WEBVTT - Mick Shots: That’s All Folks 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:14.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.319 Shots screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.560 official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:30.080 and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are inside the s 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:35.680 WBC podcast studio at the Star in Frisco. It's sunny outside, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.600 not so sun. Although Mickey has a smile on his face, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.720 Everson Everson is not a happy camper as he walked 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.560 in the studio. And we're here to break it all 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.839 down over the course of the next forty five minutes 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.040 on Mick Shots, I was smiling, wondering how you were 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.560 going to start this off since you didn't have any 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:02.520 musical starting to thee there's no music. The band has gone. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:07.920 Music has died. Although as you can see, I refuse 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.920 to accept the seasons over. I still got that was 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.800 a tough one yesterday. So how you go? I don't 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.280 know how you're gonna make me feel better, Spacks, It's 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:25.160 gonna be very hard. And it sounded like listening to 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.760 Stephen doing his segment on the Fan that just moments 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:31.800 ago as a matter of fact, that there wasn't a 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.600 lot of good feelings in that team meeting room and 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.200 everybody was kind of down, I would imagine, because the 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.800 weird thing about NFL seasons, especially when you get into 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:49.360 the playoffs, is you go one hundred miles an hour 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:54.559 for six months and then everything comes to a screeching halt, right, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.560 and it's hard to accept, not only I would imagine 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.920 for the players, the coaches, whatever, us two, that you 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.559 do something this much for six months and then it's over, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.160 like in the blink of an eye. It's almost like 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:14.919 my football career too. Yeah. Man, you just you know 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.320 you're you're kind of prepared to go forward. You're never 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.520 willing to accept that. Yeah, but it could be over. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:26.280 And for the Cowboys it's over. They got themselves a 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.960 lot to blame for. And I don't know where you 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:35.240 would like to start, but start from the beginning. We 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.480 should point out what Stephen did say in that interview, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.440 because it's top of mind as far as coaching going forward, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.919 and we did get something that was somewhat definitive from 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.839 Stephen kind of absolutely, yeah, he basically as far as 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.800 the head coach goes that I think the question was 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.320 posed or you're confident that Mike McCarthy will be the 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.639 head coach of this team this year, and he said yes, absolutely, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.120 So get that out of the way right on. And 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.200 it's really weird that it even comes up, because if 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.680 you get into the business that if you lose a 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.320 playoff game, you're fired, boy, you're gonna have a lot 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:19.520 of turnover in the right And I don't know why 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.119 that always starts, um, you know, And and I think 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.200 two things have created that. Um. When they fired chan 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.840 Gaily after the ninety nine season because he didn't win 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.839 a playoff game those ninety eight and ninety nine. But 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.840 really the reason they fired him is it wasn't a 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.440 good fit between the head coach and the quarterback. Remind 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.720 me on that how long after the season was a 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.840 decision made not to bring him back. It was after meetings, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.480 It was after right, It was after digesting the season, 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.000 having an opportunity to talk with players talk, right. Yeah. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:05.840 And because if I remember correctly, they named Dave Campo 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.680 the head coach when I was already at the Super Bowl, 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.840 I believe, So what was the record before that season? 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.320 So they wasn't like this, They went ten and six, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:26.120 lost the first round game to Minnesota, and then eight 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.560 or maybe it was the opposite way around. One year 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.200 they lost to Minnesota and then the next the other 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:37.000 year they went ten and six and lost to Arizona, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.039 and that's when he was fired and he and then 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.280 he got fired. So he had two consecutives ten and six, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.560 eight and eight, and the ten and sixth season was 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.479 the last time, So that might have been the ten 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:55.160 and six season was the last time they had swept 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.120 the NFC East. They won eight games in the division. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.080 That's back when St. Louis was still in the NFC East. 