Speaker 1: The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick Shot,
Speaker 1: streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys app. Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are. It's time for
Speaker 1: another edition of mix Shots inside the SWBC podcast studio
Speaker 1: at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, and the
Speaker 1: star of the show, Mickey Spagnola is here. Hi, Mickey, Hi, Bill,
Speaker 1: how are you? I? Bill Jones, heck my Harrison is
Speaker 1: here and Rob Phillips is here as well. I love
Speaker 1: this cast of characters. Characters you didn't talk about Rob
Speaker 1: like that. Mickey. I stole this from you. I knew
Speaker 1: you were going to be bringing your note book here.
Speaker 1: You got notes. Oh my gosh, heck I myself. That's Bill,
Speaker 1: that's Bill, that's Jones. Yeah, we love note books. It here.
Speaker 1: We were all school it here. Yeah, slack and bring
Speaker 1: this pH and nothing else. Brings his phone. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: Rob's got everything on his phone from all the interviews
Speaker 1: out there. Good point. That good point, Mickey. We just
Speaker 1: interviewed about twelve position coaches yeah, well the entire staff.
Speaker 1: I want to hear all about that. But first and
Speaker 1: do you realize do you realize that that's the first
Speaker 1: time we've talked to these guys in like forever. Did
Speaker 1: we talk to Joe Phillman last year? Because training camp
Speaker 1: maybe I'm trying to remember even now, we talked to
Speaker 1: Joe Witt in training camp. I remember that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we ever got George Edwards and I think
Speaker 1: we talked to Wit maybe because dan Quinn was COVID
Speaker 1: restricted or whatever. Was that training camp we camp? But yes,
Speaker 1: it's very it's been very limited since and I guarantee
Speaker 1: you we haven't had a chance to introduce ourselves to
Speaker 1: all those guys COVID man, right because last year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: last year, we never saw any of the assistants. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, with Rob Davis, the assistant head coach.
Speaker 1: So the day of the draft, I was in the
Speaker 1: TV room and I was doing something with McCarthy because
Speaker 1: we were going to do something for outdoor party whatever,
Speaker 1: and Rob Davis was in there and he got done
Speaker 1: and he came in introduced himself to me, and I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been you've been here a whole year. I didn't
Speaker 1: think I'd ever meet you guys, and he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: come on, mix wow, wow, the real star of the show.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure you know, we had the open
Speaker 1: was mixed shots, but really it should have been a
Speaker 1: combination of talking cowboys and talking shots. Yeah, talking shots
Speaker 1: are taking, are taking. I love it, you know, And
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember back when Talking Cowboys first started, Rob,
Speaker 1: and you were in the school desk. Thanks for reminding
Speaker 1: everybody that, Bill, Yes, and we did. We were was
Speaker 1: the internet around and you took you were taking because
Speaker 1: it was because we were. We were you were checking emails, right,
Speaker 1: yeahmale existed. Yeah, it was two thousand and four. I
Speaker 1: was trying to remember if cell phones exist, it is
Speaker 1: that you were on your cell phone then? No, Twitter
Speaker 1: didn't it just maybe we're on a better place back then.
Speaker 1: You were on a little laptop there. Definitely we were
Speaker 1: about six years away from Twitter. Yes, that's right, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a TV show initially. Heck what year that
Speaker 1: was two thousand and four? Four? Okay, heck, but where
Speaker 1: were you in two thousand and four? I was man leaving.
Speaker 1: Uh I was it in Puerto Rico? Oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So can we ask what you were doing there?
Speaker 1: I was going to school, all right, school in Puerto Rico. Okay,
Speaker 1: getting a tan mick. All right. So is there news
Speaker 1: coming out of the position coaches and media sessions today
Speaker 1: or this is just a get to know you session? No, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't get to know I don't know that there
Speaker 1: was any breaking news out there. No more of just
Speaker 1: a feel of how each group is doing. Asking about
Speaker 1: specific players, Yeah, Joe Filman talked a lot about, you know,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele's development, Lyle Collins coming back, what that mix
Speaker 1: might look like in the future, George Edwards, Scott McCurley
Speaker 1: talking about Micah Parsons development, stuff like that. No, no real,
Speaker 1: no real breaking, no bombshells. Yeah, yeah, but it is
Speaker 1: a bye week bill. It is nice to have that
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk with well, yeah, we don't, we don't.
Speaker 1: We didn't get that usually in training camp after practice
Speaker 1: you could walk off with them as they were going in,
Speaker 1: and we didn't have that opportunity. And really where we
Speaker 1: got the best opportunity to talk with him outside of
Speaker 1: training camp was in the springtime during OTA's where back
Speaker 1: in the day where we were free to roam. Yes,
Speaker 1: then we would get him coming off the field at practice.
Speaker 1: And that's gone away now and it certainly has. And
Speaker 1: you know what, are we six weeks into the season
Speaker 1: and that's the first contact we've had with a bunch
Speaker 1: of those guys. So yes, absolutely, all right, so we
Speaker 1: get started here. And did you happen to see the
Speaker 1: Monday night game the end of the Monday night game
Speaker 1: last night? Absolutely? Okay? I did not. How about I
Speaker 1: fell asleep in my chair, I woke I woke up
Speaker 1: in this Yeah, my son had a basketball I had
Speaker 1: a football game last night, So well tell him what
Speaker 1: happened too. Oh, bunch of house calls and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: He'll be a guy that Bill Jones will be talking
Speaker 1: about it pretty soon. Now. How old is he? He's fourteen? Fourteen?
Speaker 1: Where's he play? He's at Strady, He's at Trady Middle School.
Speaker 1: He's a wide receiver. He x not paying for college?
Speaker 1: Yeah no not so what high school will he go to?
