WEBVTT - Mick Shots_12_23.mp3 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:09.120 M The following. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.159 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.720 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:15.600 Cowboys. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.959 This is Mick Shot streaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.320 and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:33.199 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.199 Go Dallas Cowboy. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.239 We are situation. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:01:11.360 Stamp it maybe December twenty third, two days before Christmas, 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.920 but I'm going to wish each of you a happy 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.240 New Year. Thank you on this edition of mix Shots. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:19.600 Before Merry Christmas. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.120 Before Merry Christmas. It's happy New Year. The new year 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.360 started about three thirty yesterday afternoon. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.960 And let me tell you, if this football team plays 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.000 like they did on Sunday night, every single game, then 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:33.479 no one should have any complaints. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:33.920 That's right. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.040 And if they continue, they may finish nine and eight. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.160 That's right. They might have the twentieth pick of the draft. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.280 I just want to point out that we may be 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.320 the only ones that picked the game correctly. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.720 We almost got it exactly right. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.960 We had twenty seven four. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.360 And well, you know, I think we all go with 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.200 the same thing. First of all, because we don't really 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.520 score over twenty plus points. So that's why we always. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.120 Stay in that whole area. Yeah. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.720 But also the good thing defensively, we don't give up 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.400 really more than twenty four to twenty five points in 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.560 these last what five games? 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.720 Yep, I saw one four out of five. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.120 As the game was progressing, I'm going. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.119 Four, it was gonna be it was gonna be hard 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.160 to get to twenty seven. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:27.079 Yeah, well if they quick kicking field goals scored me 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.560 a touchdown. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.280 Once they got to twenty six, I figured they weren't 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:31.480 getting to twenty seven. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:41.400 And I'll I think you're pick to click wins Duran Blend. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.440 Yeah, yeah, it took until the last play of the 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:46.560 game basically, but. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.839 No, I know what you're where you're going. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.400 Mike Evans did not score a touchdown. He had like 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.560 five catches for sixty yards. You could live with that, 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.880 and he was predominantly following him. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.040 And he he didn't have a pick. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:02.840 He did not. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.639 He might as well have had. 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.160 In the last play he picked the pocket. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.880 That was huge because. 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.520 You know, almost as huge as Lewis's interception. How does 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.320 he do that? Lewis? 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:19.560 Oh? 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.240 Oh yeah, that was nice. Huh. I told you that's 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.120 my stud, that's my guy. I'm sorry he is. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.440 You know, he's shown it all year long. I don't 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.359 know why I didn't see it last year. I think 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.920 because you know, our secondary was just so weird. But 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.520 he has always shown that toughness and I kind of 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:39.560 missed it last year. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.280 This year, well, he was back from that foot injury, remember. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.240 But you know he's shown toughness before that foot injury, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.560 and I missed it. And to see just how he's 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.760 it's like he's mad at somebody out there. Really, he 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.960 is upset at somebody doing the game. It's like he 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.360 tries to find someone for his motivation, uh, to be 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.880 to go all out and just try and embarrass. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.240 A week or two ago, someone asked him where he 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:10.240 got that that attitude he plays with that fight he 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.360 goes because I was always the smallest guy on the field. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.760 Yeah, and when you when you look at how he 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.120 dopes not jump up. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.400 On all that guys. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.880 Sing his moments of short people. But uh no, I 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.760 just enjoyed how he tracked the ball. He caught it 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.479 quickly because at first he was just looking at the 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.520 wide receiver. But once the ball, once he turned around, 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.400 he immediately saw it and he saw it going into 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.280 uh the receiver's hands, and he was not going to 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.000 let him have it. I don't think he was really 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.560 going for the interception, No he was. I think he 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.720 was just going to strip it out. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.080 But there it is the ball. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.800 Jerry called it the best interception he's ever seen. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:55.359 A hell of an interception. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.240 And there may be another reason why he was he 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.640 played like that this year because he's on a one 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.800 year deal. Well, but no, he was on a three 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.200 year I was just looking at his contract history. He 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.560 was on a three year, thirteen and a half million 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.160 dollar deal up until this year, averaging four and a 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.840 half million a year, and then this year, on the 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.440 heels of having the injury of year or so prior, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.560 his market was one year, two point eight million dollars, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.680 which is good money. But it's a one year deal 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:32.200 at age twenty nine, and so he knows that that'll 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.240 make you play when you have his years of service 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.520 and what he means to the team, you'll play perturbed. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.120 And I think also. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.039 Because of how this defense has been going, I think 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.679 he has seen it as an opportunity to be a leader, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:52.440 you know. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.520 I don't think he just kind of stumbled into. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.520 This and I'm just playing hard, playing hard, and now 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.680 I'm just going to make you play. I think by 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.440 design he knows that he is one of the leaders 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:01.920 on this team. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.160 But he's pretty outspoken to That's good. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.560 That's good he I think he has accepted that. Whether 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:08.400 we want to call him a. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.720 Leader or not, he is a leader on this team. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:16.440 So there's another priority in the off Lewis side. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.479 There's a whole bunch of them to the side whoever 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.240 else we've been. You know, he's kind of Golston's kind 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:30.560 of in that boat where Dorin's Armstrong was this past year. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.839 Now he does well, he doesn't have the sack total 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:39.719 right that Armstrong, But but what he's meant to this team, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.880 I mean he's not He's not a guy that's going 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.440 to have eight sacks, but. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:46.400 He as a. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.040 Inside outside guy, versatility. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.440 The leaders full of them, and they need them. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.720 And it just showed this year that you need him. Okay, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.800 so let's do this pull back the curtain. Did you 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.640 watched the whole Washington Philadelphia game. 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.520 I didn't watch the whole game, but I watched what 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:05.480 I needed to watch, all. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.920 Right, And when it was over, your thoughts, I sa 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.920 I was like, I think I'll just write my story 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:14.440 for both. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:16.640 I don't want to. 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.320 Yeah, yesterday, just the way it turned out, I had. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.040 It on the whole time, and I wasn't focused on 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.280 every play, but I was focused enough to know what happened, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.400 and I went straight to the gym. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:32.760 Think about it. 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.680 They just need Philadelphia to do what they're supposed to do. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.239 They have been doing for tenth straight games. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.840 Like with nine minutes left in the first quarter, Jalen 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.239 Hurts goes out with a concussion, right, And I didn't 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.560 realize this when Pickett came in that afterwards. I looked 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.160 it up. He had only attempted three passes all year, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.920 he had only played seven snaps. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.600 Not surprised, And I'm going. 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.000 You know them football CODs that have been punishing the 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.280 Cowboys all year, here's another one. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:04.200 Which is gonna. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.400 A one that's exactly here. 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.760 We go right here, and as Sweat goes. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.840 Out well and as greg Olsen in regards to the 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.400 Hurts injury, as greg Olsen pointed out earlier in the game, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.480 the importance of Hurts on that offense. It's like every 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.120 in the advantage he gives on that offense with the 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.920 whole tush push and all that stuff. It's like first 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.720 and nine instead of first and ten. Every time they 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:32.840 have the football. 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.840 And how many times did they end up in like 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.679 third and short or fourth and short and they're trying to. 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.880 Throw that's right now, totally different. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.720 Yeah, and so that's why at the end of the 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.200 game they have to kick field goals. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.080 Rather than run out the clock. Exactly at the end 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:49.720 of the game. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.600 Is well, if you didn't know, he's extremely important. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:59.720 And then Slay goes out. Then Gardner Johnson gets a 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.360 did for his second personal file and I'm going, this 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:07.120 isn't this is unreal, this, this ain't happening, right. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.760 We saw, we saw it. We saw Philadelphia do something 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.840 that we hadn't seen him do before. And that's just panic. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.319 They just, you know, they gave it up like we 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:16.160 would give it. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:17.559 You know what I think happened. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.080 I think somebody told the Philadelphia team about midway the 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.320 third quarter, they said, if you lose this game, the 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.240 Cowboys will be eliminated for the playoffs, and so they 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.760 they I just I think they decided they would rather 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.120 that happen than them still be in the hunt for a. 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:41.440 First round You think The take was on when DeVante 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.960 Smith is going to catch a first down pass, maybe 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:50.280 a touchdown pass to seal the game. Not only does 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.560 he drop it, he drops it twice because he's gonna 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.480 double clutch again. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.040 And some of the wide open receivers that the Commanders 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.600 And I'm just sitting there going, someone's told the Eagles 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.640 that this will eliminate the Cowboys. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.600 It was just unbelievable. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.520 You think just made the call? 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.319 It's right, Okay, Hey guys, I just found this out. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.120 I mean, we lose this game, the Cowboys are eliminated, 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:14.560 and I'm. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.720 Just sitting going, we got to cover three more games. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:18.920 We got to cover. 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:23.080 Talk three more weeks or three two more weeks against 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.320 games that don't meant anything, all right? 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:29.880 But but fast forward yes to eleven o'clock last night, 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.760 and how did you feel about covering two more games? 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.320 It was nine and eight, let's go. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.600 Yeah, that's exactly right. I felt the same thing. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.480 You know what, I felt better just watching how they played. Uh, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.960 you know, that game is pretty much what I've been 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.640 looking for with them. Not a lot of penalties offensively, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.480 didn't see a lot that really hurt us. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:49.760 In certain situations. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.800 We made some mistakes, but that the way we played 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.400 as a unit, you know, defensively, we complimented our offense 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.720 very well and vice versa. I really enjoy watching that game. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:02.600 Down to the end. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.840 It got kind of tight, but I still had a 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.599 little confidence that will be okay. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.000 You know I had. I had Basically after watching that game, 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.800 I said, well, this game doesn't matter. I had half 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.520 my column written before the game started explaining everything, and 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.560 then the way it turned out, I was like, okay, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.840 throw that away. We got to start again because what 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:29.400 they did. And by the way, you did you guys 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.839 do a pregame show yesterday morning them, but not at 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.240 the not at the stadium. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.000 Not the stadium. Now, when I. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.079 Drove into the stadium, I got there about three hours 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.560 before kickoff, and there was no traffic, and I'm going, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.440 all these people they're not even covering down right, Well, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.000 the place filled up. They're getting ready for the kickoff, 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.120 and all these people are up waving their towels and 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.600 I'm going, don't they know what just happened? Right? 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.800 What percentage do you think knew that they were eliminated? 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.640 Have no idea? 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.679 Maybe the thought occurred to me, I bet eighty percent 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.280 of the fans in there had no clue. 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.800 You think so, well, I know, Okay, this is the 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:10.520 reason I say that. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.920 I know my daughter and her family were there, and 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.640 I guarantee you nobody in that family knew or cared. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.360 They're just going for the experience and going to a game. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.960 We've got some other friends whose kids are at the game. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.520 Those kids don't care. They're just going for the experience 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.079 of going to a game. They want to see their 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:26.520 team win. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:27.480 That I think. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:28.680 I think. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.320 We're in the minority here any people that are listening 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:37.760 to these podcasts, okay, in that there are a bunch 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.079 of fans who can't go on a regular basis, and 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.720 they're casual fans. They liked the Cowboys, but they're casual fans. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.840 But when they go, they want to see their team 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.400 win and it doesn't matter whether they're in the playoff 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:49.880 hunt or not. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.480 Well, and I would agree with you on that, but 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.400 I would say, and the based on the way you 0:12:55.440 --> 0:13:01.120 described it, these were not season ticket holders. These were 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:06.040 the These are the people that you know fix my pool. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.760 And I and I know the five people or seven 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.080 people that I just described. 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:12.720 They are not season ticket overs. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.560 They got tickets from somebody else, and so they're going 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:16.920 for they're going for a. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.800 Good time, for the value of the for the at 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.880 and T Cowboy Spell. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.400 And the kids going remember that, like I remember going 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.520 with my dad to go watch the. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.320 Still think that they knew what was going on. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.280 I still think and we can vouch for fifty people 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:40.480 because after we finished our Star Sports Tour presentation, they 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.720 all knew what was up. So there was fifty people 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:46.400 there that by god, you. 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.240 Say that for the most part, you're gonna you had casual, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.520 uh football fans. 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.760 But they stayed to the end, and they gave that 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.000 team a standing ovation at the end, and they were 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.960 kneeling down good. It was unbelievable that that it turned 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:04.600 out that way. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:10.040 So they weren't like a cynics who say, what about 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:10.760 the draft. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.160 What about that top ten draft? Bell four spots in 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:15.560 the draft. 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:20.200 I don't know. I got the feeling that and I 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.960 think they a long time. And you tell me, if 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.280 if you're a player, you're not sitting there watching that 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.840 game on pins and needles and getting emotional because you 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.640 know you got to play and you don't want to 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:38.080 waste your energy, right, So a lot of those guys. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.840 Like I talked to Cooper Bbie and I said, did 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.240 you know what happened beforehand? And he goes, I found 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.600 out on the bus ride in. So he didn't watch 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:47.000 the game. 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:47.880 Uh. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.680 I doctor Nick Vigil and was like, so what. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.880 Was the actually what happened to him? Where did he 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:55.280 come from? 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:55.640 Right? 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.720 That's reserving gazes. 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.640 It was his third start in three years. Wow, and 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.800 he had played He played sixty nine snaps in the game. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.680 I think he played maybe. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.440 All, but he was the leading tackler in the game. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.560 He had ten tackles. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:15.640 I thought I was like thirteen. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:23.000 So when I was looking, he had he had sixty 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.280 nine or seventy two snaps prior to that. This year 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.280 he had fifty I think it was fifty six total 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:36.680 snaps in fourteen games. So he had thirteen more snaps 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.160 than he had all seasons. Yeah, and played his ass off. 