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.960 If I remember correctly, Lieuten in six and ninety eight 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:09.120 lost to Arizona, and in ninety nine it was I 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:14.039 can read it. I mean eight and eight in lost 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:19.880 Minnesota Minnesota. That was the wide receiver had a big day. Yes, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:25.560 Randy Montys, we got lost. After we got they started 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.120 a verb for him too. So anyway, and then in 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:34.840 twenty ten, look the reason, and everybody keeps saying they 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.400 fired Wade Phillips so Jason Garrett could take over as 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.360 the head coach. They fired Wade Phillips because they were 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.800 one in seven and he had lost the team. They 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.320 were not playing for him the last eight games and 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.040 one in seven they were no the first That's how 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.400 they started that season. One in seven and they were flat. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.920 They were they they just didn't have anything, and it 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:02.400 was time to change. And the easiest change was because 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.000 Jason Garrett was there. So I think those two things. 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.560 And he went five and three of the rest of 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.560 the season, and he was named the permanent coach after that, right, 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.840 and then eight Nate eight Nate eight Nate until they 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:19.240 went to eleven and five and twenty fourteen. So anyway, 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.279 and the other part of that and why the why 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.839 questions are being asked about the head coach is because 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.880 other teams are interviewing the both coordinators for head coaching jobs, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.920 Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn. And so the thought out 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:36.440 there as well, if if Jerry Jones really is enamored 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.080 with keeping Kellen Moore or Dan Quinn, whether you make 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.640 a change. So so it was basically Stephen has put 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.799 that to rest. It's he said he confidently absolutely expects 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:47.640 Mike McCarthy back now that we can get to the game. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.919 And and since we're going to get to the game, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.000 it's like after the way the offense and defense performed 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.680 in that game. That's what That's what That's what they 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.800 say anymore. That's what I said last night. I said, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.800 I laid all that out about the coordinators. And then 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.520 unless these other teams watch today's game and that gives 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:14.160 them pause, you know. Uh. Starting with the defense though, Okay, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.120 the way the Niners came out in that game, I 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.840 mean that opening drive of the game, it was like 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:24.000 a knife through butter. Okay, and they did everything exactly 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.680 the way they had planned. And then they had the 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:31.240 exactly the way we figured right right. I mean we 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.320 all knew it, right, we one knew it. I can't 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.840 see them saying, oh wow, that was a little twit. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.320 But then I wasn't ready for that. They could not 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.040 have said that. And then they were they were held 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.440 to field goals the rest of the I mean, they 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.480 had success offensively, but they had to settle for field goals. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.080 And so it's a sixteen seven lead at the half, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.640 and then the score they got head in the second 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.200 half was after an interception and next play Deebo Samuel's 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.600 in the end zone. Yeah, they have to give up 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.440 a twenty six stard run. The next play. Right, this 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.400 is when you make This is when you answer as 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.280 a defense right, right, this is when you respawn. And 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.200 that's what I expected to But no, the issue on 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.880 offense that you better score more than seventeen points right 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.760 to win a playoff. Well, I'm gonna we'll get into 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.880 how the game ended, right, But the reason they were 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.600 in that situation at the end. On Friday, in my column, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.400 I wrote three things that had to happen if the 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.480 Cowboys were going to win. Number One, their offensive line 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:40.000 had to play better than their offensive life. And they didn't. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:45.680 They did not. It was embarrassingly bad. Dak was and 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.439 everybody wants to look at why was Dak so inaccurate? 