1 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 3 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: Shots screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 5 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are inside the s 6 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: WBC podcast studio at the Star in Frisco. It's sunny outside, 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: not so sun. Although Mickey has a smile on his face, 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: Everson Everson is not a happy camper as he walked 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 1: in the studio. And we're here to break it all 10 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 1: down over the course of the next forty five minutes 11 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: on Mick Shots, I was smiling, wondering how you were 12 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: going to start this off since you didn't have any 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: musical starting to thee there's no music. The band has gone. 14 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: Music has died. Although as you can see, I refuse 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: to accept the seasons over. I still got that was 16 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 1: a tough one yesterday. So how you go? I don't 17 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: know how you're gonna make me feel better, Spacks, It's 18 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: gonna be very hard. And it sounded like listening to 19 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: Stephen doing his segment on the Fan that just moments 20 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: ago as a matter of fact, that there wasn't a 21 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: lot of good feelings in that team meeting room and 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: everybody was kind of down, I would imagine, because the 23 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: weird thing about NFL seasons, especially when you get into 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: the playoffs, is you go one hundred miles an hour 25 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,559 Speaker 1: for six months and then everything comes to a screeching halt, right, 26 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: and it's hard to accept, not only I would imagine 27 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: for the players, the coaches, whatever, us two, that you 28 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: do something this much for six months and then it's over, 29 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: like in the blink of an eye. It's almost like 30 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: my football career too. Yeah. Man, you just you know 31 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: you're you're kind of prepared to go forward. You're never 32 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: willing to accept that. Yeah, but it could be over. 33 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: And for the Cowboys it's over. They got themselves a 34 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: lot to blame for. And I don't know where you 35 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: would like to start, but start from the beginning. We 36 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: should point out what Stephen did say in that interview, 37 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 1: because it's top of mind as far as coaching going forward, 38 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: and we did get something that was somewhat definitive from 39 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 1: Stephen kind of absolutely, yeah, he basically as far as 40 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: the head coach goes that I think the question was 41 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: posed or you're confident that Mike McCarthy will be the 42 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 1: head coach of this team this year, and he said yes, absolutely, 43 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: So get that out of the way right on. And 44 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: it's really weird that it even comes up, because if 45 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: you get into the business that if you lose a 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: playoff game, you're fired, boy, you're gonna have a lot 47 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: of turnover in the right And I don't know why 48 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:24,119 Speaker 1: that always starts, um, you know, And and I think 49 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: two things have created that. Um. When they fired chan 50 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: Gaily after the ninety nine season because he didn't win 51 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,839 Speaker 1: a playoff game those ninety eight and ninety nine. But 52 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: really the reason they fired him is it wasn't a 53 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: good fit between the head coach and the quarterback. Remind 54 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: me on that how long after the season was a 55 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: decision made not to bring him back. It was after meetings, 56 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: It was after right, It was after digesting the season, 57 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: having an opportunity to talk with players talk, right. Yeah. 58 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: And because if I remember correctly, they named Dave Campo 59 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: the head coach when I was already at the Super Bowl, 60 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: I believe, So what was the record before that season? 61 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: So they wasn't like this, They went ten and six, 62 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: lost the first round game to Minnesota, and then eight 63 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: or maybe it was the opposite way around. One year 64 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: they lost to Minnesota and then the next the other 65 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: year they went ten and six and lost to Arizona, 66 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 1: and that's when he was fired and he and then 67 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: he got fired. So he had two consecutives ten and six, 68 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: eight and eight, and the ten and sixth season was 69 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: the last time, So that might have been the ten 70 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:55,160 Speaker 1: and six season was the last time they had swept 71 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: the NFC East. They won eight games in the division. 72 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: That's back when St. Louis was still in the NFC East. 73 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, Lieuten in six and ninety eight 74 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: lost to Arizona, and in ninety nine it was I 75 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: can read it. I mean eight and eight in lost 76 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: Minnesota Minnesota. That was the wide receiver had a big day. Yes, 77 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: Randy Montys, we got lost. After we got they started 78 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: a verb for him too. So anyway, and then in 79 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: twenty ten, look the reason, and everybody keeps saying they 80 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: fired Wade Phillips so Jason Garrett could take over as 81 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: the head coach. They fired Wade Phillips because they were 82 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: one in seven and he had lost the team. They 83 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: were not playing for him the last eight games and 84 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 1: one in seven they were no the first That's how 85 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: they started that season. One in seven and they were flat. 86 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: They were they they just didn't have anything, and it 87 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: was time to change. And the easiest change was because 88 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was there. So I think those two things. 