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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is nick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. It is Cowboys Wednesday at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Mickey Spagnola inside the SWDC Mortgage Studios. I'm
Speaker 1: Bill Jones at home, Everson Walls at home in front
Speaker 1: of the picture of himself, and yes, it is Falcon's
Speaker 1: week all across the Great Southwest. How are you doing? Guys?
Speaker 1: I feel a little egotistical now since you kind of
Speaker 1: all the out on my picture. I might change it now.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow you might see something else. Just just can't help
Speaker 1: noticing it over your shoulder there. I still say it
Speaker 1: looks a lot like Larry Brown. But you say, did
Speaker 1: not deal. These are the old uh Road Blue jerseys,
Speaker 1: The old Road blue jerseys. Larry Brown knows nothing about
Speaker 1: those are those the ones that had that's the one
Speaker 1: that had the jinks on them. But we did win
Speaker 1: that game, all right. I didn't believe in that well,
Speaker 1: judging by the New Road Blue Jerseys on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: It looks like the Jinks is back. Maybe maybe and
Speaker 1: get back in the whole whites at noon Sunday against
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. What do you say, Nikki? Or maybe
Speaker 1: put them in the whites without names and numbers so
Speaker 1: that the opponent doesn't know who's out there. Right Well, uh,
Speaker 1: cowboys on the practice field, back to work today. We
Speaker 1: heard Mike McCarthy this morning. That's where we'll kick things off.
Speaker 1: I've been studying the Atlanta Falcons this morning. In fact,
Speaker 1: just got off the elliptical about an hour ago and
Speaker 1: watch the entire game, the condensed version and not the
Speaker 1: three hour version against the Seahawks. I got some thoughts
Speaker 1: on that and how in the NFL the little things
Speaker 1: matter so much, which might be once again what the
Speaker 1: coaches talking to his team about this morning when they reconvened.
Speaker 1: But Mickey, what's your take on how things are going
Speaker 1: out there at the start to day. Well, there seems
Speaker 1: to be a lot of roster juggling going on, a
Speaker 1: lot of movement to the injured reserve, to the practice squad,
Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster, to talk into guys
Speaker 1: that could be on the fifty three man roster. So yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts out here after the rash
Speaker 1: of injuries and maybe the you know, we knew about
Speaker 1: Layton Vandersch probably out eight weeks, had surgery to repair
Speaker 1: the fractured collar bone. You know, we knew Lell Collins
Speaker 1: was on injured reserve already, and you know, I would
Speaker 1: imagine the hope is he only has to miss the
Speaker 1: mandatory three games with his hip injury. We knew that
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin was going on injured reserve, we'll have surgery
Speaker 1: to repair a torn acl. He's basically done for the season.
Speaker 1: But what we didn't know and found out today was
Speaker 1: that Sean Lee, the reason he's on injured reserve not
Speaker 1: trying to rehab a sports hernia. But last week he
Speaker 1: had surgery to repair the sports hernia and he's likely
Speaker 1: out going to miss six weeks, so five more after
Speaker 1: this weeks or after the first week of the season.
Speaker 1: So so that's somewhat concerning because you were hoping that
Speaker 1: Shawn Lee would be back, you know, kind of grit
Speaker 1: your teeth two more games and then he'd be back
Speaker 1: on the field. But not so much so I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys understand, and also with cam Irving sprained mcl
Speaker 1: initially we were here in two to four, but now
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said four to six, so the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: he's so they basically put him on injured reserve to
Speaker 1: create another roster spot. And now they're searching for offensive
Speaker 1: tackles to help with the depth on this team since
Speaker 1: they had to start an undrafted rookie free agent at
Speaker 1: nothing against undrafted rookie free agents. But I just don't
Speaker 1: want that guy at right tackled too long. So we'll
Speaker 1: see where this goes here in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: What the hell's were with it? I know when I
Speaker 1: was getting ready, I knew I was kind of stepping
Speaker 1: on it right now. That's a that's a great point. Everson. Well,
Speaker 1: you know when you talk about how you were talking
Speaker 1: still correct? Are we talking still? Terence still? Yes? Tern
Speaker 1: still yeah. You know, when you look at how he played, uh,
Speaker 1: he did give up a very untimely sack that kind
Speaker 1: of led to out themyes for more than one drive.
Speaker 1: But when you when you think about the you know,
Speaker 1: the job that he did overall, I thought it was
Speaker 1: it was as good as anyone else on that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Let's be real, guys. The second half of that game.
Speaker 1: First of all, Da, Dak and Zeke were just bawling.
Speaker 1: I mean, the whole offense was just clicking on on
Speaker 1: on all cylinders. And then in the second half the
Speaker 1: Rams turned it up. And when they turned it up,
Speaker 1: I would call several times in the second half, especially
Speaker 1: on key third downs, I couldn't even see Dak in
Speaker 1: the pocket. He was totally surrounded by Rams and he
Speaker 1: had no way to step into any of his throws.
