Speaker 1: The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
Speaker 1: screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time to pick up the pieces.
Speaker 1: After a season opening loss at the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, it's down to the business of the
Speaker 1: ritual of the season, Mickey Spagnola, as we get into
Speaker 1: the rhythm of an NFL season with the Monday after
Speaker 1: and all the armchair quarterbacks out there, and we get
Speaker 1: to discuss what happened on Sunday night, and then we'll
Speaker 1: move forward and look forward to a home opener against
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons where there will be fans in the
Speaker 1: stands at AT and T Stadium next Sunday at noon
Speaker 1: ever Sun and Mickey, how are y'all doing after a
Speaker 1: late Sunday night, Yeah, it was going well. I think
Speaker 1: I was caught in the time warp last night. Everything
Speaker 1: changed with the Cowboys offense. Everything changed, but how they
Speaker 1: lose games? Right? The same story, The reason why they
Speaker 1: ended up eight and eight last year can't can't win
Speaker 1: close games, have a weird call in there. And if
Speaker 1: you think about it, last year they played seven games
Speaker 1: that were decided by no more than eight points, so
Speaker 1: one possession games, and they went one in six. And
Speaker 1: how do they start off this season going losing by
Speaker 1: three points and not winning a game when they don't
Speaker 1: score at least thirty points. So it was all too
Speaker 1: familiar to me, you guys, with what took place the
Speaker 1: previous season that caused them to go eight Nate, I
Speaker 1: really couldn't. I can't see. You know what we talked
Speaker 1: about all last year and during the problems that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were having, we always talked about the play calls,
Speaker 1: and everyone wondered, well, is it Jason Garrett calling the
Speaker 1: plays or is it Kellam calling the plays? Well, who's
Speaker 1: calling the plays? Who's got the final say? So I
Speaker 1: hope we're not going through this crap again this year.
Speaker 1: Please tell me that we're not gonna have coach McCarthy.
Speaker 1: If he starts clapping his hands all the time on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, I swear I'm done. I'm done. It's too
Speaker 1: much ja ja vu. Last night from a team that
Speaker 1: not only is talented, it actually showed how talented it
Speaker 1: is in most parts of the ball game. But that's
Speaker 1: the problems, always, just in most parts of the ball game,
Speaker 1: not when we really need it. All right, I'm monitoring
Speaker 1: comments on Periscope, so if you want to chime in,
Speaker 1: I will pass them along any questions you might have. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm at CBS eleven Bill Jones on Twitter. That's another
Speaker 1: way of participating, as well as Mickey is in the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star in Frisco. Everson
Speaker 1: and I at our respective homes where I guess everybody
Speaker 1: watched at home. Mickey, this ould be strange for you,
Speaker 1: not traveling with the team for the first time in
Speaker 1: forever for a game, right, Well, actually it's the second
Speaker 1: time because if you remember that season opener in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: that was the first one I had missed since nineteen
Speaker 1: the last game of nineteen eighty eight, Remember I had
Speaker 1: the foot infection, came back, that's when you had the incident,
Speaker 1: and we're suspended, right yeah, right, and so, and this
Speaker 1: was no easier watch. I just feel sorry for the
Speaker 1: fans that they have to watch it on TV because
Speaker 1: you just can't see what you could see if you're
Speaker 1: at the game. Uh, it's hard to determine who's in
Speaker 1: the game, who's not, what substitution packages uh they're using,
Speaker 1: and basically you're you're always at the mercy of you know,
Speaker 1: if they don't put the little stripped down there at
Speaker 1: the bottom with down in distance and keep the clock there,
Speaker 1: you're at their mercy. So yeah, it's hard, it's strange,
Speaker 1: but you just kind of, you know, as we learned
Speaker 1: this year, just to uh make do uh. And I
Speaker 1: don't know where you want to start, Bill, but I
Speaker 1: just thought that this game, you know what this game
Speaker 1: reminded me of. And I don't know, you know, folks
Speaker 1: out there probably didn't don't have an opportunity or don't
Speaker 1: watch the Dallas Stars. But when they won the other
Speaker 1: night against Vegas two to one, they were dominated in
Speaker 1: that game, and the story of that game as they
Speaker 1: stole a win, well, the Rams were given the Cowboys
Speaker 1: every opportunity to steal one. Last night after they dominated.
