Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is nick
Speaker 1: shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola and Niners Divisional Playoff Week is officially underway.
Speaker 1: The days are coming at us fast this week as
Speaker 1: the playoffs roll on. Inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio, Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola. And there's an empty seat here, Mickey, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Well, I don't know. Did we lose Everson
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? Oh? No, we have Everson on at
Speaker 1: a remote location. He would not miss this week. This
Speaker 1: is Niners Week. How you doing, Everson? I look forward
Speaker 1: to coming in next week after we kick some ass.
Speaker 1: There you go, Andy, When the Cowboys will be facing
Speaker 1: When the Cowboys will be facing one of Everson's former teams,
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants at at n T State.
Speaker 1: Do you be the NFC Championship game? Right? Everson? That's
Speaker 1: what you're hoping for, right? I know that's what you're hoping.
Speaker 1: That's what Jerry's hoping for. That can happen. It can happen,
Speaker 1: It can happen. All right, very good, Well let's get well, Mickey.
Speaker 1: What you can't see here, Everson and all of you
Speaker 1: listening as well, and even those of you watching you
Speaker 1: probably cannot see what Mickey has in front of him.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of graphics with forty nine er red
Speaker 1: on it, which means he has printed out the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine or media notes, and he is hard
Speaker 1: at work preparing for this game. And what page do
Speaker 1: you think I went to immediately brought Deebo Samuel Okay,
Speaker 1: my man debo. So this one, this one, this one
Speaker 1: stuck out to me. Where he go ahead? I was
Speaker 1: gonna say this one stood out to me immediately. He
Speaker 1: is one of three players and the only wide receiver
Speaker 1: in NFL history to have at least one thousand receiving
Speaker 1: yards in a season, five receiving touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which he did all in twenty twenty one. The other
Speaker 1: two players to accomplish that triple were Marshall Falk in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine and Roger Craig in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: So how rare is this guy? That's very impressive. That's
Speaker 1: very impressive. And there's a more. There's a there's like
Speaker 1: another full page of these firsts and onlies that he
Speaker 1: has accomplished in his uh short NFL careers, you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that Mickey will be quick to
Speaker 1: point out this week, you said in his Little Green
Speaker 1: note Book he had Deebo samuel I rated as one
Speaker 1: of the top prospects coming out South Carolina once upon
Speaker 1: a time. It didn't take you long. You didn't need
Speaker 1: to go very much deeper into your little Green notebook.
Speaker 1: You do it. Just like with Micah being drafted by
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Mickey said, this is the guy the Cowboys
Speaker 1: need to draft. Well, Debo was that guy that year
Speaker 1: in Mickey's Green note Book. Since my daddy said, this
Speaker 1: is a football game, spa spag, I have just found out.
Speaker 1: You do everything but make you make the best picks
Speaker 1: and you go. You check the field as well. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, since you brought that up. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: punter Brian Anger, who actually punted in Tampa at one
Speaker 1: point in his career, he said, it was a year
Speaker 1: or two ago the NFL PA radio the five worst
Speaker 1: grass fields in the NFL and Raymond James Stadium was
Speaker 1: among those five. So my pregame analysis of that poor
Speaker 1: field was very accurate because it's still one of the
Speaker 1: worst five fields in the National Football League. And as
Speaker 1: Anger said jokingly, they're in Tampa, they're in Florida, they
Speaker 1: get rain, they get sunshine. They ought to have the
Speaker 1: best grass in the NFL, and they don't. I don't
Speaker 1: understand it. I don't understand it at all. I don't
Speaker 1: get Bill. I'm sure you're already working on the other
Speaker 1: four fields in the NFL. I know you're looking it up.
Speaker 1: I can just feel it. Let's hope, let's hope it's
Speaker 1: not it's not Santa Clara right in Levi's Stadium. And
Speaker 1: so I think maybe what we talked about yesterday, it
Speaker 1: might be that Tampa they played too many games. They have,
Speaker 1: like the University of South Florida plays there. They've got
Speaker 1: the Gasparilla Bowl there, another college bowl game, there's probably
Speaker 1: high school games there. They played too many games there,
Speaker 1: and so that's why that's why the Cowboys missed four
Speaker 1: extra points here. Now, now, how about this also that
Speaker 1: came up yesterday when we interviewed when John Fossil had
Speaker 1: his basically his conference deal press conference. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it was very interesting. Normally all the three of the
Speaker 1: coordinators are available the day after the game. Now this
Speaker 1: is a short week, but they made sure that the
Speaker 1: special teams coordinator was available the day after. Well he
Speaker 1: didn't have to probably spend as much time on his
Speaker 1: game plan as the other day. But he also pointed out,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if you guys heard this the
Speaker 1: week before that, and I forget which team did this,
Speaker 1: but they were putting a marker on the field to
Speaker 1: place the ball down on place kicks, and the NFL
Speaker 1: sent out a memos saying you cannot do that. Well,
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys had been doing, and Anger, who's the holder, said,
Speaker 1: when we get like a field like that, he goes
Speaker 1: a grass field, I will go get a piece of
Speaker 1: white grass and I'll put it on the mark where
Speaker 1: we want to put the ball down. And he said
Speaker 1: the official came up to him and said, you can't
Speaker 1: do that and swiped away his spot with the white grass.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was elevating the ball like cant right.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that took place, And I
Speaker 1: think I might have mentioned this yesterday and I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but each team has three K balls, meaning those are
Speaker 1: the balls you kick with. So Anger pointed out that
Speaker 1: before the game they get those three balls and they
Speaker 1: can rub them down to get the shine off. And
Speaker 1: he said, we spend forty five minutes with the first ball.