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:53.200 Number one? He got sacked five times? Number two, and 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.960 this may be even worse, he got hit fourteen times 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.400 in the game. Throwing past is fourteen, okay, And they 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.640 couldn't run the ball. And if you look at the 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.520 running game, they had seventy seven yards. Seventeen of them 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.760 was not a planned run. It was Dak Prescott's scramble 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.960 for a touchdown. So they had twenty one carries. First, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.520 how many did you get on the last play of 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:26.000 the game. I forgot about that. Yeah that was the 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.520 running backs. The running backs had sixteen carries for forty 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.600 five yards. Yeah right, And and other than that one run, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:36.320 even the one run for a touchdown, they ended up 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:43.000 with twenty carries for sixty yards. Well that Your offensive 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.800 lines got to play better than that, got to play 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.440 better than that. And they didn't. And by the way, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.720 the other team did not have their best defensive player 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.559 on the field for the last thirty minutes of the game, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.720 Nick Bosa. Uh and and shocking he got a sack 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.600 by spinning into the inside. Somebody had to look for that, right. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.600 They didn't play well, but again that has been a 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:11.240 problem the majority of the year. The offensive line number two. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.079 They had to not let Deebo Samuel take over the game. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.000 He took over the game right, and ended up with 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.080 one hundred and ten yards from scrimmage, including the twenty 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.360 six yard touchdown run on an end around that he 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.440 doubled back on. And I don't think anybody laid a 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.440 hand on him for twenty six they did not. He 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.560 danced around back there, picked his spot. Boys, he did. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.800 He's good. He is good. But but you know, you 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.360 allow greatness, right, you know, And I'm thinking of that 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.640 as well. I know for a fact, when you have 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.320 as a safety, it is your job to find the 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.040 hole that the running back is going to find. As well. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.280 You have to anticipate what that is. You can't come 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.840 over first of all, over pursue when you abably have 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.800 another guy out there setting the edge for you can't 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.720 over I'm gonna do the play. Yeah, you can't over pursue. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.800 You have to be poised waiting for that moment. Otherwise 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:11.880 he can't make it through the sideline. The extra defender 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.480 that's out there. This is your gap here. You know, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.160 you're learned that from playing with the flex That was 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.120 the whole thing of Tom Langer's defense. You have to 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.680 plug in were you're supposed to be, trust them to 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.120 do their job. This is no time to not be disciplined, right, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.079 This is no time not to be poored. By the way, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.760 did you hear what Deebo said to Kyle Shanahan after 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.800 that interception? Oh? Yeah, give me the ball. Yeah, he said, 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.880 give me the ball, and he gave him the ball. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.080 And by the way, what was the play they ran 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:40.280 when they had they were trying to get a first 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.719 down to end the game. It was basically it was 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.880 Deebo Samuel, same deal and wound up an inch short. Actually, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:51.280 Shanahan said afterwards when they asked him about it, he said, yeah, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.400 he said, Debos said something to me. There was so 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.040 much noise. I didn't understand what he said, but just 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.440 looking at him, I knew what he meant. Yeah, like 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.360 give me the damn ball right now. And then thirdly, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:09.720 what has been this defense's problem all season long? Big plays, 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.319 big plays? And I pointed that out that if they 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.800 don't get multiple takeaways to get San Francisco off the field, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.240 the big plays will kill them if they didn't stop that. 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.200 I went back and looked before the game, Cowboys had 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.720 given up seventy six plays runner pass of twenty yards 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.760 or more and they came into the game with seventy. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.920 So their offense was big play. It wasn't marching down 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.720 the field play after play after play. Well, in this game, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:46.240 they had fifteen snaps of at least ten yards, totaling 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.000 two hundred and forty of their three hundred and forty 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:54.120 one total yards, two hundred and forty came on fifteen plays, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.679 So they didn't stop the big play. So all the 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.440 things that worried about going into the game came to 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:07.719 fruition and that's why they were scrambling at the end 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.160 to try to get one more play to throw to 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.080 the end zone. And you know, it's amazing that we 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.679 even got into that position. Actually, it's a testament, but 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.240 it's nothing you can be proud of. It really isn't 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.120 because it's the pattern that we've shown, and that pattern 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.120 has always been been shown as a failure. When I 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.880 like the pattern where we come back and score fifty points, well, 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.720 that's not what we saw yesterday. And that's been our 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.920 consistency or inconsistency throughout the last half of the season. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.440 Is trying to be more consistent in victory, right, trying 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.200 to make the plays that you need to play when 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.640 it's time to do and not leave yourself in this 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:51.120 frantic situation at the end of a ball game. God defensively, guys, 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.920 I was we we When it's all said and done, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.080 there are certain things you have to know about yourself. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.440 And no matter how good we feel certain games, we 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.400 do not have the defense that can carry a team. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.719 We have one that can make plays, but offensively, we 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.640 still have to compliment our offense. I still think that's 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.880 our identity. And when our offense is not playing well, 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.400 then we struggled. And when I say struggled, that's when 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.160 we start to lose our poise and start to make mistakes. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:28.960 And if you look at I mentioned the duress Dak 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:33.320 was under, Jimmy Garoppolo did not get sacked one time 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.640 and he only got hit four times. So he threw 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.520 the ball twenty five times and they just didn't get 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.280 to him. And you lost to a team whose quarterback 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:51.880 rating ended up sixty seven point four sixty seven point 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.840 four and only passed for one hundred and seventy two yards. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.920 But it was the plays they made, the big play 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.080 bring the chains, right, they played like us. That's us, 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.680 that's the Cowboys. They're not trying to go down the field. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.040 They are trying to get themselves in position to move 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:14.120 the chains. That's exactly what they did. Controlled ball game. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.280 Multiple played drives and it was a quarterback plane with 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.320 a spraying thumb. He didn't well, they didn't need it 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.760 because they're running the ball. They got debot hundred in 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.960 sixty nine yards rushing, and that's how you protect your 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.400 quarterback right there. Run the ball and move the chains 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.000 without having to ask for third and fifteen thirty nine. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.320 We're looking at thirty s when they managed to get 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.800 them into those situations. By the way they that's when 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:48.400 they were successful. We were successful games. Yes, absolutely, Okay, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.160 it's break time or what do you want to talk 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.400 about when we come back? We got to take a 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.000 pare to talk about. We start, we go to the 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.600 end of the game. We'll go to the end of 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.200 the game when we come back on mix shots. 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And I don't know if this little 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.800 fan pack thing had anything to do, but I noticed 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.520 in the game, and I usually don't see these things, 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.159 that before they let the standing room only crowd in, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.439 there were people already lined up along the railing, and 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.680 I was wondering if those were the Cowboy United fan 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.280 packed and you got that privilege to enter the squatters 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:56.080 They were the squatters, the sooners before everybody else came 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:01.800 rushing in. I saw the video of everybody rushing in. Yes, yep, 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.439 it's Mad Dash and to the surprise of the people 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:10.120 that were on the West concourse, Nickelodeon was set up 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:14.560 taking their space in the middle standing room on that 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.560 second day. Wow. Yeah, And the announced attendance was ninety 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.159 three thousand, four hundred and seventy. Didn't get a hundred, No, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.199 not two hundred. I bought my brother in law and uh, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.960 my foundation partner. The forty nine ers fans tried to 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.240 get it to one hundred thousand. Yeah, I brought the 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.359 couple and so yeah, brother in law was his birthday, Elmo. 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.000 He's crazier fan than than you and I put together. 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.320 I was gonna have to do my zanas before the 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:46.560 game he did. How about after? Yeah, okay, and we 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:50.320 really I must commend both of us because my foundation 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:55.679 partner is a major Niner fan. Okay, So how was 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.280 the setup in the stands? Because on TV I was 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.159 watching on t when the forty nine Ers came on 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.840 the field, they showed a shot of the visitors side 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.720 of the stadium. There was in the background and there 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.000 was a ton of red all that it appeared anyway 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.200 to be a ton of red. But then when the Cowboys, Okay, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.000 so when the Cowboys came on the field, and the 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.000 cow on the home side of the field, it was 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.399 seemed to be virtually all white, more normal. Yeah. And 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.080 the upper deck that you didn't see in the four hundred, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.760 it was almost all red on their sideline. Okay, yeah, yeah, 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.439 you can see that. You can see where the line 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:35.439 was drawn. Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of Cowboys fans 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.120 made a lot of money because they sold their tickets. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.600 And I you know, twenty four. I ran into somebody 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.760 and said his buddy of his had two lower level 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.200 seats and he made twenty four couldn't dollars, He couldn't 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:56.919 pass it two tickets each. I mean to each that 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:03.359 about pace for your season ticket, almost right, okay, okay 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:08.960 into the game, all right, have had it. So I 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.720 don't know what your guys feeling is. I understood the 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:17.119 last call, why it was made the way it was. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.719 It was designed. It wasn't like a spur of the moment. 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.880 And if you saw the all twenty two, the way 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.679 San Francisco was played, they were all lined up on 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.399 the side of the field knowing that they could not 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.639 give up a pass to the boundary and let him 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:41.360 get out of bounds. Yes, right way. This way, this way, 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:46.440 this way. They looked lined up on the sideline the way. Uh. 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.280 The poor kicker for San Francisco was lined up inside 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.760 the Cowboys cheerleaders lines when they were marching off the 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.360 field that he was in the middle of him practicing 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.280 his kicks. Right, So they're all lined up up on 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:05.360 the side, So there was no San Francisco player between 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:09.000 the forty and when they showed it the twenty, there 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.320 was nobody. The rest of them were at the goal line. 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:16.159 So the idea is run the ball up the middle, 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:21.680 slide when you think you've gotten fire enough, and then 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:27.480 spiked the ball. Well, here was the big problem. And 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.800 I finally looked it up and found it because I 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:36.560 thought I had remembered when the NFL changed where the 0:22:36.680 --> 0:22:41.800 umpire stands used to be five yards behind the defensive line. 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:44.600 And they said, you know what, that's a little dangerous. 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:49.160 We're gonna move him behind the offensive line so they 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.399 can have a look. So he kind of lined up 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:55.959 opposite across from the head referee. In twenty ten, the 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.480 NFL announced that this repositioning would be permanent. Or five 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.760 major injuries were suffered by the umpires in two thousand 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.960 and nine. From twenty ten to twenty fifteen, the umpire 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:11.879 returned to the defensive side of the line of scrimmage 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:15.280 during the last five minutes of the second half because 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:18.480 they figured, all right, teams are going to be trying 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:22.320 to hurry up. We got to have the ball spotted quickly. 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:27.119 Right in twenty sixteen, they this provision was deleted and 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.360 now the umpire stands in the offensive backfield and all 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:34.840 plays except when it's obvious when the offensive team will 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:39.800 spike the ball. So here's what happens. I went back, 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:44.480 I watched the time Dak takes off. There's fourteen seconds 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:48.280 to go. He slides down. With nine seconds to go, 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:54.600 the umpire was still at the fifty yard line. I 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:56.160 don't know what he thought he was going to see 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:59.080 from there, but he was still at the fifty yard line. 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.560 And we'll get into way. Alex Kemp, the head referee, 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:09.760 answered the the pool reporters questions. He did not get 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:15.200 to the ball until there was like four seconds to go. 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.639 He had to run twenty five yards and then he 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:23.760 had to bust. He had to bust through the line. Yeah, yeah, 0:24:23.760 --> 0:24:25.640 And he had to bust through the line to get 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:29.960 to the ball, and the rule is the umpire has 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:32.960 to touch the ball before you're allowed to snap in 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:37.240 a hurry up. So I don't know what he thought 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:40.760 he was doing back there. But here's what else happens. 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.760 You know, Dak mentioned he got run in from behind. 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.520 He did well, he did, but the guy had to 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:50.560 get to the ball right. He spots it and then 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:54.199 he moves it again. Why why did he have to 0:24:54.280 --> 0:24:56.960 reposition it like the length of the football? He put 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.280 it down and then brought it back to him. And 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:02.480 guess what he did after he spotted it. He ran 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:08.960