Speaker 1: We're still trying to decide, Bill, Okay, there's a lot
Speaker 1: to choose from out there. He's being who gives the
Speaker 1: most money. I know, I know, I know the coach
Speaker 1: at South Lake, you're the mayor or something that hurt already.
Speaker 1: They've had some wide receivers, they got some quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah and there, even though they opt out sometimes.
Speaker 1: So what was your question? All right, fourth and once
Speaker 1: it relates to the Cowboys and fourth and ones, okay,
Speaker 1: last night, it comes down to the end of the
Speaker 1: game and Sean McDermott, the coach for Buffalo. It's a
Speaker 1: thirty four thirty one game, and they could get a
Speaker 1: first down. There were one yard away from the goal
Speaker 1: line too, and so it's the end of regulation and
Speaker 1: he makes the decision to go forward on fourth and
Speaker 1: inches with how much time was twenty seconds something like
Speaker 1: that in that range instead of kicking what field goal
Speaker 1: that would have insured overtime, and he went for it
Speaker 1: and they got stopped Josh Allen on a quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: get stopped? Who would run a quarterback sneak for one
Speaker 1: yard out? And on the previous play Allan had scrambled
Speaker 1: and almost got the first thing he did by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that was close. Saw that replay.
Speaker 1: The replay was a pretty good indicator where that he
Speaker 1: was short that yeah, where if you look where the
Speaker 1: ball was. It seemed because they had pretty good technology
Speaker 1: there on the replay on TV anyway, where it showed
Speaker 1: where the first down? Now, why didn't Josh Allen do
Speaker 1: a dack in because he was going backwards into Yeah
Speaker 1: he was, I mean no, I meant on the third play,
Speaker 1: I'm saying on the fourth down he fell, he slipped
Speaker 1: who was it that the defensive and crashed and hit
Speaker 1: him and it happened so fast he lost his footing
Speaker 1: right yeah, So so so anyway, just my question is,
Speaker 1: and we've seen it over the last several years the end,
Speaker 1: we were seeing it more and more going forward on
Speaker 1: fourth down. I'm gonna give you a history, and I
Speaker 1: know that analytics plays a little big part in it.
Speaker 1: Didn't So here we go. So was as tech s
Speaker 1: Ram said, was Vince Lombardi wrong going for it at
Speaker 1: the goal line in that playoff game up in Green Bay?
Speaker 1: What year was that? Nineteen sixty seven? Sixty seven? And
Speaker 1: I fell championship game and he could have kicked a
Speaker 1: field goal to send it into overtime? Was there a
Speaker 1: guarantee they're gonna be able to make the field goal
Speaker 1: on ice? Well, there wasn't, but there wasn't a guarantee
Speaker 1: that he was going to have there at the pretty
Speaker 1: good guarantee that Jethro Pugh and Bob Lily wouldn't have
Speaker 1: footing either. Well, keeping from getting into they didn't have
Speaker 1: footing on the play, did that? That's right? Yeah, neither team,
Speaker 1: which the point being, the point being that there are
Speaker 1: circumstances that in every situation that make a decision different
Speaker 1: from one game to another. As Tech Shram said, it
Speaker 1: was the worst coaching decision he had ever seen that
Speaker 1: they went for it. And I wonder how Tech would
Speaker 1: have felt about Philadelphia in nineteen ninety four on fourth
Speaker 1: and one at the twenty nine yard line and Barry
Speaker 1: Switzer decides to go for it. Yeah twice would have
Speaker 1: probably thought that that was not real. Oh the old
Speaker 1: load left. Yeah, they didn't work out so good. It didn't.
Speaker 1: But really it didn't work out three times, but actually
Speaker 1: even on that one. But now we're seeing teams go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and one at their own thirty nine.
Speaker 1: We saw in several years ago Bill Belichick same situation
Speaker 1: on a fourth and one at the twenty nine yard line.
Speaker 1: I think against the Colts. He went forth, they got stopped.
Speaker 1: It's just more and more. It's the philosophy has changed
Speaker 1: at every level of football, where teams go for it
Speaker 1: now on fourth down. You know what, I may tell
Speaker 1: you how smart I was at fourteen years old watching
Speaker 1: that the play in the Ice Bowl. I yelled at
Speaker 1: my fart because I was a Packers fan. I yelled
Speaker 1: at my father, I go, what's he doing? If they
Speaker 1: don't make it, they're gonna lose the game. You gotta
Speaker 1: kick the field goal, which would have tied it, yes,
Speaker 1: and forced overtime. Yep, just like last night. Go ahead. No,
Speaker 1: you know in nineteen sixty seven. I mean, he has
Speaker 1: all my attention right now trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: you were doing in fourteen years I'd telling you, Dad,
Speaker 1: you should have kicked the field goal. I mean, in
Speaker 1: history rewards the Bowl. So I guess I was a
Speaker 1: nerd back there watching every Packer game. I can get
Speaker 1: my nerd. You were a middle linebacker at Chicago Heights.
Speaker 1: That's right, right, my god. Okay, so to ask you
Speaker 1: how cold the press box was, Mick, yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: So just in general, Okay, let's put her put ourselves
Speaker 1: in the shoes of Sean McDermott last night. If Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy would have made that also blistered. But also figure Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry had three touchdowns in that game. They weren't
Speaker 1: stopping him all night long. If you're going into overtime, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were in Nashville. Okay, So what do you do
Speaker 1: facing fourth and as Switzer would put fourth in a
Speaker 1: damn foot and you're basically if you score it in
Speaker 1: your yard away from the goal line too and fan
Speaker 1: a touchdown, a game winning touchdown, you're that close to
Speaker 1: winning the game. Or do you kick the field goal
Speaker 1: for overtime? What do you think I was for going
Speaker 1: for it and ending the game right there? Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what teams are doing more now. I
Speaker 1: think teams, I mean every situation, this is a different situation.