89 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: And he went five and three of the rest of 90 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: the season, and he was named the permanent coach after that, right, 91 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: and then eight Nate eight Nate eight Nate until they 92 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: went to eleven and five and twenty fourteen. So anyway, 93 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: and the other part of that and why the why 94 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: questions are being asked about the head coach is because 95 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: other teams are interviewing the both coordinators for head coaching jobs, 96 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn. And so the thought out 97 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: there as well, if if Jerry Jones really is enamored 98 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: with keeping Kellen Moore or Dan Quinn, whether you make 99 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: a change. So so it was basically Stephen has put 100 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,799 Speaker 1: that to rest. It's he said he confidently absolutely expects 101 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy back now that we can get to the game. 102 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: And and since we're going to get to the game, 103 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: it's like after the way the offense and defense performed 104 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: in that game. That's what That's what That's what they 105 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: say anymore. That's what I said last night. I said, 106 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: I laid all that out about the coordinators. And then 107 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: unless these other teams watch today's game and that gives 108 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: them pause, you know. Uh. Starting with the defense though, Okay, 109 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: the way the Niners came out in that game, I 110 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: mean that opening drive of the game, it was like 111 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: a knife through butter. Okay, and they did everything exactly 112 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: the way they had planned. And then they had the 113 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: exactly the way we figured right right. I mean we 114 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: all knew it, right, we one knew it. I can't 115 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: see them saying, oh wow, that was a little twit. 116 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: But then I wasn't ready for that. They could not 117 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: have said that. And then they were they were held 118 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: to field goals the rest of the I mean, they 119 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: had success offensively, but they had to settle for field goals. 120 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: And so it's a sixteen seven lead at the half, 121 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: and then the score they got head in the second 122 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: half was after an interception and next play Deebo Samuel's 123 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: in the end zone. Yeah, they have to give up 124 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: a twenty six stard run. The next play. Right, this 125 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: is when you make This is when you answer as 126 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: a defense right, right, this is when you respawn. And 127 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: that's what I expected to But no, the issue on 128 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: offense that you better score more than seventeen points right 129 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: to win a playoff. Well, I'm gonna we'll get into 130 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: how the game ended, right, But the reason they were 131 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: in that situation at the end. On Friday, in my column, 132 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: I wrote three things that had to happen if the 133 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Cowboys were going to win. Number One, their offensive line 134 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: had to play better than their offensive life. And they didn't. 135 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:45,680 Speaker 1: They did not. It was embarrassingly bad. Dak was and 136 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,439 Speaker 1: everybody wants to look at why was Dak so inaccurate? 137 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: Number one? He got sacked five times? Number two, and 138 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: this may be even worse, he got hit fourteen times 139 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: in the game. Throwing past is fourteen, okay, And they 140 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball. And if you look at the 141 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: running game, they had seventy seven yards. Seventeen of them 142 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: was not a planned run. It was Dak Prescott's scramble 143 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: for a touchdown. So they had twenty one carries. First, 144 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: how many did you get on the last play of 145 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: the game. I forgot about that. Yeah that was the 146 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 1: running backs. The running backs had sixteen carries for forty 147 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 1: five yards. Yeah right, And and other than that one run, 148 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: even the one run for a touchdown, they ended up 149 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: with twenty carries for sixty yards. Well that Your offensive 150 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: lines got to play better than that, got to play 151 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: better than that. And they didn't. And by the way, 152 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: the other team did not have their best defensive player 153 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: on the field for the last thirty minutes of the game, 154 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: Nick Bosa. Uh and and shocking he got a sack 155 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: by spinning into the inside. Somebody had to look for that, right. 156 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: They didn't play well, but again that has been a 157 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: problem the majority of the year. The offensive line number two. 158 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 1: They had to not let Deebo Samuel take over the game. 159 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: He took over the game right, and ended up with 160 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: one hundred and ten yards from scrimmage, including the twenty 161 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: six yard touchdown run on an end around that he 162 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: doubled back on. And I don't think anybody laid a 163 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: hand on him for twenty six they did not. He 164 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: danced around back there, picked his spot. Boys, he did. 165 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: He's good. He is good. But but you know, you 166 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: allow greatness, right, you know, And I'm thinking of that 167 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: as well. I know for a fact, when you have 168 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: as a safety, it is your job to find the 169 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: hole that the running back is going to find. As well. 170 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: You have to anticipate what that is. You can't come 171 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: over first of all, over pursue when you abably have 172 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: another guy out there setting the edge for you can't 173 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: over I'm gonna do the play. Yeah, you can't over pursue. 174 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: You have to be poised waiting for that moment. Otherwise 175 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: he can't make it through the sideline. The extra defender 176 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: that's out there. This is your gap here. You know, 177 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: you're learned that from playing with the flex That was 178 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: the whole thing of Tom Langer's defense. You have to 179 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 1: plug in were you're supposed to be, trust them to 180 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: do their job. This is no time to not be disciplined, right, 181 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 1: This is no time not to be poored. By the way, 182 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: did you hear what Deebo said to Kyle Shanahan after 183 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: that interception? Oh? Yeah, give me the ball. Yeah, he said, 184 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: give me the ball, and he gave him the ball. 185 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: And by the way, what was the play they ran 186 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: when they had they were trying to get a first 187 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 1: down to end the game. It was basically it was 188 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, same deal and wound up an inch short. Actually, 189 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Shanahan said afterwards when they asked him about it, he said, yeah, 190 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: he said, Debos said something to me. There was so 191 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: much noise. I didn't understand what he said, but just 192 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: looking at him, I knew what he meant. Yeah, like 193 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: give me the damn ball right now. And then thirdly, 194 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: what has been this defense's problem all season long? Big plays, 195 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: big plays? And I pointed that out that if they 196 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: don't get multiple takeaways to get San Francisco off the field, 197 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: the big plays will kill them if they didn't stop that. 198 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: I went back and looked before the game, Cowboys had 199 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 1: given up seventy six plays runner pass of twenty yards 200 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: or more and they came into the game with seventy. 