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Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss it. Everson Walls, Mickey Spagnola. We're waiting
Speaker 1: the arrival of Bill Jones here in our SWBC podcast
Speaker 1: studio at the Star on this Monday afternoon. And did
Speaker 1: someone hold the press conference and tell us that Bell
Speaker 1: is inactive? Oh? Maybe that was happening. Bill is inactive today.
Speaker 1: He was one of the he didn't make it to
Speaker 1: the forty eight man Rock. There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1: After the Cowboys nineteen to nine lost to Kanzie City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Everson, we all not only had that
Speaker 1: picked the winner right, but we had the score right too,
Speaker 1: right man. I was so off. I mean I was
Speaker 1: as off as you can be. Not only did my
Speaker 1: score so way off my pick to click. I mean,
Speaker 1: Paula didn't even really hardly touch the ball. Seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, well he he had I think he had
Speaker 1: the most carrious did he really well? Let's see, I
Speaker 1: was when I look, I was just so lost in
Speaker 1: the boredom of the game itself. See here, here's why
Speaker 1: you lost tract of him. I think his first carry
Speaker 1: was thirty one yards ye, and then he had six
Speaker 1: carries for nineteen crazy, so that's three yards a shot.
Speaker 1: Zeke had nine carries for thirty two yards, and he
Speaker 1: was nursing a banged up knee that he suffered in
Speaker 1: the first half. It was the same knee sprain that
Speaker 1: he's been dealing with, and they had to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, regulate his snaps and he didn't get as
Speaker 1: many stamps as he his knee or his ankle or both. Well.
Speaker 1: I was told knee how he said in a press
Speaker 1: conference something about the twisted ankle, But when I talked
Speaker 1: to the medical folks after the game, it was basically
Speaker 1: irritating the knee that's been bothered him now for a
Speaker 1: good three weeks. Yes, yeah, I was going to say
Speaker 1: a month. So what were your overall impressions of what
Speaker 1: took place. You know, I gotta say, we had so
Speaker 1: much hype related to this game. We're looking at the
Speaker 1: numbers by both teams, especially even the potential of this
Speaker 1: quarterback matchup that was just going to create fireworks throughout
Speaker 1: the entire stadium. And to look at what happened. The
Speaker 1: lack of output really, to me by both teams, especially
Speaker 1: by both quarterbacks, it made for a very I just say, uneventful.
Speaker 1: It was an uneventful affair. Can I call it that? Yes? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because it was. I was so bored, not just frustrated,
Speaker 1: like I said, I definitely frustrated, but definitely bored. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And here was the weird thing. And this is what
Speaker 1: I wrote about in my column this morning. Had we
Speaker 1: had you told me before the game that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would hold Kansas City to nineteen points, Cowboys win, Cowboys.
Speaker 1: When if you had have told me they held the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs to just two touchdowns, Cowboys winboy. And
Speaker 1: if you had told me Patrick Mahomes is only going
Speaker 1: to complete twenty three or thirty seven passes for two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards, get sacked three times, intercepted once,
Speaker 1: and finished with a seventy one point nine quarterback blowing
Speaker 1: them out. It's a runaway, right, that's it. It would
Speaker 1: be a runaway. And had you told me that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys would not score a touchdown for the first time
Speaker 1: in twenty seven games and Dak would only throw for
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixteen yards and all they would score
Speaker 1: is nine points, I'd have told you you lost your mind.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's true. But all that took place, and
Speaker 1: that's how the Cowboys ended up losing the game nineteen
Speaker 1: to nine and falling to seven and three, but still
Speaker 1: has the second best record in the high for the
Speaker 1: second best record in the NFC, and no matter what
Speaker 1: happens tonight, that's going to go out throughout the next
Speaker 1: into the next ball. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: it's the second best record in the NFL because everybody
Speaker 1: in the NFC, I mean in the AFC as least
Speaker 1: lost three games. Is in um Tennessee eight and three,
Speaker 1: Baltimore seven and three, Kansas City now seven and four,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're in first place. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants first place, right because as soon as you get there,
Speaker 1: then you have a hiccup. And it's not just a hiccup.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's it's just straight up barfing, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So I thought the best summary of that game,
Speaker 1: better than Mike column, was what Andy Reid had to
Speaker 1: say after the game. I don't know if you They
Speaker 1: asked him if if this was a statement game for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and as a response was every week is
Speaker 1: crazy in this league. So I'm not sure there are
Speaker 1: any statements. There's not a lot of consistency going out
Speaker 1: right now amongst the NFL. Here, every week is a
Speaker 1: big time challenge. I'm talking about wins and losses haven't
Speaker 1: been consistent. There are ups and downs, and teams are
Speaker 1: favored and they get beat I mean, it's crazy crazy.