Speaker 1: They had the ball like thirteen minutes more than the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they had more total yards, more rushing yards, they doubled
Speaker 1: the Cowboys on third down conversions, and yet there were
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at the eleven yard line ready to take
Speaker 1: the lead early in the fourth quarter, and they didn't
Speaker 1: take advantage. And so what happens in these games, and
Speaker 1: it never fails when you're gonna play these close shaves,
Speaker 1: these one possession games. Too many times, one mistake, one
Speaker 1: bad call by the officials, one missed opportunity or decision
Speaker 1: you make will cost you the game. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta just go out and beat people. But that
Speaker 1: wasn't the case, and so all those little things that
Speaker 1: I just said all came back to haunt him. They
Speaker 1: made a decision to go for it on fourth down
Speaker 1: instead of kicking the field goal to tie it with
Speaker 1: like eleven forty still to go in the game. When
Speaker 1: they went for it, as the rookie said, Cede Lamb,
Speaker 1: I didn't make a rookie mistake. I made a mistake
Speaker 1: by a rookie when he ran his route one yard
Speaker 1: too short and came down and they missed converting the
Speaker 1: fourth down by one yard, and then the bad call
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. And it just never fails.
Speaker 1: And maybe now Mike McCarthy understands what that feels like.
Speaker 1: When it happened with the dead catch back in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: So you leave yourself open to have things like that
Speaker 1: decide the game when you need to decide it yourself.
Speaker 1: And they didn't take advantage the Rams. If you looked
Speaker 1: at it, didn't you think the Cowboys are way behind
Speaker 1: just because the Rams always had the ball and they
Speaker 1: were always moving it. And then here they were certainly
Speaker 1: an opportunity to win twice and they didn't steal the game.
Speaker 1: I think the problem that you have, guys, is the
Speaker 1: same one that we had last year. Once again, we
Speaker 1: need to come out of the box full of steem.
Speaker 1: We seemed to at the beginning of the game. In
Speaker 1: the beginning of the second half, it's almost as if
Speaker 1: we're trying to prode and probe and see what's going on,
Speaker 1: which you at that point allow your opposition to control
Speaker 1: the clock and control the tempo of the game. You
Speaker 1: could see it so easily. Once the Cowboys had their
Speaker 1: tempo going, they were unstoppable. You saw the matchup between
Speaker 1: our wider receivers and their cornerbacks. Clearly, our wide receivers
Speaker 1: had no fear of Jalen Rose, they had no fear
Speaker 1: of that Ram's secondary I love the battling that was
Speaker 1: going on. Ceedee Lamb was doing his thing, except for,
Speaker 1: of course, the big mistake on fourth down. What you
Speaker 1: can't do as any team, really, the Cowboys found out
Speaker 1: last year and even when I played as a Cowboy,
Speaker 1: when you put yourself in a desperate situation, more times
Speaker 1: than not, and this is what Spags was speaking on,
Speaker 1: more times than not, the referee is going to do
Speaker 1: you in and if nothing else, they're not going to
Speaker 1: do you any favors, meaning they will let that pass
Speaker 1: interference call go by against your wide receiver. They may
Speaker 1: not call that holding call against their offensive tackle, when
Speaker 1: your defensive end has a debt, has your quarterback debt
Speaker 1: to rights, clear calls that can be missed. Those things
Speaker 1: happen when you put yourself as a team in a
Speaker 1: desperate situation. I've been through it myself. Extremely frustrating to
Speaker 1: play in those games, and I found out that it's
Speaker 1: more frustrating to watch it happen, especially over and over
Speaker 1: again to this extremely talented Cowboys team. You know, and uh,
Speaker 1: you break it all down, and you know, Cowboys, we
Speaker 1: sit here, we talk about what should have been on
Speaker 1: the Michael Gallup play. As Jalen Ramsey clearly sold it
Speaker 1: and the official bought it. But on the cheeto, and
Speaker 1: we need to quickly point out on the cheeto interception,
Speaker 1: there was Alden Smith did make contact with the head
Speaker 1: of Jared Goff and so that that that call went
Speaker 1: the other way. And to your point, Mickey, it's when
Speaker 1: you have these close games, those calls are all going
Speaker 1: to even out. But there are certain plays that have
Speaker 1: to be made in close games in order to come
Speaker 1: away victorious. And here over the last season and now
Speaker 1: one game this year, the Cowboys weren't able to come
Speaker 1: up with that one play to win the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, I get it. It's a short sample size.
Speaker 1: This is the one game. It's the first game. But
Speaker 1: you know there there there's there's losses that you look
Speaker 1: at and you go that one's going to come back
Speaker 1: in honess. They had one like that with the Jets
Speaker 1: last year. Remember they lost twenty four twenty two and
Speaker 1: to a terrible team by the way, And my point
Speaker 1: after the game was this will come back to Hanum.
Speaker 1: Had they won that game, you know, they might have
Speaker 1: won the NFC East, they might have gone to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But you can't lose those games that are winnable, and
Speaker 1: this one to me on the road, no fans, no
Speaker 1: home field advantage for the for the Rams, and you
Speaker 1: couldn't you couldn't take it. It was there and there
Speaker 1: was reasons why. So let's think about this. The two
Speaker 1: things we were probably most concerned about going into this game.
