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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And it's a terrific Tuesday. Here inside
Speaker 1: the SWBC podcast studio. Mickey Spagnola has his headset on.
Speaker 1: Everson Walls is busy tweeting away, and we are ready
Speaker 1: for a new game week. Giants Week starts now right,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnolan, I'll make you absolute Okay, I'm turning my
Speaker 1: volume on. Ah, very good. All right, you had us
Speaker 1: fired up, then SPACs just let the energy drop. He
Speaker 1: did exactly right. And he's the star of this show
Speaker 1: as well. All right. So it's a day off for
Speaker 1: the player. It's a Tuesday, yes, but it is a
Speaker 1: game plan Tuesday and get things ready for the return
Speaker 1: of the players on Wednesday. And the road to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl just got easier because of what happened on
Speaker 1: Monday night for your Dallas Cowboys. As was not predicted here. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals fall to the Los Angeles Rams right,
Speaker 1: loved it. I loved it that that makes everything a
Speaker 1: lot more interesting in the NFC. I guess the Cardinals
Speaker 1: are in a slump. Huh oh, here we go on
Speaker 1: in two weeks. Yeah, the bye week they could win
Speaker 1: on the bye week. They are three and three in
Speaker 1: their last six games. Interesting was the Cowboys? Oh, there
Speaker 1: you go, we are we are two out of and
Speaker 1: so yes, the Cowboys are now just one game back
Speaker 1: in the race for the top record in the National
Speaker 1: Football Conference. The only problem is there are three teams
Speaker 1: ahead of them, and one's even with them, the Rams
Speaker 1: as well, and they can only do something about one
Speaker 1: of them on their own, right play Arizona. Have you
Speaker 1: done the research on tiebreakers and stuff? If it was
Speaker 1: a multiple team tie with these You alluded to it
Speaker 1: yesterday that the calif two team seven and one conference
Speaker 1: record or NFC record is the other than head to
Speaker 1: head NFC records next, But I think if it's a
Speaker 1: three team tie, then you still head to head, and
Speaker 1: if somebody's head to head, the loser gets So let's say,
Speaker 1: let's just throw this out there forget about green Bay
Speaker 1: for now, because Cowboys haven't played green Bay all right,
Speaker 1: They played Tampa Bay and they've played and they will
Speaker 1: have played Arizona. Let's say it's a three way tie,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay's probably
Speaker 1: hasn't played Arizona. I don't know if they. Okay, so
Speaker 1: there you go. But we do know Dallas lost to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and would have tamp put Green Bays in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Green Bays. I just threw them out. Oh you got
Speaker 1: just for now because the Cowboys hadn't played him. I
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out a head to head scenario.
Speaker 1: But all right, you have conference records in front of you.
Speaker 1: I want to dive right into this, right I do
Speaker 1: not have conference records in front of me. I can
Speaker 1: get them pretty quickly here, but I think, um, most
Speaker 1: of the teams are three losses, some of them have two.
Speaker 1: All right, I got your conference records in front of
Speaker 1: me now right here, Okay, conference for the Cowboys seven
Speaker 1: and one. Right for the Packers they are eight and two.
Speaker 1: Right now, the Bucks are six and three in the conference,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals are six and three in the conference.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have nothing but conference games left. We're gonna let's see.
Speaker 1: You want to paint the scenario of the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys gotta win out to be in the
Speaker 1: hunt for the number one seed, don't you think I
Speaker 1: would think. So, we're talking about record, especially with as
Speaker 1: many teams ahead of them, at least got to go
Speaker 1: three and one, so that would be And they hear them,
Speaker 1: and they're playing well. They're not just ahead of them,
Speaker 1: they're playing Tampa's playing well. Green Bay's playing well. Right,
Speaker 1: So let's let's say the Cowboys went out thirteen and four, okay,
Speaker 1: and Tampa's not gonna lose. You got the New Carleans, Carolina,
Speaker 1: the Jets Carolina. Okay, so we're gonna sun. Then that
Speaker 1: makes it all a moot point. Yeah, okay, let's move
Speaker 1: on to something. Let's go to be Tampa Bay by
Speaker 1: the way. There you go, Well, so there you go.
Speaker 1: Let's okay, it is an interesting league that we are
Speaker 1: playing in here. Strange things do happen. So Washington beat Tampa.
Speaker 1: No I was wrong about that, No, No, they did. Okay,
Speaker 1: try Washington beat Tampa if they can lose, if they
Speaker 1: can lose to Washington, all right, So let's just say
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay loses a game. Okay, we need we would
Speaker 1: then need a third team that would be in the
Speaker 1: hunt with the with the Cowboys there and Arizona got
Speaker 1: so you would need Arizona to only lose the one
Speaker 1: more game to the Cowboys and then there would be
Speaker 1: a three way tie. You need, but you need the
Speaker 1: Packers to lose twice in that case. But if okay,
Speaker 1: it's a four way tie, let's the Packers lose once.
Speaker 1: Who the Packers got left? Packers have Baltimore, Cleveland, Minnesota, Detroit.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the that's what we need to figure out.