Speaker 1: He goes about fifteen with the second ball, and we're
Speaker 1: figuring by time we get to the third ball, we're
Speaker 1: probably not going to need that, right, and he goes, well,
Speaker 1: on the first two bad extra points, the balls went
Speaker 1: into the stands they lost them. So there was a
Speaker 1: discussion on the sideline what are they gonna do if
Speaker 1: they lose their third K ball? Were they going to
Speaker 1: have to go to Tampa Bay and say we need
Speaker 1: to use one of yours. So that became a discussion too.
Speaker 1: Not to give any excuse for missing four extra points,
Speaker 1: but all I know is that turned into a national
Speaker 1: story because last night, at the opening of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue,
Speaker 1: he brought up Brett ma who I'm sure he had
Speaker 1: never loved before, and they showed the highlights of all
Speaker 1: four miss kicks, one after another after another after another,
Speaker 1: a national TV unbelievable. America loves a good failure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they did. But they did it just it just
Speaker 1: it just feels our soul. It feeds our soul, it
Speaker 1: really does. But at least they showed the one he made,
Speaker 1: so uh, you know. And and my thinking is for
Speaker 1: Brett Maher. The kickers are always saying, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to go one for one, and you hope he keeps
Speaker 1: that in his mind, that those are gone and next
Speaker 1: game to go one for one. Those four misses don't count,
Speaker 1: all right, So he will be here next week then
Speaker 1: this week. Yes, yes, we have not seen any tryouts
Speaker 1: going on this week out on the practice field. At
Speaker 1: that was Jimmy. Now, if that was Jimmy, you know,
Speaker 1: that'd be a whole lot different. We have some a
Speaker 1: lot of guys out there kicking, you know. In fact,
Speaker 1: I got a text from a friend after I think
Speaker 1: the second missed extra point the other day and he's
Speaker 1: simple My friends said, where's the asthma field? Yeah? Okay, mickey. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've had an open locker room already today. We did
Speaker 1: because that's where I listened to Brian Anger speak. Anybody
Speaker 1: else you want to know about, well, you tell us
Speaker 1: what we need to know. Jay Ron curse, seemed kind
Speaker 1: of confident that he'd be ready to go in this game. U.
Speaker 1: I've been told by two different people that they felt
Speaker 1: like he would have a good chance to play after
Speaker 1: spraining his knee. He said, this one wasn't as bad
Speaker 1: as what he did, and I think we forgot this.
Speaker 1: He did that in the season opener and then missed
Speaker 1: like two or three games, as I off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, So yeah, he was. He was pretty
Speaker 1: confident that he would be ready to go, and he
Speaker 1: didn't want to hear any of this stuff about, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody thinking about the loss from last year to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: He said, we have enough motivation of our on our
Speaker 1: own to not have to bring something else up. And
Speaker 1: he pointed out that maybe for a week he kind
Speaker 1: of seethed over that loss and then he got over it. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's a note on Jyron curse and how close the
Speaker 1: knee injury. You're very close. In fact, you are right
Speaker 1: on against Tampa Bay in the season opener on forty
Speaker 1: second defensive snap of the game. He injured his knee
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay in the playoff season opener on the
Speaker 1: forty second defensive snap of the game for him, he
Speaker 1: injured his knee. Not only was against Tampa Bay, it
Speaker 1: was also on the forty second defensive snap at a
Speaker 1: game impossible. Yes, and in fact he did miss the
Speaker 1: next three games against Cincinnati, the Giants in Washington U Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Cowboys cannot afford him to miss the next three games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: are you are you reading from that same uh? Are
Speaker 1: you reading from that same thing? Remember whether they were
Speaker 1: making touchdowns on every interception? No, that was that's a
Speaker 1: pro football reference. Is this is from my big black
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys season uh notebook that I keep. I chart
Speaker 1: all the snaps for players all season long here and
Speaker 1: that's why it sounds kind of it sounds kind of
Speaker 1: made up. Nope, it's right here, forty seconds snap of
Speaker 1: the game. But that is Big Curse needs to be
Speaker 1: ready to play and playing a full load on Sunday
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, wouldn't you agree, Mickey? Yes, they sure
Speaker 1: could use him, especially since I guess I didn't relyze
Speaker 1: this going through all this red inc release here that
Speaker 1: against Seattle they were trailing seventeen sixteen at halftime. They
Speaker 1: ended up with five hundred yards total offense. Five hundred
Speaker 1: so the offense better function because they're gonna get theirs.