Speaker 1: The right tackle position would out layl Collins there and
Speaker 1: just what was this defense? How well would this defense
Speaker 1: play well? In the end, they did hold the Rams
Speaker 1: to just twenty points, but it sure felt like they
Speaker 1: scored thirty five and they had trouble doing what stopping
Speaker 1: the run. Gave up one hundred and fifty three yards rushing,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine to a couple of running backs
Speaker 1: not a lot of people knew of. They didn't get
Speaker 1: any pressure hardly at all on Jared Goff, and they
Speaker 1: looked like they had no clue that they were going
Speaker 1: to throw to the running back or throw these little
Speaker 1: screen passes to the wide receiver, and it took them
Speaker 1: forever to adjust for that. And so like that, the
Speaker 1: first two possess the Rams had Cowboys heads on defense
Speaker 1: were swimming. And the other thing that I thought we
Speaker 1: talked about that I was concerned about was what was
Speaker 1: going to happen at that defensive tackle position. Well, nothing happened,
Speaker 1: and that was a huge problem. There were too many
Speaker 1: plays that defensive front got pushed five yards back. Now
Speaker 1: I understand the fascination with rushing the quarterback, but as
Speaker 1: I always say, if you don't stop the run, you
Speaker 1: don't earn the right to rush the quarterback. And they
Speaker 1: were getting gashed right up the middle. That reminded me,
Speaker 1: guys of the Minnesota Vikings game here in Dallas. I
Speaker 1: believe that was on Thanksgiving Day or Thanksgiving weekend, to
Speaker 1: where we were being gashed by Dalvin Cook and all
Speaker 1: the running backs for the Minnesota Vikings. What we see
Speaker 1: here is the same thing as last year. And it's
Speaker 1: like you said, Spags, it's only one game. I do
Speaker 1: understand that, but what it is, it's so eerily similar.
Speaker 1: It's such a continuation from the same frustrations that we
Speaker 1: had all last season, especially when we start to go
Speaker 1: on our little losing streak in the second half of
Speaker 1: the season. These were the telltale signs that continue to
Speaker 1: pile up game after game after game. And then we
Speaker 1: finished the game and we look at the stats and
Speaker 1: we would say something like, oh, well, Cowboys defense is
Speaker 1: still number seven in the league or some crap like that.
Speaker 1: When we look at the offense and we'll say, WHOA
Speaker 1: Dak had a good game. Zeke got a close to
Speaker 1: a hundred yards. Everything looked good. That's what the stats say.
Speaker 1: But we talked about this, and I have mentioned it
Speaker 1: over and over again. It's when you make plays that
Speaker 1: truly counts for this team. What you saw was a
Speaker 1: game continuing drives because we couldn't stop anyone on third
Speaker 1: and two. We couldn't stop anyone on third and three.
Speaker 1: Talked about it earlier, all during the week. All three
Speaker 1: facets of the game have to come to play each game,
Speaker 1: and the penalties have to go away. We assisted the
Speaker 1: cow the Rams offense on the first couple of drives
Speaker 1: with so many neutral zone in factions. These are exactly
Speaker 1: the things that we had to go through last year.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to wait to see if the
Speaker 1: head coach is going to do something about it, and
Speaker 1: we're still talking about this at Thanksgiving in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: That is what I do not want. You know, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the third down. They converted fifty three percent of
Speaker 1: their third down opportunities. And if you think about it,
Speaker 1: if you're in the low forties, that's really good. Fifty
Speaker 1: three percent to the Cowboys twenty five. They doubled it.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you look at the difference in
Speaker 1: the offense as well, that was a huge difference. And
Speaker 1: going back to the defense, who was the best player
Speaker 1: out there, Well, it was the guy that hadn't played
Speaker 1: a game in five years years. He was the best
Speaker 1: guy on that defense. Uh. He he ends up with
Speaker 1: ten tackles, a sack, a couple of quarterback hits. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I thought he was great afterwards because when he
Speaker 1: was getting questions about how well he played, he goes, well, Uh,
Speaker 1: it was encouraging, but it wasn't perfect. He goes, I
Speaker 1: made a share of my mistakes out there too, and
Speaker 1: and so and he did, especially against the run, crashing
Speaker 1: in and not holding down the edge. Uh. And that
Speaker 1: would have been except I mean, you got to expect
Speaker 1: that he was anxious. I mean, how fired up must
Speaker 1: have this kid been to be able to go I said, kid,
Speaker 1: he's now thirty some years old to be able to
Speaker 1: go back out after everything he's done in play a
Speaker 1: football game. But there was. It was just it took
Speaker 1: too long for that defense to settle down. You know,
Speaker 1: we were sitting here, we were so we're watching the
Speaker 1: game upstairs. We got a bank of four screens, and
Speaker 1: it got to halftime and it was like, well, how
Speaker 1: are the Cowboys winning this game? You know? And one
Speaker 1: reason was because their new kicker, you know, clunks of
Speaker 1: twenty nine yard field goal off the upright, and you
Speaker 1: know what, with no fans in the stands, that was
Speaker 1: the loudest bang on an upright I think I've ever
Speaker 1: conferred over the television. Right. And then, by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, new kicker, and we're all fired up about him.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of those kicks between thirty three and forty
Speaker 1: eight we saw him making in practice that he went
Speaker 1: twenty nine for twenty nine. They might have and I
Speaker 1: don't know what they did when we weren't watching, right,
Speaker 1: but they only tried one kick further than forty eight,
Speaker 1: and with sixty he missed it, and then he made it. Well,
Speaker 1: he missed a fifty three yarder, so now he's one
Speaker 1: for two. That's fifty percent, right, And I understand it
Speaker 1: was fifty yards fifty three yards, but you lost by
Speaker 1: three points and we saw that too many times last year.
