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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are inside the s
Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage studios at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: And there they were the Cowboys out on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Everson Walls with his Cowboys star
Speaker 1: on at his own personal studio. How you doing, Everson,
Speaker 1: I'm doing just fine, sir. Yes. And it was great
Speaker 1: to see the Cowboys out on the practice field. It's
Speaker 1: been a while since we've been able to see them
Speaker 1: on the practice field. Mickey. Yes, although in on the
Speaker 1: practice field, not out on the practice field. They were indoors.
Speaker 1: I say, when you're out of the locker room, they're
Speaker 1: out on the practice field. I thought it was I
Speaker 1: thought it was a scene of like the Majestic uh
Speaker 1: Serengetti with the wildebeeste you know, grazing. Is that you
Speaker 1: know you talked about seeing around the practice field. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that house fact, No, no, it wasn't. But
Speaker 1: it was good to see the special teams and the
Speaker 1: COVID protocoling out on the practice. It doesn't matter whether
Speaker 1: it's indoors or out, or you're still in intense COVID
Speaker 1: protocol or further intensified. I should say, um, but yeah, good,
Speaker 1: good to uh, you know, see a little football and
Speaker 1: after the bye week and get back in practice and
Speaker 1: uh they had you know, several guys that were back
Speaker 1: in practice for the first time. Well, I guess they
Speaker 1: did the kind of walk through Mick practice that they
Speaker 1: did on Monday, but we didn't get to see that.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't count, all right. So off of removed
Speaker 1: from the COVID nineteen reserve list were Andy Dalton and
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford. So Crawford will be ready to go. Another
Speaker 1: benefit of having the bye last week because he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have played last week, and who knows if Dalton would
Speaker 1: have played last week. So they're off. And the thing
Speaker 1: that I thought was most encouraging was they started the
Speaker 1: twenty one day practice period for Brandon Knight to bring
Speaker 1: him off of injured reserve, and he was moving pretty
Speaker 1: well in those individual drills. Now, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much they want him to do. But he had his
Speaker 1: knee scope for a torn meniscus, and normally those things
Speaker 1: take around three weeks or so to return, unless you're
Speaker 1: Jay Novachek and you basically have your surgery, you missed
Speaker 1: the you take the bye week and are ready for
Speaker 1: the playoffs the next week. I think that occurred. It
Speaker 1: was the ninety five season, if I remember. Makes me
Speaker 1: so mad because you're you're talking about it. I got you.
Speaker 1: You're talking about a guy in two forty. There's a
Speaker 1: difference between a guy two forty and three fifteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it always just takes a little bit more to
Speaker 1: get ready. You know. That's happened. A little bit more
Speaker 1: has happened to one of my I think I've told
Speaker 1: you guys this before, one of my tennis doubles partners. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was going to have meniscus repair, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: you'll be back in three weeks. You know. Well, Jane
Speaker 1: Novichek wasn't probably forty eight years old when he had
Speaker 1: the surgery, right, and three months later, three months later,
Speaker 1: she goes, what happened to that three week thing? I
Speaker 1: still can't get out. I said, you've been hanging around
Speaker 1: too many top notch athletes, right, yeah, everything I said.
Speaker 1: It makes me so mad when I hear anybody coming back,
Speaker 1: even within three weeks or whenever, from a meniscus in reality,
Speaker 1: partially torn meniscus from jogging like nine years ago, and
Speaker 1: the doctor told me, Oh, if you were an athlete,
Speaker 1: i'd say surgery, But you're not an athlete, so you
Speaker 1: just go ride an elliptical or get on an elliptical
Speaker 1: or ride a bite the rest of your life. And
Speaker 1: here I am y for years and I can't even
Speaker 1: jog down a basketball court without my knee. Man, I
Speaker 1: could have done it nine years and so I tried
Speaker 1: to get it done, like last summer and not this
Speaker 1: COVID summer, but the summer before. Yeah, I'm too old
Speaker 1: now because because at my age, it's like there's too
Speaker 1: much of a chance of arthritis. But if I would
Speaker 1: have done it nine years ago, the insurance would have said,
Speaker 1: no problem. But anyway, go ahead. Don't don't feel bad
Speaker 1: at night when I no. No, we have to be
Speaker 1: we have to be clear those fags. We have to
Speaker 1: be clear. Bill, you would never an athlete literally understand that,
Speaker 1: don't really it wasn't really the age. Yeah right, the doctor,
Speaker 1: he figured it out real quick. You're not an athlete.
Speaker 1: So when I when I fractured my fifth meta tarsel
Speaker 1: in my left foot, I got told the same thing.
Speaker 1: The doctor said, Well, if you were an athlete, we'd
Speaker 1: do surgery, put a pin in there, and you'd be
Speaker 1: back in two to three weeks, he goes, But since
Speaker 1: you're not three months or so, you so, so the
Speaker 1: lesson for all of you out there. All right, the
Speaker 1: doctor tells you you're not an athlete, don't believe him.