Speaker 1: You could still extend the game. But I think teams
Speaker 1: are realizing the way passing offenses are now and the
Speaker 1: way the game has changed, field goals don't matter anymore.
Speaker 1: They just you can't kick field goals and expect to
Speaker 1: win football games. And so if you and especially if
Speaker 1: you've got a Josh Allen who's six four and can
Speaker 1: just dive forward and get a foot. Tom Brady has
Speaker 1: made a career out of that. Do it. You know
Speaker 1: it's ballsy, but that's the way the game has changed.
Speaker 1: Three points isn't gonna cut it against the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: or against teams that are that good offensively. Now, I
Speaker 1: think it's all situational awareness for these head coaches, especially
Speaker 1: when you talk about the night that Henry had and
Speaker 1: not being able to stop him. I think you want
Speaker 1: to end it right there. I'm more on the conservative side.
Speaker 1: I would kick a field goal and take them until
Speaker 1: over time. Well, and there's a couple of different areas
Speaker 1: I want to explore on it, because it's kind of
Speaker 1: the same principle as a two point conversion. Let's say,
Speaker 1: let's say it was paint this scenario where Buffalo scores
Speaker 1: their one point down. Now they're at the two yard line,
Speaker 1: going for two to win the game or kicking it
Speaker 1: and forcing overtime. That was essentially the situation they were
Speaker 1: in last night, however, the difference being all they needed
Speaker 1: was a damn foot to get the first down. And
Speaker 1: that's just just happened recently in college somebody went for two. Oh,
Speaker 1: that happens a lot, so it was it was Arkansas.
Speaker 1: Arkansas did last week he gets ole miss and they
Speaker 1: missed and he missed, right, But I think he factored
Speaker 1: in this is as close as we're going to come
Speaker 1: from winning the game because we're not stopping him in overtime.
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, Gary Patterson did it for
Speaker 1: TCU was playing at Oklahoma and they were a decided underdog,
Speaker 1: and I understood exactly, And as an OU fan, I said,
Speaker 1: oh no, please, don't go for two. He went for two,
Speaker 1: and Stephen Parker, who's been in and out with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: made the play to win the game for OU. And
Speaker 1: so I certainly understand it when you're an underdog going
Speaker 1: for it. Buffalo, you might be the best team up
Speaker 1: until last night, you were the best team in the AFC,
Speaker 1: maybe in football, and um go as a score in
Speaker 1: the final score of that game thirty one. Yeah, their defense, right,
Speaker 1: although that's the that's the thing with Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: then you're getting into an overtime scenario. And that's why
Speaker 1: I think situational awareness Again, if you're playing a game
Speaker 1: where you're not stopping these guys and you have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to end the game. I would agree right there,
Speaker 1: but you you make a valid point with who they
Speaker 1: were are. It's Buffalo the team, the way that they
Speaker 1: are perceived. They are looked upon as a powerhouse, you know,
Speaker 1: squad right now, And you're surprised. I know, I was
Speaker 1: surprised to hear about it the next morning that they
Speaker 1: went for it the way that they did because they
Speaker 1: do have the best best defense in the league last year. Now.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, Derrick Henry, Yeah, so it I agree with you.
Speaker 1: It's situational where Okay, let's just you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: guarantee you that, let's bring it back to the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and I was about on their on their final drive
Speaker 1: and regulation, I'll guarantee you they weren't playing for a
Speaker 1: field goal. They ended up having to kick the field
Speaker 1: goal to tie it. I guarantee you their idea was,
Speaker 1: we need to go score a touchdown, right and in overtime.
Speaker 1: You know, I think everybody was thinking and I think
Speaker 1: New England was thinking this too. But the way they
Speaker 1: ran the play for the winning touchdown that oh, they're
Speaker 1: just gonna throw underneath these tight ends, nibble get some
Speaker 1: more yards and then they're a minute fourteen in the game,
Speaker 1: you're saying that the plan was to go down to
Speaker 1: score touchdown and not play for the field goal. And
Speaker 1: I liked what Zeke said afterwards. He goes, we were
Speaker 1: thinking six the whole time. We wanted six. And I
Speaker 1: think the way New England played it, they took away
Speaker 1: jar Went, they took away Schultz, and they forgot about
Speaker 1: Cedee Lamb crossing across the middle. I mean, there's just
Speaker 1: too many options on this offense right right. And Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore spoke yesterday about how they were persistent with the
Speaker 1: running game. You look at the time of possession on
Speaker 1: Sunday and they it was thirty six to twenty one
Speaker 1: or something. It was crazy, and I think they wore
Speaker 1: them down and got the play action going. And I
Speaker 1: just think it which is a point where there's too
Speaker 1: many options for defensive offend over sixty minutes. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's crazy right now. Twenty six, yeah, thirty nine, twenty
Speaker 1: six of the overtime. I think the overtime, I think
Speaker 1: they felt like they were wearing him down, were not
Speaker 1: a chance to go in and they were seeing the game.
Speaker 1: That's the beautiful thing about having Tony Romo up in
Speaker 1: that booth. They were seeing the game much like what
Speaker 1: Tony Romo was up in the booth, and he was
Speaker 1: calling it earlier on that same play that was the
Speaker 1: scoring play, and they called time out on the previous possession,
Speaker 1: and Romo said, oh, they've got it right there, and
Speaker 1: they called time Oh they called time out, but he
Speaker 1: was and he tellustrated it. And it was actually with
Speaker 1: was it receiver wide receiver Hooper maybe okay, but he
Speaker 1: was split out further wide. It was more of a
Speaker 1: bunch formation with CD. But it was the same concept
Speaker 1: with that with a play fake role right and the
Speaker 1: receiver on the far left comes across the field. So
Speaker 1: they were seeing they knew that they had it. They
Speaker 1: had that play in their back pocket, just like Romo
Speaker 1: was telling us in the broadcast. But you know, initially
Speaker 1: they obviously the mentality may have been to go and score.