Speaker 1: And the most or two of the most troubling things
Speaker 1: to come out of this loss are a couple of
Speaker 1: injuries that the cowboys have to deal with. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: good there, Mickey got to practice. Let's get into the injuries. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's let's get into the injuries and the
Speaker 1: two major ones. Let's start at tight end. As Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones was on the fan about noon today and he
Speaker 1: essentially confirmed that it's an acl that Blake Jarwin is
Speaker 1: dealing with, as he'll he'll be placed on injured reserve
Speaker 1: season ending injury. And Layton vander Esh looks like the
Speaker 1: fractured clavicle as the Cowboys announced last night, requiring surgery,
Speaker 1: and Mickey looks like six to eight weeks for him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The you know, anytime you fracture a bone, uh, it'll
Speaker 1: take at least six weeks to heal. They do surgery
Speaker 1: to kind of speed up the recovery time. Hopefully they
Speaker 1: can put a plate in there over the over the fracture.
Speaker 1: But that's a tough injury. You know, Tony Romo came
Speaker 1: back after fracturing his but then what happened, He refractured it. Uh,
Speaker 1: So that's a tough injury for a linebacker to come
Speaker 1: back from. And now they put him they'll put him
Speaker 1: on IR recall. Uh. And you know nowadays it's only
Speaker 1: three weeks, but I'm sure his will be closer to
Speaker 1: eight until he comes back. So Joe Thomas, this is
Speaker 1: your big chance. And I would imagine, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford got back into practice last week and he
Speaker 1: was inactive on Sunday. I would imagine he'll be active
Speaker 1: as as a backup this coming Sunday against the Falcons,
Speaker 1: and then they'll need to see if they need to
Speaker 1: put another uh linebacker on the fifty three man roster. Um.
Speaker 1: That's just a shame for him. After having the next
Speaker 1: surgery and recovering from that. And you know the scary
Speaker 1: part was you guys, is when they he was sitting
Speaker 1: on the bench and they were they were, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of checking him out, evaluating the injury. They kept
Speaker 1: messing with his neck and it was like, oh, don't
Speaker 1: tell me, right and and and then uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it ends up being a fractured clavicle his collar bone. Uh.
Speaker 1: So you go, huh. But it's like, well, no, that's
Speaker 1: that's bad too. Uh. And then you mentioned Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: and he'll be on season ending injured reserve. He's going
Speaker 1: to have to have ACL surgery. And normally what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys do is they wait, unless there's some other significant
Speaker 1: damage in there, they'll wait a week or two before
Speaker 1: they do the surgery to try to build up some
Speaker 1: strength uh in your leg before they do the surgery. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that's that's a shame because he really had a
Speaker 1: good training camp. And now you know, it's like Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: this is your life, remember that old TV show. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and Blake Bell will have to be kind of
Speaker 1: the utility tight end because Schultz was kind of going
Speaker 1: to function as a fullback, which, by the way, did
Speaker 1: you catch Antoine Woods doing his William Perry impersonation on
Speaker 1: on Zike's first test out. Hey, he gave a leap
Speaker 1: block as a fullback and wipe that guy out by
Speaker 1: the way, So that losing your tight end like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a trickle down effect now, and hey it's it's
Speaker 1: the old deal, next man up, because it's pretty hard
Speaker 1: to find replacements out there in free agency at this
Speaker 1: stage of the game. And uh and in fact, Batman
Speaker 1: on film on Periscope's asking could they make a trade
Speaker 1: or sign a free agent to help it tight end,
Speaker 1: linebacker and even at safety the difficult I think the
Speaker 1: thing on the tight end situation. You know, I haven't
Speaker 1: been able to go back because a coach's film and
Speaker 1: loaded on NFL dot com yet to see how much
Speaker 1: twelve personnel they used. But I did see something where
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb had like eighty seven percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: So that tells me they were in eleven personnel pretty
Speaker 1: close to eighty five percent of the time. And I
Speaker 1: think Blake Bell's role on this team will be as
Speaker 1: that second tied end and whether whether Jarwin was healthy
Speaker 1: or not, that is Bell's role as is like the
Speaker 1: second tied end, while Schultz was more of the understudy
Speaker 1: to Jarwin, having more receiving ability than than what Blake
Speaker 1: bell Kin catch to football and his athletic but he's
Speaker 1: not to that extent obviously, not to where Jarwin was.