Speaker 1: Now you've got to make sure you're getting yours. That's
Speaker 1: the way I'm gonna look at this one. Hey, can
Speaker 1: I can? I know I have an issue. I have
Speaker 1: an issue in regards to the narrative that's out there
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's really flipped in regard to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense and how it's amazing they are all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. I mean, it's really been flipped on
Speaker 1: his head, right, And you know when I look at
Speaker 1: the game, of course, damn good game. Dad did well.
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, Man, I didn't get to talk about it yesterday,
Speaker 1: but just an excellent job. Clearly they were holding out
Speaker 1: against Washington. I think we can all come to grip
Speaker 1: with that they were holding out, but this particular game
Speaker 1: they let it all out. They knew exactly what's going on,
Speaker 1: they anticipated everything. Well, there are times take away the interceptions,
Speaker 1: but there are times when Dad has done a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff before, right. I mean, of course, this
Speaker 1: was an excellent game, but it's not leaps and bounds guy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's kind of been that guy once again.
Speaker 1: Mistakes here and there, he's kind of been that guy
Speaker 1: ever since he's been back. I mean, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: Is that just me thinking that, Well, here's what's happening
Speaker 1: when you look at the points per game and things
Speaker 1: of that day. Yeah, And here's what's happened is everybody
Speaker 1: has all season long concentrated on the interceptions and as
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, I concentrate on the productivity. And his
Speaker 1: productivity in these games have been amazing when you figured
Speaker 1: that in that nine game stretch they averaged thirty six
Speaker 1: points a game, right, thirty six. So has he had
Speaker 1: a couple bad games, yes, But here's his quarterback ratings
Speaker 1: since he came back from the injury. One thirteen point two,
Speaker 1: one fourteen point five in the loss to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: it was seventy eight point six, the win over Minnesota
Speaker 1: one thirty nine point three, then ninety one, one hundred
Speaker 1: seventy against Houston when the entire team struggled, then one
Speaker 1: oh seven one twenty four, and that was against Philadelphia
Speaker 1: eighty five point six, and then Washington unfortunately it was
Speaker 1: forty five point eight. So if you look at his
Speaker 1: efficiency in those uh, what is that eleven games, five, ten,
Speaker 1: twelve games. Yeah, he's been pretty damn good. You want
Speaker 1: me to do brought Purty now, yeah, brought Purty eighty
Speaker 1: eight point eight one, thirty four point zero one, seventeen
Speaker 1: point zero one, fourteen point six, ninety five point four one,
Speaker 1: forty one point two in the playoff game one thirty
Speaker 1: one point five. So efficient. And here's what I forgot
Speaker 1: about them, the forty nine ers. They started the season
Speaker 1: off one one and two and three and four, and
Speaker 1: then they won now eleven straight games, eleven And how
Speaker 1: many points are they scoring since Brock Purty started playing.
Speaker 1: They have played because he did not start the first game,
Speaker 1: he came in off the bench because Garoppolo got hurt,
Speaker 1: and they scored thirty three and he came in early
Speaker 1: in that game. He threw thirty seven passes, so it
Speaker 1: was basically a start. It doesn't count as a win
Speaker 1: on his record as a starting quarterback, but it was
Speaker 1: they scored. They have scored over thirty points in every
Speaker 1: game but one against Seattle since he started playing. So
Speaker 1: we're talking six regular season games in one postseason games,
Speaker 1: so six out of seven games they've got thirty or
Speaker 1: more points. It's is very similar to the nine game
Speaker 1: stretch that Dak had, and you throw in the playoff
Speaker 1: game for Dak where he was averaging thirty six a game,
Speaker 1: and now you got another one. Well, even before he
Speaker 1: started in there with Garoppolo, I see a thirty seven
Speaker 1: or thirty one and a thirty eight until they got
Speaker 1: to that New Orleans game when it was thirteen to nothing.
Speaker 1: Was that the one Garoppolo got hurt in? No, No,
Speaker 1: he got hurt in the Miami game again, h and okay,
Speaker 1: Party came off the bench and let him to win. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so maybe it does predict your scorer off your
Speaker 1: gas tank fill up, I think so. But no. But
Speaker 1: but to me, guys, it just seems to me that
Speaker 1: in order for Dad to get any type of credit,
Speaker 1: and this offense period Kellen Moore included, Uh, they damned
Speaker 1: have to be perfect. It just seems to be the
Speaker 1: near the fear. And that's the way they were against Tampa.
Speaker 1: They were damn near perfect against Tampa. Right, what did
Speaker 1: what did Seattle? Did they finish with a winning record?
Speaker 1: Were they nine and eight? Something that I want to say,
Speaker 1: I was just looking to see during this nine eight,
Speaker 1: during the nine and nine now, because they lost these
Speaker 1: these winning streaks. New Orleans losing record, Miami I think
Speaker 1: had a winning record, Tampa Bay losing record, Seattle winning record.
Speaker 1: Washington finished five hundred thanks to the Cowboys, Vegas and
Speaker 1: Arizona losing records. So their their streak down there stretch.