Speaker 1: Believe doctor Jones. Please, all right, thank you, go ahead.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and one person who wasn't at practice, haven't
Speaker 1: got a reason for it yet, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's serious. Randy Gregory wasn't wasn't out there, So we'll
Speaker 1: see where that goes when the official injury report. We
Speaker 1: really out there. Defense on Andy. Good to see a
Speaker 1: Woozier out there, and uh so kind of a trade
Speaker 1: off there. They're putting digs on IR and and um
Speaker 1: a Woozier's uh activated off of IR. So we'll see
Speaker 1: where that one goes. So that was kind of the
Speaker 1: practice update. Um you know, more special teams and the other.
Speaker 1: The other thing he mentioned when he Mike was asked
Speaker 1: about citing another punter and put him on practice on
Speaker 1: the practice squad, he mentioned Chris So I meant to
Speaker 1: I guess he meant Chris Jones who had the surgery,
Speaker 1: and and that you know, within a week or so,
Speaker 1: he should be at least able to uh come back
Speaker 1: and be the backup punter if they stay with miss
Speaker 1: core muscle. Okay, it was the same thing um Sean
Speaker 1: Lee had, and he had that two weeks ago. It
Speaker 1: was so he could be it was after backup. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that was his answer, right. He said, well,
Speaker 1: Chris will be back out there. I didn't see him
Speaker 1: out there, but we'll see where. We'll see where that
Speaker 1: one goes too. So they basically said nice Wander will
Speaker 1: be the punter going forward. They had worked out Mark
Speaker 1: at King. The only thing I remember about that guy,
Speaker 1: you guys, was that when the Raiders came here for
Speaker 1: a preseason game during warmups, he tried as hard as
Speaker 1: he could to hit the video board, like kicking the
Speaker 1: ball straight up in the air, and he did hit
Speaker 1: it right, And I remember I can't remember who it was.
Speaker 1: It was one of those special teams coaches or assistant
Speaker 1: coaches they go, yeah, but when you're in a game,
Speaker 1: you're not going to stand there and kick the ball
Speaker 1: straight up in the air. You do need some distance, right,
Speaker 1: So but yeah, he celebrated that he hit the board.
Speaker 1: And the big thing on the on the punter. And
Speaker 1: why why the punter is an issue since the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a Thursday game after a Sunday game, and just
Speaker 1: with the COVID protocol, if anything happened to Nice Wander,
Speaker 1: you couldn't get another punter in here and getting cleared
Speaker 1: through COVID protocol before the Thursday game, right, so you
Speaker 1: might have to rely on Zeroline. If you know Zirlin is, well,
Speaker 1: you know what I saw him, he can handle. I
Speaker 1: saw him doing some trick shot artists stuff out there.
Speaker 1: He was bouncing the ball, uh, and it was coming
Speaker 1: up about I don't know, two feet three feet and
Speaker 1: then he was kicking it out in the air. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. With Fossil and McCarthy there, they
Speaker 1: would just fake the punt anyway, right, So absolutely no
Speaker 1: sense worrying about that anyway. I think you're right, Bill,
Speaker 1: I think he gives us a few more options that
Speaker 1: you may not have with with some other kickers. I
Speaker 1: love the leg is very He's just innovative before you
Speaker 1: go off. In fact, reminds me a lot of Matt
Speaker 1: Barr when I was with the New York Giants. Just
Speaker 1: guys that are novelties at everything that they do. And
Speaker 1: then they they did sign Brelan speak defensive tackle us.
Speaker 1: He's on the roster is an exception, so I assume
Speaker 1: that means till he passes the COVID testing. UH. He
Speaker 1: was a second round pick of Kansas City UH in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. A matter of fact, he was their first
Speaker 1: draft choice, sort of the Tristan Hill type, because they
Speaker 1: didn't have a first round pick. He played that first
Speaker 1: year with the Raiders, I mean with the Chiefs. Sorry.
Speaker 1: He started four of the sixteen games he played and
Speaker 1: then was injured coming out of training camp in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: They placed him on IR and then he got suspended
Speaker 1: four games for violation of substance abuse policy, so he
Speaker 1: missed the whole twenty nineteen season. He went to training
Speaker 1: camp with him this year. He was released on the
Speaker 1: final cuts and then a month later the Raiders picked
Speaker 1: him up, kept him for a month, and then released him.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys are going to take a look at
Speaker 1: this guy. They you know, they're finding all these guys
Speaker 1: that they are just sitting there and might as well
Speaker 1: look at him, put him on the practice. The other
Speaker 1: thing he consider about speaks. So he was a second
Speaker 1: round pick in twenty eighteen and they were running a
Speaker 1: three four and they switched to a four to three.
Speaker 1: And so the only thing that the main thing that
Speaker 1: intrigued me about signing Speaks is at six three two
Speaker 1: eighty five or whatever, he is five technique in a
Speaker 1: three four defense, he might fit that mold more so, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that could be. But they just need to stick
Speaker 1: with that four three right right, exactly right, and especially
Speaker 1: looking future, looking for future, I'm not looking for right now.