Speaker 1: That was not just still, that was that entire Rams
Speaker 1: defensive line coming to play. I don't know what adjustments
Speaker 1: they made, whether it was an attitude adjustment or whether
Speaker 1: it was something on paper, but they were a different
Speaker 1: defensive line in the second half of that game, you
Speaker 1: know everything. I'm glad you pointed that out because there's
Speaker 1: some people out there that we're putting this loss on
Speaker 1: Dak because he can't win close games. It's like, did
Speaker 1: you watch the game? Did you really watch what was
Speaker 1: going on in the pocket? On how many times he
Speaker 1: was getting hit and had to move and couldn't step
Speaker 1: up in the pocket. I don't understand folks sometimes, And
Speaker 1: it was I mean, if you watched, it was fairly
Speaker 1: obvious what was happening, especially in the second half when
Speaker 1: they only kicked the field goal, you know, and the
Speaker 1: Rams didn't light it up the second half either. They
Speaker 1: scored one touchdown. Will that happened to be enough because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys only kicked the field goal. If the Cowboys
Speaker 1: pick up that, you know, if Ans and Butts right,
Speaker 1: if they pick up the first down, maybe they score
Speaker 1: a touchdown there instead of coming away with no points
Speaker 1: on that fourth and three. So yeah, that offensive line struggled,
Speaker 1: and that's one of the reasons why they ended up
Speaker 1: signing Alex light off the Arizona practice squad. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that's been in the league three years. Started played
Speaker 1: thirteen games for Green Bay one hundred and fifty one
Speaker 1: snaps in twenty nineteen, so and had played three games
Speaker 1: as a rookie, so he's got a little bit of experience.
Speaker 1: He was how about this, So he had been on
Speaker 1: the Green Bay roster. They released him, signed him uh
Speaker 1: to the practice squad, released him on September tenth. Arizona
Speaker 1: signs them to the practice squad on September fourteenth, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys signed him to the fifty three on September fifteenth,
Speaker 1: So I hope he didn't move, you know, for one day.
Speaker 1: So he's got a least a little you know why
Speaker 1: the Cowboys signed him then, But you know why the
Speaker 1: Cowboys signed him then? Why is that? Because they've got
Speaker 1: it's the track, because they've had him before. This coaching
Speaker 1: staffs had him before Green Bay, Yes, absolutely, and they're
Speaker 1: familiar with them twenty eighteen Joe Philibin the offensive line coach,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, so they're familiar with him and that
Speaker 1: that happened so often that and so they're they're taking
Speaker 1: a flyer on him. They've had him before, they've got
Speaker 1: some product knowledge there. But it's it's it's a great
Speaker 1: example of there's there's not much out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta go with what you have. And you got
Speaker 1: to hope that Lyle Collins gets back pretty soon well.
Speaker 1: And word is that they were also meeting today with
Speaker 1: Jared veld Here, a veteran offensive tackle ten years in
Speaker 1: the league, and he actually it played he started one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen of the one hundred and twenty games
Speaker 1: that he's played in the league, and mostly at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and he was last with the Packers in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: and here's his track record Oakland, Arizona, Denver, New England,
Speaker 1: and then Green Bay and at New England he ended
Speaker 1: up retiring and then he had second thoughts and towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season he unretired after the Patriots
Speaker 1: released him and the Packers signed him off the retired list,
Speaker 1: and he played had two starts at the end of
Speaker 1: the season after Bulaga got hurt. So Mike would have
Speaker 1: seen him if I'm sure he was intimately watching the
Speaker 1: Packers games, and so he would have at least seen
Speaker 1: him play. So, as I said, a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 1: They also signed a linebacker with Shard Smith off the
Speaker 1: Bears practice squad and undrafted a rookie. They're just looking
Speaker 1: for depth, you know. When we were sitting there watching
Speaker 1: the person of practice, we get to see it was
Speaker 1: a lonely situation over there at the linebacker spot. I
Speaker 1: think there was five of them, and one of them
Speaker 1: was on the practice squad, so didn't have a whole
Speaker 1: lot of depth at the linebacker spot. And oh, one
Speaker 1: more move and we probably figured this was coming. Sooner
Speaker 1: than later. They signed Brandon Card from the practice squad
Speaker 1: onto the fifty three man roster. There you go. Well,
Speaker 1: I tell you what, guys, this is my take on it.
Speaker 1: As far as the offensive lineman a concerned You can
Speaker 1: sign who you want to sign. You have some amazing
Speaker 1: defensive lineman in this league that we are going to
Speaker 1: be going up against. There are times when you can
Speaker 1: see our quarterbacks sitting in the pocket, almost like he's
Speaker 1: a sitting duck. You can see as a coach when
Speaker 1: the momentum of the game is changing just a bit
Speaker 1: and you need to adapt to that. To me, when
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback like Dak who's so mobile, there
Speaker 1: were times when he barely escaped with his life and
Speaker 1: made something extremely positive out of those plays when the
Speaker 1: pressure was all in his face, I just think we
Speaker 1: are missing the vote when we're not using all of
Speaker 1: his talents. We ran into the same thing last year.
