WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Other People’s Struggles 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:16.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.800 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.800 Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:34.360 and Nicky Spagnola, and we are back for another edition 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:39.360 of mix Shots. It is a Senior Bowl edition of 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.720 mix Shots. We've got our Super Bowl matchup all set 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.280 and the Cowboys. Now what is it? One? Two, three 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.800 weeks into the twenty twenty one offseason. We've got so 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.279 much to get caught up on. As we welcome you 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.960 to another edition of mix Shots. As Mickey Spagnola is 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.880 inside the SWBC Mortgage studios at Forward Center at the 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.880 Star in Frisco, ready for duty. Everson Walls inside his 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.040 own s WBC mortgage studio at his home, and I 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.240 am as well, and y'all ready for a Super Bowl 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.960 matchup of quarterbacks? What do y'all think? I am so 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.039 sick of quarterbacks. Go ahead, Spacks. I'll get into that 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:28.319 crap later. I'm so sick of quarterbacks right now, geez, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.560 I have to have my own show for that one. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.039 Go ahead, Everson. I didn't say quarterbacks. A Super Bowl 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.720 matchup of cornerbacks. Oh sorry, yes, we're looking forward to 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:47.760 wood William. Thank you, sir, spoken like a true defensive back, right, Mickey, 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:54.200 you gotta be uh you gotta be excited that this 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.800 is a Senior Bowl week, that you're able to monitor 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.240 things from a distance. It is. We're a week away 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.160 from media day at the Super Bowl and you got 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.440 to do that from a distance. But you got to 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.200 be excited that the Cowboys are now three weeks into 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.240 this and there's not much, not much to talk about 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.840 as far as this coaching staff right now that things 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:20.480 are resolved, well, it looks like it's resolved. I don't know, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.280 there may be. I don't know if there's another move 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:28.919 coming or not. I'm still looking at that linebacker position, 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:34.360 coaching position. We'll see what ends up happening there. But 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.440 uh yeah, I'm I'm I'm sort of with Everson on 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:45.280 the quarterback thing, not so much the uh my homes. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.600 But can we get a little bit more of Tom 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:54.400 Brady on how spectacular lee he played in the game 0:02:54.520 --> 0:03:01.280 with three consecutive interceptions, you know, and I thought he 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.240 was really good afterwards when they interviewed him on the 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.920 field when he basically said, Hey, go talk to some 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.960 of the other guys, right, Maybe go talk to those 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:16.920 defensive guys, right, maybe go to maybe maybe go interview 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:22.440 green Bay, right, and uh, figure out why they go 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.799 go go inter view the cornerback for green Bay number twenty. Well, 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.040 I got a comparison on that one too, by the way, 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.400 or the head coach who decides kicking field goals is 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:37.240 a really good thing, right, And when we get into 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.320 this bill, I'm gonna I'm gonna get into the Cowboys 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.720 making that same sort of decisions in the two thousand 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:50.600 and nine Divisional Round playoff game against Minnesota, when the 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.600 Cowboys went up against a team that was nearly averaging 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.800 thirty points a game, and in their last two games 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.200 in the regular season they scored thirty and forty four. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.680 Yet the Cowboys, on fourth and one at the third 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.480 Minnesota thirty eight, decided let's just try a field goal 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.320 against this team, because, as we know, the more field 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.159 goals you attempt, the closer you are the losing So 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.159 I think those are the things that really decided this game, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:27.680 all right. Well, and difference they make right now has 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.600 a target on Spagnola's back. I like that the more 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.520 field goals you kicked, the closer you are to losing. Well, 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.080 in that case, it was definitely true for the Green 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.680 Bay Packers. But let's be real, guys, And you know, 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.760 I started off talking about the quarterbacks and things that nature. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.520 I know, that's just the nature of the beasts. I 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.960 actually recall because I was playing at the time when 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:58.760 they decided to put the quarterbacks officially into their own club, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.520 and yeah, let's market quarterbacks even more. And so that 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.880 as a defensive player and as a man trying to 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.440 make his own livelihood at doing the same things that 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.560 the quarterbacks are doing, I took offense to it. But 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.320 it is what it is right now. So here we are. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.680 Every time we comment on the football game, it's always 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.839 from what the quarterback is thinking, as if no one 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.520 else on that particular team has any thought process, individual 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.520 thought process in the heads. They don't have a life. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.800 They're just drones. You know, you guys, just go do 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.600 your job. The quarterback is the guy. It's like the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.719 queen Bee. That's what the quarterback is, all right. So 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:45.520 greenback Queen Bee been getting praised all year long, deservedly so, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.120 been making plays all year long on his own. It 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.760 just seemed like he was a coach on the field. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:58.040 Don't worry about Aaron Rodgers. He's gonna do his job 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.719 no matter what. If there's a stake that's made it, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.960 Aaron Rodgers will get the benefit of the doubt in 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:09.920 any questionable situation. And that's pretty much any quarterback unless 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.919 you're Dak Prescott. I guess so here it is. You 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.640 have a chance, as Aaron Rodgers to do what you do. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.880 You're down in the red zone. You've got a chance 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.280 to either run or throw. Your decision making process has 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.600 always been on point and quit at the time. And 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.000 all of a sudden, Aaron Rodgers gets pressure on him. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.640 Not just that particular play, but as the game goes on, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.480 you can feel him panicking. You can see that he's 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:47.200 not as poised as he was. He's not Joe Cool anymore. Now, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:52.080 all of a sudden, Aaron Rodgers makes an instant mistake. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.760 It just happened, just very quickly. You have a chance 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.679 to either pass or run on third down. I don't 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.280 care if you know that the coach wants to kick 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.640 a field goal afterwards or not. It doesn't matter what 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.520 the play call is afterwards, when you have a chance 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:14.720 to get as many yards as possible running versus throwing 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.560 it to your wife receiver who's not quite that open. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.840 The pressure is on you. You make that decision pretty quick. 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.360 It's a no brainer. But not for Aaron Rodgers. Not 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.120 only did he did he do it once, he did 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.240 it twice in the same particular situation, to where that 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.960 moment of hesitancy, which he's never had during the season 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.360 cost him affecting this in that play. And to me, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.520 those two mistakes really led to the difference in the 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:48.800 ball game. And that's on your quarterback, who MVP of 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:54.640 the year all of that, everybody, guys needs a teammate. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.960 Everybody needs teammates to pull them out of the fire. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.679 I don't care if everybody's a Tom Braided, it doesn't matter. 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.280 Eric Ridge was supposed to be the guy to make 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.360 that play. He didn't make the plays plays twice because 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.600 because he did it. On the other hand, Tom Brady 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.040 through interception second half, what did his defense do. They'd 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.240 stopped the momentum from the Green Bay Packers because their 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:24.000 defense stepped up. And my illustration is this, it's a 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:29.760 team game. Let's stop making this about one position. I 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.959 am so tired of it. Defensive players, offensive lineman. They 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.760 have families too, They have parents. Okay, they have you know, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.719 aspirations to do other things then play football. They might 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.440 want to be coaches, but they don't get that benefit 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.400 because all we talk about is the importance of quarterbacks. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.760 We got to get out of these guys because it's 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.920 a team game. See and I understand what you're talking 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.880 about on the third down play, but here's what should 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:06.600 have taken place. Matt Lafleur should have told Aaron Rodgers 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.920 on third and goal from the eight, you've got two 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.400 plays to score a touchdown. Because if I think he 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:19.360 knew ahead of time that he had a fourth down play, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.640 he could have taken off and run and even if 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.120 he didn't get in, he would at least got inside 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.760 the five. Might have been to the two or three, right, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.400 I think too about the two? Yeah, I thought the two, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.120 and so if he had known that, I think And 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.120 that's why a lot of head coaches, when they're not 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:41.440 the offensive coordinator, they'll tell their offensive coordinator, Okay, we're 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.319 in four down territory here, you know, call a play 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.360 on third down. But no you got fourth down, So 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.760 instead of throwing a pass in that situation, maybe you 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.240 run the ball to get closer to make the fourth 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:58.200 down more makeable. But you just can't kick a field goal. 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.680 And and think of out this, Everson, when when when 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.480 you guys went to San Francisco and won that NFC 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:11.280 title game, what was it fifteen thirteen or whatever? It's okay, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.080 the key thing hit the field goal to win it. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.160 The key thing in in that game was you guys 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.319 had the ball at the end. You did not put 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.719 the ball in Joe Montana's hands at the end of 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:31.480 the game. Do not put the ball? Oh that's right. Yeah, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.520 you don't give them that opportunity, right, Uh, you don't 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.839 give Tom Brady the opportunity to salt a game away. Uh. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.560 And I thought that's where they made their mistake. And 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.120 if you look at the other game, uh with McDermott, 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:52.840 he's kicking field goals. No, Kansas City's gonna score thirty points. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.120 I don't care. You know what what everything says before 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.880 my lance bags, it's you can't kick field goals against 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.320 the team at averages thirty plus points a game, right, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.440 And that's what they did. They kicked field goals and 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.640 you know what, gosh it would have been. I think 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.760 what was at halftime was twenty one twelve. You gotta 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.280 go for the touchdown at the end there and score. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:25.160 Oh I just and so since I started here, I'll 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:30.480 go back to the Cowboys playoff game in Minnesota two 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.400 thousand and nine season. The Cowboys win eleven and five. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:39.240 Minnesota finished the season twelve and four and ten of 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:44.040 sixteen games, they had scored thirty points. They were gonna 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.760 score on you. So the Cowboys first possession in that 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.439 game that they ended up losing thirty four to three, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.640 they drove, they were moving the football. They got a 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.400 first and ten at the Minnesota thirty four and on 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.440 third and fourteen, Romo gets sacked and fumbles on the 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.280 second possession. They're fourth and one at the thirty, fourth 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.440 and one at the thirty against the teams are gonna 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.600 score thirty points on you, and Wade Phillips decides, Wow, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.040 we're gonna have Sweeze him kick a forty eight yard 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.360 field goal. Well, guess what he misses. It's still zero 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:27.480 zero until Brett five hits Sydney Rice for forty seven 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.680 yard touchdown and even at that the Cowboys come back 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.400 the next possession, first in goal at the nine, at 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:38.800 the nine, and they end up third and goal at 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:44.120 the fifteen because they end up with a one minus 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.320 one and then a sack again and they kick a 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.959 thirty three yard field goal. And if you look at 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.920 the first possession of the second half, they're only down 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.240 seventeen to three first and ten at the twenty three, 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.560 a run minus seven on third and fourteen, a sack, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:08.520 another field goal attempt and he misses again, and then 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.560 they throw an interception. They're down twenty three and ball 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.160 games over. Can't be kicking field goals. And the bottom 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.800 line in that game, as I remember you guys and 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.800 ever since you I'm sure you played in the Metrodome, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.440 it was so loud. It was so loud. The Cowboys 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:30.360 offensive line didn't have a chance. Right, Romo ends up 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:36.360 getting sacked six times, he got hit another ten times, 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:41.319 and they had eleven Minnesota had eleven tackles for losses. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.079 So we look at it and oh, Romo didn't win 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.000 the game. No, the offensive line got their butts whip 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.960 because it was so loud. They were they couldn't get 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.240 off the ball on time, and then it played out 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.320 in twenty ten when that offensive line just got old 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.920 overnight and we saw what happened with that one in 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.480 seven seasons. So to me, the bottom line, you're playing 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.760 playoff games, boy, you better be scoring touchdowns and you 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.480 better protect your quarterback. You gotta you have to know 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.520 your opponent, Spags. You know that Kansas City is gonna 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.880 go off and they're like a streak shooter. Once they score, 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.280 they're gonna continue. You're not gonna hold them to field goals, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.400 and if you do, they're gonna come back and score 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.680 a touchdown on the ensuing drive most likely. So that's 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.240 things that you have to be aware of. You have 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.160 to know your opponent. Getting back to the Aaron Rodgers 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:39.400 situation and that decision whether you want to go kick 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.240 a field going on fourth down or not, whether you 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.119 are aware of what the coach wants to me, Spags, 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:53.800 I can't allow Aaron Rodgers to be that naive. Okay, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:15:00.560 oh well, coach didn't tell me, Well, you're Aaron Rodgers. Okay, 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.120 that's all I've been hearing. You're Aaron Rodgers. You should 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.120 know that this is a possibility. And I'm surprised they 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.920 didn't discuss it. Why would you send me Why would 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.880 you say, okay, you call this third down play, and me, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.560 as a quarterback, would say, okay, so that's it. We're 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.560 just gonna gonna call this third down play. What's happening 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:27.240 after that? Quarterbacks and coaches go over every scenario. I 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.960 cannot just say and give Aaron Rodgers the power to say, oh, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.360 I didn't know what we were gonna do on fourth down. Well, 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.400 that should have been part of the discussion when the 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.240 third down play was called. You can't go into a 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.480 third down play, you say, knowing what you're gonna do 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.600 on four I can't give him that that leeway there. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.040 So I can't. I can't put them on just to 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.040 pay or just Aaron Rodgers. Both of them should have known, Okay, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.320 if we don't make this third down, what are we 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.280 gonna do on fourth downs? To me, that's a pressure, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.640 that's a no baby Chris not knowing how to produce 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:06.640 I would we wouldn't have him back there if he 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.920 didn't talk about all the things that might happen doing 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.800 the show. Otherwise we don't need him. That's it. Maybe 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.080 Matt Lafleur didn't tell Aaron Rodgers before the third down player, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.960 we're kicking the field goal if we don't score a touchdown. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.560 And that's why Rodgers made the decision that he did 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.840 in his own mind, I can't get to the end zone, 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.360 so I gotta throw it. I don't know, I have 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.880 no idea if that happened or not, and the decision. 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:37.800 Throughout the ball game, the pressure on these guys was immense. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:39.800 And when I say these guys, I mean the Green 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.240 Bay offense, So not just the Aaron Rodgers in the 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.920 offense on the field, but the coaches are feeling the 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.280 pressure on the sideline as well. All of a sudden, 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.840 everybody's out of the whack. No one is, you know, 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.000 going through the procedures that they always go through in 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.320 a calm situation. And that's that's why they always say, guys, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.320 pressure will bust a pipe. You can man what we'll 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.160 do to a human being. And that's why a coach 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.600 makes a decision like that to kick a field goal 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.160 that makes no sense whatsoever there was it made no 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:13.480 sense to kick that field goal, well, especially when you 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.199 consider go ahead Mickey, I was gonna say, just like 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.960 it made no sense to Chase the two point conversion 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.880 when a extra point puts them down seven points instead 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.159 of being down. They don't take into account that's right. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.199 They don't take into account that. Okay, what if the 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.640 other team kicks a field goal on their next position 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.600 and sally yeah, and now you have to not only 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.000 score a touchdown but also a two point conversion. I mean, 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.400 you just put yourself in that position. Here's the other 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:47.159 thing when you when you mentioned pressure, Tampa Bay's defense 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:53.600 sacked Aaron Rodgers five times. They hit him another eight times. Now, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:59.479 I know they didn't have David Baktyari their starting offensive tackle, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:04.080 but boy, that just goes to show you how important 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:09.480 in these games it is to protect your quarterback. Brady 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.480 only got sacked one time. They couldn't get to him, right, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:17.480 and he's throwing deep. He's throwing deep and they can't 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.480 get to him. H So uh, that offensive line in 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:27.240 these games is vitally, vitally important to the success of 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:31.360 what your quarterback may or or or may not have. 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.000 I mean, mahomes is thirty seven of forty nine, get 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.480 out of here, right, and he wasn't scrambling for his 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.199 life thirty seven of forty nine for four hundred and 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:48.520 sixty two yards. And this Buffalo defense hadn't played well previously. Yes, 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:54.280 they had well when you look at the Tampa Bay 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.760 Green Bay game. Uh. One more note on the on 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.200 the field goal. It was just like Kevin Stefanski the 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.960 week before in the Cleveland game where they it was 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.480 almost identical situation, just different part of the field. Whether 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.679 they're down five okay and they opt there, you're asking 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.679 your defense to do the exact same thing. If you 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.639 don't make it on fourth down, okay, you have to 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.600 stop the other team. So you might as well, in 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.840 this case, give your Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:28.240 an opportunity on fourth down to win the game for 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.399 you or to tie the game for you. And secondly, 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.280 I mean, if you're if you're giving the football up, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:39.320 whether whether you're you fail on fourth down or you 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.080 kick it on fourth down, you have to stop Tom 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:43.920 Brady and so you might as well give your guy 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:45.680 a chance. And the same thing happened the week before 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:49.640 with Baker Mayfield and Cleveland. The other thing as far 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.159 as getting pressure on Rogers in Tampa Bay and how 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:58.600 about Shack Barrett and JPP Jason Pierre Paul at whatever 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.800 age his right now the one because remember Tampa Bay 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:07.240 was playing throughout that second half without both their starting safeties. 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.720 They played the entire game without a guy that should 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.719 be in serious consideration for defensive Rookie of the Year 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:17.200 Antoine Winfield, who is out. And then they lose Whitehead, 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:24.320 and so those edge rushers basically won the game for 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.800 them defensively by getting pressure on Rogers and taking him 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:33.560 out of his game. No, absolutely, And so you know, 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.680 it's it's good to see other teams have problems like this, right, 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.240 this is what happens to the Cowboys. Right the Cowboys 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.040 never get beat. There's always a reason for it. Right now, 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:50.399 they're not. There's never well, they weren't good enough. No, 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:54.359 there's always one player or one coaching decision that makes 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.760 the difference. So it's nice to see somebody else have 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.760 some problems. And eversing, how about this, you're talking about 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.879 the pressure bursting pipes and coaches decisions and so forth. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.000 How about Bruce Arians at the end of the first half. Okay, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:13.200 here's a veteran coach and they were about to punt 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.160 the football away with eight seconds left and a half, 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.640 and then and then he thought about it and okay, yeah, 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.200 let's go ahead and take a shot. Okay. And there 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.560 was some risks I guess involved there, because if you 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.520 don't complete that, you give the ball back and then Rogers, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.440 the king of the hail Mary Uh, you know, gets 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:37.400 an opportunity to heave it downfield. But the Arians came 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:40.879 that close to not making that decision to get Brady 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.160 an opportunity to burn Kevin King on the touchdown pass 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:45.960 to Scottie Miller at the end of the first half. 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:51.000 Brady already had his cape on. He had gone to 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.600 the sideline assuming they were gonna punt. He had the capon. 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.680 Turns out, Mickey. Turns out, Mickey, it was a Superman 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:05.920 cape he had. Yeah, right, exactly, well, and you know what, 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.239 you know what, you know what that reminded me of. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.280 You remember the end of the half in the ninety 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.919 four NFC title game that the Cowboys fell behind twenty 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:21.320 one nothing. I believe they were down twenty four to 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.639 ten at that point, if I remember correctly, I may not. 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.720 It might have been twenty. I think it was twenty 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:33.679 four to ten, and there was mere seconds left in 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.000 the half and San Francisco had the ball at the 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:41.040 twenty eight yard line, and he ends up throwing a 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:45.359 touchdown pass. I believe it was to Jerry Rice of 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.560 all people, right, and Larry Brown gets lost on the 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.919 play and gets beat when basically they had one play 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.000 left or two plays left. The last thing you can 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.159 do is let Jerry Rice get behind you, right, and 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:01.960 they end up throw in a touchdown pass similar to that. 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:05.439 How do you let anybody get behind you to score 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:11.400 a touchdown with one second to go? It's it's not 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:15.240 only ridiculous in that manners bags. This is something that 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.840 Brady does often. This is no surprise, you know. It's 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.359 one of those things where you know, what, might as 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.840 well take a shot when you're around the fifty yard line, 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:30.160 when you're around midfield. Defensive backs always know this is 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.840 when quarterbacks like to take a shot. It's a no 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:37.520 lose situation for the offense. If they make the touchdown, 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.120 of course, it's great. If they don't, then you still 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.400 got the field position game one, because if you pump 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.040 the ball away, then most likely you're going to have 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.960 their offense deep down in the in the in their 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:51.439 part of the field. So this is something that Brady 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:55.200 has done before. He did it in New England many times, 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:59.920 and so to me that was a matter of Okay, hey, coach, 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:01.919 I want to give this a try. We don't need 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:05.000 to worry about potting this ball. Like you said, it's 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.720 only a few seconds left and a half. Let me 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:11.480 give it a try. What can we lose. He's done 0:24:11.480 --> 0:24:15.760 it before. It's a strategic, very strategic way to end 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.120 the half as far as I'm concerned, and I'm very 0:24:19.160 --> 0:24:22.560 surprised that the green based secondary wasn't ready for it. 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:27.000 Not just King himself, but as a secondary, you gotta 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:30.199 talk he's not out when you say he's out there 0:24:30.240 --> 0:24:32.720 on the island by himself. Yes, that's one thing as 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:37.440 a cornerback. I enjoyed that that that position as a cornerback. 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:40.280 But you still need to communicate. I'm still looking at 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:44.440 Michael Downs and Dexter clean scale at all times, making 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.720 sure we're on the same page in this crucial moment. 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:50.720 If nothing else, you want to make sure. Okay, you 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.160 don't want to give up the field goal, but the 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:57.760 overall concept is, please you can't give up the quick six. 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:00.679 They and Everson right after that the beginning of the 0:25:00.720 --> 0:25:04.439 second half. You remember Tampa Bay got the turnover, and 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:06.560 so they're down at the ten yard line or whatever 0:25:06.600 --> 0:25:10.320 it was, and you knew that Brady was gonna take 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:13.520 a shot after it's the old sudden change. He was 0:25:13.560 --> 0:25:15.119 going to take a shot to the end zone. And 0:25:15.560 --> 0:25:19.119 Tampa Bay came out with three tight ends. Okay, so 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:22.480 they got this bunch formation and then they just released 0:25:22.560 --> 0:25:25.600 Cameron break they're tight end, and nobody covers in. I 0:25:25.680 --> 0:25:28.480 said as the play was starting, when they came out 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.000 in a bunch formation, I said, he's stolen for the 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.560 end zone because because you knew that was his best opportunity. 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.959 He was he was They were trying to think, make 0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:40.840 him think that, Okay, we're gonna try to run it, 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:43.000 run it, run it. And it's sure enough it was 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:45.960 a play fake and Cameron Brad is wide open. How 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:49.120