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.480 He should, but in his career, I mean he's a 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.880 former third round draft pick out of Utah State, and 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.040 earlier in his career now in twenty three, he only 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.680 played and blessed you eight games with Minnesota last year. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:58.600 He's now thirty one years old and four games two 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.280 starts with Arizona and twenty two, so he's been battling 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.360 injuries the last couple of years. Prior to that, he 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.040 was a twelve game starter with Minnesota in twenty twenty 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.480 one and with the Chargers for a year, and then 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.320 he started his career with Cincinnati, where he made a 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.360 total of thirty seven starts. Is for yeah, thirty seven 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.320 starts his first four years in the league. So he's 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.520 been a starter in this league and now he's now 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:27.080 he's a journeyman, veteran guy. And he was signed because 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.640 he was familiar had played for Zimmer in twenty twenty 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.160 one in Minnesota. He's familiar with the system and in 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.480 case Eric Kendricks ever went down with injuries, that he 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.320 would be there in reserve, and they gave him a shot, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:41.400 and that's what he did. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.080 I mean you you basically, I'm not going to, you know, 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.720 totally consider Lea File a backup linebacker, but in their 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.400 nickel formation it was overshown. And now he's got a start. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.960 So you had two backups starting at linebacker, a backup 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.280 at defensive end for sure, maybe the third backup or 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.000 second back up, and then a back up at cornerback 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.520 and then he goes out. Thank god, it was only 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.480 one snap. When I saw Booth coming in, I'm going 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.520 maybe they'll put C. J. Goodwin in. At least he 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.760 knows what's going on. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.840 Right, Well, there was a wide open receiver on that play. Yes, yes, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.440 I didn't look to see who is at fault on it. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.320 But all I know is there was a wide There 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.960 wasn't another defender in the vicinity like we always have. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.800 Actually, actually it was bland In Jordan Lewis on that side. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:41.159 Somebody was supposed to. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.399 Go, I need to stop to the middle because that 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:44.320 was the same. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.200 Now this was the opposite. It was the slant guy 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.239 that didn't get the sot guy didn't get covered, but 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.520 they both were looking at the wide guy. But anyway, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.720 so all these guys, I don't think, and McCarthy did 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.280 a good job I think of reading the room because 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.720 he was asked, did you have to talk to the 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.880 guys about Okay, we understand, he goes, I was watching 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.440 and no one was talking about it because no one 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.160 was saying anything. He goes, Now, there might have been 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:16.960 one on one conversations about Washington winning and US being eliminated. 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.000 He said, so I decided to just ghost. We're going 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.480 to win, you know, we're going to play. And he 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.240 said the only adjustment he made when they had their 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.440 Friday or Saturday meeting on how they were going to 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.880 conduct the game. They were going to defer if they 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.600 won the coin toss, and he goes, when we want 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.919 the coin toss? And I saw what was going on. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:42.440 I said, we're taking the ball, by God, Yes, take. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.760 The ball we talked about last night. 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.560 Yes, and just drive down and get some momentum and 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.840 get the miss going. 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.520 Drive that thirty yards down the field field goal? 0:18:53.640 --> 0:19:00.520 By god? Is that guy unbelievable by the way. 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.760 Whimps or something. Man, we're just trying to get three points, bro. 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:03.920 He making it sound like we're just. 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.359 You know, you know what. 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.960 They had three They had three field goal drives in 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.959 the first half that were all exactly thirty yards, and 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.679 it was a fifty eight yarder or whatever, a forty 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:15.920 something yarder, and then another. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.760 Forty nine yard of fifty that's. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.320 Right, and then another fifty eight yard thirty yards for 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:22.840 some records. 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:23.600 Think about that. 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.800 He's turned in like the fifty yarders or the new forties. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.000 I mean, he's like he has I think as much 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.480 of more than any other kicker a fifty plus yard. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:39.040 For a single season fourteen fourteen, So he now has 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:40.080 the NFL. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:40.680 Record, he does. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.639 Yeah, it was thirteen Fairburn. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.000 Fair or wherever? 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.400 How do you say fair Bear? Yeah, but it's brn Barn. Yeah, 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.600 he had it at thirteen. So now he passed him 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.480 with two games to go, right, But and he's another one. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:01.480 He he had a they gave him I guess it 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.760 was NBC after the game. They gave him like a 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.800 laminated ball. You know, I don't know if it said 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.680 player of the Game or whatever, but he's got the ball. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.160 And I said, oh, you got one of those those 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:14.960 ball I meant the fifty yarders. It was like, no, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.520 it was the after game ball. And he was putting 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.560 in his backpack like this was a really big deal. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.760 It is. I mean, they gave it to him, but I. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:25.960 Don't know if they did it like a presentation on 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:31.240 the field. But he was like he was like, you know, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.400 he goes, if we had to play a game, you're 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.440 not going to go out there not try to win, right, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.679 And and that was the attitude through the whole bunch, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.080 And you know, God bless him, because I tell you 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.639