Speaker 1: But you gotta think on the past to cede Lamb
Speaker 1: across the middle, I think what was that second and
Speaker 1: third and thirty five or something like that, because of
Speaker 1: the penalty third and twenty five, So I mean, they
Speaker 1: had to pick up a lot of yard is at
Speaker 1: that point to even be you know, in the area
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal right and then and so
Speaker 1: now you're fourth and one. Um back on that one,
Speaker 1: I was saying, what a second we lost? Well lost
Speaker 1: it down there? What happened because on TV they didn't
Speaker 1: explain that it was the unsportsmanlike conduct, was a dead
Speaker 1: ball foul and uh. And so I'm sitting there, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at my place sheet going, wait, it's it's third down.
Speaker 1: It's not fourth down. Why are they kicking it? I mean,
Speaker 1: they could have declined, they had the option, they could
Speaker 1: have been taken the dot. But even with the yards
Speaker 1: that it's a fifteen yard so I'm thinking I thought
Speaker 1: that it would I happened. I thought the unsportsman like
Speaker 1: They ruled that it happened in the course of the
Speaker 1: play and not a dead ball. And the reason that
Speaker 1: they were they took it was because of the yardage.
Speaker 1: But obviously they took it not only because the yardage,
Speaker 1: but the loss of down too. The other thing on
Speaker 1: the fourth and one, after the block punt in the
Speaker 1: first half, Cowboys are in that it's not the end
Speaker 1: of the game, but they're in a scenario where you
Speaker 1: score a touchdown, you're taking the lead in the game.
Speaker 1: Did anyone have a problem with going for it on
Speaker 1: fourth down at the goal line on the quarterback sneaks.
Speaker 1: No with that, No, they didn't either. It didn't even
Speaker 1: occur to me to kick it, because let's just get
Speaker 1: that chip in that football, man. Yeah, we have to.
Speaker 1: I mean there's going to be something about that on
Speaker 1: our show. We've been talking about technology for a while
Speaker 1: on our show. But you know, I thought he scored
Speaker 1: on third down and obviously they didn't call it. Clearly
Speaker 1: he did. Yeah. But also and Nick just brought this up,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a great point, even going
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down right there. If you don't
Speaker 1: get it, the team gets the ball at the one
Speaker 1: yard line and you put your defense back out and
Speaker 1: that's advantageous. But it's a touchback and it comes back
Speaker 1: out to it's five. So no, they isn't work in you.
Speaker 1: They didn't work in your favorite at all. Jerry. Jerry
Speaker 1: was asked about the chip and the football on the
Speaker 1: fan this morning. He didn't sound like completely adverse to it.
Speaker 1: I think probably because this happened twice to his team
Speaker 1: now this season, where it's like they're making a call
Speaker 1: on the field on something they can't see tell you what,
Speaker 1: So let's let's ask. I'm Jerry. I'm Jerry. Let's get
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Speaker 1: Does maybe do a mix shot today at some point? Yeah? Right, Uh, Rob,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Jerry on the radio. I take it
Speaker 1: you listen to Jerry on the radio, Coup you're taking correctly.
Speaker 1: He was asked about that goal line play. That's the
Speaker 1: second time that's happened to the Cowboys this season where
Speaker 1: Dak is denied a touchdown And look, I think he's
Speaker 1: got to be careful because of the Competition Committee, and
Speaker 1: that's something that would have to come up in the
Speaker 1: off season. And it's probably a touchy point because you're
Speaker 1: talking about changing kind of the integrity of the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the argument in baseball where why
Speaker 1: do you have umpires, Why don't you just have a
Speaker 1: radar that tells you whether it's a ball or strike.
Speaker 1: But he didn't sound completely adverse to maybe doing something
Speaker 1: like that in the future because of the fact that
Speaker 1: that referees are making calls on the field of something
Speaker 1: they can't see. And I think there's merit to it.
Speaker 1: I think it's something they need to look at. Whether
Speaker 1: it get passed or not, it needs to get discussed,
Speaker 1: I think so. I asked McCarthy what the official told him,
Speaker 1: and he said, he said he didn't he couldn't see
Speaker 1: the ball. And I said, well, obviously he didn't see
Speaker 1: the ball because it was across the goal line and
Speaker 1: he didn't see it. And it was like, they can't
Speaker 1: see it except if they saw your shot above and
Speaker 1: if there's a sky judge up there, he might be
Speaker 1: able to see it. And if they got a camera
Speaker 1: above the goal line, that might be able to see it.
Speaker 1: But the guy, so if he couldn't see it, how
Speaker 1: did he know to put it exact inches from the
Speaker 1: goal line? They were just guessing because I've, like I
Speaker 1: said yesterday, I've been on the goal line during those
Speaker 1: preseason games and when I was doing the broadcast, like
Speaker 1: the third guy on the field, and you stand on
Speaker 1: the goal line when the ball's there and they you
Speaker 1: can't see. You have to be seven foot tall to see.
Speaker 1: That's why they need that stand that I told you
Speaker 1: about yesterday, Like volleyball. Just get the guy up in
Speaker 1: the air so you can see that's an accident waiting
Speaker 1: to have it. Well, even on that, we can put Pattie,
Speaker 1: We put patting on a camera on the pipes work.