Speaker 1: I'm looking down down the road. Yeah. If if indeed
Speaker 1: they want to go to a three four eventually, well
Speaker 1: they just better be able to play that four three
Speaker 1: against what's getting ready to slam in their face on Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's right, Gary Kubiak's offense with the Minnesota Yeah. I
Speaker 1: wonder how much if it's Kubiak, and how much they
Speaker 1: stayed in what Stefanski had been doing their last year,
Speaker 1: especially running the ball, and Mike Zimmer in his conference
Speaker 1: called it a made made mention of that about their
Speaker 1: kind of outside what do they call it outside zone
Speaker 1: that they run getting the ball, and he talked about
Speaker 1: what you need, and you need athletic offensive lineman. Obviously
Speaker 1: you need a good running back and a guy that
Speaker 1: can catch the football too, and uh, Dalvin Cook, as
Speaker 1: we know, is all that. So uh, that's probably priority
Speaker 1: number one for the god Boys. They gotta shut down
Speaker 1: the chef. Well his nickname, by the way, if you
Speaker 1: didn't know that, Alvin the chef Cook. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I blanked out a little bit because I
Speaker 1: had no I figured I better throw the Cook, so
Speaker 1: you guys get it Dalvin. But my son's a chef,
Speaker 1: so I should have known this. Just you caught me
Speaker 1: off guard. But then and one of the things start
Speaker 1: thinking about this offense, those fags, this this is something
Speaker 1: that you know the Browns were successful with. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: other teams didn't try it on us after what they
Speaker 1: saw Cleveland doing. I would imagine they just didn't want
Speaker 1: to come out of their own game plan. Figure and
Speaker 1: that would be their own recipe for defeat if they
Speaker 1: were to change their game plan just to suit what
Speaker 1: they saw was successful by other teams. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be a This is gonna be a tough game. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's gonna be tough for us to
Speaker 1: try and predict, because as much as I'm trying to
Speaker 1: pull for the Cowboys, I have to see that they
Speaker 1: are they have They're gonna be successful and have made
Speaker 1: the adapt Have they have adapted to what they saw
Speaker 1: in Cleveland? Obviously they hadn't seen that offense since so
Speaker 1: last time they did see it. You're looking at almost
Speaker 1: three hundred yards rushing, so got deleting. I'm sorry, you're
Speaker 1: looking at over three So when you so, so, when
Speaker 1: you think of the leading Russia're coming in here, I'm
Speaker 1: very nervous about this, but also I'm kind of excited
Speaker 1: to see just what kind of adjustments the Cowboys coaching
Speaker 1: staff is gonna make. This is gonna be an indictment
Speaker 1: on them as much as it is on the players. Well,
Speaker 1: and by the way, Mike Zimmer was asked about had
Speaker 1: you take a look at what happened with Cleveland? And
Speaker 1: he said, oh yeah, he goes, you know, we'll we'll
Speaker 1: look at that, but that's not the only thing we'll
Speaker 1: look at. But obviously they kind of ran similar to
Speaker 1: what the Vikings do now. So uh yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: they take a serious look at why Cleveland was able
Speaker 1: to run for three hundred and seven yards. But I
Speaker 1: remember the end a round. If we take the end
Speaker 1: a round out of it, then I don't really have
Speaker 1: three hundred, right, and yeah there was two sixty instead.
Speaker 1: I'm just really just just got there. Then that's like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks later the Arizona game and you
Speaker 1: take the quarterback run out and the Cardinals didn't run
Speaker 1: for as many he gets them either or or the
Speaker 1: last or the last sixty nine yard touchdown eighty yard
Speaker 1: drive Kenyan Drake right end, you know, and it was
Speaker 1: garbage time and they probably didn't throw for as much
Speaker 1: if you take out the eighty yard touchdown pass to
Speaker 1: Kirk right. So if if you didn't look at the
Speaker 1: way we look at it, the Cowboys have a great
Speaker 1: year going. Yeah, I try, you've got if you got
Speaker 1: rid of the turnovers, you know, you know the other
Speaker 1: thing on the offensive line, Rick Denison, I spoke, I
Speaker 1: think it was yesterday about how the Vikings had a
Speaker 1: transition on their offensive line after Tony Sperrano tragically passed
Speaker 1: away just prior to the season a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and Rick Dennison became their offensive line coach. And Dennison
Speaker 1: has those same routes with Kubiak and Stefanski was with
Speaker 1: him last year. Now Stefanski went to Cleveland and Bill
Speaker 1: Callahan as his offensive line coach, which who's one of
Speaker 1: the best, if not the best, in the business the
Speaker 1: offensive line coach. So anyway, speaking of offensive line coaches,
Speaker 1: well you go, you want to what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Giants. Now you're four familiar with what's going on
Speaker 1: there than I am, so you have had it. Well.