Speaker 1: If and we just did with the conference records, if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Packers, Bucks, and card Knolls wind up in
Speaker 1: a four way tie, meaning the Cowboys went out and
Speaker 1: all three of the others lose a game, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will have the number one seed because they will have
Speaker 1: the better conference record. Yeah, that's correct. There you go,
Speaker 1: we figured it out if they went out. If they
Speaker 1: went out, Cowboys have to win out and the other
Speaker 1: three would have to lose one game in Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they need to start scoring touchdowns. Well, as long as
Speaker 1: the defense is playing like this, I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: just Cowboys do not want to be in a head
Speaker 1: to head tie with Tampa Bay, right, because just just
Speaker 1: a two way tie with Tampa Bay. If having all
Speaker 1: of our defenders back, and this is an indication of
Speaker 1: how they're going to play the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Just relax, okay, you know, just relax. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: do just take your shirt off and get a tan
Speaker 1: or something. We'll just have We'll just have home game
Speaker 1: after home. Take your shirt off, and you can go
Speaker 1: to Cobo with a first round by, right, you, and
Speaker 1: that I just think promo. But again, I think we
Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. Even regardless of the first round by,
Speaker 1: you would like to have the second seed, so you
Speaker 1: make sure you get one of those like Washington in
Speaker 1: the first round. Yeah, not the Rams, by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't like playing a team three times, yeah in
Speaker 1: the season, No, especially in a month which that would
Speaker 1: be the case at all. That certainly didn't help the
Speaker 1: Cowboys out in twenty two thousand and seven, right, that
Speaker 1: beat the Giants both times and then lost in the
Speaker 1: I guess it was the second round of the play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three seasons. Well, uh, the Giants beat at that time
Speaker 1: the Redskins three times in nineteen eighty six, correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: they were beating up. Uh, you said, named Schrader. Schrader. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they beat him up all the whole season, and everyone
Speaker 1: thought that that third game Washington was gonna prevail. And
Speaker 1: that was one of the toughest Giant teams you ever
Speaker 1: want to see, because they beat them three games that
Speaker 1: season and we went on to win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But they priority is to win ten games this week.
Speaker 1: That means this week against a four and nine Giants
Speaker 1: team that's on its backup quarterback Mike Lennon. And if
Speaker 1: not him, then from Jake Frome or from from is
Speaker 1: it from Georgia? Quarterback? It's from he's lying. I don't
Speaker 1: think I thought it take from It's from Okay, I
Speaker 1: thought it was from from Georgia. From Georgia, from killing
Speaker 1: them from Georgia and the guy that gave the Cowboys
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of trouble the first time around. Cadarius
Speaker 1: Tony is out with COVID like half the league. It
Speaker 1: looks like thirty seven guys tested positive on Monday, including
Speaker 1: the Cowboys Cedric Wilson, who's been vaccinated. So if five
Speaker 1: days work out for him and he's and he's healthy,
Speaker 1: he could play by Sunday. And how about this, Washington
Speaker 1: had five of those guys test positive on Monday, so
Speaker 1: they had five more because they had two on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Sunday back defensive ends to start five, including Jonathan Allen. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they've got the spread continues there, so that I
Speaker 1: was gonna say that vote well for Cowboy. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had to test on Monday, Okay. Yeah, is now is
Speaker 1: the league wide daily testing continuing the post Thanksgiving vaccinated daily?
Speaker 1: It was it was supposed to go through December fifth, okay,
Speaker 1: and then it was back to weekly on Monday. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it looks like the cowb Boys should be clear
Speaker 1: then other than Cedric Wilson. And I say other than
Speaker 1: but with Noah Brown out, if he's not back, then
Speaker 1: a Malik Turners the fourth receiver, Yeah, good with him,
Speaker 1: and there he's been. He's been decent, but you lose
Speaker 1: your fourth and fifth wide receiver and not to mention
Speaker 1: the special team's position. And then we find out after
Speaker 1: we finished our show that Tyrn Smith is definitely going
Speaker 1: to miss this game and still up in the air,
Speaker 1: and we probably would find out after our show today
Speaker 1: if elc Leal Collins is suspended or not he's not
Speaker 1: going to be sure, you don't think so. He's already
Speaker 1: been suspended. He got kicked out of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they want a full game time, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's say he comes back in the second half of
Speaker 1: next game, right, like college. See, my only my only
Speaker 1: concern about it is it's one thing to you know,
Speaker 1: do the roughing thing, but when you throw a punch,
Speaker 1: the league has a problem with that. And I think
Speaker 1: he ended up throwing two and he should have known that, right.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's a there's a line that you
Speaker 1: don't cost you could you could confrontation. That's great confrontation, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, chest up. Yeah, but then once you start
Speaker 1: hitting to the head and it's one blows, then that's
Speaker 1: no longer. That's potential bench clearing incident. Well, but the
Speaker 1: league likes so much, yes, right, yeah, Yeah, he's he's good.