201 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: So their offense was big play. It wasn't marching down 202 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: the field play after play after play. Well, in this game, 203 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: they had fifteen snaps of at least ten yards, totaling 204 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: two hundred and forty of their three hundred and forty 205 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: one total yards, two hundred and forty came on fifteen plays, 206 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: So they didn't stop the big play. So all the 207 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: things that worried about going into the game came to 208 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,719 Speaker 1: fruition and that's why they were scrambling at the end 209 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: to try to get one more play to throw to 210 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: the end zone. And you know, it's amazing that we 211 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: even got into that position. Actually, it's a testament, but 212 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: it's nothing you can be proud of. It really isn't 213 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 1: because it's the pattern that we've shown, and that pattern 214 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: has always been been shown as a failure. When I 215 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: like the pattern where we come back and score fifty points, well, 216 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: that's not what we saw yesterday. And that's been our 217 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: consistency or inconsistency throughout the last half of the season. 218 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 1: Is trying to be more consistent in victory, right, trying 219 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: to make the plays that you need to play when 220 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: it's time to do and not leave yourself in this 221 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: frantic situation at the end of a ball game. God defensively, guys, 222 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: I was we we When it's all said and done, 223 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: there are certain things you have to know about yourself. 224 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,440 Speaker 1: And no matter how good we feel certain games, we 225 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: do not have the defense that can carry a team. 226 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: We have one that can make plays, but offensively, we 227 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 1: still have to compliment our offense. I still think that's 228 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: our identity. And when our offense is not playing well, 229 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: then we struggled. And when I say struggled, that's when 230 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: we start to lose our poise and start to make mistakes. 231 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: And if you look at I mentioned the duress Dak 232 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: was under, Jimmy Garoppolo did not get sacked one time 233 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: and he only got hit four times. So he threw 234 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: the ball twenty five times and they just didn't get 235 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: to him. And you lost to a team whose quarterback 236 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: rating ended up sixty seven point four sixty seven point 237 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: four and only passed for one hundred and seventy two yards. 238 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: But it was the plays they made, the big play 239 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:04,080 Speaker 1: bring the chains, right, they played like us. That's us, 240 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: that's the Cowboys. They're not trying to go down the field. 241 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: They are trying to get themselves in position to move 242 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: the chains. That's exactly what they did. Controlled ball game. 243 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: Multiple played drives and it was a quarterback plane with 244 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: a spraying thumb. He didn't well, they didn't need it 245 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: because they're running the ball. They got debot hundred in 246 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: sixty nine yards rushing, and that's how you protect your 247 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: quarterback right there. Run the ball and move the chains 248 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: without having to ask for third and fifteen thirty nine. 249 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: We're looking at thirty s when they managed to get 250 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: them into those situations. By the way they that's when 251 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: they were successful. We were successful games. Yes, absolutely, Okay, 252 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: it's break time or what do you want to talk 253 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: about when we come back? We got to take a 254 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: pare to talk about. We start, we go to the 255 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:57,600 Speaker 1: end of the game. We'll go to the end of 256 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: the game when we come back on mix shots. 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And I don't know if this little 300 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: fan pack thing had anything to do, but I noticed 301 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: in the game, and I usually don't see these things, 302 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 1: that before they let the standing room only crowd in, 303 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 1: there were people already lined up along the railing, and 304 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: I was wondering if those were the Cowboy United fan 305 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: packed and you got that privilege to enter the squatters 306 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,080 Speaker 1: They were the squatters, the sooners before everybody else came 307 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: rushing in. I saw the video of everybody rushing in. Yes, yep, 308 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 1: it's Mad Dash and to the surprise of the people 309 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: that were on the West concourse, Nickelodeon was set up 310 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: taking their space in the middle standing room on that 311 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: second day. Wow. Yeah, And the announced attendance was ninety 312 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,159 Speaker 1: three thousand, four hundred and seventy. Didn't get a hundred, No, 313 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: not two hundred. I bought my brother in law and uh, 314 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 1: my foundation partner. The forty nine ers fans tried to 315 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: get it to one hundred thousand. Yeah, I brought the 316 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: couple and so yeah, brother in law was his birthday, Elmo. 317 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: He's crazier fan than than you and I put together. 318 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: I was gonna have to do my zanas before the 319 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: game he did. How about after? Yeah, okay, and we 320 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: really I must commend both of us because my foundation 321 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 1: partner is a major Niner fan. Okay, So how was 322 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: the setup in the stands? Because on TV I was 323 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: watching on t when the forty nine Ers came on 324 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: the field, they showed a shot of the visitors side 325 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: of the stadium. There was in the background and there 326 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: was a ton of red all that it appeared anyway 327 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: to be a ton of red. But then when the Cowboys, Okay, 328 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: so when the Cowboys came on the field, and the 329 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: cow on the home side of the field, it was 330 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:23,399 Speaker 1: seemed to be virtually all white, more normal. Yeah. And 331 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: the upper deck that you didn't see in the four hundred, 332 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: it was almost all red on their sideline. Okay, yeah, yeah, 333 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 1: you can see that. You can see where the line 334 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: was drawn. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of Cowboys fans 335 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: made a lot of money because they sold their tickets. 336 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: And I you know, twenty four. I ran into somebody 337 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: and said his buddy of his had two lower level 338 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: seats and he made twenty four couldn't dollars, He couldn't 339 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:56,919 Speaker 1: pass it two tickets each. I mean to each that 340 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: about pace for your season ticket, almost right, okay, okay 341 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: into the game, all right, have had it. So I 342 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: don't know what your guys feeling is. I understood the 343 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 1: last call, why it was made the way it was. 344 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,719 Speaker 1: It was designed. It wasn't like a spur of the moment. 345 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 1: And if you saw the all twenty two, the way 346 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,679 Speaker 1: San Francisco was played, they were all lined up on 347 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,399 Speaker 1: the side of the field knowing that they could not 348 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: give up a pass to the boundary and let him 349 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 1: get out of bounds. Yes, right way. This way, this way, 350 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: this way. They looked lined up on the sideline the way. Uh. 351 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: The poor kicker for San Francisco was lined up inside 352 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 1: the Cowboys cheerleaders lines when they were marching off the 353 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: field that he was in the middle of him practicing 354 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: his kicks. Right, So they're all lined up up on 355 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 1: the side, So there was no San Francisco player between 356 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: the forty and when they showed it the twenty, there 357 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: was nobody. The rest of them were at the goal line. 358 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:16,159 Speaker 1: So the idea is run the ball up the middle, 359 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: slide when you think you've gotten fire enough, and then 360 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: spiked the ball. Well, here was the big problem. And 361 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: I finally looked it up and found it because I 362 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: thought I had remembered when the NFL changed where the 363 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: umpire stands used to be five yards behind the defensive line. 364 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: And they said, you know what, that's a little dangerous. 365 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: We're gonna move him behind the offensive line so they 366 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: can have a look. So he kind of lined up 367 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,959 Speaker 1: opposite across from the head referee. In twenty ten, the 368 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: NFL announced that this repositioning would be permanent. Or five 369 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: major injuries were suffered by the umpires in two thousand 370 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: and nine. From twenty ten to twenty fifteen, the umpire 371 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: returned to the defensive side of the line of scrimmage 372 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: during the last five minutes of the second half because 373 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: they figured, all right, teams are going to be trying 374 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: to hurry up. We got to have the ball spotted quickly. 375 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,119 Speaker 1: Right in twenty sixteen, they this provision was deleted and 376 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: now the umpire stands in the offensive backfield and all 377 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: plays except when it's obvious when the offensive team will 378 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: spike the ball. So here's what happens. I went back, 379 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: I watched the time Dak takes off. There's fourteen seconds 380 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: to go. He slides down. With nine seconds to go, 381 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: the umpire was still at the fifty yard line. I 382 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: don't know what he thought he was going to see 383 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: from there, but he was still at the fifty yard line. 384 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: And we'll get into way. Alex Kemp, the head referee, 385 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: answered the the pool reporters questions. He did not get 386 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: to the ball until there was like four seconds to go. 387 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: He had to run twenty five yards and then he 388 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: had to bust. He had to bust through the line. Yeah, yeah, 389 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 1: And he had to bust through the line to get 390 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: to the ball, and the rule is the umpire has 391 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: to touch the ball before you're allowed to snap in 392 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: a hurry up. So I don't know what he thought 393 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: he was doing back there. But here's what else happens. 394 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: You know, Dak mentioned he got run in from behind. 395 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: He did well, he did, but the guy had to 396 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 1: get to the ball right. He spots it and then 397 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 1: he moves it again. Why why did he have to 398 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: reposition it like the length of the football? He put 399 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: it down and then brought it back to him. And 400 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: guess what he did after he spotted it. He ran 401 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: behind the defensive line. So just they did not when 402 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 1: they made that decision. They didn't factor in the ball 403 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: had to be spotted right, And and I heard criticism 404 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: who didn't factor in the Cowboys maybe in their timing 405 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,520 Speaker 1: of how long it was going to take to get 406 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: the next play off. But it shouldn't. But it shouldn't 407 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: have mattered because you don't even But why wouldn't they 408 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 1: as as you practice it, you know the rule right, 409 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: and so you know that the official has to them 410 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: said it was going to take that long. Again, that's 411 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: because when you practice it, you assume he's going to 412 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: be much quicker than five. I heard people saying that 413 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,240 Speaker 1: Dak made the mistake. He's got to hand the ball 414 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: to the official, not to his center. There was not 415 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: an official in sight. Once again, both guys away, both 416 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: guys on the sideline stood there with their foot mark 417 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: and where the ball was. Nobody came in to get 418 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: the ball. But that's not the job on the side. 419 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: It's the umpire supposed to come in. That's right. And 420 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: it took and I'll mispronounce his name. I don't know 421 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: it's our A M O n George, So it's Raymond 422 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: or Ramone. He took all day to get there, right, 423 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: and then he respots it and by time I thought 424 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: he got chipped up. No, I didn't know what the 425 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 1: heck he was doing. He was fifty and so and 426 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: so nobody there was nobody to hand the ball too. 427 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: So he hands it. To be honest, everybody gets lined 428 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: up and this guy doesn't show up till three seconds. 