Speaker 1: Sean McKeon is the other guy that they have on
Speaker 1: the roster who will now be asked to step up.
Speaker 1: But the really bad thing as far as the vander
Speaker 1: Ish injury is the fact, of course that Sean Lee
Speaker 1: is starting the season on injured reserve and he's got
Speaker 1: at least two more weeks to go before he would
Speaker 1: be eligible to come off. Yeah, and you know that
Speaker 1: kind of limits that kind of that kind of limits
Speaker 1: your play calling as well defensively. So now you've got
Speaker 1: personnel issues that you're gonna have to deal with defensively
Speaker 1: when it comes to third down. In the special packaging,
Speaker 1: somebody's like Spact said, someone's gonna have to step up next,
Speaker 1: man up. You know, back in the day, a young
Speaker 1: guy like myself or Ron Fellows or somebody like that,
Speaker 1: we would be itching to be that person. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Robert Thomas is itching and excited about it,
Speaker 1: but he should be, because this is his opportunity. This
Speaker 1: is exactly what we spoke about, guys, when we talked
Speaker 1: about the preparation for this season, with no training camp,
Speaker 1: with the really light practices. When Blake went down, he
Speaker 1: wasn't even touched, you know. All he did was trying
Speaker 1: to make a hook move coming back to the ball,
Speaker 1: and he goes down. Those are as scary as the
Speaker 1: ones that are. The non contact injuries are just as
Speaker 1: scarier or scarier than the contact injuries. And when I
Speaker 1: saw that, I was hoping it was just a muscle cramp, right.
Speaker 1: I was hoping his calf muscle had just tightened up,
Speaker 1: you know, because he was out there just doing a
Speaker 1: lot of great work, making some great plays. And this
Speaker 1: is we were looking forward to that continuation. Of course,
Speaker 1: who knows what could have happened during the last part
Speaker 1: of the game. If Blake's in the game, shots came in,
Speaker 1: dropped a pass. You know how that goes. If you
Speaker 1: see that guy dropped that pass. If I'm a QB,
Speaker 1: I might be thinking to myself, I might not want
Speaker 1: to trust him tonight. You know, I'll get him in
Speaker 1: the future, but but not tonight. So that kind of
Speaker 1: limits your availability as far as wide receivers that you
Speaker 1: want to go to in a particular situation. When we
Speaker 1: talked about Banderash, you know, I was very concerned about
Speaker 1: the surgery that he had this offseason. Everyone just kind
Speaker 1: of laid our concerns to the side. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a scope. I believe it's how they
Speaker 1: said it. It's just like a scope in your net.
Speaker 1: It was called on your neck. Yeah, right, that's an
Speaker 1: oxymoron right there, minus surgery on your neck. But thank
Speaker 1: god it was not reinjured. But once again, that's just
Speaker 1: another issue that we have to deal with. Could the
Speaker 1: lack of practicing, lack of preparation, or the brief preparation,
Speaker 1: could that have had anything to do with both of
Speaker 1: these injuries. It's really kind of hard to say, But
Speaker 1: when you look at Blake Jarwa's injury, this guy's been
Speaker 1: running around like a jack rabbit ever since he's been here. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we have this brief preparation and
Speaker 1: he goes down without being touched. You have to wonder
Speaker 1: if there's some type of connection. You know, you had
Speaker 1: mentioned that last week about those short and not having
Speaker 1: much contact if at all, and then having to play
Speaker 1: a game. You know, when I was watching and the
Speaker 1: other games starting at noon and had both of my
Speaker 1: TV's uh going uh, there was a lot of injuries
Speaker 1: that were starting to take place and guys were coming
Speaker 1: off the field, and you're sitting there going, oh, man,
Speaker 1: you know, there's got to be something to actually play
Speaker 1: in football and getting your body in condition to do
Speaker 1: the things you're gonna do. And you're right, Everson, when
Speaker 1: when he went down, the first thing he did he
Speaker 1: grabbed the back of his knee, and so I was
Speaker 1: hoping for a tendon or a pull back there and
Speaker 1: not so much so. So here here's what complicates everything
Speaker 1: because you know, okay, now we're not sure how long
Speaker 1: Cam Irving is out, but evidently he wasn't good enough
Speaker 1: to start the game over a rookie free agent from
Speaker 1: Texas Tech Terrence Steele, And I'm thinking, well, when you
Speaker 1: mentioned they didn't use much too tight end, Bill, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, well, to help out that right tackle position,
Speaker 1: they need to use a little bit more to tight
Speaker 1: end because that kind of destroyed a couple series with
Speaker 1: mistakes over there in bass protection. So now you're down
Speaker 1: to tight end, and now okay, maybe you need to
Speaker 1: use more to tight end. But I don't think either
Speaker 1: of those two tight ends are going to threaten the
Speaker 1: defense the way Jarwin would have down the field. And
Speaker 1: you know, and the way the Rams were playing the defense,
Speaker 1: that tight end going down the hash might have made
Speaker 1: a big difference because they were playing their safeties pretty
Speaker 1: deep and I don't think their linebackers could run with Jarwin,
Speaker 1: so that that injury just hurts. And then you got
Speaker 1: the right tackle position. Now they got to take. You know,
Speaker 1: it sounded like from what I heard cam Irving was
Speaker 1: not going to be It would be sooner than later,
Speaker 1: but not immediately. So ah, Leo Collins, hurry up, get
Speaker 1: those two games, two more games in and then get
Speaker 1: back on the field. They need them. I gotta say, guys,
Speaker 1: this team hopefully this loss, and I know people hate
Speaker 1: to say, well we learned something during this loss. You
Speaker 1: do learn more from losing than you do from winning.
