WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Hidden Yardage 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:19.079 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.840 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Head Hours at 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:34.360 the Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.760 and Bill Jones. And it's a Monday here at the 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.519 Star in Frisco or inside the SWBC Mortgage studios. And 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.400 it is the annual tradition that is Thanksgiving Week. As 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.560 we are well into what day of the week would 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.720 this be? Make you with the game staring us in 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.600 the face in three days? Wednesday? Okay, it's a Wednesday 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.520 as far as the players are concerned, and the coaches, yes, 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.400 that Wednesday, Thursday, Friday that gets us to a game 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.600 on Friday. It's actually Thursday. In their mind it's Wednesday. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.080 But if you if you're gonna backtime it from a 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.080 Sunday game day Saturday, yeah, we're already. We just fast 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.080 forwarded through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It is Thursday here at 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.199 the Start getting ready for the Buffalo Bills. But there's 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:24.360 so much to get to about Yesterday in Foxborough, Massachusetts, 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.560 Rob and Mickey Garden spot of the universe. Ye. Ever, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.840 so I'm gonna start with rob and Mickey because they 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.320 went on the road trip. Robson see actually was outside. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.679 The keyword there is you are on the road trip, 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.360 right yeah? Yeah, who needs a tunnel, you know when 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.440 you could be out doing pregame show and that that 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:51.080 was fun? No, it was good. It was It was 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.920 a good environment. Um. I wish these two teams could 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.880 have played in a dome and we could actually seen 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.560 what both teams can do. I think that the elements 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.160 were for both teams. Um that rain and win was nasty, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:09.359 particularly first half early in the game. UM. Story of 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.880 the game, special teams. I know we're gonna get into it. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.320 It's the field position game. That's why the Patriots are 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.920 ten and one and the Cowboys were. They were awful 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:22.080 in that regard yesterday and you look at the final stats. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.800 To me, the biggest one starting field position for New 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.640 England their own forty one yard line. Cowboys ever since 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.400 talked about this all last week, their own twenty one 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.000 yard line having to drive long fields against the top 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.200 ranked defense in the league and they couldn't make enough play. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.799 This game is gonna play out totally different when they 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:47.280 meet again on the Groundhog Day. You know, guy, local guys. 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.040 I'm not sure. I covered a game in weather that 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.240 was so miserable for four full quarters. It never let up. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.720 It sucked, it was It was bad for in the 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:00.800 press box. And so we can see the rain coming 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.080 down in the lights and it was blowing across in sheets. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.799 It looked like the wind got worse than this. Yeah, 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.520 it was a guy like Parker on They happened to 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.640 just you know, pan the crowd and one guy's park 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.240 It was like a flag. It was just right. It 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.480 was just blowing. Yeah, And I was like, wow, this 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.040 is real. It does not look like that on the field. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.160 On the field, it looked nasty, but you did. You 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:29.000 couldn't appreciate the wind changes his gear at halftime. You know, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.799 it's getting When I when I woke up and I 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.079 opened up the window of the hotel, so I'm eight 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.480 floors up and there was a parking garage across the 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.760 street that was just a little bit lower, and it's raining, 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.960 and I can see the water on the ground blowing right, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.800 and I go, Okay, that winds serious that it's blowing 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.040 it off. So the rain is coming up like like 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:55.360 Forrest Gump. Yeah, it was. I mean it was I 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.680 had to go do my pre so Rod was down 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.080 there doing his pregame show right filming sideline. I had 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.520 to go do my radio pregame segment. But to get 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.920 to where the radio booth was, I had to go 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.520 out on the first level of the field of the stands. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.320 And it was like I was headed out without a 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:16.159 jacket and the guy goes, you know that's outside. I said, oh, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.800 I'll go get in my jacket. And to get there, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.599 you had to walk undercover. You weren't undercover for part 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.400 of it. And it was like, oh, this is brutal, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.640 absolutely brutal. And it was. And I noticed that the 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.320 people in the lower section stood the whole game. So 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.800 I'm thinking maybe when it's raining, if you're sitting, you 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:39.680 get and maybe their seats were wet. Yeah, you bring 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.360 a towel, Bill. I was probably flooded down there by 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.160 their feet. I saw a guy with some some of 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:47.520 the boots on and you know he's sitting down there, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.159 but it's cover. It's up to his ankle. The water 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.880 was up to his ankle. Sou And as for the game, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.440 um I had I had pointed out before that. For 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.800 the Cowboys to go there in that atmosphere, playing that 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.239 dean team, that defense that they basically had to be clean, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.040 almost had to be perfect, couldn't have turnovers, and they 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.159 had two turnovers that led directly to ten of their 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.960 thirteen points. Can have it if you're gonna win and 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.560 beat that team at their place, And that, to me 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.000 was the entire difference in the game. That was, no 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.440 doubt bad. Did you see the interception, Yes, that was 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:32.360 an amazing interception. It was they didn't I don't know 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.880 if they talked about it much. I don't know Troy 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.520 said much about it on the telecast. But he intercepted 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.400 with his near hand. He didn't intercept with his back. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.120 I think he intercepted with his near hand, like the 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.640 one that he was swiping with. That's the one that 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.120 caught the ball. I don't know if you saw that. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.360 And it was almost like this freaky thing to where 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.960 as he was trying to knock it down, watching it 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.600 right here. That as he tried to knock it down, 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.000 I think Coop almost trial trying to help. I think 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.960 he almost pushed it. It allowed it to stay in 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.800 this hand, the swipe hand which is extremely unusual. And 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.159 if you think about how wet everything was and for 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.680 him to hold on to that man, and you know, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.640 and the other thing is, so that play started off 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.159 with a high snap and Dak went up and batted 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.200 it with one hand, got it down. So now the 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.160 timing's off and he starts the roll to his right. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.120 But he's rolling to his right and he throws side arm. Now, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.520 if any of you ever throw sidearm, you know, when 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.480 you're follow through goes, the ball goes left, it doesn't 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.919 go right where you needed to lead him, and it 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.280 kind of threw it a little bit behind Cooper, which 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.960 allowed him to make that diving interception. Bad decision on 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.520 Dak's proud. I don't know, but I know when you're 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.880 throwing side arm. That was the only way I can 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.760 throw strikes basically in baseball. So there was no doubt 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.560 it was a bad decision. Yeah, but yeah, he was. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.440 He's terrific, isn't he? Gilmore. I mean, that's the guy 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.440 that they put so much confidence in him. And to 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.520 have a guy that you can basically shout, I mean 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.400 I think he basically shadowed Murray the whole game. I mean, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:13.520 did I see a Cooper that was a little bit intimidated. Well, 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.520 I don't know if he was intimidated. All I know 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.960 is that he played only fifty two of the sixty 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.120 four plays, so he was coming here on series. Said 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.160 he and Whitton were both out on the one series 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.080 where they were running the ball primarily, and they really 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.960 didn't need him then. But I mean even when he 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.480 was out there participating, it was one time he ran 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.840 the route and looks like uh Dak was looking at 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.440 him like okay, get open, and he's over there as 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.520 if he's a decoy. Well, he had two catches that 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:47.120 were nullified by penalties, and then he had an almost 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.840 catch that was overturned. So I mean, no one had 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:52.720 You know, the only guy that had a big day 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.400 receiving was Edelman. I mean he was he was fantastic, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.920 as we expected. But having said all all this stuff, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.480 ten points on those two plays the block field. The 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.200 block punt leads to an easy touchdown from twelve yards out, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.360 and that's one of the reason why their starting position 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.680 was at the forty one. When you get one at 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.880 the plus twelve, that certainly helps out the average that 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.240 leads to the punt leads to a touchdown, and then 