Speaker 1: Former Cowboys offensive line coach who ended up with the
Speaker 1: Giants when they didn't retain them, Mark Colombo got fired
Speaker 1: today and the report that came out as he and
Speaker 1: Joe Judge got in a fight. Now I don't know
Speaker 1: if it said before he got fired or after he
Speaker 1: got fired, but they had a replacement already there for
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. They he and let's see
Speaker 1: if I can say it did did Julielmo did Julie Mo.
Speaker 1: Way too many letters coming from Italian. I think I
Speaker 1: got close to it to D gug L I E
Speaker 1: l m O and you know he's got and you
Speaker 1: know what, And I've seen three different stories and his
Speaker 1: last name was spelled three different ways, and no one
Speaker 1: got it. I don't know which is right, because one
Speaker 1: hand round two and then capitol G and the other
Speaker 1: one was D E. Capel. Right, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: So it was apparently a fist fight this morning between
Speaker 1: Judge and I'm just trying to picture if Jason's first
Speaker 1: trying to break it up. Yeah, that's where I was
Speaker 1: handed Bill. Now you gotta remember Jason probably sicked him
Speaker 1: on him. I go get them, you know. And the
Speaker 1: weird thing is is their offensive line played better the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. They've been they've been thank you,
Speaker 1: they played well, right, I've been watching them. They actually
Speaker 1: do improving their first round. Actually started to play better
Speaker 1: at left tackle when they didn't assume as Thomas is
Speaker 1: that Yeah, yeah, left tackle, left tackle. And this is
Speaker 1: their bye week. Oh it is for the Giant. Oh
Speaker 1: so they had too much time on their ya that's tried,
Speaker 1: idn't hands Devil's workshop. So so I'm Jason Garrett. Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett is in the wings. Jason Garrett is probably Colombo's
Speaker 1: corner man, right just in case he gets a cut. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, that's why Colombo get hired there. Obviously. I
Speaker 1: wonder if they brought their fighting should Judge is looking
Speaker 1: at Jason kind of side eye right now, like, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Do this on purpose? What a set up? I wonder
Speaker 1: if they brought their training camp fight T shirts with them.
Speaker 1: Colombo showed up with the Cowboy fight T shirt on today,
Speaker 1: that's what happened. You're fired. Oh my gosh. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of firing going on out there on the
Speaker 1: East Coast these days. I said there was a lot
Speaker 1: of firing going on out there on the East Coast
Speaker 1: or another one just that every day in one city,
Speaker 1: okay or district. Yeah, he's talking the Atlantic coastline. That's
Speaker 1: so come down to the south, Okay, right, I'm with you, fans,
Speaker 1: and builds the one, all right. And with that we'll
Speaker 1: move on and I'm gonna research on Dave Googlielmo, the
Speaker 1: new offensive line coach of the New York Football just
Speaker 1: gotta be a soft gee. Right, gotta be a soft gee.
Speaker 1: Dave the the Googlielmo, all right, the new Office. All right,
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Speaker 1: a person what I just found out. We can pass
Speaker 1: we can pass bill anything and he'll read it. That's
Speaker 1: what I out. He didn't even know what the hell
Speaker 1: he's read anything, like read the telepopter. That's like when
Speaker 1: you have a producer and TV. Ever since you just
Speaker 1: read what they write, and then you go just read
Speaker 1: what they did. I just say that they think I
Speaker 1: came up with that. Yes, that's like, uh, that's like
Speaker 1: my favorite broadcaster of all time. Ted Baxter on the
Speaker 1: Mary Tyler Moore Show. I thought you were gonna say,
Speaker 1: Ted Dawson, this just in there's something on your tie.
Speaker 1: It was Ted Baxter. We are way too old, guys,
Speaker 1: way way to anyone that's anyone that was born after
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. I'm sorry, we apologized. I don't know my
Speaker 1: daughter enjoys that dad humor. Yep, that's right, all right, Hey, Mickey,
Speaker 1: speaking of bad humor, what else you got? Um So,
Speaker 1: I keep hearing this about um Andy Dalton like he
Speaker 1: didn't know what he was doing when he was out there.