Speaker 1: Let's just be real about that. What this team I
Speaker 1: hope comes to grips with is the fact that they
Speaker 1: can still be successful going through this adversity. They can.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see teams do it all the time.
Speaker 1: They're surprises out there and you hope that guys like
Speaker 1: Will McKay and and the front office have signed players
Speaker 1: with that mindset of thinking, uh no, there's not going
Speaker 1: to be a drop off because I'm out there replacing
Speaker 1: a starter. You know, as a team, they need to
Speaker 1: have this culture of coming through and not looking at
Speaker 1: east each injury as an excuse to why we were
Speaker 1: weak in a particular situation, why we wanted to to
Speaker 1: pull out the ball game. They should be tired of
Speaker 1: falling back on excuses. Coach McCarthy should know that this
Speaker 1: team has fallen back on the excuse over and over
Speaker 1: again and we weren't able to overcome them. He should
Speaker 1: come in He should have come in here this offseason
Speaker 1: with the mindset that we're gonna change the way we
Speaker 1: think around here as a culture, no matter what happens.
Speaker 1: And I always use the Ravens as an example because
Speaker 1: their coaches really really put his stamp on the type
Speaker 1: of attitude that the Baltimore Ravens have. I always used
Speaker 1: them as an example because they're very stubborn. This team
Speaker 1: needs to be stubborn about their abilities and look forward
Speaker 1: to proving a lot of people wrong no matter what
Speaker 1: the hell they go through. You got guys on the
Speaker 1: bench getting paid. If you're gonna get paid, come out here,
Speaker 1: make some plays and you'll get paid even more. So
Speaker 1: whatever is your motivation, then you need to go back
Speaker 1: on that because this team is not in the position
Speaker 1: to fall back on the same excuses as last year.
Speaker 1: And Bill, I think this will set us up. I
Speaker 1: know we got to hit a break for our final segment,
Speaker 1: but I think part and we haven't discussed the fourth
Speaker 1: down decision, nor haven't we discussed the terrible interference call
Speaker 1: on Michael Gallup, which I guess we'll get to. But
Speaker 1: I think in the back of Mike McCarthy's mind when
Speaker 1: he went for it on fourth down in three at
Speaker 1: the eleven yard line, he was trying to do maybe
Speaker 1: what Everson was talking about, instill some confidence in this team.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it was bad timing. Yep. And let's get into
Speaker 1: that when we come back here on Mick Shotson just
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Speaker 1: all absolutely, All right, let's go back. You alluded to
Speaker 1: it at the end of the last segment. We got
Speaker 1: time to get into that in the past interview, Aran says,
Speaker 1: we head down the stretch here, let's go at the
Speaker 1: fourth and three. I was very surprised when Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: decided to go for it on fourth and three with
Speaker 1: eleven and a half minutes left, how about y'all. I
Speaker 1: was surprised, especially when I realized how much time was
Speaker 1: still left in the game and that you had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to basically hit a chip shot field goal to
Speaker 1: you know, tie the game. The only thing I could
Speaker 1: think of that that made him do something sort of
Speaker 1: odd of character, was that he didn't trust his defense.