Speaker 1: You know, they were playing teams darn Wright should beat
Speaker 1: and you know, and that's and if you look at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, if they had beaten those two teams that
Speaker 1: they had what fourteen and seven was at seventeen point
Speaker 1: lead and lost both games in overtime, they're the number
Speaker 1: one seed. So I think the narrative, what you know
Speaker 1: Everson brought up is the fact that it had they
Speaker 1: not had those two hiccups, they would have been talked
Speaker 1: about out just like this team right here. All right,
Speaker 1: we got so much more to talk about here on
Speaker 1: this edition of Mick Shanson. We will continue in just
Speaker 1: a moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest
Speaker 1: military award for valor in combat. More than forty million
Speaker 1: individuals have served in the armed forces since the Civil War.
Speaker 1: Fewer than four thousand have received the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 1: The National Medal of Honor Museum will be a place
Speaker 1: to preserve these legacies and inspire America. It's being built
Speaker 1: right next door to the Dallas Cowboys in Texas. Help
Speaker 1: us honor our country's greatest heroes. Learn more and get
Speaker 1: involved at moh Museum dot org. We paid how much
Speaker 1: for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can
Speaker 1: you pass me a Pepsi's zero sugar? Great job, honey,
Speaker 1: Oh look at that. That's not the end, No way.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the encore. You know what You're right?
Speaker 1: Five times? Not enough times for everyone who traded in
Speaker 1: rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough. Pepsi
Speaker 1: zero sugar, That's what I like. Nobody protects you from
Speaker 1: mayhem like all State. You hear that I'm a torrential
Speaker 1: downpour Torrential What does that even mean? It means you
Speaker 1: can't see out of your windshield, and if you have
Speaker 1: the wrong car insures, you might have to make it
Speaker 1: rain to fix your bumper. So switch to all State,
Speaker 1: save money and be better protected from Mayhem like me.
Speaker 1: Based on coverage in them, it's selected subject to terms, conditions,
Speaker 1: and availability. In most states, prices vary based on how
Speaker 1: you buying all State Garden Catch the insurance company in affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois.
Speaker 1: What do you call a group of grown men and
Speaker 1: women with their faces painted silver and blue who get
Speaker 1: together every week to share a three hour long ritual
Speaker 1: of jumping, sinking, and toasting Miller Lite and Tim Gallant
Speaker 1: hats while yelling how about them cowboys? You call it
Speaker 1: Miller time in Dallas. Here's to the cowboys, Here's to
Speaker 1: the original light beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Miller Brewing Company for Words, Texas back back
Speaker 1: to Mick Shots. Cap Post Roofing and Waterproofing, proud partner
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. From Cartet Holmes to your home.
Speaker 1: Have your roof checked by choice, not by chance? Call
Speaker 1: now two one four two to five four eight six
Speaker 1: zero and that would be KPE Postcompany dot com. All right,
Speaker 1: Nate in Frisco has chimed in and he has made
Speaker 1: the comment good or bad? I need Rookie Dakota meeting.
Speaker 1: I think limit those oh turnovers, Yes, absolutely, which he
Speaker 1: Dakota did a very good job of limiting those turnovers
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay. He was very jude issus with the football.
Speaker 1: I think I saw him throw the ball away a
Speaker 1: couple times, and I saw him take off and run
Speaker 1: and with positive yards by the way, a couple of
Speaker 1: times too. I want to say, maybe three or four times.
Speaker 1: Let's see here real quickly, he ended up running seven
Speaker 1: times for twenty four yards with a brilliant call for
Speaker 1: a one yard touchdown. By the way. That's exactly right,
Speaker 1: all right, uh, and we'll reconnect with Everson here shortly.
Speaker 1: I've got one for h Nate in Frisco. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about the offensive line yesterday, the
Speaker 1: hat that Avante Collins had follow the we go what
Speaker 1: was it? Follow the offensive line or something to that effect.
Speaker 1: So I saw a little panel that I'm not going
Speaker 1: to have a lot of respect for. ESPN put out
Speaker 1: their top ten rookies, right, okay, And of course they're
Speaker 1: all cornerbacks, wide receivers, running backs, and I believe there
Speaker 1: was one offensive lineman, Tyler Linderbaum. Then they had ten,
Speaker 1: just missus. Tyler Smith was not among any of those.
Speaker 1: And I heard Troy Aikman say during the game after
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith had to change from left guard back to
Speaker 1: left tackle mid stream and I'm paraphrasing, but he said
Speaker 1: this guy should be on some sort of All Rookie
Speaker 1: team or Rookie of the Year for what he's been through.
Speaker 1: And these guys had no idea who Tyler Smith is.
