I said, I was miserable watching that one, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.600 you know, like, see see what you should have done? Yeah, 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.840 I'm talking about and no one's in the room. Yeah, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:04.360 read my dog yesterday. It's like it's a weekend of 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.120 why can't they do this? And why can't they do 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.239 That's well, I'm sure every fan was thinking that. You know, 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.359 even though we wanted to relax because there's no more pressure, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.160 you know from a cowboy game. You sit here and 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:19.840 you think, man, okay, look at Alan stats. It had 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.919 a horrible game. I mean, I don't think he had 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:29.320 ten yards. Every completion is below at thirty five percent completion. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.040 It just he looked like and he was at home. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.600 Buffalo played at home. They I guess what it is 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.320 is we've made it too comfortable for the visiting teams. 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.760 I think that's what it is. And Josh Allen was 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.440 seventeen and thirty nine, so less than fifty percent for 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.920 one hundred and forty six yards and a touchdown. Didn't 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.080 throw a pick, I mean rushing yards. He had nine 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.079 yards on two carries. See that that makes me mad. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.920 It's not as many as sixty four. That makes me mad. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.240 And then Coole Beasley's numbers four for twenty nine, four 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.040 for twenty nine and a touchdown. Yeah, yeah, us, And 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.960 I was thinking of you because then they were talking 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.880 about it. They weren't. They weren't single covering him. No, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.959 they weren't. They had because that's how you think, Oh wow, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:19.320 they had a plan. Write that there, and then you 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.440 watch the Sunday night game and you look at these 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.079 Los Angeles Rams that are coming in here this week 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.280 and they just beat the Seattle Seahawks. How in the 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.400 world are we gonna beat that? Dee wow? Right? And 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.520 what's wrong with the Seahawks all of a sudden? Huh 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:38.920 how did this happen? So it's very confusing. I don't 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.680 I have no optimism because now, all of a sudden, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.800 the Rams are looking good. That's what gives you hope. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.160 They're looking good, the Rams looking But as far as 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.440 the Cowboys are concerned they're not looking good. And the 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.160 longer you don't look good, the closer you are to 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:58.760 looking good again. Yeah. So that's like there's no bottle. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.800 The more you'll lose the closing. The more you win, 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.480 the closer you are to lose it. And the more 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.200 you lose, the closer. And then if you want to 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:14.720 add another sickening game San Francisco, I mean, New England's beatable, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.920 aren't they. That could have been usin That was another 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.680 one that really got me. Man, that could have been 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.080 They should have lost three in a row. That's defense. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.720 Defense played well in that game overall, but the weather 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.839 was a big factor for sure. You almost have to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.880 throw that one out. And actually New England probably should 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.960 have won that game yesterday. If you look at a 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.600 couple of calls, a couple touchdowns then were called back. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.160 but you have to overcome that stuff. That's what they 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.000 were ups. They picked up flags in New England and 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.719 they whistle fumble what would have been a scoop and score. 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.120 They whistled it dead rather than letting the play play out. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.200 The heck of a defense, heck of a defense and specialties. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.960 It's nice to see the Patriots not get the calls. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.920 It have been nice though, little been nice. So where 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.440 are we with this Cowboys team after the bye week? 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.240 They are making their hospital visits this morning? The players 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.320 are right, Yes, they were. I wonder how cheery those visits. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.000 Maybe that'll help out and put them, you know, put 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.440 some pepping their steps. Yeah, those patients many great, great, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.000 great people kids. And that's a tradition that's been going 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.680 on at least thirty years. That's good stuff. I mean 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.360 it started, you were doing it throughout your career here, right, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.840 and nearly forty years when I was with Springs. That's 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.920 we continued that as a business. We continued helping our 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:45.719 charities continue to put on old school cowboy events. I 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.880 was visiting a hospital and uh, you know, it's kind 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.839 of sad because some of them with kids thing, and 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.040 it kind of it lights a fire under you, you know, 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.440 to let you know why you're doing it. And uh yeah, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.880 that's one thing about my Blessed Springs. He was talked 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.880 a lot of trash. He's kind of like Charles Haley. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.080 They talk a lot of trash. But they're big babies, 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.680 you know, they're really big babies, and they really like 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:10.880 helping people and going to visit those hospitals. That was 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.360 something that I continue to do to this day through 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.120 my found days. So what's the Cowboys players schedule the 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.360 rest of the day. They've got pretty extensive meetings once 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.640 they get back. And I noticed on the board that 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:30.360 said special teams meeting all players. So maybe all hands 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:35.520 on deck for special teams the coming weeks, not sitting 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.160 there relying on a bunch of young guys. So and 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.719 then they have a practice I think four forty five 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.720 to five forty five. Jason Garrett was asked on the 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.400 conference call Friday lineup changes. Do you can you do 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.560 anything to try to shake things up a little bit, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.840 and he said, yeah, we'll look at all of it. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.640 That's interesting what Mick said. But you know, from a 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.200 from an offense defensive perspective, I don't know don't know 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.440 how many changes you can make to your lineup right now. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.960 I think it just comes down to execution and playing better. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.800 I mean, yeah, just thinking one of the changes you 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.320 make might be one of the guys that you just 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.160 paid this offseason, so you don't want that to happen. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:17.120 Who's that, I don't know, one of them just don't 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.360 don't type me down there. You're right, there were a 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.840 lot of guys paying. I could hear suggestions out there. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:32.760 Came back. No, no, would you like to start on 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.520 offense or defense? Yeah, it looks like they might start 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.720 off with kicking. Yeah, there you going. There's the kicking 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.320 caravan comes back through here today. That's That's what I 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.400 was gonna ask any any more, any that can get 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:48.040 you excited? Well? Kai for Bath is the new name 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.440 on the list. Uh, Nick Rose out of Highland Park 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.360 High School, University of Texas, who was here last week 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.280 making the rounds. And Taylor Viscaino I don't remember his 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:05.560 first name name Whostan Okay, how many Tristan's can a 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:12.720 team have on? But the Kai for Bath most recently 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.160 kicked for the New England Patriots ever soon a week 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.240 ago as Nick Folk had an emergency appendeck to me 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.280 missed the game a week ago, and Kai for Bath 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.880 made a twenty three yard field goal for the Patriots. Okay, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.160 he also missed an extra point. He was cut the 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:31.440 next day. So the extra point is longer exactly right, yeah, 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.080 thirty three yards. So so he is here today and 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.200 he hasn't kicked much in the NFL the last couple 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.760 of years either. No, but he's been around and I 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.559 think he's a name you'll recognize. He's a name you recognize. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.640 The guys brought in and two of them are coming 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:49.400 back apparently, but for a workout. But he's eighty five 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.280 percent for his career eighty six percent. That's better than 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.400 what Brett has been this year, clearly, um So at 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.840 least it's a guy with some experience. We'll see if 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.840 they make a move. I mean, Jerry said on the 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.400 fan on Friday, kind of indicated they still feel like 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.160 what's out there is not better than what they can 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.040 get out of Brett. But ten missed field goals this season, 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:15.400 that's um and you know, one of five. That's got 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.360 to be one of the worst in Cowboys histories for 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.320 as field goal kickers. And I haven't looked it up 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.120 because its franchise always been blessed with good field goal kickers. Yeah. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.080 I mean, I think we took Dan Bailey for granted, 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.920 there's no question about it. Um. Cowboy fans do that 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.880 a lot, and he's writers. I don't know if you 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.480 cook them for granted, but I'm sure he spoiled everything. Well, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.280 I think you just start to get used to it. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.480 We're gonna make um. But you know, on the cowboy culture, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.280 I mean I go all the way back to when 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.080 before I played, We've always Tony Fitz after Septyn, I mean, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:50.000 I was consistent kickers. They were never big, big leg kickers. 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.880 They were never the ones with the big foot. They 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:56.120 can get those fifty yards, but consistently within forty five yards. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.400 That's what we've always been accustomed to. Within forty five yards, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.000 we're gonna be at least amount. And that's that's been 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.800 going for decades throughout the cowboy uh law. But now, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.880 uh god, I don't think I've ever been around the 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:15.040 cowboy kicker this inconsistent. This is something that's very new 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:18.560 for me. One other time when they signed vander Jack 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.040 that's yeah, yeah, Mike vander Jack with parcels here. It 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.880 was five. I think he got sick. He got cut 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.080 by December. I think that year, right, he should have 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:32.480 been cut in training kicks. Well, this guy, this guy 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:37.160 was bad in training camp and if you remember he 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.240 he he failed miserably down the stretch in Indianapolis. I 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.560 think because he at the time, was one of the 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.520 most accurate kickers in the National Football League, and then 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.199 he failed in the playoff game. I think it was 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.640 a winning kick if I remember against the Pittsburgh and 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.480 he kicked it in the other tunnel. Yes, yes, behind her. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:03.960 He missed the kick by thirty why, very good, not 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:14.400 an exaggeration. He kicked into the way right. And then 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.600 he got here and he was he was awful in 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.040 training camp and he was like, well, I'm worried about 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.280 training camp. This is practice, you know, in his preseason 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.560 games and then he just took it right into the season. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.920 He was terrible. I remember he used to say he 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.719 had this phrase. He would say, yeah, I took a 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.400 I took a mental holiday on that kick. Well, you 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:37.360 might want to stop doing stop saying had I'm a 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.640 little older. Who's the kicker from Lake Hilands. They played 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.280 with the Baltimore Ravens and was an amazing kicker for you, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:48.800 Phil Dawson. No, Matt Stover. Matt Stover. Matt Stover was 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.199 with me in New York my first year there, and uh, 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.400 he was terrified of parts seals. He kicked the ball 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:03.960 into the center's but saw that he was terrified, and 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.719 I know he's such a little nice guy. Yeah, I 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.320 would just remember, hey, man like Hollins Burke. Yeah, we 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.440 got after. It was a little. That was a little. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.240 Is that what you're saying? Whoa dude? You you might 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.160 feel out on me because it was my first time 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.240 there as well, so I didn't need that negatives. He 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:26.400 goes on the Baltimore and had an amazing career and 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.360 amazing thirteen years with the Ravens. After he was he 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.360 was with the br well, the Giants in ninety and 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.440 then the Browns ninety one to ninety five. But ever since, right, 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 I mean, it's those money kicks from forty to forty 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.960 nine yards. And I was reading Nick's article on the website. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.600 Brett's one of five in those this this year. And 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.080 Jason Garrett was asked last week, you come a point 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.600 where you have to adjust your play calling, exact field 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.720 strategy because of your kicking situation. And he said, this 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.599 is before they decided to bring him back for the 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.520 Bears game. He said, it's time to get a new 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.199 kicker once we get to the point. Are they at 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.839 to that point right now? Is the question? After missing 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.360 the forty two yard and that was such a momentum swing. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.760 You know, offense keeps falling behind and you're trying to 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.920 get points on the board and you can't convert, and 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.319 it's got to be deflating. It's a it's a game 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.480 plan killer when you miss those chip shots what we 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.000 call them these days, because you're you're expecting that. Okay, guys, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.000 here's the plan. We're gonna go down here when the 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.280 desperate situation. Now, all right, we may not get we're 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.600 down by ten, Okay, let's do we go for three now? Okay, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.400 because we don't want to use all our timeouts when 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.720 we use our time trying to score. Okay, let's just 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.360 get this three out of the way and then we 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.520 can continue, you know, to this this amazing comeback. And 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.720 then once you miss that kick, everything goes out the 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.000 window because you almost get to a point when you're 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.960 on third down and you're in field goal range. Normally 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.000 you would tell your kick, your back, tell your quarterback, Okay, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.760 we got a field goal here. Let's not screw it up. Now. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.680 It's almost like better go for it at all calls 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.640 because we can't count on the field. Yeah, you got, 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.480 whatever you do salvage this play, right, there's a big 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.240 difference between that and playing for a field goal. And 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.400 so we'll see how these guys do. Because you know, 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.240 two of them worked out of the threesome last time 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.880 and it wasn't real pretty I'm told now it was 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.200 a pretty windy day. So I don't know if that 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.320 affected these guys or not. Well, it might be windy 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:30.360 in Philadelphia here in a couple, so you know that. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.880 So they did that before went to New England, right, Yeah, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.960 because it was on the short week. They weren't going 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.280 to sign any of those guys. Oh, they didn't last week, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.840 last week, last week, a week ago. After practice last 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:49.000 week either Monday maybe Monday, No, it was before New England. No, 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.960 they worked him out last week and went with went 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:58.800 with Brett. Okay, yeah, you know he said, well they're 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.280 all running together. I I remember saying there was no 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.440 way they were going to practice two days and tell 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.760 him to go to New England and kick in that weather. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.320 I forget which day it was, but yeah, last week 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.040 he said after the game he thought he hit the ball. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.800 He struck it well in the game. One thing they've 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.400 liked about him is his mentality. You know, he doesn't. 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.160 He doesn't seem to get down on himself, but you know, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.800 will help him. We'll see what they do. I'll see 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.760 what they do. Sometimes you gotta get down on yourself 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.320 and to do better. Yeah, you know, you think that's 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.480 this blind optimism. You know, it doesn't seem to be 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.560 working well right now. Yeah, you know. And the thing 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.480 with for Bath, it's not so much his field go accuracy. 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.360 If you look back in his last couple of years 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.480 in Minnesota, it's the extra points. Yeah, he was. He 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.360 missed eight extra points in two years. So that's one 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.560 thing Maher's made is he's made those extra points that 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.840 are like everysince said they're longer than he Just needs 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.440 to look at these forty two yards field goals point Okay, okay, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.360 just tell him it only counts one point, not three points. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.200 But you know the other thing that he's fallen off 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.000 is is kick offs too, not getting I hadn't noticed 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.240 any go out of bounds lately. Now we haven't played 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.000 since Thursday. That was the that was she That was 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.040 the plan though, to kick to the side, and he 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.960 didn't do it accurately. But he hasn't gotten the ball 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.400 deep enough take kicker and tell him on his kickoffs 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:23.400 be accurate. Well, I say, just let it kick the 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.600 down ball. If you kick out the end zone, who 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.720 cares what he hasn't been doing it. That's been that. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.280 It was a real wendy up there where in Thursday 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:38.080 in Chicago. Oh, couldn't pregame not that bad. We got 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:39.800 down there in the fourth quarter and it was gustin 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.120 but not. It wasn't like what she thought it might be. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.840 I think that on the on side kick that the 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:49.240 Patriots employee works pretty well. 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If I 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.200 hear that one more time, and you can get in 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.720 the quarterbacks that LSU had at the time. Yeah, that's 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:09.960 when they were going through this quarterback drought. Now they've 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.679 finally got their guy. They got their guy. Yeah for 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.680 the first time since who LSU as a quarterback? Which 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:20.200 the last time they had a good quarterbacks. Yeah, day 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:24.240 day was pretty good. It was pretty good. Mettenberger was 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.160 pretty good. But this this young man, he's uh, he's special. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.399 He's gonna have an addition to his trophy case on 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:36.240 Saturday night. Joe Burrow he better, he said, hands down 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.160 Heisman Trophy winner on Saturday Night. And they've been, they've been. 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.080 You know, you can tell when they they're making the 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:44.719 push because there was so many games where they were 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.280 just blowing people out and they kept him in the game. 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.439 And the wide RECEI was amazing. So he'll throw a 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.080 screen pass and go ninety yards you know, in a blowout, 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.600 right the blow out, they're already up by like four touchdowns, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.680 he's still in the game throwing touchdowns, which is great. 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.920 That's how you do it, that's how you well, that's 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:03.840 how you end up number one in the nation. Exactly 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:08.080 got to have style points these days. Um, did you happen, 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.639 and this is sort of draft talk here, did you 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.399 happen to see Oregon in Utah on Friday night? The 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.679 quarterback for Oregon Justin Herbert? Yes? I did. What do 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.600 you think of him? He's awfully good, number one pick size, right, 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:25.760 got an arm, He's got an arm. He made any 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.320 throw you need him to. Now. I know gil Brandt 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.000 last year before before he decided, before Herbert decided to 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:34.600 come back for another year at Oregon, that gil Brant 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:36.520 was saying, this guy's going to be the number one pick. 0:22:36.840 --> 0:22:40.040 So and he came back to play with his brother, 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:42.960 that he's going to be a freshman. Just wanted to 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.439 always play with his brother in college. So that scores 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:49.520 points in your draft guide? Yes, right, absolutely, Okay, anyway, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.520 I am, I am. I have to look at the conference. Yeah, 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:55.200 I don't know if they're playing a really good defense 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:57.840 in the Pac twelve, So I'm not going to really 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:59.880 give him too much credit right now? How much def 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:03.000