Speaker 1: He didn't trust his defense just to have a tie game,
Speaker 1: that he wanted to get the lead by four points, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, had they done that and scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown in one twenty four to twenty one, my score
Speaker 1: would have been our twenty four to twenty My score
Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty one would have been real close too,
Speaker 1: by the way. So I was doubly mad that he
Speaker 1: didn't pick it up, you know what. I give him
Speaker 1: a lot of credit though, And I think what you
Speaker 1: said before the break, and it was this kind of
Speaker 1: what he said when he addressed the media after the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it was more it wasn't so much what
Speaker 1: you just said about the defense. It was the offense
Speaker 1: giving them an opportunity to do something. And it kind
Speaker 1: of goes to it's jump starting things or whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: and giving them, giving them an opportunity to take the
Speaker 1: lead in this game, which they've been outside of the
Speaker 1: late touchdown at the end of the first half to
Speaker 1: take a fourteen thirteen lead, they hadn't got command of
Speaker 1: the game. He was looking them for a way for
Speaker 1: them to take command of the game. But I give
Speaker 1: him credit for this. And when talking to the media
Speaker 1: after the game, he talked in general about the game,
Speaker 1: and he addressed that before he was even asked about it,
Speaker 1: he knew he was going to get asked about it,
Speaker 1: and so he even brought it up and gave his
Speaker 1: reasoning on it ahead of time. He didn't shy away.
Speaker 1: He knew he was going to be criticized for it.
Speaker 1: And the other part of it is when you say
Speaker 1: it was out of character for Mike McCarthy to do that.
Speaker 1: I went back after the game, and I stayed up
Speaker 1: late last night just researching some stuff. I went back
Speaker 1: through Mike McCarthy's career with the Green Bay Packers, and
Speaker 1: never has he gone for it in that situation before
Speaker 1: down three in field goal range and let alone in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Even earlier in the game. There was
Speaker 1: one time, it was a two ten game against Miami,
Speaker 1: when they only had sixteen seconds left on the clock
Speaker 1: and they had fourth down at the one yard line,
Speaker 1: and they ran a quarterback sneak with Aaron Rodgers. I
Speaker 1: assume in that case they were out of timeouts and
Speaker 1: he couldn't get the field goal unit on. But that
Speaker 1: was how out of character it was, and so that's
Speaker 1: why I take him out his word. He's just doing
Speaker 1: something to try to get this give this offense an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make a play. Yeah. I kind of go
Speaker 1: with you a little bit there, Bill, But to me,
Speaker 1: like you said, spact said, there was just too much
Speaker 1: time left on the clock. To me to be thinking
Speaker 1: of that type of scenario. I did like the aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: Let's face the guys, if the rookie just runs this
Speaker 1: route correctly, we're looking at a great call, and we're
Speaker 1: possibly looking at a win, and this whole outcome is
Speaker 1: we're gonna view it differently. But I must say, even
Speaker 1: after we've done all of this critiquing, even after we've
Speaker 1: done all of this critiquing, I still like the attitude
Speaker 1: of the coach himself. I still liked the game plan itself.
Speaker 1: When the Cowboys were on, they were doing everything that
Speaker 1: we complained about last year. They were not pretictable. When
Speaker 1: they had those scoring drives. What you saw was just
Speaker 1: efficiency that was out of this world. I talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier. The wide receivers were going up against a
Speaker 1: pretty good defensive back. There that just got paid a
Speaker 1: whole lot of money, and now this guy basically having
Speaker 1: a tough time. So there we go. They're having a
Speaker 1: tough time with the expertise and the talents of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers that we had. That part of the game
Speaker 1: I did like. But defensively still falling into the same ruts.
Speaker 1: Can't stop anybody. And then when you start talking about No.
Speaker 1: Zero and seven on third downs, you know, those kind
Speaker 1: of things that just kind of lead you right back
Speaker 1: in the same thing. But like I said, I must
Speaker 1: say I enjoyed the aggressiveness about it when we were consistent.
Speaker 1: When we were consistent, our offense was on the roll
Speaker 1: and the defense actually fed off of them at one
Speaker 1: point in time. Just not enough doing the ball game,
Speaker 1: you know. I think one other thing that maybe went
Speaker 1: through his mind is, Okay, if we don't pick this up,
Speaker 1: we've got them backed up. So you got him at
Speaker 1: the nine yard line, right. Oh, it didn't take but
Speaker 1: a minute for them to bid midfield. I swear to god,
Speaker 1: you know, from a defensive standpoint, that's where you really
Speaker 1: gotta shut them. You gotta get a three and out
Speaker 1: and force them to punt from the ten yard line
Speaker 1: where you're gonna get CD Lamb catching a punt at
Speaker 1: the fifty, but the defense can't come through. And again,
Speaker 1: it was those key moments last year and ever since.
Speaker 1: Ent it earlier. You know, they finished top ten in
Speaker 1: yards against, but in key moments when they needed a stop,
Speaker 1: they could not get a stop. And that was one
Speaker 1: of those moments where Okay, let's give this this offense
Speaker 1: a redo. Let's make them punt right from the ten
Speaker 1: yard line, and we're gonna catch a punt at the fifty.
Speaker 1: And you saw what Cede Lamb can do when he
Speaker 1: gets a little bit of space on that one punt return.
Speaker 1: I think it was twenty yards if I was not mistaken.