Speaker 1: I guarantee you because I think about where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would be if this kid was not playing at what
Speaker 1: twenty one years old at the level he's playing at
Speaker 1: right now, at two different positions, and had trained all
Speaker 1: summer at guard, and what ten days before the season opener,
Speaker 1: they go, no, you're the starting left tackle, not the
Speaker 1: right tackle, the left tackle, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's like, well, we need you to look at
Speaker 1: playing guard, and so they move them into guard and
Speaker 1: then it's like okay, but you know what, However, many
Speaker 1: snaps into the game, you know, you go back to
Speaker 1: left tackle and played well. And they are going to
Speaker 1: need this offensive line to play well against that San
Speaker 1: Francisco front to be able to score the amount of
Speaker 1: points they're going to need to score if they want
Speaker 1: to win this game. And you look at the position
Speaker 1: of flexibility that Tyler Smith has and what that's done
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys even here in the last three games,
Speaker 1: because it was in the Tennessee game where Beadish goes
Speaker 1: down with the injury and so he moves inside after
Speaker 1: sixty two snaps at left tackle, final eighteen snaps of
Speaker 1: that game at guard. Plays guard in the season finale
Speaker 1: against Washington, first thirty three snaps at left guard. In
Speaker 1: the playoff game against Tampa, Jason Peters goes down and
Speaker 1: he slides back out to left tackle for thirty six
Speaker 1: snaps in that game. And now you're going up against
Speaker 1: the top defense in the league and the top sack
Speaker 1: artist in the league and Nick Bosa who at eighteen
Speaker 1: and a half sacks this year, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be on the rookie at left tackle and the future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer coming back from his injury, Tyrn Smith
Speaker 1: at right tackle to take care of that pass rush.
Speaker 1: And they like to use their linebackers too to pressure.
Speaker 1: Probably one of the reasons Fred Warner has made the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl team. So, yeah, he's going to play a
Speaker 1: big part in this game if he can hold up
Speaker 1: his end of the bargain, you know. And it was
Speaker 1: Everson Walls yesterday who was very quick to point out
Speaker 1: the performance of the Cowboys offensive line, and that went
Speaker 1: over Tampa Bay Everson and he's there in picture only,
Speaker 1: picture only, all right. We thought we had ever since
Speaker 1: we had him bring him on in, right, But I
Speaker 1: mean that's huge for that offensive line to continue to
Speaker 1: play like they did the other night. And now, I
Speaker 1: mean you can't afford to lose anybody on that offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from a depth standpoint, right because now the because it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like Peter's going to get back in time,
Speaker 1: so Josh balls your backup offensive tackle. He's the last
Speaker 1: man standing other than maybe Avante Collins, who has played
Speaker 1: in the league, but I think they look at him
Speaker 1: more as an inside guy just in case happens there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's thin, but these guys have
Speaker 1: to play and have a game like they did this
Speaker 1: pass game protecting Dak the way they did. All Right.
Speaker 1: Anything else that you'd like to get to, either from
Speaker 1: the locker room today or from the press conference yesterday
Speaker 1: with Mike McCarthy as well as Bones Fossile. Yeah, Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy pointed out that in these playoff games, one of
Speaker 1: his big points is you can't win without big plays,
Speaker 1: and that's playoff football. And if you look at this
Speaker 1: pass game, the Cowboys had six plays of twenty yards
Speaker 1: or more, and I will check myself to make sure
Speaker 1: that my memory is good. And Tampa Bay had two
Speaker 1: plays of twenty yards or more and both of those
Speaker 1: were towards the end of the game, after the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had built up that big lead. And not only six
Speaker 1: plays of twenty yards or more, they had four more
Speaker 1: of eighteen yards. So they hit some big plays. And
Speaker 1: his point is, you've got to have big plays. And
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things San Francisco does
Speaker 1: pretty well with their big plays in games. And so
Speaker 1: these defenses are going to be tested in this game,
Speaker 1: no matter how well they've played previously. Okay, in just
Speaker 1: a moment, I believe we got Everson back. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make sure on that. But I want what I want
Speaker 1: to get to with Everson here in just a moment.
Speaker 1: What I want to get into with you, Everson, when
Speaker 1: we come back here in just a moment, is the
Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary and what the forty nine ers present offensively
Speaker 1: that's different from Tampa Bay. That might put a little
Speaker 1: more stress on the cornerback position for the Cowboys. That's
Speaker 1: when shots continues in just a moment, we paid how
Speaker 1: much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Can you pass me a Pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey,
Speaker 1: Oh look at that. That's not the end, no way.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the encore. You know what You're right?
Speaker 1: Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in
Speaker 1: rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough. Pepsi
Speaker 1: zero sugar. That's what I like. Nobody protects you from
Speaker 1: mayhem like All State. You hear that, I'm a torrential downpour? Torrential?
Speaker 1: What's that even mean? It means you can't see out
Speaker 1: of your windshield, and if you have the wrong car insurance,
Speaker 1: you might have to make it rain to fix your bumper.
Speaker 1: So switch to all State, save money and be better
Speaker 1: protected from mayhem like me based on coverage in them,
Speaker 1: it's selected center to terms, conditions and availability. In most states,
Speaker 1: prices vary based on how you buying All State car
Speaker 1: catch the insurance company in affiliates Northbrook, Illinois. The Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor is our country's highest military award for valor
Speaker 1: in combat. More than forty million individuals have served in
Speaker 1: the armed forces since the Civil War. Fewer than four
Speaker 1: thousand have received the Medal of Honor. The National Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor Museum will be a place to preserve these
Speaker 1: legacies and inspire America. It's being built right next door
Speaker 1: to the Dallas Cowboys in Texas. Help us honor our
Speaker 1: country's greatest heroes. Learn more and get involved at moh
Speaker 1: Museum dot org. The season is finally here. For months,
Speaker 1: we've been gearing up to win. Now it's time for
Speaker 1: the team that performs on any field. United egg In
Speaker 1: Turf with John Deer zero turns for mowing, compact tractors
Speaker 1: for loading, many excavators for digging, Gator utility vehicles for hauling,
Speaker 1: implements for grading, a tools for bailing. United agg In
Speaker 1: Turf for winning the official Laggin Turf equipment supplier of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Visit United Agginturf dot com for more
Speaker 1: back back to Mick shots. Just steps away from the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys World headquarters in Frisco, visit the Star District
Speaker 1: your destination for excellent dining, premier shopping, and exciting events.