Speaker 1: There you go, that's the best I thought. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was trying to write and sum it up in
Speaker 1: my words, and I go, no, I'm just gonna let
Speaker 1: them do it for me. That's it. Right. Well, let's
Speaker 1: look at the top teams. Buffalo, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the heck is going on with them. To me, they
Speaker 1: are the only team that's more baffling than the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now. They've got all this talent and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you find these weaknesses that pop
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere, like like whac a mole or something.
Speaker 1: So when you when you when you go from one
Speaker 1: week to the next, you're up here and everyone's on
Speaker 1: the badwagon. And as soon as you lose, not just
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, right, as soon as you lose, whether you're Buffalo,
Speaker 1: whether you're Tampa, where you're the Saints, you know, everyone's like,
Speaker 1: now you are, you are vilified for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, of course, until the next week comes, and
Speaker 1: then we have a whole nother narative. So Buffalo, not
Speaker 1: only do they lose, Indianapolis beats them forty one to
Speaker 1: fifteen at home. The Packers get beat by Minnesota thirty
Speaker 1: four thirty one jack against us right, and that game
Speaker 1: wasn't even close till the end when the Packers came
Speaker 1: back and tied it up. Baltimore supposed to be great, right,
Speaker 1: seven and three, Well, they struggled to beat Chicago by
Speaker 1: a field goal sixteen. Back up Andy Dalton coming in Carolina, Oh,
Speaker 1: Cams back, They're gonna get righted right. Washington beats them
Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty one. Feast baby. The Chargers, who we
Speaker 1: had given up on them. Right, they beat Pittsburgh forty
Speaker 1: one thirty seven, So yeah, it just kind of continued.
Speaker 1: Then you know, there's the Cowboys following suit with their loss.
Speaker 1: New Orleans can't win a game now, right, Philadelphia forty
Speaker 1: or twenty nine? Hey, watch out for the NFC East.
Speaker 1: Watch out for the NFC East, and especially those Philadelphia Eagles. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's something we can talk about another time. But they're scoring,
Speaker 1: they are scoring, they are winning, and there they are
Speaker 1: winning with guts. I mean, that's that's the thing that
Speaker 1: I was hoping for yesterday. And I always talked about
Speaker 1: my admiration for the Ravens teams like Pittsburgh to where
Speaker 1: it got so much going on all the time, quarterbacks out,
Speaker 1: COVID whatever, you know, age, you know, all kind of excuses.
Speaker 1: He trying to get rid of, the coach sending down
Speaker 1: to college football. He's cussing out all the press, and
Speaker 1: here we are. You know, every week, something silly happens,
Speaker 1: and it just doesn't make any sense to me how
Speaker 1: you can be so up and seem invincible. And I'm
Speaker 1: not just talking Cowboys, but all of these teams that
Speaker 1: are supposed to be They talked about Josh Allen in
Speaker 1: Week four. Oh, he was an MVP already running away.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, then Jets, Jets, the Jets come along. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like he was handicapped by anything. They have
Speaker 1: his team. I mean, we got a few injuries like
Speaker 1: everyone else. But you don't even score a touchdown at
Speaker 1: home against the Jets. I think it was a home game.
Speaker 1: And for them to be faulting like that, and for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to be faulting, I just sat up there
Speaker 1: yesterday and I just shook my head and it still
Speaker 1: doesn't bring me solence that that other teams are going
Speaker 1: through it. That does not make me feel better. It's
Speaker 1: an excuse, but I gotta wonder what are we doing
Speaker 1: to where we are so inconsistent and every week in
Speaker 1: this league, you hit the reset button, right, So tell
Speaker 1: me your thoughts on why you think this Cowboy offense
Speaker 1: just faltered again. It's Kansas City offensive line line. It's
Speaker 1: just it is what it is. That defensive line came
Speaker 1: out is amazing. The husual suspects with Jones. We knew
Speaker 1: Jones was going to be a problem, right, We talked
Speaker 1: about this last week. He's got to be the AFC
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the way. Here we go again putting
Speaker 1: somebody in the problem. Right, we just we can't help ourselves.
Speaker 1: We're going the road. We just make somebody famous. Three
Speaker 1: and a half we do. Somebody told me that he
Speaker 1: did one of the postgame shows on TV and they
Speaker 1: said he had three and a half sacks. He goes, no,
Speaker 1: I had four, and they go, no, officially, you had three.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, somebody's gonna have to answer to where
Speaker 1: my other half sack? And I think forced to fumble. Well,
Speaker 1: look here's his line. They're still trying to block. They
Speaker 1: can't find him. So he ends up with five tackles,
Speaker 1: three and a half sacks for twenty yards not not
Speaker 1: just at the line of scrimmage, right, two tackles for losses,
Speaker 1: three quarterback hits, one past defense he deflected it at
Speaker 1: the line, one force fumble, and one fumble recovered. Who
Speaker 1: does better than right? Yeah, And unfortunately for Micah Parsons,
Speaker 1: he might have been the NFC Defensive Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: That would be Parsons would be number two in this regard,
Speaker 1: right because he had a hell of a game. It
Speaker 1: just needed them to win. Our defense was amazing, Yes,
Speaker 1: they really were, and I was impressed by them, because
Speaker 1: when you have an offense that's so inadequate and you
Speaker 1: have these letdowns of the turnovers and interceptions in bad places,
Speaker 1: Dak's interception to Ceedee Lamb. It just lets you know
Speaker 1: when you do something that is ill advised, it can
Speaker 1: cause dominoes to fall. Never it's no way that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to throw an interception in that in that part
Speaker 1: of the field when we have a chance to have
Speaker 1: points or at least kick a field goal. Gotta have
Speaker 1: at least the foot points you're gonna get something. It
Speaker 1: had you kicked the field goal there and you got twelve,
Speaker 1: you're always within one score on score of tying the game,
Speaker 1: and we had just that. It was a momentum changer
Speaker 1: before that to put us in position to where we are.