Speaker 1: He's he's good for the bottom line. How much has
Speaker 1: he contributed? I bet it's another thirteen thousand. Man, he
Speaker 1: didn't seed lamb board. Although maybe Dak will give him
Speaker 1: a Christmas charities, right, maybe he was defending the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: on her right, So, but yeah, he can't help with
Speaker 1: the suspension. So hey, man, wait man, wait man, So
Speaker 1: what about Zeke? What about him? Come on man, we
Speaker 1: saw we saw the incident. I mean, come on man.
Speaker 1: They asked us if he didn't he didn't do anything. Well,
Speaker 1: he just pushed. Is that all good? Yeah? Yeah, it
Speaker 1: more like a hit. But you know it wasn't just
Speaker 1: a push. I mean he kind of threw his whole body.
Speaker 1: Did you notice. Did you notice, by the way, who
Speaker 1: was standing by watching McCarthy very fatherly was mccarth. He
Speaker 1: didn't move you looking for punches, right, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: He did look like a proud papa. Yeah, he didn't smile.
Speaker 1: He didn't smile. He was like but he didn't make
Speaker 1: a move to break it up either. He looked stern. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked. He looked like, wow, okay, okay, get them sorry,
Speaker 1: get them sorry. That's what we needed last year, That's right,
Speaker 1: you know, at the same place last year in Dalton.
Speaker 1: Until until you lose. That was with a all back
Speaker 1: up offensive alignment, until you lose both offensive tackles from
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Never a good thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the way they played it uh ted to Secki
Speaker 1: came in for because they were using steel as that
Speaker 1: like second or third tight end blocking um. They brought
Speaker 1: tight in the second end at left tackle, and then
Speaker 1: when Elc got thrown out, Steele went to right tackle.
Speaker 1: So it sounded like Steele would take over at left tackle,
Speaker 1: but well that's yet to be determined. I'm still loving
Speaker 1: this stubbornness that we have to run the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't matter who's back there. You know,
Speaker 1: we're giving him a shot. Clement, it doesn't matter. Pollard,
Speaker 1: they they they just kept, you know, kept plugging away
Speaker 1: at it. I think eventually if we can just get
Speaker 1: this offensive lines of confidence, they do enough of pugging
Speaker 1: away at it. They do a pass, I've been recepted
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Why don't do this? Why do we
Speaker 1: do this? Because they can't run the football, but you have,
Speaker 1: I mean, you just can't a choice. But I watched
Speaker 1: these other games and I see, like, you know, when
Speaker 1: the guy hits the hole, he's got two yards to
Speaker 1: side of him. Man, I haven't seen one Michelle. Michelle
Speaker 1: was killing it against the Cardinals. WHOA, It's like, what
Speaker 1: happened to the holes? What? What's going on? It's because
Speaker 1: Zeke can't run. Yeah, there's a reason why hit a wall.
Speaker 1: It's hard to run. You know, even I hate to
Speaker 1: mention his name, but even Babe Luffingberg, he talked about
Speaker 1: how he studied last week's game and he was right.
Speaker 1: They weren't moving, no offensive lineman. There was no movement.
Speaker 1: Why can't people see that there's no movement? I mean
Speaker 1: every time he gets the ball, they are waiting on
Speaker 1: him and they are they are not even engaged. They
Speaker 1: are they have the control of the lineman. Therefore they
Speaker 1: can disengage make a play whenever they want. So until
Speaker 1: that gets fixed, then you have a problem because now
Speaker 1: you're you're in second and eight, third and seven, third
Speaker 1: and nine two high safeties, yeah yeah, and you're not
Speaker 1: bringing the safety down. You're not the ball, and they're coming.
Speaker 1: You know, they're coming with four, So pressure with four.
Speaker 1: I did a study, and we can do this. After
Speaker 1: the break on, they had five five legitimate red zone possessions.
Speaker 1: The sixth one was the kneel down at the end,
Speaker 1: so they were one for six on touchdowns. And I
Speaker 1: went through and looked at the plays for those for
Speaker 1: those possessions. So if you and we'll dive into there
Speaker 1: to talk shots continues in a moment from inside the
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Speaker 1: trying to distract you on that. Yeah, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: I need to do that every day questions. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a flawless laws uncomfortable. Yeah, we need to do
Speaker 1: that every day. We need to talk him up right
Speaker 1: up to the point of no return um. Which is
Speaker 1: sort of funny because I can remember back in the
Speaker 1: day covering basketball games at courtside and writing during the
Speaker 1: game with all the noise in the stands. Never bothered me.
Speaker 1: But if I'm there by myself and then there's just
Speaker 1: one person shouting, I want to strangle after a game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like golf, right, yeah, exactly, Just give me consistent noise.