Speaker 1: But even on that with a quarterback sneak where the
Speaker 1: quarterback's going down low and you got six five three
Speaker 1: hundred pound linemen around them, you are going to be
Speaker 1: able to see. But that overhead drone shot you can
Speaker 1: see on that one. And sometimes so the competition committee
Speaker 1: they need to look at this play and say, how
Speaker 1: do we fix this play to get it right, because
Speaker 1: if the if the officials are trained that they cannot
Speaker 1: call a touchdown unless they see the ball go across
Speaker 1: the goal line. Well, a ball carrier is covering up
Speaker 1: the football number one, protecting it, and so you technically
Speaker 1: are not seeing the ball across the goal line even
Speaker 1: if you even if you're not blocked on it. But
Speaker 1: there needs to be standard operating procedure on a play
Speaker 1: on the goal line like that that if the officials
Speaker 1: can't see it, you go to replay. Well, he didn't
Speaker 1: see it because they never called it until they unpiled
Speaker 1: exactly or given the option. You give them the option
Speaker 1: to unstack the pile. Why do you want why did
Speaker 1: you wait to unpile them? And you see the balls
Speaker 1: in the end zone and then you basically the first
Speaker 1: observation of the football after the play was that Dac
Speaker 1: was on the ground across the goal line with the
Speaker 1: ball across the goal line, and so that's why it
Speaker 1: should have been a touch. Well, my question is, how
Speaker 1: wonky is it that this has happened twice to the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys on a routine play that shouldn't be easy.
Speaker 1: We're making something difficult that actually should be easy for
Speaker 1: league officials. I mean, I don't know how many quarterbacks
Speaker 1: sneaks there are a week at the goal line, but
Speaker 1: I dare to say that they're a lot. So whatever
Speaker 1: the soop is standard operating procedure for it, it's wrong
Speaker 1: and they got to figure that out because it's happened twice. No,
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight, Textram told me they should put
Speaker 1: a chip in the football and put a laser across
Speaker 1: the goal line, and we can figure out how to
Speaker 1: do this. We could put a man on the moon,
Speaker 1: but we can't figure out how to see if the
Speaker 1: ball crosses the goal. We're doing in tennis, Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: You're right, Chris. And baseball they've argued for it for
Speaker 1: a while. At least base baseball purist is a whole.
Speaker 1: They told tex he was crazy, but didn't wait, didn't
Speaker 1: Jerry say on the this morning the tech said, I
Speaker 1: don't want it to be Star Wars right now. He
Speaker 1: wanted to do it and the sky Wars is you
Speaker 1: would see Skywars and uh, I forgot about that part right.
Speaker 1: The competition committee thought he was nuts. Right, he was
Speaker 1: so far ahead of his time it was unbelievable. And
Speaker 1: he was so far ahead of his times on a
Speaker 1: lot of things he was that people didn't understand. I
Speaker 1: got a question him, bill Um. Guys, you listened to
Speaker 1: the interview with Jerry and the Layelle Collins coming back,
Speaker 1: and they asked him the questions about Lael and still
Speaker 1: what's your what's your take on that? What the last
Speaker 1: party said, Yeah, about how he thinks both could wind
Speaker 1: up playing a lot in every game. Yes, I don't
Speaker 1: know what to make of that because I don't know
Speaker 1: if I don't know if Jerry's just trying to kind
Speaker 1: of massage the situation's aby week, But no, I mean
Speaker 1: and that que you know what that question was asked
Speaker 1: to coach Philbin about you take the bye week to
Speaker 1: kind of assess where your line is, assess what alternatives,
Speaker 1: what options you might have, because he said I'm you know,
Speaker 1: he was asked, are you a best five kind of guy?
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, in theory, yes, So now what do
Speaker 1: you do? What do you do with Lyle Collins coming
Speaker 1: back and Terrence Steel playing as well as he does?
Speaker 1: And I think what people your question is, could one
Speaker 1: of the guys play guard? Is that? What? Has never
Speaker 1: played guard in his life? And it doesn't look like
Speaker 1: he could play guard either, Joe and Joe kind of
Speaker 1: he was asked about that and he said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've we've played him at tackle his whole career. I
Speaker 1: think that's where he's most comfortable. Don't you want a
Speaker 1: right tackle that you don't have to protect. They're protecting
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele. Okay, they're protecting him with play calls, they're
Speaker 1: protecting him with two tight end offense, and it's not
Speaker 1: always to his side, but it's to the other side,
Speaker 1: so the defense has to shift over there. You don't
Speaker 1: think Lale Collins is a better right tackle than Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, Oh, I say that. It sounded
Speaker 1: like the inference was no. Jerry was referencing both guys
Speaker 1: being able to maybe play together on the line. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that means some kind of maybe
Speaker 1: your rotation at right tackle, or if they're gonna look
Speaker 1: look at possibly. I don't think they would move Lou
Speaker 1: Collins to guard. I don't see that. Wondering if he's
Speaker 1: talking about a rotation because he hasn't played in six
Speaker 1: he won't have played in seven weeks. Right, do you
Speaker 1: send him out there to play sixty five snaps or
Speaker 1: or do you say, okay, let's get him. It's Mike's
Speaker 1: answer yesterday, I think hinted at that. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: he's and he had short amount of training camp reps too,
Speaker 1: because remember he was banged up at the end of camp. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's get into practice next Wednesday and see where he's at.
Speaker 1: He's been working out, he's been in the building. He
Speaker 1: looks good. That he hadn't played football. Don't forget he
Speaker 1: missed all the last seasons, right, That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's played one game since twenty nineteen, But do you
Speaker 1: worry about that, being that he's a season vet and
Speaker 1: that Britt Brown and staff do such a wonderful job
Speaker 1: with these guys coming back. I mean, he was able
Speaker 1: to get Chauncey Gholston back after not playing any in
Speaker 1: training camp. So do you worry about that for Lael
Speaker 1: who's been in the league for a while. Oh no,
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying, no, he's out there. To me,
Speaker 1: he may not be able to do all sixty five snaps.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think if he's conditioning wise,
Speaker 1: if he's good to go, I think you put him.