Speaker 1: I think first of all, everybody forgot how he finished
Speaker 1: off the Giants game after Dak got hurt nine out
Speaker 1: of eleven, and he led him to the two drives
Speaker 1: the kick field goals to be able to win the game,
Speaker 1: and then everybody kind of remembers that they got beat
Speaker 1: so bad by Arizona. What it ended up forty thirty
Speaker 1: eight ten was that what it was um and and
Speaker 1: and he ended up completing thirty four of fifty four
Speaker 1: passes for two hundred and sixty six yards. But remember
Speaker 1: they kind of fell behind, like thirty one to three, right,
Speaker 1: but kind of here's what everybody running back kind of
Speaker 1: fumbled it away. Here's what everybody forgets it was. It
Speaker 1: was midway through the first quarter. There were five h
Speaker 1: seven left in the first quarter when uh Zack Martin
Speaker 1: went out with a concussion. What quarter the first first
Speaker 1: quarter of Arizona play two games basically without Zach Mark
Speaker 1: with backup, backup guys. And again here's what they had
Speaker 1: out there. They had two rookies out there at the
Speaker 1: same time, Steele at right tackle. Beotish was playing in
Speaker 1: his second start. UH Connor Williams was the senior member
Speaker 1: of that offensive line h in his third year, and
Speaker 1: mcgoverning came in for Zach Martin at right guard and
Speaker 1: he was playing his first snaps in the NFL. In
Speaker 1: the NFL, So that's what the protection was for for
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and guess what he got sacked three times,
Speaker 1: He got hit eight times. They had seven tackles for
Speaker 1: losses against the Cowboys and seven passes defense. They lost
Speaker 1: two fumbles there were two interceptions, and the one was
Speaker 1: when Kurtpatrick is it Kurtpatrick? He grabbed a CD lamb
Speaker 1: from behind and tackle and then the ball went right
Speaker 1: to him. So I don't want to hear this stuff
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton can't do as good, if not better
Speaker 1: than when Garrett Gilbert did. And nothing against Garrett Gilbert,
Speaker 1: he did fine. But Everson, you know, you pointed out
Speaker 1: that that one play where where he missed Cooper for
Speaker 1: basically a touchdown and he went underneath there was a
Speaker 1: pass underneath. He dumped it off at you did it
Speaker 1: to Pollard or the first drive game? Yeah, did you
Speaker 1: see it? He had him in the slot. Yea, And
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field was wide open and
Speaker 1: Cooper's break into his right he was coming out of
Speaker 1: the left slot and he had a touchdown pass and
Speaker 1: he never looked there. He looked there before the play
Speaker 1: started and then was looking the other way. So, you know,
Speaker 1: and having said that, the quarterbacks looking. But but that
Speaker 1: was the matchup that they wanted. He would have got
Speaker 1: there at time. And so sometimes it's not it's it's
Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's not what you do, it's what you
Speaker 1: don't do. Sometimes they to get a quarterback in trouble
Speaker 1: because you gotta make well. So anyway, point that out
Speaker 1: for everybody that looks at that Arizona game, Hold they
Speaker 1: only scored one touchdown, they only had ten points, Well,
Speaker 1: there was a damn good reason why. Because that offensive
Speaker 1: line was really struggling against that Arizona front. So that
Speaker 1: when you're a quarterback behind a young offensive line like that,
Speaker 1: you don't expect to have much help or much time.
Speaker 1: You don't anticipate that, and if you play for that,
Speaker 1: then you're fooling yourself. And that I think everything showed
Speaker 1: up because of the pressure, is because of the hits
Speaker 1: and because of the sacks. It lets you know that
Speaker 1: he was gonna be in for a rough game regardless.
Speaker 1: It was up to him to try and stand in
Speaker 1: there and make it happen. But when it comes down
Speaker 1: to it, we were clearly, no doubt overmatched offensively. That's
Speaker 1: why you need more than one facet of the game.
Speaker 1: I keep talking about that, That's why the defense has
Speaker 1: to come to play. If my offense puts me in
Speaker 1: us in a bind defensively and they threw an interception
Speaker 1: or cause a turnover, and let's say it's deepen on territory.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean defensively, we just threw up our hands
Speaker 1: and go, oh well, it's time for the other part
Speaker 1: of the team to come through. It's time for you
Speaker 1: to help your other part of the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys on the other side of the ball. Those
Speaker 1: are the kind of thing that's the mentality that winning
Speaker 1: teams have. It's nothing unusual, it's no novelty. Winning teams
Speaker 1: do that all the times. Teams with good culture of
Speaker 1: helping out the guys on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: That is created through time, and the Cowboys just don't
Speaker 1: have that right now. And remember in that game too,
Speaker 1: it was Arizona. It was zero zero after the first quarter,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the Cowboys fumble. Arizona
Speaker 1: gets the ball at their forty six touchdown. Zeke fumbled again.
Speaker 1: Those two possessions in a row. They get the ball,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys twenty seven touchdown, and they hit it, and
Speaker 1: then they hit the eighty yard bomb touch twenty one
Speaker 1: another it's twenty one to nothing. That had Now you're
Speaker 1: throwing the ball fifty four times and then you're driving
Speaker 1: down the first drive of the third quarter and you
Speaker 1: had the holding call that was ten interception, and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals rattle off like twenty like three twenty yard runs.
Speaker 1: The defense couldn't stop him, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's twenty eight to nothing or whoever was and and
Speaker 1: it was let me take you to the Washington game. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Obviously the Washington game you had the sack fumble in
Speaker 1: the end zone or it was a safety. Shultz recovered
Speaker 1: in the end zone for a safety, and then the
Speaker 1: defense couldn't stop him. When after the pre kick and
Speaker 1: his nine nothing you're in a nine nothing hole. Cowboys
Speaker 1: came down to make it a nine three game. It's
Speaker 1: a nine three game. I'm looking at the play by
Speaker 1: play on it right now, and this is early second
Speaker 1: quarter a nine three game. And remember the CD Lamb drop.