Speaker 1: Visit Star District dot com for more information. It was
Speaker 1: a great place to watch the game on Monday night
Speaker 1: in fact, of course, there are a lot of pregame show.
Speaker 1: I was not out here, but I did see on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com the pregame show with Kyle and
Speaker 1: Nate and Isaiah Berry Church and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people there, a lot of You wouldn't believe the
Speaker 1: number of people that were at at and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: That's where I was at the watch party, and I
Speaker 1: I did some hits for not only CBS eleven but
Speaker 1: for Cowboys TV on the pregame show. The outdoor venue
Speaker 1: at Miller Like Plaza, and it was packed. Gates opened
Speaker 1: at five thirty courses seven fifteen kickoff. I got away
Speaker 1: just before seven o'clock and the line of traffic that
Speaker 1: it looked like the Cowboys were playing a game there.
Speaker 1: There were so many people lined up to get into
Speaker 1: the parking lot and the parking lot was filling up
Speaker 1: very quickly. And so that was a great place to
Speaker 1: watch the game. And by the way, speaking of how
Speaker 1: many people watched the game on Monday night, Cowboys versus
Speaker 1: Buccaneers was the most watched NFL playoff game since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, with a total of thirty point six million viewers.
Speaker 1: Wow million go and they wonder why they called US
Speaker 1: America's team and you and you wonder why they had
Speaker 1: a Monday night playoff game which now will go for
Speaker 1: twenty years. Oh yeah, right, yep, this is a stay
Speaker 1: people after that. That's right. And uh so, thirty point
Speaker 1: six million viewers watch Dallas versus Brady. So how many
Speaker 1: people will watch on Sunday when Dallas faces a quarterback
Speaker 1: who beat Brady thirty five to seven a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Brock Purty, that's funny going from from the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time to mister irrelevant the last pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: That's right, all right. Ever, since you know I kind
Speaker 1: of have before you go on Bill that mister irrelevant term,
Speaker 1: I have to say, you know, uh, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: always fighting for my place in line. I think you know,
Speaker 1: free agents are probably more right when it comes to
Speaker 1: the draft. Okay, undrafted free agents. You can't get more
Speaker 1: irrelevant than that. So I take umbradge with that term
Speaker 1: being attributed to him having such a hard road to
Speaker 1: hope you understand that's exactly right, exactly right. In fact,
Speaker 1: the name should never have been mister irrelevant. It should
Speaker 1: have been mister relevant. From the get go, because you
Speaker 1: are relevant going into training camp, because you're a draft
Speaker 1: pick right over an undrafted player. You are officially you
Speaker 1: are officially a draft pick. They've invested something in you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. They had a check for you. They had
Speaker 1: a check and it was bigger than the check that
Speaker 1: I got. So yeah, you mean the last pick in
Speaker 1: the twelfth round in eighty one got more than you did.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they did. Yeah. I don't know who
Speaker 1: that was, but I'm sure it was more than fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. All right, I'm gonna look up who that was.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, Everson, I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me against this Niners team and what they do offensively,
Speaker 1: the weapon they have on offense compared to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: what kind of stresses that put on the cornerback situation
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. Because the Cowboys and also with Curses
Speaker 1: injury and we're gonna hope that Curse is able to
Speaker 1: come back at full strength, but they use Curse in
Speaker 1: a big role in that game, even against Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: their slot receiver, and then mcquam who came in and
Speaker 1: played a big role as well in the slot now,
Speaker 1: what about the cornerback situation this week going up against
Speaker 1: this team. What you have with San Francisco are a
Speaker 1: number of receivers that are very skillful after they cast
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, when they cast the ball, it
Speaker 1: is not over a matter of fact, your problems are
Speaker 1: just beginning. We talk about Debo and how well he is.
