WEBVTT - Mick Shots: What The What 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:16.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Vick Shot 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.040 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.759 Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:33.320 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, there's got to be a morning after, 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.080 and there's also got to be an afternoon after. And 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.120 here we are for another edition of mix Shots. And 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:42.560 boy do we have a lot to talk about over 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.800 the course of the next forty five minutes. I just 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.120 got one thing to present right off the top. Why 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.680 can't anybody play any defense anymore? My high school team 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.000 gave up fifty seven points on Friday night, My college 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.160 team gave up thirty seven, but it felt like seventy 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:03.280 seven on Saturday night. And my NFL team, I think 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.880 the Cleveland Browns, well, they could still be scoring if 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.080 they wanted to be scoring. Here we are for another 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:14.319 week of this. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Mickey 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.240 Spagnola inside the WBC Mortgage studios Where the sun came 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.800 up this morning, right, Mickey, I think it did. Yes, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.680 it didn't come up for the Cowboys. They all guarantee 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:32.000 you that, especially a defense that gives up forty nine points. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:40.440 You know what, I've decided this is probably the most 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.840 absurd season in the most absurd year I've lived. That 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.880 and I think that kind of sums up what took 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:54.600 place at at and T Stadium on Sunday. You have 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.760 an offense that you know, scores as many points as 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.880 the Cowboys did and nearly scored four games five hundred 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.000 and sixty six yards. Your quarterback throws for five hold 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:12.840 two and you get beat. You get beat, and boy, 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.200 that got problems on this defense. And I think that's 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:21.399 probably an understatement. You know what I was hoping. Guys, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.919 Let's let's make sure that we don't fall into this 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.240 thing of like the weather man. You know, we predict 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.920 something and you get mad at us if you know, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.839 if it's raining or if things go bad. I want 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.240 to make sure the fans know we're not the weatherman. Okay, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.480 if we predict something it doesn't happen, don't blame us, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.800 all right. I don't want to get any letters saying 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.480 that I'm it's with the reason that the Cowboys are losing. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.600 We are not the weatherman. We are just guys sitting 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.640 up here trying to pull for the Dallas Cowboys, just 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.519 like anybody else. So please don't let us fall into 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.919 that category. See Everson, here's the deal. We're right. They 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.720 just didn't play well enough to make us right, that's all. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.320 The right, man, they didn't just didn't believe us, that's all. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.679 They didn't believe us. We believe in them. They don't 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.440 believe in themselves. That's it's it's it's the old gambling 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.920 adage when somebody loses a bet. It's like, no, I 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.600 had the bet right. They just blew the game for me. Yeah, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:21.440 the outcome just came out wrong. Yeah that's all it. Yeah, absolutely, Well, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:26.160 what did you guys? I just told you what I thought. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.919 What do you guys think? You know? Let me say this, guys. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.200 I you know I'm always the optimistic guy, even more 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.400 optimistic than Bill sometimes when it comes to the Cowboys. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:39.720 Like I said, I never picked them to lose. I 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.320 don't care. Even if I was on the if I 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.320 was picking games for that one and fifteen team that 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.480 I was a part of, I probably low. You know, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:49.480 I probably still picked the Cowboys for every game. I 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.320 just can't not pick them. My optimism just comes from 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.840 being a Cowboy fans growing up. We all know about 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.400 the comebacks that we've been a part of. I don't 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.720 care if I just quarterback, and I don't care if 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.680 Rombo coincid Carter. It doesn't matter. We always had hope 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.640 of comebacks when everything seemed down. I was probably that 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.880 nineteen eighty five team. We brought it up, I think 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.840 a couple of weeks ago in regards to getting blown 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:21.360 out twice in nineteen eighty five, forty four nothing by 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:26.520 the Chicago Bears at home. Then we went up to Cincinnati. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.359 They put a fifty spot on us. I think we 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.160 had seventeen. They had fifty plus on us. Yet we 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.640 still came back. What happens, Bags, tell me what happened 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.120 in nineteen eighty five. I love to hear you spout 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:47.400 poetic subas poetics. Somehow somewhere they won the NFC East 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.239 and got into the playoffs after getting spanked that bad 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:57.160 in two games. Executive games. Maybe we can qualify it 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.720 since the Bears were so good that here they did 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.520 win the Super Bowl, right, so it's not like you 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.280 you lost to the Cleveland Browns. Hey stop it. We're 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.080 trying to be positive. Positive here, come on, but no, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.640 I mean, that's the kind of thing that just keeps 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.360 me always thinking that there's a light at the end 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.880 of the tunnel tunnel, and that light is not a 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.280 training So I Am going to always be that way, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.839 and somehow, you know me, as angry as we are 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.200 about the game and as disappointed as we are, I 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.960 still see that light. Well, let me let me go 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.760 here right from the start, because we talked about this 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:42.920 on Thursday and Friday, and Everson had some idea of 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.120 what they needed to do defensively, because we pointed out 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.840 that Cleveland there was no surprise they were going to 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.000 run the ball. Bill told you they used to fullback. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.120 I told you they used two tight ends. They were 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.120 going to run the ball. And the Cowboys had not 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.960 played a team yet that wanted to primarily run the football. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.040 They played teams at three wide. They were in their 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:10.040 nickel defense. That nickel defense wasn't going to work against 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.480 Cleveland if they went two tight ends, or if they 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.159 went a fullback and basically two wide receivers and a 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.240 tailback and run the football and they could not make 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.840 the necessary adjustment defensively to get the right personnel on 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.680 the field. Now, they tried and you know, Everson gave 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.080 you some ideas of moving the safety up into the box, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.880 playing single safety high. They tried that sometimes. But what 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.800 they tried to do because they didn't have a legitimate 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.520 strong side linebacker, is they would stand up one of 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.880 their defensive ends the four man front, and then they 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.960 would stand up either Alden Smith or sometimes Dorence Armstrong 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.120 as the strong side linebacker. Well, that didn't work. Those 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.000 guys are defensive linemen, they're not linebacker, and they got 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.240 taken advantage of because number one, they couldn't hold down 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.279 the fort in the middle of that defense, and two 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.440 they weren't holding down the edge on the outside and 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:18.360 allowed Cleveland to run for a Cowboys opponent franchise high 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:22.600 three hundred and seven yards and that was with Chubb 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:27.080 having to leave the game early hurly. If he had 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.600 stayed healthy, they might have run for four hundred yards. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.560 So to me, it was somewhat schematic. It was somewhat 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.160 the talent they have, and it highlighted the fact that 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.840 they sorely miss Layton Vanderish and Sean Lee being on 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.280 the field at the same time. You know what else 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.120 it shows me, guys, I don't care what your personnel is. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.520 We've seen it in all types of sports, how you 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:03.000 lose someone or you might be short at a particular position. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.000 That we still are able to gain plan because our coaches, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.080 you know, they were able to see something, They were 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.320 able to find something through weeks and weeks of preparation, 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.920 you know, days and days, hours and hours. Okay, this 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.680 is what we can do. This is going to be 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.200 the lesser of the evil. We may not be able 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 to dominate these guys, we may not even be able 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.560 to control them, but we'll come up with something that's 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.360 going to be the lesser of the evil. Tour we 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:36.160 can hang on enough to give this team a chance 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:40.600 to win. I have not. I didn't see any any adjustment. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.079 I didn't see any scheme that was gonna give us 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.200 a chance to stop them. It's like your Bill's high 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.640 school team. I mean, they're just resigned to the fact 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.680 that they're going to give up points. That is not 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.880 the way a professional team, especially a team with this 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:02.600 kind of talent, should be thinking. Early on, we were 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.760 earlier before the season started, we were all over Will 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.960 McClay and talking about the people that he brought in. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.319 I still believe that the people he brought in can 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:16.080 make plays, because we've seen them make plays with other teams. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.160 So the fact that they're not making them with this one, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.559 either they're not buying into the game plan or someone's 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:28.199 not relaying the message correctly, because right now no one 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.480 knows what they're doing. And once you get into not 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.680 knowing what you're doing, frustration sets in and then you 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:39.760 see that forgive about the term piss poor effort defensively, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.439 especially on that Beckham end a round play that was 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:49.080 whether the Cowboys defensively had just succumbed to their own incompetence. 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.120 They just gave up. They didn't even think about trying 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.400 to stop anybody because they were worried about how frustrated 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.679 they were. That's when you lose that team concept. I 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.880 saw that fully and it I'll culminated on that plate 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.920 that end around to Beckham where there's so much to 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.800 get to here, and you know, one of the things, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.160 just since you brought up how this team was put 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.520 together in the offseason with Will McClay. It was put 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.360 together with the idea that Layton, vander esh and Sean 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.360 Lee would be there and with the idea that Gerald 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.080 McCoy would be upfront in that defensive line as well. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.839 That's no excuses. Injuries happen in this league. But that 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.120 was a game yesterday when you're going up against a 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.280 team who is intent on running the football. That Shawn 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.680 Lee would have had twenty tackles in that game. And 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.720 he gets the twenty tackles because he can read and react, 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.520 he can get around the big lineman. He's done enough 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.480 film study and he has enough athletic ability to where 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.800 he can get around to the spot that he needs 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:58.360 to be in to avoid the big offensive lineman to 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.960 make a tackle. You know, And I don't you know 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.640 Joe Thomas. I thought, you know, in his career, Joe 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.880 Thomas has been a backup player and he and I 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.040 think he's shown signs of really playing well, you know 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.800 in uh In when he's had the opportunity here this 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.440 this season as a starter. But but he doesn't have 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.040 the same kind of experience that a Sean Lee has, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.280 even with a Layton Vanderish. You know, he is, he 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.920 obviously has the athletic ability, but I haven't I haven't 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.520 seen yet in his career him have those games where 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.360 he can just snuff out a team like Sean Lee 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.200 has in the past. Now, I know everyone will say 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.400 he Shan Lee can't stay on the field, But the 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.440 point is, if you go look at Hitch the way 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.760 Sean Lee plays linebacker, that is the way you play 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.480 linebacker in this league. The other part of it is 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.400 when and Mickey you talked about Vague basically went to 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.920 an Oklahoma fifty two defense where they had five defense 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.160 of lineman up on the line of scrimmage to try 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.080 to stop the run. But those ends are either Alden 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:11.040 Smith and DeMarcus Lawrence, who's not a three four outside linebacker. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.320 I mean they went to they had three defensive linemen. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.320 I mean you look at their snap counts and it 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:21.280 shows with Tristan Hill, don Terry Poe and who am 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.040 I for getting in there? And Antoine Woods and then 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:28.240 they would rotate Tyrone Crawford in. They basically was three 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:33.559 four with that fourth they had, whether it be Everson Griffin, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.760 Alden Smith, DeMarcus Lawrence, Dorence Armstrong as those outside guys, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.240 and they couldn't well, those guys aren't three four outside linebackers. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:46.280 I mean DeMarcus Ware was Anthony Spencer was if you 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.720 go back and look at how Anthony Spencer played as 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.400 a three four outside linebacker, I mean, and he played 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.640 his rear end off every snap of his career. That's 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.400 what you got to have to be able to stop 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.720 the run in this And so from that standpoint, if 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.800 you're going to try to play a three four, they 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.280 don't have it's a they don't have the people to 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.640 run a three four it. So that's where the scheme 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.960 fit doesn't work with the personnel they have. And the 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:17.560 other thing to accentuate that is if you're gonna play 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.960 that way, then you gotta have a linebacker to be 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.440 able to cover the tight ends. They're tight ends. Caught 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:28.319 nine passes for seventy one yards and a touchdown. They 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:32.679 were uncovered the almost the entire game. And Bill, you're right. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.760 They tried a four man rine with a guy standing 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.760 up to be the strong side linebacker. They tried three 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.920 four with Crawford Woods and don Terry Poe in the middle. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.000 None of that work. They don't have the personnel, they 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.480 don't have the body types to play that defense, and 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.000 they need to quit forcing it. As far as I'm concerned. Now, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.920 they may think differently, and who knows, they may come 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:01.800 up against another team where that's gonna work. But Bill Callahan, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:07.120 the former Cowboys offensive line coached offensive coordinator, had their 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.520 number in the running game, and as we know, he's 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.000 missed the running guru, and he gave him a lesson. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:20.280 When you talk about the production of the Browns tight ends, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.640 you know when we did I picked a click. Of course, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.760 I picked Sheltz for one of my for my guy, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.320 and it was sued it did. I assumed that with 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.720 us running the ball and with them concentrating on the 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:36.120 run so much, and eventually that middle is gonna open 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.200 up because those linebacks are gonna be sucked in on Zeke, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.520 Sheltz could get behind them in the zone. That's what 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.400 I was assuming was gonna happen for us. I did 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.520 not know that that would be what was gonna happen 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.600 for them. That's the kind of thing that kind of 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:56.640 you know it. You're looking for Beckham, you're looking for Landry, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.520 and you're looking for them to do their thing, which 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.680 they did. But you didn't think of having a steady 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.360 diet of the tight ends. And I guess we should 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.600 be accustomed to that because really we haven't covered the 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.680 tight end since last year. As far as our defensive 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.920 scheme is concerned. You know, when you talk about this 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.760 defense now, you look at the concerns that we all 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:23.640 had in Mike Nolan. I didn't know much about Mike Nolan, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.320 but as we looked back through it, what I saw 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.960 was aggression. I saw aggression in all of the calls 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.360 that he made. And I always assumed that Mike Nolan 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.800 was not effective wherever he went because he just didn't 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.160 have the talent. So what I'm thinking with Will McClay 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.000 coming in signing this talent, and yes, like you said, Bill, 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.000 a lot of them got hurt. We had a lot 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.200 of changes that were unexpected. But at the same time, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:54.200 we have a big bitch over there, okay. And we also, 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.120 what I thought, had a coach that would be able 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.440 to adapt, defensive coach that would be the adapt to 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.600 the issues that we have. We had a rush defense problem. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.360 Before he got here. I assumed that he was going 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.240 to remedy that. It doesn't seem like he has a 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.760 clue on how to do it, especially with the injuries, 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:17.640 unexpected injuries that his face throughout this off season. And 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:21.520 once again Bill everyone's got the injuries, everyone's got these 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.040 unexpected things happened, especially with this pandemic. We have to 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:29.240 be somehow able to come through with that with no excuses, 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.880 if nothing else, just be able to give a bit 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:36.560 of support to one of the best offenses in the 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.640 NFL right now, Just give us just a smidgen of help, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.560 and you just be surprised at how we could turn 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.800 three losses maybe into just one loss or just two losses. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.480 You know, the wet we gotta take a break here. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.760 But you know the other part of that, as far 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.760 as the this goes to back to Bill Kellahan, to 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.840 the tight ends for Cleveland did a good job in 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.680 the run game blocking two where even though Jalen Smith 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.120 or Joe Thomas just all right. First off, the Cowboys 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.120 did a poor job set in the edge a lot 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.760 of times defensively. But then also those tight ends did 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.119 a good job of blocking the Cowboy linebackers who couldn't 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.800 get out to the outside. You can go back and 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.159 look through the tape and see a lot of that 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.200 going on in this game. So anyway, I mean, as 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.679 it was, and by the way, as you were talking, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.280 ever since I went back and looked up as this 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.199 was happening. I was thinking, this reminds me of Cincinnati 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.359 a nineteen eighty five and the final score in that 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.760 game was fifty to twenty four, and I looked it up. 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:46.240 It was thirty six to three early in the third quarter, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.760 and this, okay, the Cowboys gave up three hundred seven 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.240 yards rushing to Cleveland. Well in that game, the Cowboys 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.719 against Cincinnati gave up five hundred eighty three total yards 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.200 in that game, which is a mouthful in nineteen eighty five. 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.480 And that was with two tall Randy and the guys. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.240 That was the that was the doomsday defense, and it 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:14.480 was doomsday for us day. Yesterday was doomsday. Let's see 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.360 where it is. Where is okay? Rushing offense for Cincinnati 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.280 that day, they had two hundred and eighty four yards rushing, 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.479 so they were they were coming close to three oh seven. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:31.800 So that's when I had, That's when I had. Montoya 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:36.840 was was in my face thirty yards down the field 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.720 and I couldn't even see Brooks behind him. I'm trying 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.199 to keep myself alive and see the running back behind him, 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.600 and Brooks was just running all over the place. And yeah, 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.199 that you know here Cowboys. Hey, and you know who 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.840 the Cowboys played the next week, New York Giants. They 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.639 played the New York Giants in one twenty eight to 0:18:55.760 --> 0:19:00.400 twenty one. 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The people in the stands not so much. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:59.040 And I suggested in my in my column today that 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.760 instead of pull on their masks down, they should have 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.800 pulled them up over their eyes so they didn't have 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:10.000 to watch that. That's funny. I like that, you know, 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.040 what I want. You know. You know, at one point 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:15.320 I made that comment. I was watching the game here 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:18.080 at home with my wife, and we were talking about 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:22.359 Mike McCarthy and and about that time, they showed a 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.040 shot of McCarthy on the sideline and it looked like 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:29.000 he had his mask up so high. I said, I said, 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:31.640 I told my wife, he's about to pull that mask 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.200 up over his face so he didn't have to watch 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:39.399 this stuff. Well, it's so interesting now because of course 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:44.720 this is such a seamless transition we want. We didn't 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:49.639 want a seamless transition, Okay. I didn't want Mike McCarthy 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.399 to make me feel like Jason Garrett is still here. Okay, 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:58.480 we wanted to feel different about this season. So of 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:01.600 course all the people are talking about, hey, bring back 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:05.680 Jason Jarrett. Got Jason hanging out of a train like 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:09.240 a like a happy dog out of a car, laughing 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:12.200 at us with our incompetence. If it wasn't for the 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:15.280 fact that they're so incompetence in New York as well, 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:18.760 I think he would be. But I was thinking, okay, 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:24.359 defensively is the issue? Uh, what about bringing back Chris Rashard? 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:29.439 Anybody anybody, Ron Marinelli, everybody was ready to get rid 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.400 of Yeah, anybody, anybody, anybody. I want to bring back 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:38.760 Jeff Heath. Oh, yes, bring it back Heath. Please? Where's 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:42.400 Heath right now? We heard I got a note even 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:46.120 last week on periscope, but they were saying that about 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:50.840 Jeff Heath. You know. But seriously, though, Jim Tumsila, the 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.440 defensive line coach, is one of the most respected defensive 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.480 line coaches in the National Football League. H you know, 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:03.920 it's it's just a question of of figuring out how 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.520 they can how they can fix this thing in a hurry, 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:10.880 and truthfully, with the Giants coming in here this week, 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.560 that's going to help fix the problem. Okay, But long term, 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.040 they've got to look at themselves and they have to 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:20.680 figure out It's just like what Mike McCarthy said in 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:25.040 one of his opening meetings with the media back in 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:30.160