Speaker 1: I think back. I think if you have concerns about
Speaker 1: that that Collins, that you've got it. Okay, you've got
Speaker 1: an option with Steele and you want to you're concerned
Speaker 1: about the conditioning of Collins coming back. Let's say Minnesota
Speaker 1: next week. You just sell it to Lyle that, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a long season. You're our starting right tackle. We're
Speaker 1: gonna play you two series and then we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: Steel in the plan going in is and then Steel
Speaker 1: plays the third series and whatever. Just to make sure
Speaker 1: that from a conditioning standpoint, you're up to speep. You know.
Speaker 1: One of the interesting things about it, I mean, you see,
Speaker 1: for forever, defensive linemen have rotated in. Now there's a
Speaker 1: lot of energy that goes into it, but but traditionally,
Speaker 1: offensive lineman always play the entire game. You don't see
Speaker 1: that at all. Heckman, you asked the question, what's your answer? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the answers you put Leo Collins
Speaker 1: back and right tackle. There's no there's not a position
Speaker 1: battle going on here. But I think it's interesting when
Speaker 1: you say that the offense has been limited or not limited.
Speaker 1: They've had to protect that right tackle because of the
Speaker 1: edge rushers that they've had, and they still are number
Speaker 1: one in the league even with those limitations. L was
Speaker 1: out there, they'd have six hundw Just hang on it.
Speaker 1: If you were you were out there with me talking
Speaker 1: to coach Philbin and you asked two or three questions
Speaker 1: about how Terence Steele has developed. I've got to do
Speaker 1: a story on him for the Game Day magazine. That's
Speaker 1: not minimize what he's done out there. No, I'm not,
Speaker 1: and you're and you're not wrong. I mean you'll see
Speaker 1: sometimes you'll see Dalton Schultz. Sometimes you'll see Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: and Blake Jarwin chipping out there. You'll see the running
Speaker 1: back moving over there. But sometimes he's been out on
Speaker 1: his nose. I know, and I think more than anything,
Speaker 1: what he's done, he has been really good in the
Speaker 1: run game. He has been really good as a run block.
Speaker 1: About this, especially on the goal line when you're facing
Speaker 1: third and goal or fourth and goal. You have a
Speaker 1: super jumbo package like that. You have like that Terrence
Speaker 1: Steel and Connor reported as eligible and do you play
Speaker 1: what at fullback? And what a tidy or you can
Speaker 1: and then you use Ralston and then you run you
Speaker 1: run Zeke is a sumbo back. That's like, then you
Speaker 1: run Zeke and you run over some corner poor quarterback
Speaker 1: on the outside. And and let's how many receivers you
Speaker 1: got on the field. Yeah, none, it's don't have one.
Speaker 1: It's fourth and one. I don't need a quarterback sneak,
Speaker 1: that's right. Did you get one of them behind Dack
Speaker 1: on the quarterback sneak and he's pushing him into the
Speaker 1: end zone? What do you think? What would be your
Speaker 1: answer here with Lyle coming I? I don't mind what
Speaker 1: I just said about. Okay, you start callings and then
Speaker 1: say the third series or whenever it is Steele comes
Speaker 1: in for a series or whatever, just to get him
Speaker 1: up to speed, you know, Okay, I bring it. So.
Speaker 1: I just did an interview with the University of Liberty coach,
Speaker 1: you freeze. They're playing North Texas, this head of Kyle
Speaker 1: and I are calling the game, but he also rotates
Speaker 1: out his offensive lineman and that's a very weird phenomenon.
Speaker 1: And you know, I ask about the synergy between offenses,
Speaker 1: and he had the synergy between the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what coaches worry about. He was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have these guys compete. So to see to
Speaker 1: hear that in on a professional level that that could
Speaker 1: possibly happen, I think I'm intrigued by that as well.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's easier to do at a tackle
Speaker 1: position where the guy is on the edge and he's
Speaker 1: communicating specifically with the best guard in football next to him. No,
Speaker 1: Tom did it with a guard. Huh, Landry did it
Speaker 1: with a guard, didn't. He used to send plays in
Speaker 1: they'd switched the guard, send in a new guard who
Speaker 1: at the play? He just went Lander did that with
Speaker 1: quarterbacks too. Who you know what I You know what
Speaker 1: I was, You know what I was fishing We have
Speaker 1: to go back. He met the flashback at least ten
Speaker 1: times an episode. So what I was fishing for with
Speaker 1: Philbin was for him to tell me that Steele was
Speaker 1: now the backup swing tackle that he could play left.
Speaker 1: He showed he can play right. Maybe that's what Jerry's
Speaker 1: getting spelled tyr in every third series and and get
Speaker 1: get and not have to put ty in the secci
Speaker 1: on the field. Well, I think if you're looking at
Speaker 1: the depth chart right now, that's the case. But we
Speaker 1: haven't seen him at left tackle since training camp, right steel, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: taking reps for tying right By the way, I didn't
Speaker 1: see Brandon Knight back he got claimed by Baltimore. I
Speaker 1: did not see that. I saw that report as on
Speaker 1: the check. I know he got signed yesterday. Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: got signed by the Knicks, but it was different. It
Speaker 1: was the same day, the same day Brandon Knight got
Speaker 1: cut by the Cowboys. Brandon Knight got signed by the Nicks.
Speaker 1: I thought, I didn't even know. He shows. That shows
Speaker 1: you the lack of quality deef offensive lineman in this
Speaker 1: league that a Brandon Knight gets released and somebody right
Speaker 1: away claims. And that's why I think, you know, because
Speaker 1: people were bagging on Terrence Steal last year fourteen starts.
Speaker 1: There were some tough moments. Mickey's the probably the president
Speaker 1: of that club. But they finally listened to me and
Speaker 1: move Martin out there. Didn't that they saw something in him,
Speaker 1: and they have been very patient with his development and
Speaker 1: it's paid off well because they because they You're right,
Speaker 1: it's hard to find a guy right that can develop
Speaker 1: into a starter. Philbin said he's had a thousand snaps
Speaker 1: last year or whatever it was. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: now six more games, so now, yeah, experience helps these guys.