Speaker 1: I am sure between he and I U if I
Speaker 1: say the name, yes, you got it, number eleven playing
Speaker 1: wide receiver. On the other side, I believe he had
Speaker 1: his first thousand yards season this year and he actually
Speaker 1: gained more yards receiving than Debo. You have got also
Speaker 1: talking about Curse. I don't even know if curse can
Speaker 1: help here, but you've got one of the toughest, grittiest,
Speaker 1: craziest tight ends I think I've ever seen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This guy Kittle is strong and he's elusive. He is
Speaker 1: growk whatever four point or whatever because he has the
Speaker 1: ability to break tackles. He runs excellent routes, especially for
Speaker 1: a tight end. And I have seen us, even with
Speaker 1: Jay ran out there have some problems with good route
Speaker 1: running tight ends, and of course everyone is so that's
Speaker 1: always Purdy's outlet. Just like Dak Prescott just like any
Speaker 1: other quarterback that's heading up a high powered offense. And
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an issue in regards to how much
Speaker 1: we want to go man to man. Okay, how much
Speaker 1: we want to blitz as well, because if you're stuck
Speaker 1: with these guys one on one once they kissed the ball,
Speaker 1: you have got to bring them down. A broken tackle
Speaker 1: leading to a long play touchdown that can be disheartening
Speaker 1: in an environment that the forty nines are playing in. Well,
Speaker 1: let me give you a little backup on that. Au
Speaker 1: finished with one thousand and fifteen yards receiving, he averaged
Speaker 1: thirteen yards and catch had eight touchdowns, but Kittle Kittle
Speaker 1: led the team in touchdowns with eleven. And one of
Speaker 1: the things Mike McCarthy pointed out yesterday in his press
Speaker 1: conference was going to be the important of tackling. Tackling
Speaker 1: will be very important in this game because of their
Speaker 1: ability to run after the catch and even tackling when
Speaker 1: you're trying to deal with McCaffrey, you know he's late
Speaker 1: to the game there, and he still had six touchdowns
Speaker 1: along of thirty eight. So again he said, tackling will
Speaker 1: be at a premium in this game. Okay, mister irrelevant
Speaker 1: from Everson's draft in nineteen eighty one, thank you producer
Speaker 1: Supreme Phil Nelson, a tied end from the University of Delaware,
Speaker 1: a blue hen was drafted by the Raiders with the
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty second pick of that draft, and
Speaker 1: he was cut in training camp, so he truly was here.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So there's another the Lord I was
Speaker 1: a blessed man. There's another number for you to chew on.
Speaker 1: Three hundred and thirty two people were drafted and you
Speaker 1: were so so Everson. That means that you, Everson, you
Speaker 1: were the three hundred and thirty third pick of the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one draft by the Dallas Cowboys, and I
Speaker 1: ended up pretting being pretty relevant. Yes, I appreciate if
Speaker 1: you don't say so yourself. All right, speaking of relevance, Mickey,
Speaker 1: as you jot down notes from whatever Everson saying during
Speaker 1: this show, because you're going to write a column on it, right,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right? What else you got on your notepad there?
Speaker 1: And we don't have time to get into this today,
Speaker 1: but one thing I want to get into in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days is Tony Pollard versus Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: and how important both of those players are in this game.
Speaker 1: I've got some interesting numbers to throw at you, which
Speaker 1: I'll save for tomorrow. But uh, you know, the Niners
Speaker 1: starting off with the three and four record this season,
Speaker 1: what kind of turned their season around was a little
Speaker 1: trade that they made to pick up Christian McCaffrey. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh absolutely. I mean if you just watched this last game,
Speaker 1: watching them on the field, Uh yeah, he he's amazing.
Speaker 1: He's amazing how he squirts through holes, he sees things awfully, awfully. Well,
Speaker 1: are you talking about McCaffrey Pollard. McCaffrey but Pollard too,
Speaker 1: that's thot. Yeah, I think you're exactly right. It's both
Speaker 1: the fact that they just need a little crease and
Speaker 1: they can jump through it, and and and even Pollard
Speaker 1: he's hard to tackle once he gets going, So yeah,
Speaker 1: um that one. Do you think it's more powerful? I
Speaker 1: think Pollard. I think Pollard might have a little more
Speaker 1: explosion as opposed to shifting this that McCaffrey has. Maybe
Speaker 1: you think m hmm, yeah, I don't know. I can't
Speaker 1: see McCaffrey with power. I don't see him with power.
Speaker 1: I see him with more elusiveness. Well, I saw him
Speaker 1: moving the pile a couple of times. Could be? Could be?
Speaker 1: So I was trying to look. The Cowboys have played
Speaker 1: San Francisco in at least four NFC title games, well
Speaker 1: three in the nineties, right, consecutive, that's right, one game,
Speaker 1: the ones in seventy and seventy one. Those weren't title
Speaker 1: games where they were just like first or second round.
Speaker 1: I know the seventy the seventy two game, which was
Speaker 1: the Tony Fritze behind the back on side kick, which
Speaker 1: was Captain, the birth of Captain Comeback was a divisional
Speaker 1: playoff game. It was not a conference championship game, right,
Speaker 1: and off to look up on the rest of them.