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.680 the interception leads to a field goal. You got beat 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.280 thirteen nine, and you basically handed them ten points. And 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.280 then you look at the as we do every Monday morning, 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:38.240 as Monday Morning quarterbacks, you look at quarterback cornerbacks. In 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.960 this case, you so much be Jack. We're talking about 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:49.080 tripping calls that came out of nowhere. I was. I 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:50.960 was working with the group last night. I had him 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.200 look up how many I said, how many tripping calls 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.200 have been called this year? Not just on the Cowboys, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.520 but this year. And if I could trust this guy's information, 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.440 he looked up on the computer, if he typed it 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.839 in correctly, he said, five tripping calls have been called 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:08.120 all year long. This makes seven in the NFL, yeah, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.600 the fire League, the entire league. And then we get two. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.840 So I mean that that's got to be an algorithm 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.040 there that could just show you how And that's just 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.280 the first base first time since twenty fifteen that two 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.480 have been called in the same game. You played sixteen 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.160 games a week or close to sixteen weeks. Yeah, so 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.400 you played like one hundred and sixty games in the 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.559 league right in in five tripping calls and you get 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.280 two in one game basically by the same guy. Yeah, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.439 and invented them phantom. I mean, they didn't happen. There 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.080 was nothing that even resembled tripping and one of them 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.679 and it was, and it was, and they were significant 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:49.240 plays in the game. Yes, I mean not to mention 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.360 the last drop first year was significant, but it's overshadowed 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:58.040 by the severe significance of the of the ladder. Yeah, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.760 you're moving. And it's just the fact that an official 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.720 can make a call like that and not have better 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:13.080 court awareness of the significance of that foul in this game. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.440 I mean, you have to absolutely know that that was 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:23.120 a penalty that affected that place, you know, I mean, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.880 that's the way they should look at him. You can't 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.880 believe you could call something about the offensive line every 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.280 play of the game if you wanted to. You can 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.640 call a hold, you could, you know. So, Yeah, especially 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.520 blatant that was character said after the game. There's a 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.360 lot of stuff moving around in there, and it's like 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.640 and I and he wouldn't. He was being so politically corrected. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.680 He didn't want to get fine. Well yeah, well, because 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.200 first of all, they don't want to seem like whiners. Yeah, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.679 because at this point in the season, the team is 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.920 looking like, yeah, they just if once they get that 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.199 first wine out, then everybody's gonna come crashing down on them. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.200 So now you've got these you know, cookie cuts, their 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.240 responses to everything. Now no one wants to show you 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.520 really just how pissed off they are about the situation. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.880 Remarkable restraint remarkable because then I finally said, I said, okay, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:15.000 let's try this. Define a tripping penalty to me, and 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.880 he goes, well, I guess it is when you stick 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:22.439 stick your leg out and like purposely tripped, deliberately and deliberate. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.400 That's what they say, and it doesn't. But it doesn't 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.600 have to be your foot going out, And you can 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.240 trip someone by by sticking your knee out to you. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.360 And that's what the referee must have seen because both moves, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.280 both calls came on inside moves by the lineman. So 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.680 you're looking as as alignment offensive lineman. You're coming out 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.960 and you're fanning out to the right. He comes inside, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.320 you go directly into your knee. He came directly into 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.559 his knee. So now as a player, all you want 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.199 to do is stand strong. Now, you're not sticking the 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.559 knee out, but you are planting your foot in the 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.520 ground to where you don't want to give him free 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.040 wing through your right side. So he just that's just 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.959 the plant in the ground. He was just stepping. He's 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.160 just stepping down to the face. When the force of 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.400 the defender goes into your upper body, you naturally are 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.880 going to fall back with your upper body and your 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.000 leg is gonna go out to go out and get you. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.520 And Tyring didn't. If he was trying to trip the guy, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.800 he did a damn belt the worst than because he 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.120 didn't do it. That guy fell on his own. It 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.599 was the guy Mike Mike pier Is. Mike said that 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.160 the second one he thought was deliberate, and he and 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:39.640 Troy kind of get into he was he was tripping 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:49.400 on that nice nice So the first one, the first 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.319 one led. It was an incomplete pass anyway, but it 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.760 led to second and twenty three, which led to third 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.360 and nineteen, and then you had to punt on fourth 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.040 and twelve at the thirty and that's when the block occurred. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.680 You know, I you know, I'm a fan but also 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.280 a player, so I'm gonna fuss about this in either way. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.199 The holding called as well against Taiwan. Oh yeah, that 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.079 was just the player gave up. How can you call 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.640 holding the black guy stopped? I agree, it just I mean, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.000 his hand was on his shoulder, but he wasn't gripping 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.240 them and you could clearly see that the guy was 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.199 just whipped. He had nothing to do with his hand 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.560 being on the shoulder. He was beaten on that call. Now, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.560 all that being said, the last the tripping call on Frederick. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.960 I was surprised they threw the ball in that situation. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.360 It was third and one and I'm on the sideline 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.640 looking at it, and we talked about those weird mix 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.920 and match with their linebackers that they'll do up front. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.280 They had one down lineman and I think there was 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.760 a third and one earlier in the game, same look. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.920 They ran a drawed as heke and got five yards. 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.880 So you dropped back and you pass, and you you 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.040 open yourself up to that type of call ball. But 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.360 I can't go there. I can't go there. He thought 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.719 it was a good play. I thought it because it 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.599 was well. Another part of it is it worked and 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.920 he got a bouncy got the first down. Okay, I 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.480 can't go. I mean, you know, that's when we started 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.640 really going down the series. We have a hold. When 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.439 you start talking about what we should have run the ball, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.000 then we wouldn't have had that. Pat. Well, we made 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.839 the play, period, and there was a bad call. Well, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.720 and there are running plays, and we've seen it in 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:21.920 the past. In fact, I remember a game in Detroit 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.520 where there was a running play and the game where 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.680 Matthew Stafford won the game on a long pass and 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.800 then the quarterbacks neak to win the game. But remember 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.400 the Cowboys had the ball, they run a safe running play, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.800 running back bounces it outside and there's a holding call 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.800 on that one. So there are times where even a 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.320 running play, I'm with you, I believe there may have 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:41.560 been a time out right before that. There's two minute warnings, 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:43.840 two minute warning, and I was thinking during the two 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.760 minute warning, because I'm big on just get the first down, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:48.680 get a new set of downs, and let's go and 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.040 get looked too. I was surprised, but well, there was 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.080 two downs, and there was two down linemen, six defensive 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.840 backs and four linebackers and then your defense. We were 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.520 running it down the throats, right yeah, and we were 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.240 banging the wheel. Good. Yeah, but I would I because 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.160 I'm a novice, I would have called a running play. 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.800 It was I'm not I'm not killing Moore. I'm just 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.680 saying I was in hindsight, the better play is what 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.000 the play that they ran. Because you're getting out of 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.240 bounds and you're stopping the clock. You're not losing time 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:23.640 on the clock. Mell as you say it. Also, when 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.600 you run a pass play, there is more of a 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.320 chance of getting And I thought it was gonna be 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.320 a hole, not a trip that I saw there as 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.960 a play. That's all. That's all I got on You 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.840 look like like no that, I mean, that's a really 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.320 frustrating call. There's no doubt about it. And then you 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.960 know you think he thought of Mary Mighty made that catch. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.000 But I guess the ball did hit the ground there. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.360 It was pretty clear, and and you know, I thought 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:52.400 it was a good catchy. He's like a mother Yeah, 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.160 And I said, yeah, his armies, Yeah, it was a 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.880 hell of a catch. But yeah, that's the game right there. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.160 And they did, you know, Stepan Gilmour tip your cap man. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.800 He bottled up the best receiver you got for what 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.480 fifty two plays? Yeah? Yeah, So the weather, bottle, bottle, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.920 anybody one thing I like about this. I gotta say, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.080 even with the struggles, you know, we want to have 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.800 an identity for this team, we really do, but we don't. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.160 I mean, we know that we can pass the ball 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.040 on anybody. We know we can run the ball to anybody. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.640 We know we can't stop anybody. Even though the numbers 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.800 look good, if you look at our defensive numbers, I'm 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.640 gonna give them to you a great job, please do so. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.080 In this game, the Cowboys had thirty nine more total yards. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.640 They had more rushing yards by eight. They had more 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:48.560 passing yards against the great Tom Brady by twenty two yards. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.160 They were three or four. On field goals, they were 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.520 one of three or two of four. And then on 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.160 time of possession, the Cowboys had the ball forty four 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:05.399 seconds or so. Offensively, they kind of dominated them. And 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.880 when it came to first downs, and I heard them say, oh, 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:12.879 the Cowboys have only converted two first down. Right, So 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.880 the Cowboys were two of thirteen. They were three of fourteen, 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.439 so it was dead even basically. But the Cowboys did 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.840 the same thing the Patriots did. The Patriots didn't make 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.200 those two mistakes well, there was more than two mistakes. Well, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.359 I mean the turnovers. Yeah, I know, but I mean 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.080 you were talking about the hidden yardage and it was 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:32.840 more than just two plays. That's why I go back 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.120 to the special teams on the last field goal drive 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.280 that New England has. You get back to back penalties 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.440 on the punt and you spot them twenty yards. That 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.560 was a very curious situation. Yeah, can you explain that 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.360 to me? What the heck was Let's do this, Let's 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.240 do this. Let's come back and explain that because we're 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.200 up against their break and so remember, Mickey, Okay, you 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.200 gotta remember what we're talking about when we come back. 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.880 Write it down, boys, write it down. 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After 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:38.040 a Patriots win over the Cowboys on Sunday, and we 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.960 are three days away from more football at at and 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:44.600 T Stadium, Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills. And actually, if 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:48.160 the Cowboys win this game over the Buffalo Bills, they 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:51.280 will have a victory over a team with a winning record, 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:59.680 was they will make the playoffs and beat somebody from 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:05.359 other than Miami, because now that went over Philadelphia is discounted. Okay, 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.080 it's just discard that went over Philadelphia because now Philadelphia 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.320 does not have a winning record. So they're three of 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.840 their five losses they're AFC teams. I haven't added it up, 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.399 but yeah, I believe. So yeahn't that right? Yeah? All right, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.720 you want to discuss that. Let's go all right, so 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.560 you know how it started to get in that situation, right, Okay, 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.200 let's to remind people what the situation is. So Cowboys 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.640 have third and three at the fifty yard line. Dak 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:36.320 hits Cooper on a cross for fifteen yards down to 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.159 their thirty five yard line for a first down. And 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.960 that's when the holes got called Tyron Smith that we 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:45.880 talked about on Jamie Collins. Right. So now it's third 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.560 and thirteen at the fifty and he tries to quick 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:53.280 out it's incomplete. Now it's fourth and thirteen at the fifty. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.320 They basically brought everybody in like they were coming for 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.320 a block. They didn't have anybody back, and I think 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.000 it kind of caught the Cowboys by surprise, and Jason 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.200 explained that instead of taking a time out, we just 0:22:07.359 --> 0:22:09.760 took the delay a game to figure out what we 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:13.120 were going to do. And so they took the five 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.960 yard penalty. It was delay. They didn't get the snap off. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:23.119 So now it's fourth and eighteen and they basically they 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:28.080 had Burke burkehead back kind of back. It was only 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.200 back like ten fifteen yards. So he was to the 0:22:31.320 --> 0:22:34.480 side where the Cowboys gunner was in case they threw 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.280