Speaker 1: All right. There are several things you want to get into.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned the testing in the league, and there's
Speaker 1: been a bunch of outbreaks Cleveland last week, a bunch
Speaker 1: of teams having problems. So the NFL sent out a
Speaker 1: mandate yesterday that all Tier one in Tier two individuals, UH,
Speaker 1: we'll have to if they're eligible for it, need to
Speaker 1: have a booster shot no later than December twenty seventh
Speaker 1: of this year. Now that obviously doesn't include players, as
Speaker 1: Jerry was explaining this morning, because of the nfl PA
Speaker 1: they in the union, they can't mandate players get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: So all coaches and anybody in the front office or
Speaker 1: they're connected with the team on the charter flight, Uh,
Speaker 1: in practice in the locker room. Uh, if they are
Speaker 1: have passed the second dose, what is it? Six months?
Speaker 1: Two months? On Jay and Jay, you have to get
Speaker 1: a booster shot by the twenty seventh and if you don't,
Speaker 1: then you're not allowed to be around the team. And
Speaker 1: but if you've had COVID within the last ninety days,
Speaker 1: you don't have to have the booster until ninety because
Speaker 1: you're probably not knowing that. Yeah, there's there's things. But
Speaker 1: I mentioned Cadarius Tony just the second time he's tested. Pause.
Speaker 1: This guy is a Tasmanian devil. He's all over the
Speaker 1: place on the field, right and off the field. You
Speaker 1: saw him. How he's amazing. I mean, he's just a
Speaker 1: dynamic receiver. But you look at him. Even on the sidelines,
Speaker 1: they're trying to tend to him. I think it was
Speaker 1: the first game this year. He's so upset about hurting
Speaker 1: his foot or something. He makes this move and just
Speaker 1: shows his anger at at the injury and he head
Speaker 1: butts of one of the physicians in the face while
Speaker 1: he's doing that. And every time you look up, he's
Speaker 1: either injured, wanted to fight somebody, or he's going off
Speaker 1: off the field. I mean, he's just he's just all
Speaker 1: over the place. Wouldn't give him up. He's an angry bird,
Speaker 1: that's what he is. Angry. He's an angry bird. He's
Speaker 1: all over the place knocking things over. So anyway, that's
Speaker 1: the new thing in the NFL right now. So boosters
Speaker 1: are important, and uh tier two. I mean it's it's
Speaker 1: people that it would be in contact with the locker
Speaker 1: room basically. Yeah, so so trainers, um janet, front office staff,
Speaker 1: un office staff, the equipment guys, anyway, interactions practice field, yeah,
Speaker 1: in house media who are have access to the and
Speaker 1: for for example, Nick Eatman, he's too tier two Okay,
Speaker 1: because he can two m which is too media two
Speaker 1: media meeting you are, so you are are not allowed
Speaker 1: to interview the players like in the locker room after
Speaker 1: after the game in the hallway the way Nick does
Speaker 1: the extra players that don't go into the interview room. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: And along those lines, Kansas City Chris Beam was informing
Speaker 1: me that while I saw that Chris Jones had tested positive. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defensive tackle and Andy Reid, according to Chris Beam.
Speaker 1: And but the interesting thing about the Chiefs apparently who
Speaker 1: they are. Oh, never mind, we'll move on then. All right, Mickey,
Speaker 1: what else you got? I thought I had time to
Speaker 1: look my stuff up. You Chris on a tangent. He
Speaker 1: anticipated your needs. All right. So when um, Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: did his interview yesterday, and you know, they were trying
Speaker 1: to get him on the slump. You know, okay, the
Speaker 1: offense is what's the problem. And his point was, um,
Speaker 1: they're they're failing once they get inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: And he kind of used the term. He goes, we
Speaker 1: got stuck down there in the red zone and that
Speaker 1: can drive you crazy. Drives me crazy when we get
Speaker 1: stuck there a little bit. Because we had some nice
Speaker 1: flow to what was going on, and so I went
Speaker 1: and looked at their red zone possessions and not the
Speaker 1: last one when they knelt down right. So the first one,
Speaker 1: they're first and ten at the twenty after Zeke's fifteen
Speaker 1: yard catch run. So they get down to the twenty. Well,
Speaker 1: they take Zeke out fifteen yard run, I guess, give
Speaker 1: him a blow. So first down, Clement comes in. They
Speaker 1: go heavy Steel as the second tight end, and they
Speaker 1: run for zero yards. So now it's second down. Dak
Speaker 1: tries to run out of the pocket because of pressure.
Speaker 1: He gets sacked for zero yards. Now it's third and ten. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you're third and ten at the twenty. You're trying
Speaker 1: to make sure you at least get something, I guess.
Speaker 1: So they tried the wide receiver screen to Cooper and
Speaker 1: they get three yards. So what happens you get a
Speaker 1: field goal. The next time was the time they scored
Speaker 1: the touchdown. It was first and ten at the twelve.
Speaker 1: Zeke goes for five second in five at the seven,
Speaker 1: and Tyron Smith gets called for not being on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. So minus five you're saying that was
Speaker 1: the shovel pass. The fake pitch shovel pass, but it
Speaker 1: was the penalty that pushed him back, pushed him back
Speaker 1: to second and ten at the twelve incomplete, and then
Speaker 1: they hit the touchdown pass to Cooper. The third time,
Speaker 1: they were second in five at the nineteen, Dack's under pressure.