Speaker 1: It was on a second and ten on a slant in.
Speaker 1: CD drops it in and CD might have gone all
Speaker 1: the way on that thing instead Instead, two plays later,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys decided to go for it at the forty
Speaker 1: five yard line on fourth and one with an offensive
Speaker 1: line that was a state of what we all know
Speaker 1: what it was like, and they threw an incomplete pass
Speaker 1: Chase Young pressure on the play Washington, then two plays
Speaker 1: later touchdown to McLarin over Treyvon Diggs, and it's now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, what could have been a ten
Speaker 1: nine Cowboys lead if CD holds on or at least
Speaker 1: they're in position to make even get down in a
Speaker 1: field goal range for a nine to six game, instead
Speaker 1: of that all of a sudden by going forward on
Speaker 1: fourth down at midfield, two plays later, you're down. You're
Speaker 1: in a fifteen to three hole. And if I remember
Speaker 1: in that Arizona game, Gallup had to drop touchdown right
Speaker 1: now'll take get a step further. Next possession for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys down fifteen to three. They got the ball at
Speaker 1: the thirty six yard line, and that right guard Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern who's in there for Zach Martin on third and nine,
Speaker 1: the football team blitzes. McGovern doesn't pick up the blitz
Speaker 1: they were the linebacker Holcombe came, he went and took
Speaker 1: the safety instead. Holcomb comes up the middle. Zeke's in
Speaker 1: no position to pick up the linebacker sack of Dalton
Speaker 1: and you're punting the ball away and you can't stop
Speaker 1: him again. And now it's dear down twenty two to
Speaker 1: three with three minutes left in the second quarter, and
Speaker 1: then you get the contrition. Yeah, but Andy Dalton camp
Speaker 1: play and I'm thinking I'm sinking into my couch right
Speaker 1: about name right exactly, know, just drending everything has happening
Speaker 1: to doing the ball game and saying deja vu all
Speaker 1: over the game. So the point of all this is,
Speaker 1: let's see what Andy Dalton can do. Yeah, give him
Speaker 1: a fair shot. I mean, and in fact, I think
Speaker 1: there's there's a greater chance that Andy Dalton, considering Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's situation where he lives right here, there's a greater
Speaker 1: chance that Andy Dalton might take another one year deal
Speaker 1: next year and he might be Dack's backup quarterback again
Speaker 1: next year. We'll see. Let's see what the last seven
Speaker 1: games holds. And how about this little slice. So Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer was asked, so you were with Cincinnati and you
Speaker 1: know all about Andy Dalton, and Mike goes, yeah, but
Speaker 1: this is a different offense. He probably knows more about
Speaker 1: what I do defensively than I know what he's gonna
Speaker 1: do with this offense. Remember, very very Mike was the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator there before he went to Minnesota as the
Speaker 1: head coach and Dalton was the quarterback when Dalton first
Speaker 1: came into the league and was leading the Vikings to
Speaker 1: five straight playoff appearances, and I might add zero playoff wins. Right, well,
Speaker 1: we know one of them. We can put on somebody,
Speaker 1: a guy named pac Man Jones or no, no paying
Speaker 1: on pac Man. Pac Man was in Stewart. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's the perfect. Yeah, it's the perfect. Yeah. There you go,
Speaker 1: all right, we can Mick is going to come back
Speaker 1: in just a moment because he wanted to do this
Speaker 1: yesterday and we got talking to something else. It's the
Speaker 1: NFC East. How it stacks up the rest of the way.
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Speaker 1: so I can look at Twitter. I've got to look.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. All right, Mickey, tell us about the
Speaker 1: NFC East. Yes, So what we need to understand why
Speaker 1: everybody keeps saying, uh, you know, the Cowboys are kind
Speaker 1: of still in this they're in last place two and seven. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're only one win behind Philadelphia three to five and one.