Speaker 1: If you give me two seconds, I will find that
Speaker 1: for you. Nineteen seven. But it is interesting they did
Speaker 1: face the Niners in nineteen seventy, leading to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: first Super Bowl appearance the loss of Baltimore, and that
Speaker 1: was a conference championship game. And then in seventy one
Speaker 1: they beat the Niners in the conference championship game fourteen
Speaker 1: to three, and that was the first playoff game ever
Speaker 1: played at Texas Stadium. By the way, Cowboys started the
Speaker 1: playoffs in the Divisional playoff round at Minnesota that week
Speaker 1: and then got the home game against San Francisco for
Speaker 1: the conference championship game, and of course beat the Dolphins
Speaker 1: for their first Super Bowl win that year. Yes, did
Speaker 1: um diag is his name not Hicks? H My goodness,
Speaker 1: the running back that played for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: He was a kick return as well on the break
Speaker 1: or whatever. Let me know if that guy returned to
Speaker 1: open a kick for a testdown. Which game Vick Washington
Speaker 1: SAFA yep, Vick Washington. Vick Washington returned to kickoff ninety
Speaker 1: seven yards for a touchdown in the thirty to twenty
Speaker 1: eight game and that the Cowboys won at Kendall Stick
Speaker 1: Park in nineteen seventy two. That was nice. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: you know the amazing thing was after playing them so
Speaker 1: many times in playoffs, after the Cowboys lost to him
Speaker 1: in that nineteen ninety four season NFC title game, they
Speaker 1: didn't play him again in a playoff game until last year.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you don't go deep in the
Speaker 1: playoffs for twenty seven straight years or maybe them two Yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys were in. So the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: not deep, yeah, any anywhere anywhere. Yeah, Well that's why
Speaker 1: when you've made it to the playoffs, what ten times
Speaker 1: over twenty seven years, I think it's what the number
Speaker 1: is something like that. No, I think they were I
Speaker 1: want to say they were four and eleven after ninety five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're winning some some playoff games. Yeah yeah, oh
Speaker 1: you say just ti times in the playoffs yeah, um right,
Speaker 1: Cowboys though, we're three and oh against the Niners in
Speaker 1: the seventies and then and one in the eighties. That's
Speaker 1: so a three and one record, and then two and
Speaker 1: one in the nineties. That gets you to five and
Speaker 1: two and then last year's game five and three all time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the wins were I think I went to the
Speaker 1: seventy two in in in the uh In, Texas Stadium.
Speaker 1: I think I was damn. I was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: what it was in that would have been seventy one,
Speaker 1: seventy one season, but it might have been seventy two
Speaker 1: by time they played him. Maybe it might have been
Speaker 1: jan We won that, right, we won that game, right,
Speaker 1: It was a fourteen to three win in seventy one,
Speaker 1: and it was actually January second, uh, nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: and the previous year also they played the Niners in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Will back it up here, um, which is
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy season, and that was a January third Conference championship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was at San Francisco, so yeah. Uh. Ever, since
Speaker 1: there was only one of those playoff games, which was
Speaker 1: the first game, first playoff game ever played at Texas Stadium.
Speaker 1: So that's what's so great about that the Birds was
Speaker 1: up there with the Birds. Yeah. Um, but that's that
Speaker 1: is one of for us old timers, that is the
Speaker 1: one thing when the Cowboys are playing the Niners and
Speaker 1: just the memories of all these great playoff matchups going
Speaker 1: back fifty years. Basically, it's just it's fun to see
Speaker 1: those two teams go at it again. And we talked
Speaker 1: about it going into last year's game, and now we
Speaker 1: do it out on the West Coast this time. And
Speaker 1: I'm proud to say I was in that little interview
Speaker 1: room at Candlestick Park when Jimmy screamed, how about them?
Speaker 1: I was too, I was too amazing. Yep. And you're
Speaker 1: right when you said little that might have been the
Speaker 1: smallest yeah locker room area ever, you know, our TV
Speaker 1: director here, Scott herself figured out he was looking around,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're the last time the people on
Speaker 1: the staff now that had been at that NFC title game.
Speaker 1: He counted six of us, really, and Scott and I
Speaker 1: were two of them. Do I count Jim? Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, he should have counted you. I think he.
Speaker 1: I think he met people that Nate count the people
Speaker 1: that were at the game. Nate was at the game
Speaker 1: Monday night. No, oh, you're talking about this, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got you. I got just playoff game Monday night. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be in San Francisco. Oh well, we'll just
Speaker 1: add to that that. So, yeah, so we need to
Speaker 1: do the number. Jim Mauer was one of them. There
Speaker 1: we go training. We need to do a picture. Take
Speaker 1: a picture, Scott and I did, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if he posted it or not. Yeah, all right, well
Speaker 1: we're about out of time on this edition already. Shots. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's amazing how time flies like this flew by. Okay,
Speaker 1: so ever since time flies very well, yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's why he gets why ever sends a relevant career
Speaker 1: flew by so quickly. So we'll hope for good weather
Speaker 1: tomorrow because they will practice tomorrow by way, Oh, actually
Speaker 1: you're gonna decide to practice for this yeah, and Friday,
Speaker 1: by the way, all right, very good. So they'll get
Speaker 1: two really well full practice. They'll do one today. It's
Speaker 1: just a walkthrough. But they when you say full practice,
Speaker 1: like pads one pad, you only get one, you only
Speaker 1: get one, you only allowed one one per week or wait, okay,
Speaker 1: you can wear one pad, one pad. So let's say
Speaker 1: so they have this narrative, right, they have this narrative
Speaker 1: that came through. I mean for them to even ask
Speaker 1: the question, do the Cowboys have to worry about fatigue?
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna can't see all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk fatigue, and we'll talk Pollard versus McCaffrey
Speaker 1: on the next edition of Mix Shots with you ever said,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for joining us for this edition of
Speaker 1: Mix Shots, Go Cowboys. This has been a production of
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.