Speaker 1: So now you you just can't throw an interception right there.
Speaker 1: And it's not just a guy made the great play.
Speaker 1: It's an OK play, but you threw it to him,
Speaker 1: not to the receiver. CD left plenty of room on
Speaker 1: the outside, plenty of room on the outside for him
Speaker 1: to look, and he was not. He wasn't ahead of him.
Speaker 1: But if you could go back show the faith. You've
Speaker 1: got all kind of answers for that. He was feeling it.
Speaker 1: He was hearing. Let's they seeing ghosts or hearing ghosts,
Speaker 1: that's what That's the way it was, because they were
Speaker 1: whether they're blitzing or not. Kansas City had constant pressure
Speaker 1: on him. Sacked five times. I believe I saw where
Speaker 1: he was hit eight times. And this tells you how
Speaker 1: much pressure he's under. They had nine passes defense. That
Speaker 1: means they're getting their hands on his best. So he's
Speaker 1: trying to fit in. So to me, at least I will,
Speaker 1: you know, give him five at one point, but yeah,
Speaker 1: at least four. And look, here's the deal. You know,
Speaker 1: it's very noble of them to rest on this next
Speaker 1: man up thing, but as I always say, the reason
Speaker 1: they're the next man up and at some point you
Speaker 1: get diminishing returns, right, So you know everybody was ready
Speaker 1: to put Terrence Steele in the ring of honor. Well,
Speaker 1: they better get him off the left hand. That's crazy, right,
Speaker 1: I saw one point first one. Well, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know what is going on. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: heard the snap or they were on a silent count
Speaker 1: and he didn't have it right. Oh man, he was
Speaker 1: still standing. He's still counting everybody else it was Clark, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's sacking back and he's still stand. Uh man. When
Speaker 1: when you got games like that and you see a
Speaker 1: unit having the problems, First of all, Tylon Smith should
Speaker 1: get paid whatever he asked for, any time he asked
Speaker 1: for it. I hate to see my boy Zach struggling.
Speaker 1: He gave up one to Chris Jones. Yeah yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but you can still see that even when he when
Speaker 1: he didn't give one up, it was just he was
Speaker 1: part of the unit that was being overwhelmed and creating
Speaker 1: that uh claustrophobic look that Dak had back there, creating
Speaker 1: the ghost. Yeah, there you go. Lele Collins struggled and
Speaker 1: you know, while they didn't have a penalty at left guard,
Speaker 1: I don't know that McGovern. You know, times when you
Speaker 1: better take a penalty right the way, that's the way
Speaker 1: that he was. I'm not sure if you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: good on the better against the penalties right, And I'm
Speaker 1: not sure he played better than Williams there. He's strong.
Speaker 1: None of them played well, let's just be real. None
Speaker 1: of them played well. So we did not improve on
Speaker 1: the offensive line it off and I understand there was
Speaker 1: you know, the crowd can get noisy there and you
Speaker 1: have trouble with the snap count. But still he had
Speaker 1: to do it better, you know. And Dak, I mean
Speaker 1: Dak Zack stood up after the game and said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you had told me that the defense was going
Speaker 1: to play this well, we were gonna win. And we
Speaker 1: didn't hold up our end of the bargain meeting the offense.
Speaker 1: And he put it on the offense. Andy, shit, that's
Speaker 1: good that he did, because you can't you can't play
Speaker 1: it off on anybody else. I mean, that was the
Speaker 1: he spoke the obvious, but sometimes you have to go
Speaker 1: ahead and admit to that. I just really thought that
Speaker 1: as much as we are strong in so many areas,
Speaker 1: it was that game was still within our reach. And
Speaker 1: when you talk about Dak, we'll talk about Dak's elius.
Speaker 1: You know, the pressure that was that Dak was getting.
Speaker 1: Let's just be real. He's had pressure before. I mean
Speaker 1: I heard them say it before this season started. The
Speaker 1: number one passer under pressure. Yes, that's what he's known for.