Speaker 1: I have such an ax to grind with offensive lineman anyway,
Speaker 1: and the way that the way that they're playing football,
Speaker 1: nobody huddles up offensive lineman just standing around the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and there's no more line blocking in football.
Speaker 1: It's a zone blocking anyway, especially in college, in high school.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, it's so the development of offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: I think that's where we see it once it gets
Speaker 1: to the pro level, where these guys such a dramatic
Speaker 1: drop off from the top tier guys to the second level.
Speaker 1: There's not enough of them. That's why the other leagues
Speaker 1: fail because they got no offensive spring leagues, the spring leagues,
Speaker 1: and then the quarterbacks have no shot, and then the
Speaker 1: running backs have no shot. And then where how are
Speaker 1: you going to get the ball? A little wide receiver. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it's the offensive lineman, and no one wants to develop
Speaker 1: those guys because if there's Anyboddy athletic in high school,
Speaker 1: they and on the offense of line. They're on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. Right, that's the last resort. Okay, go play
Speaker 1: offensive line. Brodsky's old saying, heck, junior is too good
Speaker 1: to play offensive line. Huh, it's never gonna Let's let's
Speaker 1: just left tackle. Yeah, yeah, that's a primo position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course he's a wide receiver though he's a he's
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. He's he's six two's fourteen years old.
Speaker 1: So let's just pray to the six five, three hundred pounds, right,
Speaker 1: we'll put him out there. How you start it is
Speaker 1: how you finished. Jason Peters, he was a tight end
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Speaker 1: Friday at nine eight Central only on CMT. Are you
Speaker 1: on that show? I'm not he has been before, you
Speaker 1: have been, that's right, yes, yes, as a judge. COVID
Speaker 1: knocked me off, so no more mickey. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 1: If COVID ever goes away, maybe they'll ask me to
Speaker 1: return as a judge. I was one of the better ones,
Speaker 1: by the way, I bet you were. I bet you were. Hey,
Speaker 1: I can recognize athletic ability. The Bingham baller nine has
Speaker 1: tweeted why we gotta have a buy on National tight
Speaker 1: End Day? Sunday, October twenty fourth is National tight Ends Day?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? I did not know that. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. It really is a day for everything.
Speaker 1: Very thankful. I didn't about these tight ends. That would
Speaker 1: be Dalton Schultz by the way, Yeah, oh yeah, where
Speaker 1: are we going? I like this. It's about about these
Speaker 1: tight ends been rather rather productive. The offense has been
Speaker 1: rather productive when both those tight ends are on the yield.
Speaker 1: So we're talking twelve personnel there may yes, I know
Speaker 1: what twelve personnel is. So maybe when they don't have
Speaker 1: to have steal out at right tackle, they'll go back
Speaker 1: to just three wide receivers all the time. You think,
Speaker 1: now I'm joking. They have played more twelve this year
Speaker 1: they have than they did last year. And remember it's
Speaker 1: probably I might be part of it, some of it's
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, maybe not. You know how much Barrett got
Speaker 1: criticized for too much twelve personnel and god forbid, if
Speaker 1: you put three tight ends out there, well, you're missing
Speaker 1: a starting receiver and you're missing your right tackle. So
Speaker 1: it logically it makes sense to do it. How you
Speaker 1: do it out of necessity for teams that you think
Speaker 1: you can run on. And your running game has rewarded
Speaker 1: you and that aspect over the last from week two on,
Speaker 1: you've seen what you know, what the running game has
Speaker 1: done as far as developing the rest of your play call.
Speaker 1: And so you know Cratic Kellen Moore and for that,
Speaker 1: and even if it was just a situation with Leo Collins,
Speaker 1: is paid off because of where the rushing off where
Speaker 1: we are as far as our rushing offense, you know,
Speaker 1: I think if you don't have of the nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: five Bears defense, it's hard to match up with the
Speaker 1: different things this offense can do. The eighty five Bears. Yes, flashback, flashback, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what I do. I just went and
Speaker 1: because you got to be able to match up evenly.
Speaker 1: You can't say, Okay, I'm gonna take away the run
Speaker 1: because they'll beat you with the pass, or are you
Speaker 1: gonna take away the pass they'll beat you with the run.
Speaker 1: Let me go this, let me throw this in. This
Speaker 1: is back when they had Of course, they didn't have
Speaker 1: Zach Martin this game, but they did have le Collins
Speaker 1: this game the first and against it one of the
Speaker 1: best rushed defenses in the league, Tampa Bay. How many
Speaker 1: snaps did the tight ends get in that game? Jarwin
Speaker 1: had fifty seven and Schultz forty eight in that game. Wow,
Speaker 1: and Jarwin hadn't played in a year, right or vice versa.
Speaker 1: I may have that backwards, but one way or the other,
Speaker 1: they were using two tight ends a lot in a
Speaker 1: game where they threw the ball fifty eight times whatever.
Speaker 1: And just think about how much different that game would
Speaker 1: have been if you had Zack Martin in that game.
Speaker 1: Jack Martin and Collins right next to each other for
Speaker 1: the first time. I think that changes the whole dynamic
Speaker 1: and how you approached that game. I think they win
Speaker 1: that game because I think they're able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Maybe extend that. Nick brought up a point that the
Speaker 1: last drive at the game, I think I think CD
Speaker 1: had the drop. If they're able to run the ball there,
Speaker 1: then you're not settling for a field goal at the end.
Speaker 1: They still should have won it. Yeah, only didn't. But
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean Zack, I think that question was
Speaker 1: asked to Joe philbin Is. It's the best he's play.
Speaker 1: I think this is the best we've seen Zack Martin play.