Speaker 1: He's hired a CD at the at the goal line, incomplete,
Speaker 1: third and five at the nineteen pressure end, and he
Speaker 1: just tries to dump it over the middle to Zeke.
Speaker 1: It's incomplete. Field goal. The next time, first and ten
Speaker 1: at the eleven at the eleven, where are we in
Speaker 1: the game? Now? Uh? This is the This should be
Speaker 1: the end of the end of the second quarter. Maybe
Speaker 1: because they kicked a field goal at the end, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: first and ten are all first half. He gets sat
Speaker 1: Now I think he held the ball a little too long,
Speaker 1: but still it's a sack. So instead of first and
Speaker 1: ten at eleven, now you're second and eighteen at the nineteen,
Speaker 1: Gallup drops a pass. He's wide open. He's trying to
Speaker 1: run with it before he catches it. Now third and
Speaker 1: eighteen at the nineteen, nobody's open. He tries to do
Speaker 1: with it. I think you would have gained yardage at
Speaker 1: least some of that eighteen. I don't think he would
Speaker 1: have got all the eighteen, but he got at least
Speaker 1: half of it. Now you're third and eighteen and you're
Speaker 1: sitting there going are right, what do we do? Well?
Speaker 1: No one's open again, and he dumps it over the middle.
Speaker 1: It was just a desperate dump incomplete. It's a field goal.
Speaker 1: And then in the second half their first and ten,
Speaker 1: at the fifteen, Clement runs for three, and that's when
Speaker 1: Tyrn gets hurt out of the game. So second and
Speaker 1: seven at the twelve, he throws it to Schultz. It
Speaker 1: looked like he's gonna catch it. He gets hit by
Speaker 1: the defensive back and it's incomplete. And then third and
Speaker 1: seven they threw a little out to Clement. It only
Speaker 1: got two, but if they had gotten a touchdown, they
Speaker 1: called past interference on Ceedee Lamb for basically blocking two. Soon,
Speaker 1: so another field goal. So they got there, but they
Speaker 1: cannot do anything the n zone. That whole four field goals,
Speaker 1: you know. And and so you get a sack in one,
Speaker 1: a penalty, another, a sack in a drop in the other,
Speaker 1: and then another penalty. It's like, okay, so why did
Speaker 1: you and some of that the defense helped you to
Speaker 1: get there, right, but you got there and you're not converting.
Speaker 1: That's five times. Those are five times in events I believe. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's good, but you didn't do anything. But you didn't
Speaker 1: do anything right. Yeah, And that's why Kellen Moore said
Speaker 1: it makes me crazy. But also part of that is
Speaker 1: you're not taking chance. You've got a twenty like on
Speaker 1: the last one, you got a twenty one nothing right,
Speaker 1: you just say, okay, sure, let's get the points, you know,
Speaker 1: and these against especially against that team which has no
Speaker 1: chance of coming back against that defense, unless you throw
Speaker 1: a pick six in the fourth quarter or you have one,
Speaker 1: then just you can go ahead and kick your field
Speaker 1: goals if you're gonna bawl out, yeah, or you have
Speaker 1: one one bad possession right where they I mean all
Speaker 1: they had was one possession that they drove down the
Speaker 1: field right or a touchdown right and then to pick
Speaker 1: six and then to pick six and so yeah, so
Speaker 1: and then okay, the quarterback slumping, well, is his slump
Speaker 1: because he got sacked five times, getting hits and got
Speaker 1: hit four more times and had to run out of
Speaker 1: the pocket seven times. Seven And that's this is one game.
Speaker 1: We're talking yea, yeah, we're not talking about the Saints
Speaker 1: game as well. You know to what these same things
Speaker 1: will happen, so you know, and and and then it
Speaker 1: was like the criticism going into the game because I
Speaker 1: think at some point somebody said, I don't remember for
Speaker 1: it was Kellen and McCarthy said, yeah, sometimes Dak sees
Speaker 1: things so fast he didn't wait to develop. He's reading
Speaker 1: them and he's getting the ball out. So that was
Speaker 1: the story, right, He's trying to throw the past too fast.
Speaker 1: He's he's not letting things read out. Well, he ain't
Speaker 1: got time to let it read out, that is it.
Speaker 1: Otherwise he'll have a dozen feels. He can feel them
Speaker 1: around him, right, he can. He can feel them every time.
Speaker 1: And that's not ghosts. They are there for real, right,
Speaker 1: These guys are putting pressure on every time without even blitzing.
Speaker 1: And that's what West, what is scary because now you
Speaker 1: don't need to You can't do a hot route right
Speaker 1: because they're coming with pressure with four men. You have
Speaker 1: to stick with the plate are Therefore the timing is
Speaker 1: off and you get a little antswing back then, but
Speaker 1: you got their bill. Well, I was going to ask
Speaker 1: what do you like to dive further into this in
Speaker 1: their last segment or do you have something else that
Speaker 1: you would like to get in. I think we've done
Speaker 1: pretty much, okay, so let's all right. Why I'm going
Speaker 1: to pose this question. You can mull over it and
Speaker 1: then come back and give me an answer after this break.