Speaker 1: But not yesterday. For some reason, it seemed to get
Speaker 1: to him more than any other team. It couldn't have
Speaker 1: been the crowd. Cowboys offense has been out. There's so
Speaker 1: many This is nothing new exactly. So the only thing
Speaker 1: that's new is the fact that we couldn't perform. And
Speaker 1: I was extremely surprised. Like I said, not just that
Speaker 1: you made the mistakes, but in the crucial areas that
Speaker 1: they were made. You cannot You cannot let anyone but
Speaker 1: ceedee Lamb have a chance at that ball go into
Speaker 1: the end zone. Now look at the domino effect. He's
Speaker 1: got to play defense. Now, now he's got the concussion,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got to go. And then they get
Speaker 1: the ball to start the second half. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna come up with some key points in this game.
Speaker 1: I've got about four points where the Cowboys had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to take advantage and the fact that next man
Speaker 1: up at wide receiver didn't work out so well either.
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Speaker 1: here in the SWBC podcast studio after a dreary Sunday
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys losing nineteen nine to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, who moved to seven and four in first
Speaker 1: place in the AFC West. Now we were talking about
Speaker 1: next man up. We talked about the offensive line, well
Speaker 1: wide receiver. It seems like when it rains, it pours
Speaker 1: at a position. The Cowboys found out on Friday. We
Speaker 1: found out after our show that Amari Cooper had tested
Speaker 1: positive for COVID and now he's probably missing ten days,
Speaker 1: which will include at least Thanksgiving, and since he's not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: he uh, it will be ten days and he's got
Speaker 1: a test negative twice before he can get back. So
Speaker 1: so we're starting we're talking about starting from Friday Friday, correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: and that gets into the week of the New Orleans Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: should and you have to recover. Yes, And as we've
Speaker 1: seen nobody has recovered earlier is close contact ask but
Speaker 1: guys that have had it that tested positive have not recovered.
Speaker 1: It's been ten days to two weeks. Yes, it seems like.
Speaker 1: So you don't have him, you get that surprise on Friday.
Speaker 1: So okay, you know Cedric Wilson's gonna start. But here's
Speaker 1: what happens. And I always say this, Okay, that's great,
Speaker 1: but now one injury away and now what Now you're
Speaker 1: down to your fifth wide receiver, meaning like Ceedee Lamb happens,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, and then Ceedee Lamb suffers the concussion
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, and now it's
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson and Noah Brown and then Malik Turner and
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup is the guy that well, if you're the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: who you worried about Michael Gallup right, and he was,
Speaker 1: you know, doing as much as he could do this,
Speaker 1: but then the drops started. You know, Noah had one,
Speaker 1: Cedric had one or two, and it just compounded. You
Speaker 1: got to have your guys out there and I know, oh,
Speaker 1: everybody wants to you know the next guy up. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: that hurt also, So you had the combination of your
Speaker 1: offensive line struggling, meaning your quarterback was struggling, and now
Speaker 1: you've dipped into the depth at your wide receiver position. Yes,
Speaker 1: so uh look I've got I went through this. The
Speaker 1: opportunities they had, even though they struggled offensively, right, whether
Speaker 1: they end up with like two hundred and sixty total yards,
Speaker 1: it was just something ridiculous. First play of the game,
Speaker 1: they got a touchdown. If you were going there, first play,
Speaker 1: what is happening? Seven? Nothing? Michael Gallop smokes, showed various
Speaker 1: ward and Dak overthrows a man. How do you overthrow
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop and badly? O? Yes? Right, yes, Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know if the win was playing. All I know
Speaker 1: on the kickoffs when they were kicking off that direction,
Speaker 1: so it would have been we were in the press
Speaker 1: box to our left, they were going in the end zone.
Speaker 1: When they were kicking off to the right, they were
Speaker 1: hanging up right. So I don't know, but that would
Speaker 1: have meant the wind was coming out of the east.
Speaker 1: I think that didn't make sense. What what did Dad
Speaker 1: say about it? He didn't I'm sure he wasn't confronted.
Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna use an excuse. Well, I just want
Speaker 1: to know what he said end or no, No, he
Speaker 1: on the plate. Oh I missed him. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: hit that. I gotta hit that. So then the third
Speaker 1: Cowboys possession, they're now down nine nothing, first and ten
Speaker 1: at the Kansas City fifteen fifteen. They end up with
Speaker 1: a field goal. Yeah, can't have that happened? What happens
Speaker 1: right close? You are delusion. Then at the end of
Speaker 1: the second quarter, they get the sack fumble from Parsons,
Speaker 1: they recover, they get the ball at the Kansas City
Speaker 1: did not tell you you did? Yes, and they drive
Speaker 1: to a first and ten at the Kansas City twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Now there's only twenty one seconds, but Dak went for
Speaker 1: it all And that was the intercepted deception that you
Speaker 1: were talking about. You just can't happen. We move along
Speaker 1: to the third quarter. Cowboys first possession. Um, you know
Speaker 1: they're still down now sixteen to three, first and ten
Speaker 1: at the Kansas City seventeen seventeen, and it's a field goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so red zone problems up again. Yes, And then the
Speaker 1: beginning of the fourth quarter, and you're still sitting there
Speaker 1: going okay, if they just score a touchdown, right and
Speaker 1: they just kept teasing you, right, So the end of
Speaker 1: the third quarter, first possession or in it went into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and uh, they're down now nineteen to six,
Speaker 1: and you're going, okay, you score a touchdown, it's nineteen thirteen. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back to the defense is playing well? Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: first and they moved to first and ten at the
Speaker 1: Kansas City twenty one and this one, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: bs on first play, be honest with a false start. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't see him like act like he was gonna
Speaker 1: snap it. I saw him pop his head up and
Speaker 1: then they threw the flag. Can I say how ridiculous
Speaker 1: the coverage was on these penalties. It seemed as if
Speaker 1: the production booth, Troy and the guys, they were so
Speaker 1: busy being distracted by these other things when you got
Speaker 1: key things happening on the field and no one was
Speaker 1: set up to review it. And they came back to
Speaker 1: one play two plays later. So five yards Now you're
Speaker 1: first in the last thing you want to be against
Speaker 1: this team is first in fifteen, Right, they tried to
Speaker 1: run the ball, get something. Zeke got four. And then
Speaker 1: on second and eleven at the twenty two, they tried
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson on an end around in front of Dak
Speaker 1: and he's gonna flip him the ball, and they fumbled it.
Speaker 1: And afterwards Cedric said he thought it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be a handoff, not like a flip. Yeah, maybe he
Speaker 1: did so. Fortunately, yeah, oh no, that wasn't the play
Speaker 1: because they ended up minus two on that. The other
Speaker 1: one ended up being an incomplete pass. I just know that.
Speaker 1: After the play, Cedric was like, hey, you know right,
Speaker 1: yeah and here, Yeah, that wasn't this play. This one
Speaker 1: was a short pastor Wilson. They tried to smoke screen
Speaker 1: and remember whoever it was on the outside was a Schultz.
Speaker 1: They missed the block that happened. That was when Gallup
Speaker 1: got dumped. Correct, No, that was another one, you're right,
Speaker 1: that was independent of this, But this one same thing.
Speaker 1: They didn't get the block. One time Zeke was out there,
Speaker 1: you could tell it was gonna be a bubble screen.
Speaker 1: They drew attention to themselves because I don't think Zeke
Speaker 1: or I don't think they knew which one is catching
Speaker 1: and which one was blocking. If you would call right
Speaker 1: and he and Dak, I don't think he did. He
Speaker 1: throw it out there. I don't think he threw it
Speaker 1: out there. Both of them seemed to block. You didn't
Speaker 1: see that. I know I didn't see that wrong. So
Speaker 1: Zeke is out there with I think he was with
Speaker 1: Schultz and they both blocked. I don't even think he
Speaker 1: threw the ball out. There was probably another sack or
Speaker 1: another complete or some crap, but it just showed more
Speaker 1: an aptitude. And then so that series first and ten
Speaker 1: at the twenty one ends with a field goal. So
Speaker 1: now it's nineteen to nine and you're sitting there going, okay,
Speaker 1: if they just score a touchdown, you know you would
Speaker 1: at least have an on side kick comes to tease
Speaker 1: and then let's see and they go down to first
Speaker 1: and ten at the Kansas City twenty. Now there was
Speaker 1: only one oh seven left and Dak tries to hit
Speaker 1: and the leak Turner I assumed it was Malik Turner
Speaker 1: on that slant. Yeah it was, and the safety was
Speaker 1: sitting right there. Well they got tipped, and did they
Speaker 1: got tip? Yeah, they took all that was jobs, that's right,
Speaker 1: they got they got tea. It wasn't like he just
Speaker 1: threw it in there that got tipped. And u Legarius
Speaker 1: need intercept. That guy had a really had a good kid.
Speaker 1: He was a painting the Cowboys about Matthews and he
Speaker 1: was the one that was the man. And so there
Speaker 1: was another one. So all these opportunities they had they
Speaker 1: could not cash in, and that's why you end up
Speaker 1: with three. There was a play they went back. I
Speaker 1: just can't believe they did this. They missed a call
Speaker 1: and they went back and and enforced it. It's not
Speaker 1: even reviewable. Did you even get You didn't see that,
Speaker 1: did you? It wasn't the There was a there was
Speaker 1: a hands to the face that didn't get called, and
Speaker 1: it ended up a holding penalty on the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. They went back and called it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they went back and called it. They missed it, and
Speaker 1: they went back. The play was over. They went to
Speaker 1: the chord and the guys went to the guy. He said,
Speaker 1: new York didn't call that. That doesn't come from New York.
Speaker 1: That was the eye in the sky. You can't do that,
Speaker 1: I know. And he said even the referee on site
Speaker 1: said you if New York doesn't bring it in, then
Speaker 1: it's not reviewable. And they went back and they paid
Speaker 1: up for the call that they missed. Now come on, man,
Speaker 1: what is this? I mean to be allowed to do that?