429 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: By time he respotted it got out of the way. 430 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: They didn't get the snap off right. But McCarthy said 431 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 1: that you know how, they had the alternative officials on 432 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: the sideline, both sidelines, two on each. They basically immediately 433 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 1: told him that that's going to get respotted. They'll reset 434 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: the clock to one second. And they didn't do it. Okay, 435 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: so they got no call down from the replay referee, 436 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 1: they got no call from New York. And when Alex 437 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: Kemp was asked if any of those things happened, he said, no, 438 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: we discussed it on the field. Well, they didn't discuss 439 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: it for long because the next thing we heard is 440 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: the game is over. Yeah, with no explanation. He gave 441 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: a better explanation for the punt hitting the video board 442 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: than he did at the end of the game. He says, 443 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: very unusual play. Yeah, I think I never heard anyone 444 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: say that, wow, you know, announcing a call. So when 445 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,960 Speaker 1: they asked him, there was no replay assist or from 446 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 1: New York. That is correct. That's handled on the by 447 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: the officials on the field. And when he was asked, 448 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: when the umpire is that far away, should he have 449 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: been closer, he said, we're trailing the play, keeping proper 450 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,719 Speaker 1: distance so that we can identify files if there are any. 451 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: Once the play is over, the umpire immediately goes to 452 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: the spot of the ball, and that's what we did. 453 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: That is not a freaking answer. That is not an answer. 454 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: That's not what you did, like he was gonna call 455 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: a penalty twenty five yards, or that's the way you write. 456 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 1: That's the way you write down an answer. That's a multiple, 457 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 1: multiple choice answer. You know what, we know what you're 458 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: supposed to do. That is not what you did. If 459 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: you're that far away, you just can't beat in a 460 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 1: timely fashion. When you practice that, you assume that the 461 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: umpire right is going to be there. All you worry 462 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: about is what your teammates do, what's coming from the sideline, 463 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: from your coach, that's all you worry about. You don't 464 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: worry about. Oh, let me get out of the way, 465 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: because now the umpire is going to come up three 466 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: seconds later. If Dad had waited, he'd have been holding 467 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: the ball, like come on, okay, well yeah, yeah, I 468 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: don't do that. I have to get the next call. 469 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: I have to make sure my guys are lined up. 470 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 1: We assume that you do your job and in a 471 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: timely fashion, because of course we're working against the clock. Also, 472 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: you can't be the reason for the delay. All Star 473 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: crew and they saw everything, and I know that much. 474 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: I tell you, how many did we get fourteen again, fourteen? 475 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: How magic number? Got A couple other will go over 476 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: what's your understanding on have you ever talked to coaches 477 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: about through the years about this scenario and how much 478 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: time typically you want on the clock or what's that 479 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: cut off the number, the number of seconds on the 480 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: clock in order to be able to run a play 481 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: of this duration get lined up and be able to 482 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: clock it. I thought they were right at their threshold 483 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: for enough time all right for me. I think I 484 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: remember him once saying seventeen seconds was the cutoff, and 485 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: they were at fourteen. They were at fourteen, And it 486 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: wasn't like it was they ran a play and they're 487 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 1: at fourteen. It was a it was stopped clock. They 488 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: knew that they had fourteen, right, you know what? I 489 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: remember going all the way back to the Jay Novacheck 490 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: play against Bill Belichick's Cleveland Browns in nineteen ninety four 491 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: where you got stopped on the goal. I remember at 492 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: that point talking to coaches what's that threshold? And I 493 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 1: have always thought this ever since nineteen ninety four, the 494 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: threshold was sixteen seconds. That's my issue with this play 495 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: call it. I love the concept of it, it's the 496 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 1: amount of time left on the clock and you and 497 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: you can run it as many times as you want 498 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 1: to run it in practice, and you cannot simulate that 499 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: situation right there because of the adrenaline, I mean, the 500 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: stress that's on everybody involved, including Plus. And that's the 501 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: other thing is Plus, the most important person in the equation, 502 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: is not at your practice to simulate right exactly. And 503 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: so that's the issue that I had with running that play. 504 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: And so you're at the forty yard line, would you 505 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 1: have done that all? Hell mary? Well, I'm looking at 506 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 1: in that situation because of what they were doing on 507 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: the sideline and so forth. You have to throw to 508 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,479 Speaker 1: the end zone and maybe you get two shots at 509 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: the end zone from the forty. But I love the 510 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: concept if you've got sixteen seconds. I don't when you 511 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: got fourteen seconds, because this kind of thing happens. And 512 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: Dak said they had two plays already to go. One 513 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 1: was five guys down the field and then the other 514 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: one was a hell Mary from and from the twenty five. 515 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 1: The hell Mary's a little more realistic, right, Yeah. So, 516 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 1: and I know you got my my column probably just 517 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: got posted. But the lead to my story was about 518 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: the last seconds, and I said, my imagination had run wild. 519 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 1: Either they were going to get forty six years later, 520 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: the second hill Mary of their career to win the 521 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,840 Speaker 1: game from the forty, or from the twenty four the 522 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 1: tight end was going to catch the catch two in 523 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: the end zone to win. I would call it, and 524 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: neither one panned out. And so I ended my column 525 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: with a little Michael Jackson, just my imagination running away 526 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: with that, temptations. Yeah, yeah, Michael Jackson saying it. I 527 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: thought he did. I think he did his own temptations. 