Speaker 1: I think Dak Prescott is a very good quarterback in
Speaker 1: the pocket and on the run. I have always believed
Speaker 1: that we become predictable by just sitting him back in
Speaker 1: the pocket and admiring how well he hits a cooper
Speaker 1: or how well he hits galloped, how well he is
Speaker 1: to tight end. I think we need to start moving
Speaker 1: the pocket for this guy. Man, you know what's wrong
Speaker 1: with bootlegs? What's wrong with using this stud that? We
Speaker 1: have this huge quarterback who when he was in college
Speaker 1: ran over the entire University of Alabama football team? What
Speaker 1: is wrong with using him in a very diverse manner manners?
Speaker 1: You have Lamar Jackson's as he's just a player to himself,
Speaker 1: but you don't have to be Lamar Jackson to be
Speaker 1: able to do a rollout, ought to do a bootleg,
Speaker 1: ought to be accurate while moving the pocket. It's just
Speaker 1: so many things I think we're missing album. When it
Speaker 1: comes to Dak, soever said, what other NFL quarterback would
Speaker 1: you most compare Dak skill set to muh, This is
Speaker 1: gonna sound extremely arrogant because he's not nearly as accurate
Speaker 1: as who I'm about to bring up. But in regards
Speaker 1: to his physical talent and the way he throws a ball.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Robbers, I think that can throw any
Speaker 1: paths he wants to throw. That's funny. I was I
Speaker 1: was thinking he that was the answer. Aaron Rodgers, because
Speaker 1: if you think about it, Green Bay rolls him out
Speaker 1: quite a bit or they get him to throw the
Speaker 1: ball on the run on purpose, by the way, And
Speaker 1: you know when we watched you know, Everson, when we
Speaker 1: watched training camp practices, you know a lot of the
Speaker 1: drills they did before practice with the quarterback was this
Speaker 1: this kind of drill where you had to the quarterback
Speaker 1: had to move, move, move in and out of the pylons,
Speaker 1: and then throw on the run into the net and
Speaker 1: hit one of the three targets. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: so they're kind of getting him used to throwing on
Speaker 1: the run. What it feels like to move around in
Speaker 1: the pocket and not be stationary. And I thought, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. You know, when they used a
Speaker 1: lot of boots last year, get him out of the
Speaker 1: pocket and throw to the tight end. I don't know
Speaker 1: if losing Jarwin caused that to maybe not take place
Speaker 1: as much in the game against the Rams, but that
Speaker 1: had been a staple in this offense with Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: of bootlegs and if there's nothing there, just take off
Speaker 1: and run. So so be interesting to see what's going
Speaker 1: on because I think they got a taste of, you know,
Speaker 1: the possibility that this offensive line might not be what
Speaker 1: they think it is at this point in the season.
Speaker 1: Oh and one other note, j Jordan Lewis, actually this
Speaker 1: was the first time he took part in drills in practice.
Speaker 1: The last week he was basically doing resistance chord kind
Speaker 1: of conditioning stype stuff, but this was the first time
Speaker 1: he actually was taking part in the drills that we
Speaker 1: were able to watch. And Randy Gregory must have passed
Speaker 1: all his COVID nineteen tests because he was out on
Speaker 1: the field doing conditioning work with the trainers. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's still got five weeks to go. It was a
Speaker 1: a temporary reinstatement and he couldn't he had to miss
Speaker 1: six weeks, but he's allowed to do conditioning work, individual
Speaker 1: training drills along with sit in on team meetings. So
Speaker 1: it looks like his clocks starting on his way to
Speaker 1: being ready to go after those six week period. And
Speaker 1: he looked good too, by the way, didn't look like
Speaker 1: remember you know, he always looked like he needed to
Speaker 1: eat more. Right when he got here, he was, you know,
Speaker 1: like two hundred and thirty five forty pounds. But he
Speaker 1: looks good so and judging from the tweet when he
Speaker 1: got conditionally reinstated a pretty happy camper and was thanking
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people who helped him get back
Speaker 1: to this stage of the game. And if he can
Speaker 1: come back to do anything anything romotely close to what
Speaker 1: Alden Smith did, the Cowboys will hit another home run
Speaker 1: with this guy. All Right, we're just getting started on
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Speaker 1: I was at the Tostito's Championship Plaza at the Star
Speaker 1: in Presco doing a live shot at six o'clock, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of activity at the Star'll you have
Speaker 1: looks like a youth league flag football teams. They'll use
Speaker 1: the football field there and they'll conduct their practices there.