Speaker 1: And McCarthy was of course going crazy over there. Oh
Speaker 1: there was a couple that he was going crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: the personal file, well, the guy was pushed while the
Speaker 1: play was still going on, right, we pushed in the
Speaker 1: fifty nine, pushed him, pushed the running back. Play was
Speaker 1: still going on, and they called the personal file or
Speaker 1: the face mask where they missed the first face. Both
Speaker 1: guys should have been penalized for face masking, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got the penalty on the face mask. Yeah, um yeah,
Speaker 1: watch stuff man. And this is they are not extremely inconsistent, right,
Speaker 1: I mean they don't have their eyes in the right spot.
Speaker 1: And it keeps coming up, keeps coming up, keeps coming up.
Speaker 1: Um and and and so when you're not playing well,
Speaker 1: you know, usually you say, well, okay, that shouldn't decide.
Speaker 1: When you're not playing, the well just piles on top that.
Speaker 1: The pile just gets bigger and bigger. It's tough. You
Speaker 1: can't overcome your mistakes and or the penalties or a
Speaker 1: bad call. I'd like to put a third. You had
Speaker 1: old line, you had wide receivers, and I gotta go
Speaker 1: with the o C. Okay, I mean, I'm giving him
Speaker 1: credit whenever he shows out. As my kids say, he
Speaker 1: comes out of his bad right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: comes out of it as bad. You got so much
Speaker 1: going on, and it's amazing how he distributes everybody and everything, no,
Speaker 1: no matter how tough it is. From the beginning, my
Speaker 1: concern with with Kellen Moore's play calling has always been this.
Speaker 1: We rarely run the ball to consecutive place. There are times,
Speaker 1: and this is we're getting into that time of year.
Speaker 1: We need to show ourselves and even anyone else that
Speaker 1: we can run this ball. Yes, you're gonna stop us once.
Speaker 1: I remember Tom Land used to say, Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: stop you. They're gonna stop you, but you have to
Speaker 1: be ready for the one that breaks. Okay, you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna stop you. And that's what I like about it.
Speaker 1: I keep bringing up Pittsburgh, keeping bringing up the Ravens.
Speaker 1: They're going to force their game plan on you. They're
Speaker 1: going to force their physicality on you. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: let up with certain cute plays and all that. Now,
Speaker 1: those cute players, they work and I love them, and
Speaker 1: that's they're so amazing when they work right, But when
Speaker 1: you gotta smash mouth somebody, we have not shown that
Speaker 1: we would like to consistently do that. I don't mean
Speaker 1: that when we get on the goal line, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna okay, this time, we're gonna give give Zeke the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we's goal line. But when you're out in the field,
Speaker 1: you're on the twenty yard line, we're on your own
Speaker 1: ten yard line. You gotta show that you're willing to
Speaker 1: put that ball in Zeke's hands or on Paulo's hands.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna let Zach, We're gonna let Beard this,
Speaker 1: We're gonna let tyr and do what they do. We
Speaker 1: have not shown that this year, not against teams, and
Speaker 1: especially when we're down. And here's and here's another huge
Speaker 1: difference in the game. And you're talking about staying with
Speaker 1: the run. So they track at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: You get a list of how many plays you had
Speaker 1: for twenty yards or more or no, I take it back.
Speaker 1: They track your longest ten longest plays. Cowboys had one
Speaker 1: play more than twenty yards. It was the thirty one
Speaker 1: yard run by Polo. Yeah, but that was it. Kansas City,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, on their top ten plays longest play.
Speaker 1: Six of them were twenty one yards or more. And
Speaker 1: that was one of the things that Cowboy Defense struggled with,
Speaker 1: somewhat back to their problem and giving up those big plays.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about that Cowboy defense when we continue
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Speaker 1: last Friday that he wouldn't be here. I wasn't listening
Speaker 1: to him because I don't even remember he had a
Speaker 1: previous work commitment to take care of. Sorry, William, and
Speaker 1: let me read the rest of Andy Reid's quote that
Speaker 1: I read off the top. It's what the league strive for, parody,
Speaker 1: and I think they've done a great job with that.
Speaker 1: Every city has an opportunity to win football games, even
Speaker 1: Detroit when they tied. Right, that's a great thing, and
Speaker 1: we're no different. We've got to just keep our nose
Speaker 1: to it and bear down as we go, take each
Speaker 1: game as it comes. We haven't proven anything yet. You
Speaker 1: can talk about it all after the season, go find
Speaker 1: an island and go lay around and tell everyone about it.
Speaker 1: But right now, not so much. Nope, And he's got
Speaker 1: a lot to deal with in the in the AFC West, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Dick Cowboys the least of his problems. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's just glad to get that in the in the
Speaker 1: review review mirror, and he's moving on. They got Chargers,
Speaker 1: you know they have what Raiders still they have to
Speaker 1: deal with Seahawks. I think so. Then acst is tell
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs have now won four straight, they've won
Speaker 1: four of the last five and scoring no more no.