528 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 1: Temptations did it? So you know the other thing that 529 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: I was when I heard McCarthy talking about it after 530 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: the game and he liked the idea of the five 531 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: verticals to the end zone rather than a hail mary. 532 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,680 Speaker 1: I wondered your your call. Going all the way back 533 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: to training camp and Dack's injury and training camp, my 534 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: understanding is that they had come throwing a hail mary 535 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: and the back the back injury, and so I wondered 536 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: how much they have actually practiced the hail mary passed 537 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: due to the fact, obviously you don't want that to 538 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: happen again to your quarterback, the most important player on 539 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: the team and so which might have given them more 540 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 1: comfort in because it's it's still even the five vertical 541 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: thing to the end zone. I mean, what are your 542 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: chances of completing it? You know when you've got everybody 543 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: in the end Yeah, right, right, So, anyway, that just 544 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,480 Speaker 1: thought crossed my mind. I was trying to remember if 545 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: they even had to throw a hell Mary this year. Well, 546 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: if there have been times, there have been times. This 547 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: isn't the first time I've thought this this year. There 548 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,479 Speaker 1: have been times where they were in position and they 549 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: run the lateral play instead, And at those times I thought, 550 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: I don't think they want back to throw a hill Mary, which, 551 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: by the way, that play was gonna work. How is it? Well, okay, 552 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: can I get this play done? Right? Here? The best 553 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: play that never had? All right, here's what you're interest. 554 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:19,840 Speaker 1: Instead of the back draw, run the Cedric Wilson over 555 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: the middle, throw it out a bounds play. Dude, what oh, 556 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,399 Speaker 1: run the Cedric Wilson throw it out a bounds play. Well, 557 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 1: you mean, I don't think what they ran aloradier in 558 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: the game. They didn't. I don't think you could do 559 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 1: that on purpose. Though you run the same play you 560 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: got Tony Poller going, I didn't get penalized on that, 561 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 1: throw it behind him. Yeah, I mean just doing inaccurate 562 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: past to Tony Pollard on the sideline because it get 563 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: interesting and get intercepted because they're defending the sideline anyway. 564 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: Now you can just throw it out of bounds. You're saying, 565 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:56,359 Speaker 1: that's what they did or can't be and you can't 566 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: say there you were, you were grounding the ball because 567 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,319 Speaker 1: you throw it beh Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's 568 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: a backwards pass. We need to talk to Kellen Moore 569 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: about that set like those, I mean actually completed one time, 570 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: but that would have been the one time. That would 571 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,919 Speaker 1: have been the one time the play would have worked, say, 572 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: because then you would have had you could have run 573 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: that ten yards down fifteen yards down field. Cedric Wilson 574 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,359 Speaker 1: throws it to Tony Pollard incomplete out of bounds. How 575 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: many taloon does that play take from fourteen seconds? Well, 576 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: so you're nine seconds now you can do it again 577 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: and now you're you're at the fifteen yard line. You 578 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 1: can take your shot at the year zone. Well, the 579 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: fact the fact that we are in the fact that 580 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,880 Speaker 1: we're talked about low percentage plays. That means that we 581 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: did something wrong to get to that play. That's right, 582 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,319 Speaker 1: and that's the point to that point. How about this, 583 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: in the last eight minutes of that game, Okay, Cowboys 584 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 1: pulled her within twenty three seventeen with eight to two 585 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 1: left in the game. And what does San Francisco do 586 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,800 Speaker 1: on their next possession. They accumulate three first downs and 587 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: they run five minutes and seconds off the clock. Yeah, okay, 588 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: if you don't want to be in this position where 589 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: you're having to stop them, yeah, stop them and don't 590 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,400 Speaker 1: commit the penalties. 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He hung in 645 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 1: there and got nine questions asked. I think when I 646 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,560 Speaker 1: got to four and I wasn't getting anywhere, I just 647 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: threw my hands up said I'm done. At Texas Stadium, 648 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: the locker room for the officials was very small. It 649 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,880 Speaker 1: felt like you were in one of those old Jimmy 650 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: Cagney movies back in the forties in a hotel room 651 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: in New York when you can go like this and 652 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: hit both walls standing up. That's the visual that I 653 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:03,520 Speaker 1: actually have. And they're all so you got a recorder 654 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,480 Speaker 1: in your hand, The official head official head referees got one, 655 00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,600 Speaker 1: and then there's an NFL person with one, so you 656 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:14,319 Speaker 1: got three recorders going, and all the other guys are 657 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 1: shooting daggers at you right because they're all looking and 658 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: they call the official up that made the play. So 659 00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,799 Speaker 1: they're intimidating the hell out of you, right, and then 660 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 1: you ask a question and you get these little short 661 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: empire empires answers, like was the umpire in where he 662 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: was supposed to be the umpire spotted the ball properly? Right? 