Speaker 1: You've got cheerleading, youth cheerleaders that are there on the
Speaker 1: practice field there. They serve it as a practice field
Speaker 1: basically right there by the hotel. And you couldn't tell
Speaker 1: we're in a pandemic if everyone is socially distanced. I
Speaker 1: will say that it's not like they're violating anything. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to be if you're around people supposed to be
Speaker 1: outside and if you're not active, they've got mask on
Speaker 1: and stuff. But it feels good that there are people
Speaker 1: out and about around the Star. So, Bill, did you
Speaker 1: figure out what? So glad we're getting back to normal? Bill?
Speaker 1: Have you figured out twenty five percent of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: capacity will be that the be allowed in since Mike capacity,
Speaker 1: is it not? It's like ninety ninety two somewhere in there. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: give me that twenty five percent. Twenty five percent of
Speaker 1: eighty thousand is twenty thousand, yes, and twenty five percent
Speaker 1: of one hundred thousand is twenty twenty five thousand, so five, okay,
Speaker 1: very good, twenty two five. And I read that you're
Speaker 1: I read that the uh, the the attendance of people
Speaker 1: sitting in the suites won't won't count against that twenty
Speaker 1: five percent, Like that's a private club area. I assume
Speaker 1: that the suites were closed. They are open, not the
Speaker 1: bunker suites now, but the ones on the you know,
Speaker 1: top of the field level, second level, third level, fourth level,
Speaker 1: whatever that they're they're good to go. So that does
Speaker 1: not count. That does not count as stadium attendance. That's
Speaker 1: what I read from one of those representatives that's kind
Speaker 1: of in charge of this whole deal out at the stadium.
Speaker 1: So that's like their private homes. It's y's their weekend
Speaker 1: getaway home, and they don't have that they own. And
Speaker 1: I think if and assuming the windows are closed or whatever,
Speaker 1: and you're inside the suite, then uh, you know, social
Speaker 1: distancing is up to you. M okay. I think one
Speaker 1: of the interesting things is, okay, say they got twenty
Speaker 1: two thousan five hundred people in there, is where are
Speaker 1: they going to be seated? Because I've been to high
Speaker 1: school games at AT and T Stadium where they don't
Speaker 1: even open the upper deck, whereas the lower bowl basically
Speaker 1: and people are pretty a lot, especially in the end zones,
Speaker 1: they'll be socially distanced. Even though that it wasn't socially distanced,
Speaker 1: wasn't the thing then, It's just that was the number
Speaker 1: of people that they had, and people just would like
Speaker 1: to have a elbow room whatever. You know, they were
Speaker 1: just watching the games. I wonder how many you can
Speaker 1: fit in the lower bowl. Now that's not and be
Speaker 1: in pods. It's gonna be in pods. And you know what,
Speaker 1: when they sent out the notice that they were like
Speaker 1: they had completed the sales to the season ticket holders
Speaker 1: get they had first DIBs on as many as six tickets,
Speaker 1: but you had to keep your six person party in
Speaker 1: a pod. Then they put on single game tickets and
Speaker 1: for this game, when I clicked on it, they were
Speaker 1: selling the four hundred level tickets for eighty nine dollars
Speaker 1: for a single game. So wow, I would imagine you've
Speaker 1: got to sit in the seats you buy. There's no
Speaker 1: just moving around and you know, sit where you want.
Speaker 1: So they had supposedly reading this article and by the way,
Speaker 1: if anybody is thinking of going to the game or
Speaker 1: they are going to the game, check out the Dallas
Speaker 1: Morning News. It was a pretty extensive description of what
Speaker 1: game day would look like. And uh, you know, the entrances,
Speaker 1: how many entrances they'll they'll be able to use to
Speaker 1: keep the crowd from lining up, and the fact that
Speaker 1: if they you know, if you want to buy food,
Speaker 1: it's going to be in prepackaged containers, and there's going
Speaker 1: to be actually people walking security walking through the stadium.
Speaker 1: And make sure this isn't like NASCAR when they had
Speaker 1: the race in Fort Worth and people had to wear
Speaker 1: a mask and they wore it to get in, and
Speaker 1: then then they were in, they took them off, and
Speaker 1: they're going to be reminders that you've got to keep
Speaker 1: your mask on while you're watching the game. Well not
Speaker 1: just that, you know, when you're dealing with the cowboy legends,
Speaker 1: I'm one of them. Uh, that entire program was dismantled
Speaker 1: for this season. So you're not siting autographs before the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: If I signed autographs before the game, it would be
Speaker 1: at some outdoor tailgate. But in regards to going around
Speaker 1: and visiting, uh, suits and things of that nature now
Speaker 1: that is off limits. That has been discontinued for this season.
Speaker 1: And I think I read where there wouldn't be any
Speaker 1: tailgating either. Yeah, well, thanks a lot. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: asking for a raise for today. Can I start? Can
Speaker 1: I renegotiate my cot? As I told somebody on Twitter
Speaker 1: when they complained about something, I said, welcome to twenty twenty, baby,
Speaker 1: that's it. Well, it is going to be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what it looks like with fans in the stands.