Speaker 1: Why then, is our decks numbers so good from the
Speaker 1: first six games of the season and not so much
Speaker 1: in his last six games? When mix shots continues at
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Speaker 1: February that I've been told. Okay, all right, By the way,
Speaker 1: speaking of February, since the Super Bowl is now pushed
Speaker 1: back another week. February is going to be February every
Speaker 1: every year is one of the worst months for sports.
Speaker 1: It's just because the Super Bowls over the first week
Speaker 1: and there's nothing, you know, March Mann has hadn't started yet.
Speaker 1: It's always the worst sports month of the year. And
Speaker 1: it's going to be so much better this year because
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls are being played in mid February, because
Speaker 1: of the seventeen week season, and so from a sports standpoint,
Speaker 1: February is not going to be bad at all. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be like two weeks after the well is it combined?
Speaker 1: Do they push that back at all? Chris? Do you
Speaker 1: know it's usually the last week. It's usually the last
Speaker 1: last week in February, which would be two weeks after
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So maybe they pushed back. I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at it all right, all right, dak first six
Speaker 1: games versus last six games. Here are his numbers from
Speaker 1: the first six games of the season. He had a
Speaker 1: seventy three percent completion percentage, yards per attempt, eight point
Speaker 1: four four picks, sixteen touchdowns, fourteen sacks. Cowboys went five
Speaker 1: and one, and of course at the end of that
Speaker 1: was the calf injury on the last play of the
Speaker 1: game against New England. Okay, they missed a game. Cowboys
Speaker 1: have played six games since he came back. No, they've played, yes,
Speaker 1: since he came back. Yep. And what's their record in
Speaker 1: those six games? Okay, all right? The completion percentage is
Speaker 1: sixty three percent as opposed to seventy three percent the
Speaker 1: first six games. Yards per attempt six point six as
Speaker 1: opposed to eight point four the first six. The interceptions
Speaker 1: are six, the touchdowns are nine as opposed to four
Speaker 1: and sixteen. The sacks are basically the same, thirteen sacks
Speaker 1: to fourteen sacks. So what's the difference? Why? Why is
Speaker 1: it different? Okay? The Denver game, I can excuse, right,
Speaker 1: and it was one of those games, right, they were
Speaker 1: bound to lose one. They fell behind thirty to nothing,
Speaker 1: so the next game never never caught up. They scored
Speaker 1: were that's because they kicked three field goals and didn't
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. Okay. The next game they scored forty three
Speaker 1: points at Atlanta. Okay, so not bad, right. The next
Speaker 1: game Kansas Kansas City. Kansas City's pretty good, right, But
Speaker 1: in the Kansas City game, there was no AHMRII Cooper
Speaker 1: and no cd Lamb, no Tyrann Smith. Okay, second half
Speaker 1: of the game, all right? Uh? And then they go
Speaker 1: to they play Vegas, scored thirty three points, Okay, fine.
Speaker 1: Then New Orleans the offense basically scores twenty uh two touchdowns. Um.
Speaker 1: You know New Orleans is not bad defense. They have
Speaker 1: a good defense. But um, was that the game no
Speaker 1: Pollard got That's when Polo took it to the house.
Speaker 1: He had the fifty eight yard all right. And then
Speaker 1: and then this last game, no Pollard, but they had
Speaker 1: everybody else back except for the second half your offensive tackles. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and they just didn't play well. They had drops
Speaker 1: the pressure. Um. Look, everybody wants to give him an
Speaker 1: excuse that he's not healthy. He's healthy. How did he
Speaker 1: get thirty three points against the Raiders on a short
Speaker 1: week on Thanksgiving? There's nothing wrong with him. The thing
Speaker 1: that's wrong with him is he's under pressure and he's
Speaker 1: trying to make throws that he probably shouldn't be making.
Speaker 1: It's judgment more than it is fatigued. It is judgment.
Speaker 1: He is not confused about anything. He's not every every
Speaker 1: decision he's made has been in those particular situations, has
Speaker 1: been a bad decision because his hesitancy puts him in
Speaker 1: that situation. If he went to I think have a
Speaker 1: little bit more confidence in his legs. And I said this,
Speaker 1: I think yesterday. I think he's just a little bit
Speaker 1: hesitant to run the ball and to me give up
Speaker 1: on the play. Don't be afraid that's up on the play.
Speaker 1: That's right there. He's starting to get stubborn and trying
Speaker 1: to make something out of n And I got a feeling.