663 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: They give you all these little short question answers, right, 664 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,879 Speaker 1: and you can't get anywhere because they're so defensive. Right, 665 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:49,240 Speaker 1: there's no discussion whatsoever. But anyway, I give Todd credit 666 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: ESPN Dallas for hanging in there and continuing to ask 667 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: the questions. Did he get the good answers? Just to 668 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 1: be clearer, there was oh replay assist or call from 669 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 1: New York on this play that is correct, that is 670 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:09,040 Speaker 1: handled by the officials on the field. Would that been 671 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,879 Speaker 1: something that should have been looked at before the call 672 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,440 Speaker 1: of the game was ended? Or once you called the 673 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,320 Speaker 1: end of the game, it's the end of the game. 674 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,120 Speaker 1: That's the end of the game. Once we confirmed it 675 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,719 Speaker 1: with the officials on the field. That sounds like he's 676 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 1: in court. Oh absolutely yeah. So anyway, good job by him. 677 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,000 Speaker 1: He tried to get something out of him more than 678 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,200 Speaker 1: the standard answers. All right, was the defensive holding, defensive 679 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,680 Speaker 1: holding twice, like Everson I said, I think in the break. 680 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 1: Hadn't seen it called all years. Twice in one game. Okay, 681 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 1: And I'm going to start with the first possession, the 682 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: first play of the game. When they called Randy Gregory 683 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:56,319 Speaker 1: for in the neutral zone, Trent Williams moved his left leg. 684 00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: He moved it so obvious. I wrote down on my 685 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 1: notes right here, it's too Samuel, meaning the past arrow, 686 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: false start, seventy one left tackle false start. Oh nope, 687 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,879 Speaker 1: they called Randy and the neutral zone. Why did they call? 688 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: Why did they stop the play? Why did they whistle 689 00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:23,640 Speaker 1: it when it's a neutral zone violation? I have no idea, 690 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,720 Speaker 1: because he one of the officials must have thought false start. 691 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,120 Speaker 1: Then they conferred and the other one overruled him. I 692 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,240 Speaker 1: thought the guy on that sideline called it, and Trent 693 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 1: Williams moved his foot, his leg, his left leg which 694 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,680 Speaker 1: was to the official, moved. It's like he twitched it. 695 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: And then that's when Randy jumped right. Randy was already 696 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 1: lined up off side, and maybe they thought he was already, 697 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,319 Speaker 1: but his foot. Now, I don't know. Do they call 698 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:54,120 Speaker 1: it if your head's over the line, but not your foot. Yes, okay, 699 00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: well then that's what they call, so that maybe that's 700 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: what happened, all right, that's that must have been what 701 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,880 Speaker 1: had happened. The reason that they blew the whistle was 702 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,200 Speaker 1: because Trent Williams moved it was a false start. But 703 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,000 Speaker 1: the fact that Rand and so the other official from 704 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: the side probably came in and said he was lined up, 705 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,319 Speaker 1: lined up in the neutral zone and that must be 706 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: the rule on it. Then, well, because the ball was 707 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,120 Speaker 1: on the dates the false start, the ball was on 708 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,320 Speaker 1: the twenty five, and the ball where they were hiking 709 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:27,759 Speaker 1: it was just behind the twenty five. And if if 710 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,720 Speaker 1: it's a false start, the ball hasn't been snapped yet. Correct, correct, 711 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,319 Speaker 1: So doesn't matter where Randy Gregory's lined up at that point. 712 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:40,520 Speaker 1: Well apparently apparently it does because they called it right 713 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,040 Speaker 1: and then the ball snap, So it doesn't matter where 714 00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 1: Randy is right now? Correct? And then later he didn't jump, 715 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,720 Speaker 1: He didn't know, he did not. He was still until 716 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,520 Speaker 1: he took off when he but he was still and 717 00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:57,839 Speaker 1: he was still in the neutral zone off sides when 718 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:03,000 Speaker 1: the ball was snapped. But you're saying when the false 719 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,440 Speaker 1: start on the false start but I assume what what 720 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 1: the rule must be on it if a guy is 721 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 1: lined up in the new a defensive player is lined 722 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:17,240 Speaker 1: up off sides and everything, Yeah, that overrules everything. Maybe 723 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, that's it. And then it happened again, 724 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,080 Speaker 1: and the second time, his head was not over the 725 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,400 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and there was Trent Williams. He was 726 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:31,719 Speaker 1: digging his left foot into the ground like yeah, like 727 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,920 Speaker 1: he was getting ready to go. Yeah, and they didn't 728 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:39,960 Speaker 1: call it again. It's like okay. And then they totally 729 00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: botched the delay of game after the fake punt because 730 00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,600 Speaker 1: and Tony Romo got it wrong on the on the 731 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:53,720 Speaker 1: broadcast because Romo was saying, okay, they left the kicking 732 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,560 Speaker 1: team out there because they were trying to get a 733 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,919 Speaker 1: time out from San Francisco. Oh no, they had another 734 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:09,800 Speaker 1: their play that was right, right, and and C. J. 735 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,200 Speaker 1: Goodwin was on the field, by the way, and he 736 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,880 Speaker 1: I think was a former quarterback. He was lined up 737 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:19,480 Speaker 1: in the backfield right, yeah, okay, So what happened was 738 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,399 Speaker 1: they were going to run a play against their special teams, right, 739 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,520 Speaker 1: they were going to run a play against San Francisco. 