Speaker 1: And take the Mike McCarthy show last night, and right
Speaker 1: off the bat, I said it. You know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of strange. You're actually gonna have fans in
Speaker 1: the stands on Sunday. Well, you know, he remarked about
Speaker 1: how strange it was in LA with no no fans.
Speaker 1: He said, then there wasn't as much, uh the piped
Speaker 1: in noise, cheering fan stuff that he was anticipating, and
Speaker 1: was almost sounded like it was eerily quiet. And you know,
Speaker 1: and even um, I was told by some of the
Speaker 1: people in house that were there covering the game, uh,
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, uh, and even the PR guys they weren't
Speaker 1: in the press box. They they they sequestered them in
Speaker 1: a suite. So the PR guys were in a suite
Speaker 1: and Nick was in a suite all by himself. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it was quiet. He said, he couldn't hardly hear anything.
Speaker 1: It was the weirdest way to be able to cover
Speaker 1: a game because he didn't even have volume to listen
Speaker 1: to the TV broadcast. So, yeah, it's a different thing.
Speaker 1: So my question on that is is how much of
Speaker 1: the sound that we are hearing on the television broadcast
Speaker 1: is the actual sound that is in the stadium crowd
Speaker 1: noise or is the TV network piping in crowd noise
Speaker 1: as well for us listening and watching at home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think they. We're hearing at home on television
Speaker 1: the same thing that's being heard inside the stadium, I
Speaker 1: think so. I think so, Bill, I don't think they.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have a different, a different crowdsource
Speaker 1: to to put on TV. Maybe they extentuate what they're
Speaker 1: picking up on their mics, right, because I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: do you remember the field goal the Rams missed? It
Speaker 1: hit off the upright? That was that was the loudest.
Speaker 1: That was the loudest bang I think I've ever heard
Speaker 1: on television in a football game, So I think they
Speaker 1: are accentuating a little disconcerting. It's got to be a
Speaker 1: little disconcerting to the field goal kicker because his failure
Speaker 1: is amplified. Yes, yes, the fact that I mean, I
Speaker 1: will say this, I have been to a Ranger game,
Speaker 1: the first series that the Rangers played, and and all
Speaker 1: the crowd noise that you're hearing on the Rangers broadcast,
Speaker 1: that's what they're hearing in the ballpark on the home
Speaker 1: games and so and But I think there are some
Speaker 1: some TV networks are piping in crowd noise. I can't
Speaker 1: I can't recall which ones are doing that, but others
Speaker 1: are not. I mean, if you think about if you
Speaker 1: think about watching the hockey games, the playoffs, you can
Speaker 1: hear the skates on the ice. So they've got Mike's
Speaker 1: all over the place trying to pick up sound. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in basketball sometimes the squeak of the tennis shoot yes,
Speaker 1: was mistaken for a whistle. But they do a lot
Speaker 1: better job I thought in Orlando of kind of putting
Speaker 1: the crowd noise in. They were very timely on how
Speaker 1: they put it in. And there were times when I
Speaker 1: was watching the game and you actually think that there
Speaker 1: are people at the game, and I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: bench because they can't be heard over the quiet. But
Speaker 1: for the most part they pipe in those cheers and
Speaker 1: the different types of cheers that they pipe in or
Speaker 1: what I liked about it. There was some jeering, not
Speaker 1: just clapping and cheering, but there were jeers, and I
Speaker 1: think they even put in a few booze and you know,
Speaker 1: like a little look calamity was going on there. So
Speaker 1: they were very varied on what sounds and types of
Speaker 1: cheers they were using. I thought that's what the NFL
Speaker 1: would do. It would be great for the atmosphere. And
Speaker 1: I talked to Mark Huban about it prior to the
Speaker 1: NBA season starting, and they have an app and I
Speaker 1: never explored it after the after the season started, they
Speaker 1: at an app where people could actually go online and
Speaker 1: or with an app and put in crowd noise. And
Speaker 1: whether they actually uh had any effect or not, I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's probably someone just doing it and not
Speaker 1: even paid attention to what people are in putting. But
Speaker 1: but anyway, all right, I'm not sure if I have
Speaker 1: time to get into the falcons. Uh. Well, we get
Speaker 1: started and then we can continue, all right. When you
Speaker 1: saw and I don't know if you've been able to
Speaker 1: watch the Atlanta Seattle game at all, but but basically,
Speaker 1: when you saw the final score of that game, what
Speaker 1: did you think it was? Thirty eight twenty five Seattle.
Speaker 1: I thought it wasn't tracking me score that I looked at.
Speaker 1: I wasn't just to score it. I looked at spags. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was Russell Wilson's numbers. Uh, he only missed four passes.