Speaker 1: He really, I mean, he changes everything for this offensive
Speaker 1: line up front. The tight ends blocked your point or
Speaker 1: blocking better. I think Dalton Schultz is emerges more of
Speaker 1: a blocking tight end and that helps the versatility of
Speaker 1: the offense. But just watching the game from the press
Speaker 1: box Sunday to Mickey's point, and I need to I mean,
Speaker 1: I was traveling all d SJA. I need to go
Speaker 1: back and watch it. It seemed like the Pats played
Speaker 1: a lot of zone in the second half defensively, and
Speaker 1: guys are just running wide open in the second half
Speaker 1: finding space. There's just I said at the top of
Speaker 1: the show, there's just too many guys to try to
Speaker 1: handle on this offense, and you can hold them down
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes and they can beat themselves for a
Speaker 1: lot of that game and it's still doesn't matter. That's
Speaker 1: gonna put up four hundred and fifty yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: it really is incredible what they're doing right now. And
Speaker 1: then they tried to go man on the winning touchdown.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that crazy? Didn't work out? Well, no, it didn't.
Speaker 1: And that's why one of my questions was for Belichick
Speaker 1: was how did you stay in man so long with
Speaker 1: knowing that Ceedee Lamb was going to expose him? You
Speaker 1: saw the safety bite down on the tight end and
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb take that route right across. He was wide open.
Speaker 1: But they played us in man a lot, and the
Speaker 1: second half they did switch it up. If they didn't
Speaker 1: switch it up, our offense would have just it would
Speaker 1: have been more than four hundred forty five yards passing. Okay, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: wait before you say what the last thing you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: because we're almost out of time here that just flew by?
Speaker 1: Is this a mix shot that you're gonna I was
Speaker 1: going to throw out a question, but turn okay, here
Speaker 1: it is a mix shot to close out mix shots.
Speaker 1: The music. It's incredible, question was going to be, and
Speaker 1: this will be a mix shot. Will you do you
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott will be ready to play against You say,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've brought up his name once. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to play against Minnesota? I think?
Speaker 1: Is that your question? What I've been told is it
Speaker 1: is a calf strain and the goal is to have
Speaker 1: him ready for the Vikings game. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he will be ready. He's still in a walking boot.
Speaker 1: So you are concerned? Color you concerned? Well, here's my
Speaker 1: other question. There now seems to be a rash of
Speaker 1: calf injuries in the NFL. There was one last night,
Speaker 1: and I think when I read injuries, there was like
Speaker 1: two or three more injury. Didn'tkareem Hunt get one? Yeah? Yesterday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's what's with him? He's out four to five weeks.
Speaker 1: It's but it's different between Michael Gallup, a skill position
Speaker 1: guy that's that's got to run all day, and a
Speaker 1: quarterback or a running back right quarterback still gotta have
Speaker 1: his two feet going. I think you're right. I think
Speaker 1: this would have been super dicey this week. I don't
Speaker 1: even think he'd play if it were a game this week.
Speaker 1: Now he says he would have, but because they're they're
Speaker 1: not even Look, Mike said they're going to reevaluate him Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's definitely a chance. I but he Mike
Speaker 1: couched it yesterday and said, there's variance with these soft
Speaker 1: tissue deals, and again, you don't you don't want to
Speaker 1: rush it because you could reinjure that and reinjure it.
Speaker 1: It's like a hamstring injury, a hell of a lot
Speaker 1: worse than the first time. So yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any guarantee that he's playing against Minnesota. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I think the key point of it is it's
Speaker 1: not considered a severe injury, and that's that's the that's
Speaker 1: the best part of that. But I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be in that boot all week. Keep the pressure
Speaker 1: off of it. I mean, I saw the boot that
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was wearing that next week and it was
Speaker 1: huge and he was moving well on it. But you
Speaker 1: can't play quarterback with it on, right. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Jordan brand makes a shoe like that, But that's
Speaker 1: Dak explained. They might They might now they might think
Speaker 1: about that. Engineers are busy trying to construct one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but maybe from two guys that have worned that boot
Speaker 1: way too many times, right, yes, yes, and that was
Speaker 1: a that was a When he first walked into the
Speaker 1: press room and Gillette with that on, it was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you know, and so has he not
Speaker 1: been through enough? Was there a reason why when he
Speaker 1: walked in and pronounced, okay, let's take care of the
Speaker 1: elephant in the room. And then somebody asked about the game.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the first question. It wasn't the first, ques No,
Speaker 1: it was the second question, and he invited the first question,
Speaker 1: all right, let's take care of the elephant in the room. Kicked. Well,
Speaker 1: what did you think about the versatility of this offense
Speaker 1: to be able to score that many points and win? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm watching him right now. I see after the plane
Speaker 1: landed and walking to his car from the charter and
Speaker 1: he'll be fine. He had. He was kind of laughing
Speaker 1: at us on the way out too, like y'all gonna
Speaker 1: make a huge thing about this and it's not that
Speaker 1: big a deal. No, Mickey just did he just put everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody the Cowboy Nation just took a dosa pepto right there.
Speaker 1: He just did bubbles. Yeah, it's a little bubble guts
Speaker 1: and merging here. He just put us on red alert.
Speaker 1: Thank you spoiled our Byeway. He's saying, maybe Vikings, keep
Speaker 1: your eye on the calf, but the goal is to
Speaker 1: be ready for the Vikings. That's what I said. You're right,
Speaker 1: but it was the goal. It wasn't he will be
Speaker 1: ready for No one has said that. Everybody's been just
Speaker 1: very optimus. Okay, well let me do tomorrow. Can we
Speaker 1: just play, Jones said, before we get out of we
Speaker 1: just played the mix shots intro. Please. I just need
Speaker 1: that in my life. Yes, already ready for the rest
Speaker 1: of the Nates here. We gotta get out of here. Oh,
Speaker 1: we better move. That's exactly right. All right. That does
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