740 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:34,200 Speaker 1: And then and then yeah, what happened was number one 741 00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,759 Speaker 1: and I forgot about this. You have a kicking ball. 742 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,280 Speaker 1: So the umpire had to pick up the kicking ball 743 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,880 Speaker 1: and replace it with a regular ball and throw the 744 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: kicking ball off the field, right. So San Francisco is 745 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,040 Speaker 1: seeing what was going on. They ran their defense back 746 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,600 Speaker 1: out there, right. Of course, they did the right right 747 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,719 Speaker 1: now right, it's yeah. So so here's what here's what 748 00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,759 Speaker 1: takes place. They reset the clock after he changed the 749 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: ball to twenty five seconds. It got down to twenty 750 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:15,399 Speaker 1: and the Cowboys realized, oh, they got their defense out 751 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,439 Speaker 1: there against our twenty five seconds. To realize it took 752 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,680 Speaker 1: it took five seconds, and no, I watched it again, 753 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,560 Speaker 1: and they didn't even reset the twenty five second clock 754 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,520 Speaker 1: for about ten or fifteen seconds. Well, because they had 755 00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,360 Speaker 1: to switch out the ball right, and then with twenty 756 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,799 Speaker 1: seconds left, McQuaid goes, oh, hell, we got to get 757 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,400 Speaker 1: off the field. So he waves everybody off the field. 758 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,640 Speaker 1: So they had to bring in the offense right. Well, 759 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:46,800 Speaker 1: they got him in. They made their substitution change and oh, George, 760 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:51,920 Speaker 1: the umpire is standing over the ball like this, and 761 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,240 Speaker 1: he and he waited till three seconds left on the clock. 762 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: To move and they couldn't get the snap off. That 763 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,160 Speaker 1: was the one that got me that one case, because 764 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:08,359 Speaker 1: they made a change, and you have to leave time 765 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,920 Speaker 1: for the opposition to make their change, and even if 766 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,399 Speaker 1: they are making a change, and McCarthy said that he 767 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,960 Speaker 1: was told that they initially said we were making a 768 00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: change and the Cowboys weren't. But they got a cuse 769 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,359 Speaker 1: for one of the guys on the sideline celebrating and 770 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,200 Speaker 1: he was on the wrong side of the sideline, and 771 00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:31,000 Speaker 1: so they were looking at that guy's coming in, so 772 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,719 Speaker 1: they said, oh, we got to hold it up so 773 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:37,520 Speaker 1: they can make their change. So there it goes all 774 00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,480 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're first and ten at the thirty six, 775 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: I think it was. I have a question on that. 776 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:50,000 Speaker 1: Can you tell the officials in advance should have that 777 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,120 Speaker 1: that we want to use the same ball, the kicking 778 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,080 Speaker 1: ball on the next plus the only way the should 779 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,400 Speaker 1: have told him what was coming before the game, and 780 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:03,000 Speaker 1: even there before the game, you tell the That's what 781 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,719 Speaker 1: I'm wondering. You tell you tell the officiating crew if 782 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,160 Speaker 1: we run a fake punt, we want the kicking ball 783 00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,040 Speaker 1: on the field, because we're leaving our kicking team on 784 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,040 Speaker 1: the field, we're going to run another play, and on 785 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:20,120 Speaker 1: the last play they should have told umpire George, this 786 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,920 Speaker 1: is what we're getting getting ready to do. Be ready 787 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:27,400 Speaker 1: to spot the ball right now. Nobody knew they were 788 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,160 Speaker 1: going to do that twenty five yards away. Do you 789 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,600 Speaker 1: think Dak made the decision to do that. No, that 790 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,040 Speaker 1: was the plan to run. Yeah, yeah, that was the play. 791 00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:38,759 Speaker 1: But the reason I say that, I think in his 792 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:42,439 Speaker 1: postgame comment, I think the verbatim on it. I didn't 793 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,839 Speaker 1: hear him say it, but the transcription of it said, 794 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:52,719 Speaker 1: I decided to do to run the play. Oh. I 795 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,040 Speaker 1: don't remember him saying that. I'll have to go back 796 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:59,439 Speaker 1: and look. But Mike, they basically said they've practiced that right. 797 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,640 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. It wasn't like all right, it wasn't 798 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:05,399 Speaker 1: like he drew it up in the sand. Yeah, let 799 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:10,680 Speaker 1: me see. I think I headed somewhere. Let's see. Um 800 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:19,319 Speaker 1: where'd it go? Um? He said, here's the verbatim on it. 801 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,319 Speaker 1: I made the call knowing that we're going to get 802 00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,560 Speaker 1: some yards and get down and I've got to clock it. 803 00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,640 Speaker 1: So that which made me think that it was Dak 804 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,800 Speaker 1: on his own who decided to do that. But I 805 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,960 Speaker 1: don't know for sure, Like he told Kellen Moore, no, 806 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,840 Speaker 1: I'm not running what you called, or they've got a 807 00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,520 Speaker 1: play called and then he can he saw what was 808 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,080 Speaker 1: open in the middle of the field, and they've practiced it, 809 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,439 Speaker 1: and so there's no Well they lined up that way 810 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,319 Speaker 1: for the I think the previous two plays. Obviously, that's 811 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,400 Speaker 1: what that's the play you run. I mean to me, 812 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,160 Speaker 1: that's the play you run. Do you have enough time? 813 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,160 Speaker 1: That's something you should have taken care of before that play, 814 00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:56,239 Speaker 1: So you don't run the you don't throw to the 815 00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,000 Speaker 1: end zone until you have to. I thought they would 816 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,400 Speaker 1: getting themselves in. They set to get a closer like 817 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,640 Speaker 1: a real play. Yeah, and that I know that was 818 00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,239 Speaker 1: what they're intent. Yeah. Yeah, The question is did they 819 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,480 Speaker 1: have enough time to do it? Well, yeah, you got 820 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,360 Speaker 1: You got no choice. You got no choice, and you 821 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:17,160 Speaker 1: shouldn't have been in that position to start. All right. 822 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,959 Speaker 1: That does it for Well, we went a season six 823 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,799 Speaker 1: minutes over. We're gonna be back again tomorrow. That we 824 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,640 Speaker 1: got the snap off on our last play, that's right. 825 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,000 Speaker 1: We went overtime here, all right, Cowboys didn't have the 826 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,920 Speaker 1: liberty of having overtime, all right, That does it for 827 00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,360 Speaker 1: today's show, and we will shout at you again to 828 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,080 Speaker 1: borrow go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas 829 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,200 Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.