Speaker 1: If I'm not thirty one, we're talking thirty five passes
Speaker 1: and you only miss four. Uh, that doesn't bolde well
Speaker 1: for what I expect to see this this week for
Speaker 1: the Falcon's defense and especially the secondary. Uh, that is,
Speaker 1: that is the almost perfection. And let's face it, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is a hell of a player, but he's not
Speaker 1: that good. I mean, really, no one's that good to
Speaker 1: be playing like that. And if I'm not mistaken, of course,
Speaker 1: no crowd, no crowd was there. But that was an
Speaker 1: unfamiliar field, correct, was that not on the road? There
Speaker 1: was at Atlanta in Atlanta? Yeah? Did you see what
Speaker 1: his quarterback rating was? One forty three point one and
Speaker 1: a lot of that has to do with four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions, and throwing for three hundred and twenty two yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty one out of thirty five. Okay, in what they
Speaker 1: did a lot with him is what they do a
Speaker 1: lot with him all the time, is they rolled him out.
Speaker 1: Did you talk about those bootlegs and so forth? First
Speaker 1: past attempt of the game, though, he got sacked by
Speaker 1: Tech Tech MC League for the Atlanta and it was
Speaker 1: a bootleg and he just so the defensive end, he
Speaker 1: just pinned his ears back and he saw it coming
Speaker 1: and he was immediate sack. But but they the first touchdown,
Speaker 1: they took advantage of that Seattle did. They ran basically
Speaker 1: the same play release they're running back and McKinley was
Speaker 1: in no man's land and it was the easiest touchdown
Speaker 1: ever scored. Whatever some of the I think that the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: And when I asked you last segment about which quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league that Dak is most similar to the
Speaker 1: guy that for me, it's Russell Wilson. And I think
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys. You know, it's a Brian Schottenheimer offense
Speaker 1: at Seattle runs. You know McCarthy, he you know, he's
Speaker 1: from that Schottenheimer Tree himself, Brian's dad, Marty Schottenheimer. But
Speaker 1: I think that that Dak can learn a lot about
Speaker 1: this Atlanta defense and Kellen Moore mccar how to attack
Speaker 1: this Atlanta defense by looking at what Seattle did against them,
Speaker 1: because there was a I mean, as evidenced by the stats,
Speaker 1: they just took advantage of an Atlanta defense that was
Speaker 1: very aggressive first couple of series. It was almost like
Speaker 1: what what the Rams did to the Cowboys with a
Speaker 1: short passing game. Because the Cowboys were very aggressive and
Speaker 1: it took a while for the Cowboys to make an
Speaker 1: adjustment in that game. I think it took a while
Speaker 1: for Atlanta as well. So Seattle gets up fourteen to
Speaker 1: three to start that game, but then Atlanta comes back
Speaker 1: and it was a fourteen to twelve game at halftime. Okay,
Speaker 1: very similar to the Cowboys Rams game. Cowboys led fourteen
Speaker 1: thirteen at the half against the Rams. Here's what happened
Speaker 1: at well, I'll tell you when we come back were
Speaker 1: up against the break, I'm going to tell you what
Speaker 1: happened different in that game as opposed to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: Rams game that Gabe Seattle the victory. When we come
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Speaker 1: final segment here, a mixed shots. We got about eleven
Speaker 1: minutes to go here. Let me continue with what we
Speaker 1: were talking about before the break, looking at that Seahawks
Speaker 1: Falcons game and how the Cowboys can learn some lessons
Speaker 1: from it. And there's just a little bit of irony
Speaker 1: in this as well. Of course, everyone talking about the
Speaker 1: fourth and three decision that Mike McCarthy made that did
Speaker 1: not work against the Rams. Well, this was a little
Speaker 1: earlier in the game in fast In fact, it was
Speaker 1: the first possession of the third quarter. Seattle had a
Speaker 1: fourteen to twelve lead on Atlanta, and of course when
Speaker 1: McCarthy made his decision, the Cowboys were trailing by three.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting the Seattle faced a fourth and four
Speaker 1: at the Atlanta thirty eight yard line. Okay, they're ahead
Speaker 1: by two points, fourteen to twelve, and Seattle's you're kind
Speaker 1: of in no man's land there. Whether you want to
Speaker 1: put them down and try to you know, Coffin corner
Speaker 1: it or whatever, or go for it. Okay, they're fourth
Speaker 1: and four at the thirty eight yard and they decided
Speaker 1: to go for it. So what do they do to
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass? Okay, they surprised them. They went deep touchdown. Okay,
Speaker 1: so now all of us so they're all right, let's
Speaker 1: say it's incomplete. Let's say they don't get the first down.
Speaker 1: Now you just gave Atlanta the football with good field
Speaker 1: position and you're only ahead fourteen twelve. Okay, you weren't
Speaker 1: even trailing in the game, and they went for it
Speaker 1: and made it. Okay, but how much confidence is that
Speaker 1: instilled in your team, especially first game of the year.