Speaker 1: Washington second at three and seven, or the Giants are
Speaker 1: in second at three and seven, Washington is next at
Speaker 1: two and seven, and the Cowboys, because they lost to Washington,
Speaker 1: are technically in last place. But let's look at the
Speaker 1: remaining schedule of all these teams. Here's the Eagles. Here's
Speaker 1: their next five games. You tell me how they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: They got to play Cleveland six Cleveland at Cleveland, they
Speaker 1: six and three, They play Seattle six and three, They
Speaker 1: play Green Bay seven and two, they play New Orleans
Speaker 1: seven and two, and they play Arizona six and three
Speaker 1: before they get to the Cowboys in Washington to finish
Speaker 1: off their next seven games. That is an opponent record
Speaker 1: of thirty six and twenty seven with a point five
Speaker 1: seven seven winning percentage. So you're telling me, headed to
Speaker 1: week sixteen, the Eagles are going to be three ten
Speaker 1: and one. They're going to be how many times I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna win in those five games? Right? What
Speaker 1: are the percentage eleveland's Seattle, Green Bay, New Orleans and
Speaker 1: at Arizona A right, and always take those teams right there,
Speaker 1: and take out the NFC East teams, that winning percentage
Speaker 1: is even more daunting. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: got to calculate there, but you can take out the Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they got the Giants and Cowboy and Everson. When
Speaker 1: I get done with this, remind me I've got a
Speaker 1: neat stat on that too, by the NFC East. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: So now the Giants their next seven games Cincinnati two
Speaker 1: six and one, Seattle six and three, Arizona six and three,
Speaker 1: Cleveland six and three, Baltimore six and three, and then
Speaker 1: they finished the season against the Cowboys. So their opponent
Speaker 1: record twenty eight, twenty five and one, five eighteen winning percentage. Okay,
Speaker 1: then we go to so that's four teams with winning records.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you to the final Giants next week
Speaker 1: win at Cincinnati. Who knows, all right, Let's say they
Speaker 1: don't win, all right, they don't win that means they're
Speaker 1: to lose five in a row. That puts them at
Speaker 1: three and twelve going into the Dallas. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: got we got the Eagles at three ten and one
Speaker 1: going into the Dallas game Week sixteen, and we got
Speaker 1: the Giants at three and twelve going into the last
Speaker 1: game of the season against Dallas. Okay, there we go,
Speaker 1: all right. Now we go to Washington. They've got they've
Speaker 1: got the soft serve one here their last seven games Cincinnati, Dallas, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Seattle, Carolina, and then Philadelphia. So their opponent
Speaker 1: record is twenty nine thirty four and two for a
Speaker 1: four to forty six winning percentage. Now we know what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have left right at Minnesota, Washington, Baltimore, at Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, the Giants, and Philadelphia. That opponent record is
Speaker 1: twenty three thirty four in two. So that's the worst
Speaker 1: of all the teams in the NFC East, or maybe
Speaker 1: I should say the best of whatever way you're looking
Speaker 1: at it. But that opponent record is the lowest of
Speaker 1: any of them going So again, who knows the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to play one team with a winning record? I
Speaker 1: get it. Minnesota and San Francisco are both four and five.
Speaker 1: Washington plays two teams with winning records, one that hasn't
Speaker 1: been beaten yet. Pittsburgh. The Giants five teams with winning
Speaker 1: records and are four teams, and the Eagles with five teams.
Speaker 1: So those teams and the Cowboys have already played all
Speaker 1: these teams and basically lost, right if you look at it,
Speaker 1: they lost the Seattle, Arizona, Cleveland, they got to play Baldimore, Yas.
Speaker 1: That's the Giants. And then for the Eagles, they've lost
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, Seattle, and Arizona along with Washington by the way,
Speaker 1: So those are the teams these guys got to play.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be, This is gonna be. It's
Speaker 1: gonna go down to the wire. It's gonna be who
Speaker 1: can win the NFC East games because there's gonna be
Speaker 1: tie then the division records going to be the tie breaker.
Speaker 1: You watch, now, go ahead, how about this Pittsburgh undefeated.
Speaker 1: They're three and oh against the NFC East so far,
Speaker 1: they got one one left. Seattle is one and oh.
Speaker 1: They beat the Cowboys, they got to play the other
Speaker 1: three teams. The Rams swept the NFC East they're four
Speaker 1: and oh. They're two and three against the rest of
Speaker 1: the NFL and Arizona two and oh. San Francisco now
Speaker 1: is one and one. So here's what I figured out
Speaker 1: about the NFC West, because it's the toughest division, right
Speaker 1: those teams are eight and one against the NFC East.
Speaker 1: Against the rest of the league, they're fourteen and fourteen.
Speaker 1: So the NFC East is making the NFC West look great. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: they've sot The NFC West total is twenty two and fifteen.
Speaker 1: But they're eight and one against the NFC East in
Speaker 1: fourteen and fourteen against the rest of the league. So
Speaker 1: are they good pudding amongst themselves? Yeah? Yeah, are they good?
Speaker 1: I don't well maybe, but as bad as everybody says
Speaker 1: the NFC East is, they're making the NFC West, which
Speaker 1: is the division that has only one team with a
Speaker 1: losing record. So, having said that, how many wins is
Speaker 1: it going to take to win the NFC East six?
Speaker 1: Where do the Cowboys have to get to six? Ever?
Speaker 1: Since says five, five and eleven, I said five? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right now, and keep in mind that since the
Speaker 1: Eagles have that tie against Cincinnati, if they win two
Speaker 1: of the remaining seven games, they get to five, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to get to six. Right, So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would have to win four of their last seven, right.