Speaker 1: In four of the last five games, they've scored no
Speaker 1: more than twenty points, and they're four and one four
Speaker 1: and one. So that defense has stepped up. I believe
Speaker 1: in that stretch. I think they're like the number four defense.
Speaker 1: In the last six games they've given up in five
Speaker 1: of them, they've given up no more than seventeen points.
Speaker 1: So Tennessee is the outlier. I think they ended up
Speaker 1: twenty seven. Another team that lost yesterday. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right. So we were talking about next man up
Speaker 1: on the offense, but here kind of might take on
Speaker 1: the defense. You don't have DeMarcus Lawrence yet. Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: has to miss at least another game. Although Lawrence. By
Speaker 1: the way, they brought Lawrence, Neville Gallimore and Brent Urban
Speaker 1: to the game so they can do their rehab prior
Speaker 1: to the warm ups. That close to close. When I
Speaker 1: saw them, I said, oh, he must be getting close
Speaker 1: because you would him, right, you wouldn't bring him. But
Speaker 1: that last rehab was like, okay, let's get that rehab
Speaker 1: in u since the other guys are there. But so
Speaker 1: your top two pass rushers are out, okay, and you'll
Speaker 1: sit there and go okay. But that's fine. Because Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons could play defensive end. They needed him at linebacker too.
Speaker 1: He can't bewhere. I know he can't bewhere. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned his line, you know. And it was another phenomenal
Speaker 1: performance by a guy that's not ann So Parsons finishes
Speaker 1: with four tackles, two sacks, two tackles for losses. Three
Speaker 1: quarterback hits and a force fumble. All right, but four tackles?
Speaker 1: What does he normally get, seemingly of late, it's nine
Speaker 1: to twelve tackles again, true, they needed him at linebacker
Speaker 1: along with vander esh because of the speed that Kansas
Speaker 1: City was playing with. They picked him underneath, picked him
Speaker 1: apart underneath with all that crossing stuff, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: he could run some of that stuff down. And I'm
Speaker 1: thinking he has a better chance to run down Mahomes
Speaker 1: when he doesn't have a three hundred and twenty pound
Speaker 1: defensive end in front of him. Two of them at
Speaker 1: one point seven times, you can see two guys block
Speaker 1: and they ended up taking the rookie out and brought
Speaker 1: in another guy and he blew past him too. And
Speaker 1: that's great, right, but in the overall game, you get
Speaker 1: limited when you're at defensive end. Now you probably think, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's crazy. He got two sacks. He just tied to
Speaker 1: Marcus Wears a rookie record for most sacks in a
Speaker 1: single season since they started counting sacks after and during
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty two season. So I think Harvey Martin
Speaker 1: probably had nine his rookie year. Somebody else had nine also,
Speaker 1: but that's when the sacks became an official NFL. So again,
Speaker 1: the injuries impact you in some way or fashion. It
Speaker 1: limits you because hey, if he got two sacks out there,
Speaker 1: if DeMarcus Lawrence is healthy, he can get two. Randy
Speaker 1: Gregory could right now. Now you got him in the
Speaker 1: middle doing all the other stuff. What it does is, obviously,
Speaker 1: if you take away a resource, it's hard to replace
Speaker 1: it without diminishing your backup, without diminishing your strength, without
Speaker 1: diminishing your options, you know. Uh, And that's what they did.
Speaker 1: We didn't have the variety. We needed more variety, We
Speaker 1: needed more players that could do what we needed to
Speaker 1: be done. I was kind of disappointed my boy, Kean O'Neil.
Speaker 1: I think that was a game for him step up.
Speaker 1: I don't think he played that well at all. I
Speaker 1: didn't see him make an impact, whether it was on
Speaker 1: the run or back at the past. And he had tackles,
Speaker 1: he had seven, but again it wasn't anything you know
Speaker 1: that lit up. It was a low tackles for losses
Speaker 1: and things of that nature. That's kind of what you
Speaker 1: were looking for consistently anyway. And and let me show
Speaker 1: this also, other than Parsons. The top tacklers in the
Speaker 1: game for the Cowboys Neil Hooker, Curse Parsons, Brown Digs,
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson, and Jordan Lewis. What is the common thing there,
Speaker 1: all dbs. That's ten guys. The only guy up front
Speaker 1: that had tackles more than four or at least four
Speaker 1: tackles was Parsons. Oh, Carlos Watkins tied at ten with four.