Speaker 1: So uh, that was a big place you just gotta
Speaker 1: I thought that was a big return we could feed
Speaker 1: off of. Right. Well, the other part of that when
Speaker 1: you when you're not starting to drive at your own
Speaker 1: twelve yard line, your own nine yard line, which their
Speaker 1: last two possessions, that's where they started, and you're running
Speaker 1: out of time. They established Zeke in this game, especially
Speaker 1: in the second half. He came out and throughout the
Speaker 1: game really but but once you're down and you're starting
Speaker 1: so deep in your own end of the field. You
Speaker 1: take the run game out out of the equation. Yet
Speaker 1: they should have happened all last year because we couldn't
Speaker 1: stop anybody defensively. We couldn't stop anyone. That always took
Speaker 1: away from the effectiveness about running game. That's that is
Speaker 1: so true, Bill. We sang that song all last year.
Speaker 1: All right, Everson, Jalen Ramsey as as an old quarterback,
Speaker 1: what do you make of it? You know, I must admit,
Speaker 1: that's the first time I've ever seen a flop in football.
Speaker 1: Let's think about that. You as a defensive bat, I
Speaker 1: don't have the guts to play out what I thought
Speaker 1: was a push off on a wide receiver, because no
Speaker 1: referee to me that I've seen, really calls that play.
Speaker 1: You see, I'm gonna come up. We grew up, you guys,
Speaker 1: we know grew up. But we saw so much of
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin. We saw so much of Chris Carter. We
Speaker 1: saw so much of these bully wide receivers who using
Speaker 1: their talents as best they can to get open. That
Speaker 1: is a part of running down the field with your
Speaker 1: wide receiver. What Jalen Ramsey realized is that, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: beat and I cannot recover. Once he realized he couldn't recover,
Speaker 1: that's when he made the flop move. And for the
Speaker 1: referee to fall for that, he must have been watching
Speaker 1: too many Lakers games. I don't know what's been going on,
Speaker 1: but to fall for that move, that is the most
Speaker 1: unusual ending to a play that I've seen in a
Speaker 1: long time. And of course the Cowboys are very good
Speaker 1: at that because we always seem to lose a game
Speaker 1: in the most unusual situation. Very unusual situation, right there, guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And the worst part of that whole thing
Speaker 1: is that when Crini did the pool report afterwards, he
Speaker 1: said it was such an obvious call. We had two
Speaker 1: guys the bs. Yeah. Well, and if you watched the
Speaker 1: TV copy of the play, the flag did not come
Speaker 1: out until Michael Gallop fell at about the fifteen yard line.
Speaker 1: And then you see the flag come flying out. Why
Speaker 1: didn't you throw the flag once you saw it? And
Speaker 1: to sit there and fall for that, And it's like
Speaker 1: I wrote in my column today, I know we're close
Speaker 1: to Hollywood, right, Universal Studios, they can hire him as
Speaker 1: a stunt man for that flop. In hockey, he would
Speaker 1: have got two minutes. He would have got two minutes
Speaker 1: for flopping, and they fell for it. How do you
Speaker 1: how do you? How do you officiate at this level,
Speaker 1: at this level and fall for that? And it was
Speaker 1: the guys that were in the front. They were in
Speaker 1: the front of the play. The guy that was closest
Speaker 1: behind the plate, he didn't throw his flag. So what
Speaker 1: did the other two guys see? They saw this. There's
Speaker 1: no excuse for it. And that's why you guys, there
Speaker 1: needs to be a sky judge, right, Oh, we can't
Speaker 1: have the sky judge. Well, they were going to try
Speaker 1: it in preseason, but we didn't have a preseason thanks
Speaker 1: to the pandemic. Right, so maybe we blame COVID, right,
Speaker 1: because they need a sky judge up there. It would
Speaker 1: have been so obvious to buzz down and say pick
Speaker 1: up your flag. And now they got rid of the
Speaker 1: challenge on interference. You could have challenged that, right, And
Speaker 1: I'll guarantee young but I forgot we didn't have You
Speaker 1: don't have him anymore, and i'll guarantee you when he
Speaker 1: sees the replay, he's gonna be sick about the comment
Speaker 1: he made after the game. Okay, I got that off
Speaker 1: my chest, all right, and uh and we're out of time.
Speaker 1: In the meantime of somebody check the analytics, then tell
Speaker 1: you if they if that play had happened, Gallup makes
Speaker 1: the catch, do you kick the field goal or go
Speaker 1: for the touchdown? At that point, I want to know
Speaker 1: if the analysts still had thirty seconds to go by
Speaker 1: golly oh you did Okay, all right, I can't remember
Speaker 1: how much time was left. All right, that doesn't for
Speaker 1: this edition of Mixed Shots, and we will talk at
Speaker 1: you again tomorrow. Remember Mike McCarthy's at five o'clock this
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