Speaker 1: I think if the Cowboys go four and three the
Speaker 1: rest of the way to get to six and ten
Speaker 1: on the season, they've got a pretty good shot at
Speaker 1: winning the NFC East because I'm not sure that the
Speaker 1: Eagles can win more than two. Yeah the way, I
Speaker 1: mean what we So, that's that's why schedule to end it.
Speaker 1: That's why you don't give up. That's why you don't
Speaker 1: give up. You just keep playing, and you're hoping that
Speaker 1: these young guys that have been playing more continue to improve.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna find out. We will find out about
Speaker 1: this run defense for sure on Sunday when they have
Speaker 1: to go up against the chef, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: he has a and the other hold on he has
Speaker 1: a charity and good he has a charity. They have
Speaker 1: a food truck and he serves food out of the
Speaker 1: food truck. I believe I read that's how the chef started,
Speaker 1: not to mention cook really yeah, it really interesting. Just
Speaker 1: came up with it just because of the them. No,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say the Eagles have the worst
Speaker 1: UH schedule or at least the toughest schedule to end it.
Speaker 1: And so that, like you said, that does give the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a chance. But I don't want to start thinking
Speaker 1: about tanking a season. First of all, we talked about
Speaker 1: this there, tanking. Maybe we did it and I didn't
Speaker 1: know it right one in fifteen nineteen eighty nine, maybe
Speaker 1: we were taken. I thought we were playing hard. And
Speaker 1: also two and fourteen, if I'm not mistaken, the two
Speaker 1: and fourteen in thirteen to end Tom Ladry's season. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever thought about tanking, you know, nineteen eighty eight. I mean,
Speaker 1: as bad as we were, it's just not part of
Speaker 1: your DNA as a as an organization. And let's look
Speaker 1: at it. The Jets have had the number one pick.
Speaker 1: How many years have the Jets had the number one pick?
Speaker 1: Let's say in the last ten years. It hadn't done
Speaker 1: jack for them. It hadn't done jack for them. You
Speaker 1: can look at the Knicks. You can look at the
Speaker 1: Knicks and say, how how did that work for them?
Speaker 1: Every time you look up there in the lot of it,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. Eventually, you're gonna have to share
Speaker 1: what you're worth as a player and as an organization,
Speaker 1: and I'm with use facts this team has. They cannot
Speaker 1: give up You've got I hate The only thing I
Speaker 1: hate about this game is when it comes to the
Speaker 1: running game and how important that is to stop it.
Speaker 1: And it's an exception to the rule. You see, we
Speaker 1: won't be besides the Browns. We really won't. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna be playing any other team that comes
Speaker 1: out with this running philosophy. So I hate to have
Speaker 1: to hang our hat on what happens this weekend because
Speaker 1: it's such a unique running situation as far as your
Speaker 1: opponent is concerned. I'm hoping that we could be good
Speaker 1: against it, and that could really give a telltale sign
Speaker 1: of how our run defense is going to be afterwards
Speaker 1: and into the future. But I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: see another running game like this one, so it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard for me to say what our defense is
Speaker 1: going to look like coming into this game and leaving
Speaker 1: this game. I don't know if that's going to be
Speaker 1: the barometer that we want to look at necessarily as Fags,
Speaker 1: because we haven't seen, besides the Browns, any other team
Speaker 1: that has this type of running philosophy with this personnel.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they're the exceptions to what they're going
Speaker 1: to see for the rest of the year. All I
Speaker 1: gotta say is, if you could hold them to one
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing, you probably have a chance to win.
Speaker 1: But if they get one hundred and fifty, I hope
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean the Kirk Cousins on fire. I hope
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean the Cousins on fire. That that cannot happen.
Speaker 1: That cannot happen. That's what you have to take your
Speaker 1: chance on. Right, all right, we're out of time. I
Speaker 1: will say this or Dan Graziano reporting. The NFL sent
Speaker 1: a memo to teams today informing them that as of
Speaker 1: this Saturday, all thirty two teams must operate under the
Speaker 1: league's intensive COVID nineteen protocols for the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: That means virtual meetings, mask on the practice field, etc.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys ahead of the curve on that already implemented.
Speaker 1: We and we mentioned that yesterday about how they've put
Speaker 1: the coaches and the rest of the staff that's around
Speaker 1: the team on a daily basis in a bubble. And
Speaker 1: the other thing they're doing is Jerry Jones, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will pay for family members coming to visit during the holidays.
Speaker 1: He will pay for them to be tested so they
Speaker 1: can enter the hotel bubble and be with the coaches
Speaker 1: and members of the staff. So that's one of the
Speaker 1: extensions of what we talked about yesterday. We got further
Speaker 1: clarification of that, and Mike McCarthy said, basically, this bubble
Speaker 1: at the hotel next door is for the remainder of
Speaker 1: the season, and now the NFL has followed SUPERGA and
Speaker 1: if things get bad, there's always room on the yacht.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's right, the Cowboys put out to sea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. That does it for mix shots for this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and we will see you again tomorrow. This has been
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