Speaker 1: Nice all right, But after that the other guy is
Speaker 1: on the defensive front didn't do anything. So that means
Speaker 1: and they were given the ball to Hilaire by the way,
Speaker 1: yeah right, and that was his first game, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and while he didn't pile up big numbers, he
Speaker 1: kept he kept the yardage moving the chains. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what they were doing that he was getting And they
Speaker 1: were giving up big plays as much as they just
Speaker 1: you don't want a team like Casey to control the
Speaker 1: clock as much as they did, especially when defensively. Offensively
Speaker 1: we're playing the way we were. But you know what
Speaker 1: the weird thing was, it looked like they had the
Speaker 1: ball forever. They had it for thirty minutes and forty
Speaker 1: seven seconds. The Cowboys had it for twenty nine minutes
Speaker 1: in thirteen seconds, so they had it ninety four seconds more.
Speaker 1: That's it. But it seemed like they possessed the ball forever.
Speaker 1: And that's because Hilaire was averaging five five point three
Speaker 1: yards par for the course, right part for the course.
Speaker 1: That's how that's the that's what we have never been
Speaker 1: able to remedy on this defense yet. And I get
Speaker 1: now here's the thing. They can do all of that
Speaker 1: they want if you can let them have those numbers.
Speaker 1: But as a defense, you create more turnofs, then of
Speaker 1: course that's going to offset their their effectiveness. We didn't
Speaker 1: play the past wells as well as we should have.
Speaker 1: H I wish we were closer in some of those
Speaker 1: key moments. Uh, they gain playing my board digs on
Speaker 1: a couple of plays to where I get it. That's
Speaker 1: the same thing they tried to do with me. They
Speaker 1: want you to jump up so they can catch you
Speaker 1: in the back, either it's by a double move by
Speaker 1: the man that you're guarding, or they scheme it. They
Speaker 1: know you in the zone, they make you bite on
Speaker 1: the man in the flat. Then they send someone to
Speaker 1: the to the flag or to the outside deep where
Speaker 1: you probably are supposed to be along with the safety.
Speaker 1: You see Diggs is up here. The safety is alway
Speaker 1: flanked by the guy in the third receiver inside. All
Speaker 1: he does is want to flag about. Diggs has a
Speaker 1: choice to make you either stay back or you come up.
Speaker 1: He chose to go up. Folks. Well, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what though. One of the things that they were doing
Speaker 1: is they were playing their corners at most of the
Speaker 1: time five to seven yards off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: You can't see that on TV, but when you're there,
Speaker 1: they're leaving all this space. Right. We saw it, and
Speaker 1: there was one they lined up and I just kind
Speaker 1: of said out loud to myself, I said, well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna throw a slant to Hill. Well, sure enough, they
Speaker 1: threw a slant because everybody was backed off. We could
Speaker 1: see it. My son. My son fussed about it the
Speaker 1: entire game. Why are they lined up so deep because
Speaker 1: all they're gonna do is just give them space? And
Speaker 1: what you don't want and I've always said this, Okay,
Speaker 1: he might have gotten this for me. You don't want
Speaker 1: a free release, right, you get these fast guys are
Speaker 1: free release. Then the timing is there there for Mahomes.
Speaker 1: He has nothing. You're not inhibiting them from doing anything.
Speaker 1: You're not stopping them from from running slants, you're not
Speaker 1: stopping their timing. You want to throw the timing off
Speaker 1: every time we got up and jammed them. Anytime you
Speaker 1: play two deep safeties and you jammed the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: which is what most people have been doing and what
Speaker 1: keeps them effective, it makes my homes hold on to
Speaker 1: it a little bit long because the guy's gotta break over.
Speaker 1: The guys gotta break open, and when you're jacking them
Speaker 1: up at the line of scrimmage, then it's not really
Speaker 1: clear which what the timing is. And that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do. I mean, we did it with the
Speaker 1: Giants all the time. We didn't play off. We played
Speaker 1: on because the pressure you put on those wide receivers
Speaker 1: that puts pressure on the quarterback. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was they were so worried they were going to
Speaker 1: run past them if they didn't hold them up at
Speaker 1: the line. The cover too, like everybody else, when you
Speaker 1: give them that much space, I bet the yards after
Speaker 1: catch were enormous. Play the cover too, man, like everybody else.
Speaker 1: That's what's been holding them down. That's why they don't
Speaker 1: score as much. Now you got two deep safes, nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. I would rather I'll do like like
Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty five. I'd rather you beat me with
Speaker 1: the run than beat me with the pass. Well, I
Speaker 1: just noticed. And and even sometimes on third down you
Speaker 1: were thinking we'll get up on the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: they only got to pick up six or seven. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're backed off that far um, passons ain't gonna
Speaker 1: take long when you when you're jamming this guy, and
Speaker 1: if he was in the middle at linebacker, some of
Speaker 1: that stuff they might have gotten just inside covered. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least been deterred or at least somebody can run
Speaker 1: them down. There you go. But they didn't run down
Speaker 1: much of anything. And we just ran down. We ran
Speaker 1: down to time all the way to the end of
Speaker 1: this thing. All right, We will be back tomorrow. Bill
Speaker 1: Jones should be back with us Foreverson Walls of Mickey Spagnola, Chris,
Speaker 1: thanks for getting us up and running, and we'll be
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