Speaker 1: Bill asked the question because he had an answer for
Speaker 1: his own. No. No, I was just no. But as
Speaker 1: you were talking, do you have the stats for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys stats in front of you for individual stats for
Speaker 1: the running backs? Uh? Yeah, for this game, for the
Speaker 1: season season, because I've got him through the New England game. Now,
Speaker 1: this isn't six games, but it would be the seven
Speaker 1: games since so zeke one hundred and eighty five carries now, okay,
Speaker 1: for this season eight hundred and ten yards. He's still
Speaker 1: averaging four for a carry. Okay, I'm gonna to do
Speaker 1: some math as you eight touchdowns. Okay, I'm doing some
Speaker 1: math as you speak here. WHOA wow, wow? Kind of
Speaker 1: falling off. Wow, because he was on pace for I
Speaker 1: want to say, a fourteen hundred yards season probably after
Speaker 1: six games. Okay, So I get my look calculator out here.
Speaker 1: Oh this is fun. Okay. Prior his first six games
Speaker 1: of the year, he had one hundred two carries for
Speaker 1: five hundred twenty one yards. So that means since then
Speaker 1: he has two hundred and eighty nine yards rushing on
Speaker 1: eighty three carries, which is three point five yards a carry. Okay, okay, Now, Pollard, Pollard,
Speaker 1: what do you have after something? What do you what
Speaker 1: do you have? He mentioned for the season one oh
Speaker 1: seven for six oz two six o two. How many
Speaker 1: touchdowns two sor right one after the first six? Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's forty six and that is two thirty four
Speaker 1: and two thirty six and one okay, forty So prior
Speaker 1: through the New England game, he had sixty one carries
Speaker 1: for three hundred sixty six yards in a touchdown. Since
Speaker 1: the New England game, forty six carries two hundred thirty
Speaker 1: six yards in a touchdown. Two thirty six divided by
Speaker 1: forty six, he's five point one yards of carry. But
Speaker 1: but he had a fifty eight yard run in there.
Speaker 1: So take out forty five carries and take up fifty
Speaker 1: eight from two thirty six and tell me what you got. Okay,
Speaker 1: thirty six twenty two. That's one great math. One seventy
Speaker 1: eight divided by forty five three point nine five four
Speaker 1: yards of carry. There you go. So it's hand in hand. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dak's having problems in the passing game. The biggest difference
Speaker 1: in this offense, I believe since the first six games
Speaker 1: of the season is they're not running the football. They're
Speaker 1: not able to run the football like they did. They
Speaker 1: had the same and we talk about a Zeke look
Speaker 1: like he did his rookie year. The offense was functioning
Speaker 1: like it did in twenty sixteen, because that's right. And
Speaker 1: we were talking about this offensive line looks as good
Speaker 1: as it did right in five years, and we said
Speaker 1: that could take you into the playoffs. And I was
Speaker 1: trying to find this stat but I was trying to
Speaker 1: find you would have to go through each game to see,
Speaker 1: like on second down, how many times on second down?
Speaker 1: Or are they second and eight or second and nine?
Speaker 1: And I started marketing, and I think it was for
Speaker 1: the New Orleans game maybe, and I forgot what my
Speaker 1: total was because I kind of gave I said, this
Speaker 1: is an endless chore here if I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: for sixteen games, because I figured somewhere out there there's
Speaker 1: a stat on what you face on second down, like
Speaker 1: second and eight to ten, second, six to seven, whatever,
Speaker 1: And it just seems like I chart every play. It
Speaker 1: seems like I'm forever writing second and eight second and
Speaker 1: a second and yes, that is true. Space, it is
Speaker 1: always second, and that causes problems if okay, now you're
Speaker 1: throwing in completion because second down, now, if we get
Speaker 1: three yards, I'm happy right first down, and it actually
Speaker 1: Kellen said four to five and six is really good
Speaker 1: on first down to prevent third and long all the
Speaker 1: time because then they know what they're doing and your
Speaker 1: your play selection is limited. At that point, it was like,
Speaker 1: what was the play? I told you? They were third
Speaker 1: and eighteen at the nineteen or whatever. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: third and eighteen at the nineteen. Now what are your
Speaker 1: chances of converting that? Right? Better just take the field
Speaker 1: goal and don't screw up the three points? So um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just across the board, it's not one person. Well,
Speaker 1: and then look at the Dallas defense against Washington. Okay,
Speaker 1: we talk about the sacks that Parsons got, the interception
Speaker 1: by Gregory, but one of the keys in that game
Speaker 1: was they stopped the run. They could do nothing in
Speaker 1: the run game Washington, and that was there. That was
Speaker 1: their calling card running the football. But you but take
Speaker 1: that to the Dallas offense when you can't run the
Speaker 1: Washington couldn't run the ball in that game and so
Speaker 1: they couldn't pass it. Here, I think you didn't look
Speaker 1: like the same guy, the bread far type of player
Speaker 1: that I had called him just last week. It looks like,
Speaker 1: yeah he does. And you looked at me like I
Speaker 1: was crazy, You really think so? I'm like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: does this, does that. I saw none of that in
Speaker 1: the game. And that's because the effectiveness of his running
Speaker 1: the game was taken away. And Gibson, or not just Gibson,
Speaker 1: but Washington last year against the Cowboys in two games,
Speaker 1: and I don't have the exact number, but I want
Speaker 1: to say they ran for combine three hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: yards against the Cowboys in two games last year. Well,
Speaker 1: what have been the two worst defensive performances by the
Speaker 1: Cowboys team during this stretch. What are the Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: They're two worst games they've played here in the last
Speaker 1: six weeks. Well, it was Denver for Denver and the Raiders.