Speaker 1: You make a decision like that, we go for it.
Speaker 1: It works. Now you're ahead in twenty one to twelve. Also, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a nine point lead on Atlanta. Atlanta gets
Speaker 1: the ball back about the same spot on the field,
Speaker 1: about the thirty eight yard line. They face a fourth
Speaker 1: and three, fourth and two something like that. They're in
Speaker 1: punt formation and Atlanta that runs a fake punt. Well,
Speaker 1: they execute at the up back. He gets the first down,
Speaker 1: but Marquis Blair for Seattle. He comes in, puts his
Speaker 1: hat on that football, knocks it out. Seattle gets the turnover,
Speaker 1: Seattle gets the football at the forty yard line, and
Speaker 1: a few plays later they've got another touchdown in Seattle
Speaker 1: leaves that game twenty eight to twelve, and a matter
Speaker 1: of basically two plays, a matter of six plays there,
Speaker 1: whatever it was. Okay, they went from a fourteen to
Speaker 1: twelve lead to twenty eight to twelve and Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: is throwing fifty four passes the rest of the game
Speaker 1: instead of the balance offense that Atlanta wanted to have.
Speaker 1: But I thought it was just a great example of
Speaker 1: a you know, when it works, you're a genius. And
Speaker 1: think about with McCarthy, had that play worked and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got a touchdown on that possession. Here he is
Speaker 1: coaching his first game with the Cowboys, And I didn't
Speaker 1: agree with the decision at the time, But now that
Speaker 1: I look back at it, what if it had worked,
Speaker 1: and what if the Cowboys take the lead? Well, the
Speaker 1: game plays out entirely differently the rest of the way
Speaker 1: because now the Rams are having to play from behind
Speaker 1: and their play calling. Their play selection is totally different,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys have the upper hand the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. I think it's just it was great little contrast,
Speaker 1: and it worked for Seattle. They get basically in the
Speaker 1: NFL what it amounts to a blowout win by thirteen points,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't work for the Cowboys, and Cowboys can't
Speaker 1: wait to play again and try to get back on
Speaker 1: the horse. Ye was a big difference. It wouldn't it
Speaker 1: have been? Well, you know, when you start talking about
Speaker 1: the difference between a successful play and unsuccessful play, it
Speaker 1: depends that that makes everything depend on where the dominoes fall.
Speaker 1: From there, you can look at the Cowboys game. I
Speaker 1: bring it up all the time. Cowboys game last year.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins were about to score against US. I think
Speaker 1: it was gonna be before the half of it, before
Speaker 1: the end of the quarter, they're in scoring position. I
Speaker 1: think that we're inside the fifteen yard line. Here we
Speaker 1: are now. This game was a blowout for us. It
Speaker 1: was one of those easy games we had. We started
Speaker 1: off three and ooh, and all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: wheels fall off and the true Cowboys emerged. Well, the
Speaker 1: true Cowboys were in that Dolphins game because we were
Speaker 1: about to give up a rushing touchdown and for some reason,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins running back pull the sanchads. I guess that's
Speaker 1: for lack of a better turn. He tried to extend
Speaker 1: as he was going down and the ball hit somebody's
Speaker 1: butt and the fumbles. Well from there, I believe we
Speaker 1: go down and score and the route is on. So
Speaker 1: when you look at these routes, there are certain times
Speaker 1: in the ball game or these key moments made a
Speaker 1: difference in that route and allowed that route to happen.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys had a few of those instances last year,
Speaker 1: and it always made me nervous because we showed in
Speaker 1: competence against the run even while we were routing people.
Speaker 1: So you're right, Bill, those little gambles they can work
Speaker 1: for you or they cannot work for you, and it
Speaker 1: just might determine what the attitude is for your entire
Speaker 1: team for the rest of the season, because, like you said,
Speaker 1: if we make that first down, we're looking at this
Speaker 1: game possibly and an entirely different light. Our construction, constructive
Speaker 1: criticism for lack of a better term, that we put
Speaker 1: on this show would be a little bit more favorite
Speaker 1: and it will be a little bit more than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys favorite when it's all said and done. So that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not going to panic too much about this
Speaker 1: first game. But there are things that continued from last
Speaker 1: season that still gives me pause. I thought Mickey was
Speaker 1: going to chime in there. No what I was gonna
Speaker 1: say is you mentioned the two touchdowns at Seattle scored.
Speaker 1: They end up scoring seventeen consecutive points. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know if at that point that takes it Atlanta out
Speaker 1: of what they would have liked to do. But Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan threw the ball fifty four times fifty Is that
Speaker 1: their offense? Because they only rushed for seventy two yards,
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking maybe they took them out of their
Speaker 1: game at that point. They definitely did. They definitely did.
