WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What's Next? 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:16.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.159 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:31.400 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:37.720 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. So now what Welcome to 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.120 another week of Talking Cowboys. Bill Jones with Brian brought 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.960 us Mickey Spagnola just derived from his local radio gig. 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.479 Rob Phillips. We hope will be along and he will 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.720 be doing doing some work right now. And how y'all 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.520 do you guys doing on a Monday morning? Doing well? 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.160 Doing well? I used to, you know, complete the autopsy 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.160 and find out what happened and then you move on, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:07.360 and that's we talked about. There you go, Garri said, 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:12.040 nothing wrong with a little Simon Garfunkle this morning. It 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.199 is kind of sad when a season end. Well, it's 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.200 it's we talked about. This is and again I always 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.760 I'm afraid to use this word because I don't think 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.320 I use it the right way. Finality of it all that, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.920 you know, it comes to an end, it comes to 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.560 an abrupt end. It's it's my racing analogy of going 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.520 two hundred and seventeen miles an hour at the Indianapolis 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.240 Motor Speedway and then hitting the wall and you stop, 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.720 you know, and your and your suddenness to it, and 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.840 you're shaken and you're kind of dazed, and you're you're 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.400 kind of looking, you know, to Okay, what's next. And 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.320 you know this, Uh, this football team has a lot 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 to be proud of the way they play, the way 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:53.720 they they a young team came together under some really 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.720 trying circumstances. But you know that the thing about you know, 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.360 you you got to you placed the team team that 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.560 is h that did a really great job of blocking 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.080 your front. They took away one of your strengths and 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.200 they kind of played how you needed to play against 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.600 them to win that football game. And I think that's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.640 really what I learned about it watching that tape. Mickey 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.120 decided to take his headsets off. Yeah they're not working, 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.320 So I thought i'd listened with you had the dead 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:28.360 set on. Yeah. Absolutely, I think Brian was exactly right. Um, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.120 you know, the strengths we thought the Cowboys had running 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.120 the ball and stopping the run ended up being their detriment. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.520 In that game, and hate credit the Rams absolutely there too. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.800 They were you know, maybe we undersold how good that front. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.160 We you know, we talked all week about how good 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:49.359 Donald was and Sue and Brockers and and and then 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.079 we didn't expect him to play well and they played 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.919 awfully well. Yeah, I mean that looked like the Domicon 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.639 Sue twenty twelve or whatever. When you guys were going 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.520 on Friday eight, talked about that about Sue. He was 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.519 worried about Sue showing up, that this non existent Sue. 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:09.920 But all of a sudden he shows up. And I 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.079 think the Cowboys did a heck of a job against 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.840 Darren Donald in this game, I really really do. I 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.560 think the plan they had, the way that Connor Williams played, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.120 I think a boost of confidence for Connor Williams to 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.720 line up and he got Sue a couple of times 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.120 and Donald to play. He made, you know, two tackles. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.760 He made one of the tackles where they're trying to 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.320 scoop him on the back side, and you know, Tyren 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.000 Smith could have been a you know, you know what 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.000 and hit him in the back of his legs, and 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.800 he didn't do it. You know, and and so I 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.280 feel like though that you know the thing where I 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.760 where I missed the boat, Guys. This is where I 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.840 missed the boat is I didn't watch the last three 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:53.200 games that they played Arizona and San Francisco. In those games, 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.000 I was trying to figure out, Okay, how did they 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.160 get beat by Philadelphia? How they get beat by Chicago? 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.600 That's where. But if you go back and watch those games, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.400 you see C. J. Anderson running the football. You see 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.080 the combinations that they're using with their blocking schemes. This 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.720 is where I let the cowboy fan down, is that 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.560 I should have gone back and looked at Arizona. I'm thinking, Okay, 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.200 Todd Gurley, Todd Gurley, Todd Gurley. When an actuality, you 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.920 should have thought, well, C. J. Anderson has played well 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.080 here the last three weeks. They find him on the 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.359 scrap heap, They get him involved the line scheme, push 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.000 shot blockers, they create holes, He makes runs. You know, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.279 their offense kind of moves along. But give them some 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.440 credit with that their ability to run the ball. Give 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.400 some credit with the way they blocked against DeMarcus Lawrence 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.080 in this game. And they and they did it in 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.960 a unique way. With a wide receiver with bunch formations 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.360 and bringing the receiver across the formation, so you never 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.360 he never really got an understanding or a bead on 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.960 who was going to block him. You know, either it 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.400 was a cross receiver or a bunch receiver on a chip. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.239 You know. Those were things that they did to try 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.720 and and alleviate him. And some of the stunts that 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.400 that the Cowboys have run to get guys home, the 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:16.520 combinations with with Lawrence and Crawford and Collins, they said, Okay, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.840 you could do your twist stunts, but we're gonna put 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.440 four guys to block your three and we're gonna let 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.880 Andrew Whitworth take take Randy Gregory by himself. You know, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.080 we're gonna we're gonna let that that We're gonna try 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.320 and win that block or one on one, and then 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.440 we're gonna take care of your other scheme blocks. And 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.440 some of the big plays that they made in the 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.279 passing game, and they didn't have a lot of big players. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.160 I mean, it's some twenty two yards. I think twenty 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.520 one yards was as long as pass of the day. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.760 But that was a well protected four on three scheme 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:46.880 that they went one on one on the other side 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.600 and then boom, there you go. I mean, that's how 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.680 they make plays. See, that's that was the first thing 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.960 that surprised me. Uh when I we knew they were 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.680 gonna be in their nickel offense though time three wide receivers, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.599 so I expect to see them spread all over the field, right, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.040 But I was looking and I'm going, why are they 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.280 so bunched up? That's the way they playing. It was 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.839 like I had to go back to my flip card 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.800 to go they got a bunch of tight ends and 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.240 why is everybody so close to the line of scrimmage? 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.159 And that's what really I think fooled. I don't know 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.280 if it fooled the Cowboys, if that's what they had 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.160 done all season long, or if they did it for 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.240 this game. And Brian's exactly right. That's how they controlled 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.480 DeMarcus Lawrence because he was it looked like bumper cars 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.120 over there. Yeah, they they figured out with with the receiver. Sorry, Bill, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.080 I know you're gonna make it a point, probably better 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.279 than mine. But they well that goes without say they 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.800 you know, they did a really Robert Woods not only 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.560 can he hurt you throw, but he's a bigger body guy. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.400 You know, Robert Woods did a really nice job. They 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.680 also with Josh Reynolds. You know, they they they found 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:56.240 ways to attack Lawrence and keep him off balance. You know, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.720 they said, okay, you know, Hamerstein, We're not gonna let 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.720 you just have to block him one on one. But 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.560 they but they it wasn't like every single time it's say, Okay, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.760 we're gonna chip you this side, we're gonna chip you 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.880 this side, we're gonna chip you over here. Oh, we're 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.280 gonna play you one on one here. So yeah, this 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.520 was this was very reminiscent of to me, the the 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.480 Cults game in the way that they when the Cowboys 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.440 are really good, and we saw this against Seattle, when 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.760 you see white jerseys and you can send you're watching 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.760 the tape and you can see their numbers, When you 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.760 can see the backs of their numbers as they're playing 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.000 run defense, that's that's when you know they're really on it. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.200 They're playing really well because nobody's moving them, nobody's But 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.920 when you when you don't see the jersey numbers on 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.400 the back end, you're you're saying, Okay, guys are not square, 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.160 guys are turned guys are facing the sidelines. You get 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.600 a defensive lineman shoulders to face the sidelines, there's gonna 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.640 be natural gaps. And you know, Garrett talked about it too, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.720 and I'm sure when he got talked about two o'clock today, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.520 they're gonna talk about run fits because they did a 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:02.560 really poor job. When you talk about vander esh Smith Lee, 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.000 they you know, there were some times where they had 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.320 Anthony Brown down in the box. You know, they play 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:10.840 a single high. Look, it's just that's how they stopped 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.960 the run. They play single high, put an extra guy 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.280 down the box. And people were asking me, They're like, well, 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.400 could they play their bass defense and helped the run. 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.880 They could have. They could have, Yeah, they could have. 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 But they've stopped the run playing single high all year long. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.560 You know, I mean, they're the adjustment they made. There's 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.920 it's hard to make an adjustment when people up front 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.320 are blocking you the way that that the Rams are 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.680 able to block the front in this game, and because 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.079 of the way they did it, it allowed their offensive 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.600 linemen get to the linebackers. I don't doubt, no doubt 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.720 the Cowboy linebackers blocked. So you know what, and it 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.839 was the Colts game. It was the Colts game the 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.240 same thing. They got to the second level absolutely, and 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.840 because they controlled the two outside guys the way Brian said, yeah, 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.600 they're inside guys were getting to the linebackers and that's 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.640 what was creating those big holes. That and a couple 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.720 of times they're shooting the wrong gap and exact he's 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.800 going one way, exactly going the other way. Yeah, So 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.040 I thought that was that was huge, the way they 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.400 they controlled that, and it was almost like they were 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.920 telling the Cowboys, well, if you want to stop the run, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.040 you better go to your four three. You better not 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.600 sit there and nickel, yeah, the whole game, because we're 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.040 gonna run right over you. And that's what they did now, Mickey, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.839 to your point on the munched formations that the Rams run, 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.080 Will McClay on The Jason Garrett Show, which should be 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.440 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. I think it's segments on there. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.520 Uh did a great job illustrating what the Rams do 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.400 on offense, and that's what they do on offense is 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.360 they bunch in their wide receivers type formation formations and 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:49.240 there's he and he illustrated with several examples about six 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.080 different plays, some run plays, some pass plays. Why they 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.760 do that and how that can can confuse the defense 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.400 and how they well be able to sort things out. Yeah, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.800 I mean they gatter too. I mean that's something too. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.200 We talked about bunch. What did they do They use 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.160 bunch formation when Todd Gurley when they moved Todd Gurley 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.720 out wide against Green Bay and ran him underneath, what 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.760 did they do? They got bunch formation and then they 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.360 ran everybody inside, creating like you know, traffic and trash 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.880 to have to run through. So yeah, yeah, it's a 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.040 it's a good scheme. It really is a good scheme. 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.240 The way that they the way that they get their 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.000 guys down the field, you know, I mean there were 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.079 there were some of the open throws that they were 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.959 able to make were because of some of those routes. 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.160 And that's one of the main reasons they do it. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.400 It helps out the quarterback when, for instance, if you're 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:40.760 if the balls on the right hash and you've got 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.840 a tight formation there, and let's say you want to 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.920 throw a flag route Brandon Cooks well on the left 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.319 side over they go the left flag Well, that gives 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.360 so much room for the quarterback that throwout on the 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.440 sideline out there right. Well. And the other thing it 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.520 did is if you look at the Seattle game when 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.800 the Cowboys were blitzing you know, they were blitzing vander 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.120 esh off the edge right a lot. Well, when you 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.160 got all that bunch over there, how you gonna you 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.840 can't blitz You're not gonna get through that stuff exactly. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.319 And so they kind of took that away too, and 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.000 forced the Cowboys into coverage. But again, the bottom line 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.160 was they ran for two hundred and seventy yards three yards, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:26.640 two seventy three. Seattle ran for seventy three. Yeah. And 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.720 if you look at all the teams that won, yeah, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.880 they all ran the football. That's the other thing I 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.000 was talking to all this talk about the you know, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.400 the scoring, scoring and the big, you know, showtime offenses. 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.280 Kansas City ran for one hundred and eighty yards with 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.160 some guy named Damian Williams Oklahoma sooner. He was like 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.320 a third string running back in the Rams run for 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.280 two seventy three. The Patriots Sony Michelle one twenty night 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.800 and three touchdowns player, and the Saints combined for one 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.360 hundred and twenty four yards rushing. So go figure say, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.800 Philadelphia has to be sick. They had that game and control. 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:04.920 Yeah yeah, let me ask you something real quick about 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.320 that game. And I don't want to. I know we're 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.760 talking cowboys and trying to put it. But was Peterson 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.280 was Doug Pearson? Was he should he have accepted that 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.040 holding call and backed him up and made them run 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.000 another play. I was surprised and I wasn't watching. Well, okay, 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:23.480 they the kind of holy Pilley, And the first thing 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.319 that came in my mind was, Doug, you're dealing with 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.520 a guy that's just as crazy as you are over there. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.120 He's gonna go for this, you know. He thought what 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.760 point in the game was that they're down fourteen and 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.000 they're fourteen to nothing. Yeah, they're stopped again. They stopped him. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.760 They're making them, they're making breezing and punt again and 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.439 at his own like thirty thirty four thirty five, yeah 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.839 yard line. So he's gonna make him. He's got him 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.600 to a point where he's gonna punt. He could have 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.040 accepted a penalty to make it for a third and 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.000 eleven at a third and eleven, but instead he declines 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.840 to Pilley and make it fourth and one. Sean Payton 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.400 goes go for it. I mean, with the way the 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.360 flow of the game was, you knew that Sean Payton 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.520 was gonna go for it. There. He was gonna he 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.920 was gonna some way energize his team good or bat. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.000 He was gonna try and find a way to do 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.079 something different than what had been happening to them. Kind 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.120 of kind of like the same situation at the Cowboys 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.280 faced with the Rams, however, is a different situation as 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:22.880 far as the game, because the Rams were in the 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.839 lead and they had an opportunity they it was fourth 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.760 and two, right, and then the Rams out smarted themselves 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.880 faking like they were gonna take fund right and they 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.640 winds up kicking at twenty five yards to the twenty 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.760 five yard line instead. That was a lot of work 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:47.360 for it. Um. But but yeah, about that Eagles game. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:51.120 How about al Sean Jeffrey, who's got just about the 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.960 strongest hands in the league. Yeah, And in fact, just 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.679 a couple of weeks ago he was quoted as saying, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.200 I've got the best hands in the league and the 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.680 ball goes right through that. Yeah, Well that you know, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:07.240 that just shows you though they that was a strange game. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.320 And I know, again people don't want to hear about 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.440 the Eagles game and all that, but I mean, I 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.120 think it's that just shows you these games come down 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.960 to place. They come down to hands to the face, 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.040 They come down to the third and in the grasp, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.040 third and seven, you know, I mean, the Rams think 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.640 about this. You know, people were critical and I and 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.000 again I'm one of those guys. It's critical of Jason 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.880 Garrett to a fault, but I also thought that he 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:35.880 did the right thing of not even though they had 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.760 not stopped them. The right thing was to kick the 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.920 ball deep. It almost played perfectly to his situation. Third 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.960 and said, Jeff, Heath is so locked into the tight end, 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.480 and the tight end is blocking Crawford. You know, Everett 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.320 is blocking, and I'm thinking, I'm just watching them going, Jeff, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.400 just just be a football play Go go force him 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.280 either a to throw it away, be to get to 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.960 the ground or see you know, maybe you get maybe 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.320 you get the stop right there. You know. I mean, 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.960 I just I kind of look at that. I'm like, God, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.600 if they it played out just like it would have 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.520 in the played out in the in the Redskins game 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.160 that time at fed X, What do they do. They 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.320 got to stop, they got the ball back, they drove, 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.280 they win. You know, that's that's kind of the mentality. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.960 I was thinking, like, you get to stop here on 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.000 third down and they had a time out left with 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.360 probably a minute thirty to get the ball back with 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:31.040 Tavon Austin maybe bringing one back to midfield or something 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.080 like that. Yeah, I mean, I think he played it 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.080 the right way there the on site kick. To me, 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.080 the way the rules are with on site kicks, you 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.040 got no shot unless the ball hits somebody and bounces 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.360 around and you get it. He played it the right 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.120 way with the timeouts, the two minute warning, kicking it deep, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.880 they almost got to stop. I wish Jeff Heath would 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.760 have just seen I wish he would have just seen 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.680 golf coming his direction. He was so locked in on 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.160 on Everett to tight end and the ball got to 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.960 the outside. It was almost like he was looking at 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.960 a ghost, Like if you would just stayed inside so 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.360 long on it. Yeah, it's like, and you're right, it's 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.960 third and seven, yeah, or you've got and even when 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.160 they kicked, you got three timeouts in the two minute warning, right, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.520 and you're right unless you hit a line drive and 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.120 it bounces off somebody and comes back to you. You're 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.880 not getting the on site no, with the way you 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.640 can sign up now, yeah, because you got you. You 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.040 don't put all the guys on the line of scrimmage. 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.640 You put your whatever you're allowed, and then the other 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.880 second lines there. So even if you chip it over, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.880 they're gonna catch. He played it the right way and 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.720 it almost worked out. I mean if they just they 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.000 just couldn't get bodies to get to It's like golf 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.360 just decided, I'm just gonna keep running until somebody hits 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.000 me or stop. Nobody was able to force him to 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.920 have to make a decision. And that's the unfortunate we're 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.960 in the In that Redskins game, Jayleen Smith, everybody human, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.120 they were all flying to the I mean they were flying. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.520 They were they were in the base defense, and they 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.320 were trying to cover guys up. They had guys covered. 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.560 That's why he had to run the ball. But they 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.680 just couldn't get him to force to have to make 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.960 a decision. And that's because the way they were moving 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.919 the football. If they had stopped him, I think they 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.679 would have had a great Yeah, yeah, I think they 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.240 would have had a shot. I think they would have 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.160 had a shot in this one. And as bad as 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.600 the run defense was in this game, as bad as 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.920 it was, they would have had a shot. As bad 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.520 as the run defenses was, as as average as Goff's 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:34.719 numbers were they it's a one and as bad as 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.879 it look because they only stopped him twice. And the 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.320 fact that Zeke only had forty seven yards rushing and 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.119 they were to me, that to me was probably the 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.040 most surprising thing going into this football game, is the 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.440 fact that they just the inability, the inability to stop 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.520 the run. But they were, especially when you looked at 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.479 what they were doing on film about the season, they 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.240 were awful. And Trotman even said it, I mean it 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.679 was it was the way they were playing run defense 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.480 at the end of the year. Was they were thirty 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.480 second in the league coming in in the regular season 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.760 yards per carry defense, Yeah, rushing yards per carry. And 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.200 you were within one possession of tying the game up. Yeah, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.360 one possession. There's a lot of it looked like a slaughter. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.040 And then when you know, when I did the post 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:21.680 the game deal and I said the score, and I said, 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.840 I was thinking to myself, did I did I make 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.560 him a snap? It was thirty to twenty two. Yeah, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.760 it was like, how could have been that close? You 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.000 gave up two hundred and seventy three yards. Oh no, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.000 they it was. It was It was a strange deal. Again, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.159 you get that one stop, but there were there were 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:39.679 a lot of other things that happened. You know, there 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.320 a lot of this in that game. Third some third 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.520 down players on offense that you know, the Maury Cooper 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.600 they had exactly what they wanted with that crossing round 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.920 on third down. Amari Cooper's on Mark Baron and the 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.360 ball he just gets his hands up late. I mean 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.160 it was a catchable pass. He just his hands were 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.080 laid to adjust. You could see it from the end 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.080 zone copy clear that he did. He just was late 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.560 with his hands. He catches that ball. That ball is 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.920 gonna be in Ram's territory, you know, with them having 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.600 to try and react. And that's just the way things 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:12.560 have kind of gone for this team. You know, when 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.520 they when they needed a play like that, they just 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.560 could not execute well enough to make it happen. The 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.200 fourth down play too, was you know, they had to 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.640 go for it so many times on fourth down and 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.159 you know that really the bread and butter is, you know, 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.320 just take the ball, go straight ahead and let Zeke 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.120 be the guy. Hell, they blasted them out of they're 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.480 on the goal line doing say, that's what everybody criticized, 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.000 and I said, well, it was the same play they 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.280 used on the goal line twice. Yeah, and they score. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.879 I mean, they blasted that thing open and it just didn't. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.520 You know, but you're running at Sue, You're running it. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.159 You know, you're running at Donald. These guys are. You know, 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.600 there's power, there's quickness. You know, if they if they 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.199 swim you, you're you know, you're in trouble. You know. 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.119 There's just a lot of things going on there. I mean, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.320 I just it's a shame that the one thing that 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.359 this the Cowboy teams, I felt like they could always 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.360 do was the bill to kind of run the football, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.439 and it just didn't materialize well enough for the Rams. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.880 The Rams took your game plan and won the game 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:08.520 with what you should have been able to do. Dak 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.880 playing with you know, good numbers like golf, run the football, 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.080 play some defense, and then you know you're on your 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.240 way to New Orleans. Because it looked like they won 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.520 their bet stopping the run. But the reason why, and 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.480 I had written it down, they had like the Cowboys 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.920 had more twenty yard or more plays than they did. 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.560