Speaker 1: And the Raiders Okay, Denver had one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: yards rushing on the Dallas defense in that game. They
Speaker 1: had forty one carries for one hundred and ninety yards
Speaker 1: in that game. And the Raiders had one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty three yards on thirty five carries. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: so much that they I mean, that's only four yards
Speaker 1: a carry for the Raiders, but they had the lead
Speaker 1: and they were able to run the football and control
Speaker 1: the game. And Denver certainly did that with forty one
Speaker 1: carries for one hundred and ninety yards. It shows in
Speaker 1: this league, as much as we look at you got
Speaker 1: to be able to throw the ball. Throw the ball,
Speaker 1: throw the ball. But what sets up that throwing the
Speaker 1: ball is the ability to run the football. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a lot of the problems that this passing
Speaker 1: game is having right now, is that they haven't been
Speaker 1: able to run the game. Nothing nothing's changed since the
Speaker 1: arge in the football. In the trenches, that's where you win.
Speaker 1: We can have all the talent we won is for
Speaker 1: us specialist specialists. But when you're in the trenches, if
Speaker 1: you control that. That's how Kansas City lost in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because they decided that you know, well, their
Speaker 1: offensive line wasn't there, and and Tampa decided that this
Speaker 1: is where we're going to control our game, right as
Speaker 1: they did. And I forgot one factor in that Raiders
Speaker 1: game too. There were twenty eight penalties. Guys, Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: but they still score the piece points. Yeah, it was um.
Speaker 1: And one thing that you harp on is rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: And how many touchdowns rushing the zeke have the first
Speaker 1: six games of the season, he had five. Now he's
Speaker 1: at three and I bet two of them or one
Speaker 1: yard runs. So I could look that up, but I
Speaker 1: don't think we have time. But it's been Yeah, they've been.
Speaker 1: They haven't run the ball in from ten yards except
Speaker 1: for Pollard from fifty eight, right, they always got to
Speaker 1: throw the ball. And why why is it? Why is
Speaker 1: it so difficult if you know you have problems on
Speaker 1: your front offensive line, we've got to devise a scheme
Speaker 1: that can get the extra protection even with a four
Speaker 1: man rush. Just let's just not be stubborn. Keep someone in,
Speaker 1: even if it's not a blitz, even if it's not
Speaker 1: five man, you've got to keep someone. And we need
Speaker 1: to just realize they're getting pressure against us without blitzing.
Speaker 1: This guy realized that sacrifice one guy. Bring them out
Speaker 1: late if you want the running back and can bleed
Speaker 1: out late. But otherwise we need to just pick our
Speaker 1: paws and write away. Make sure that we can protect
Speaker 1: the quarterback first before we do anything. So look at
Speaker 1: the Atlanta game. They had two rushing touchdowns, no three,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dak had one four yard run, Zeke, one
Speaker 1: yard run, Zeke, two yard run. Um Kansas City didn't
Speaker 1: score a touchdowns. And we've noticed that. We've noticed already
Speaker 1: we're gonna run the ball. We barely run the ball
Speaker 1: on consecutive place right, And that's that's just you gotta
Speaker 1: get out of that pattern. You just got to. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we know what everyone else knows it, and you
Speaker 1: just that's that's so the offensive lineman now they're under
Speaker 1: the gun because that defensive lineman they're looking at those knuckles.
Speaker 1: Those knuckles are not white on those offensive linemen. That
Speaker 1: means that their hand is not on the ground and
Speaker 1: they're looking to back up as opposed to go forward.
Speaker 1: And then if we look at the Raiders game, and
Speaker 1: I forgot this part because I said they scored thirty three,
Speaker 1: but they did have one hundred yard kickoff Rere's true
Speaker 1: zeke yard touchdown run uh New Orleans. There was a
Speaker 1: gallop one yard pass for a touchdown and then fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard run. So yeah, running into the end zone
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line even I mean, you saw
Speaker 1: it last night with with Connor right when he kind
Speaker 1: of bulldozed his way. Yeah, they thought he was stopped
Speaker 1: and the second Africa and he just kept going and going.
Speaker 1: What do opposing defensive coordinators? How? How would they term
Speaker 1: our offense? The Cowboys offense is what? What's sporadic? Run
Speaker 1: versus pass? Oh? There, we're happy pass happy offense, that's right.
Speaker 1: And somehow they're stopping the run even knowing it's pass happy.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they'd rather stop the run and take
Speaker 1: their chance putting pressure on deck than vice versa and
Speaker 1: let him run the football. And that's what they're gonna
Speaker 1: face until they solve it. All right, very good? That
Speaker 1: does it for a terrific Tuesday. Renzo makes me crazy,
Speaker 1: all right, and we will chat at you again tomorrow
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