Speaker 1: If you go back and look at the beginning of
Speaker 1: that game, what they do on the first three plays
Speaker 1: of the game. First three plays of the game, they
Speaker 1: handed the ball off to Todd Gurley. Okay, they're new
Speaker 1: running and I think four out of the first six
Speaker 1: plays Gurley, we ran the ball and then he caught
Speaker 1: a pass. They obviously were intent on establishing Gurley. That
Speaker 1: was their big offseason move. That where they got Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the other thing that's interesting, And
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy mentioned this a few weeks ago, talking about
Speaker 1: watching the TV copy when he scouting opponents, the TV
Speaker 1: copy and listening to the announcers as well as the
Speaker 1: coach's film. And I think, as I think it's I
Speaker 1: would think any NFL team, whether the coaches do it
Speaker 1: or not, someone needs to listen to the TV broadcast
Speaker 1: of whoever your opponent is, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: times where the analyst will give away secrets I have
Speaker 1: that I have, I agree with, you know, and if
Speaker 1: you listen, if you listen to the broadcast, and I
Speaker 1: don't even know who the announcers were, I didn't recognize
Speaker 1: the voices, but whoever the analyst was on that Atlanta
Speaker 1: Seattle game, he kept talking about early in the game,
Speaker 1: Atlanta really wants to establish Todd Gurley here. And so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times that coaches NFL coaches they
Speaker 1: think they're it's in confidence. They're just giving uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not expecting the analysts to go on the air
Speaker 1: and basically give away their you know, what their mindset
Speaker 1: is as they go into the season. But you can
Speaker 1: pick up on little things there, and sometimes it's more
Speaker 1: subtle than others. But I think that's one thing that Atlanta,
Speaker 1: what the analysts was saying, was that's one of the
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that when they looked at
Speaker 1: themselves this offseason, they really wanted to because we didn't
Speaker 1: establish the run last year. We really wanted to get
Speaker 1: back to running the football and so uh And in fact,
Speaker 1: McCarthy at his press conference today said something about, well,
Speaker 1: they really want to throw the ball. I think I
Speaker 1: think he may be bluffing there. I think he understands
Speaker 1: that Atlanta really wants to run the ball. They want
Speaker 1: to get more balanced in their offense. I want to
Speaker 1: be I want to be the TV I want to
Speaker 1: be the TV coach, the one that listens to everything
Speaker 1: and huts everything down. That's right. But when you think
Speaker 1: about it, though, you know, you got guys like Tony
Speaker 1: Romo or Troy Aikman. They talked to the coaches and
Speaker 1: the key players. That's Saturday before the game. You can
Speaker 1: get all types of information from that. And I have
Speaker 1: always thought that Bill, it's so funny that you mentioned
Speaker 1: something like that. But you know, kind of coaches. They
Speaker 1: let the guard down. The coaches let the garden. But
Speaker 1: that's not the whole interview is for us. Then the
Speaker 1: network guys, they just act like they figured it out themselves,
Speaker 1: like Hey, I'm real smart what was going on here?
Speaker 1: And you kind of disguised almost like hey, Romo was like, hey,
Speaker 1: they're gonna run this play right now. Well, Romo was
Speaker 1: just at the practice yesterday, so yeah, you just saw.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about that, going back to the
Speaker 1: Falcons game, and it just lends cretins to what I've
Speaker 1: always said about a team game. Uh, Russell Wilson had
Speaker 1: health early on in that game. And what health was
Speaker 1: the fact that that guy put his hat on the ball.
Speaker 1: You know, his defensive player or his special team's player
Speaker 1: put that hat on the ball. You know, he didn't
Speaker 1: leave it up to Russell Wilson to come back out
Speaker 1: after the Falcons had driven all the way down and scored.
Speaker 1: They made the play themselves, and they put their offense
Speaker 1: in scoring position. In order for this team to be successful, guys,
Speaker 1: I've said it over and over again, they have to
Speaker 1: be mistake free. They have to be known for being
Speaker 1: mistake free, which we did not do that in the
Speaker 1: RAMS game. They have to be known to have a
Speaker 1: defense that makes critical plays which we did not make,
Speaker 1: especially third downs, an indicator of that. Offensively, the same thing,
Speaker 1: we do not capitalize off of each other's big plays.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, we let the oppositions big
Speaker 1: plays determine how we play. So as a team, I
Speaker 1: don't care how many superstars you have. You can have
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, you may have Dak Prescott, Aaron Rodgers, your
Speaker 1: defense and your special teams they have to come to
Speaker 1: play as well. Hey, they gave you an interception, what
Speaker 1: else do you want one? By the way, we're out
Speaker 1: of time here, But that that Atlanta Special teams coach,
Speaker 1: you know, he called the perfect play the great fake punt.
Speaker 1: He didn't account for the fact that Marquis Blair was
Speaker 1: gonna put his head on Sharad Nisman in the football
Speaker 1: and it didn't work. So it's all about execution, all right.
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