WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Offense Matters 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.760 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:12.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.959 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.239 official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:34.040 and Nicky Spagnola. Well, here we are. It's a Monday 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.800 after a Cowboys victory. There we go, Dallas Cowboys. We're 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:53.200 wearing that song out. Yeah, and you know the senior pros, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.600 they kind of played like a college team on Sunday. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.920 I feel like I was watching a Big twelve game 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.760 with all the scoring that was going on, seven touchdowns 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.440 in one game, forty nine points the most scored in 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:12.639 an NFL game this season? Or was it really? Because 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.360 I know at halftime it was the combined most points 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.959 an the Cowboys. Forty nine points was the most scored 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.039 by an NFL team in a single game this season. Well, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:30.040 what an offensive passing the Seattle Seahawks who got forty 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.720 eight in a forty eight forty five win over Detroit, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.600 a Big twelve game that was played last month, So 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:40.000 how about that? Well, or an offensive explosion, which is 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:45.200 what Mickey Spagnola was calling for on Friday. Yes, absolutely, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.880 and it was about time. And my point being that 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.840 at some point some team's going to score thirty points 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.559 on you, and you're gonna need to score to win, 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.640 none of this cozy defensive stuff in one touchdown or 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.360 two touchdowns and the field goal kickers got to kick 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.640 all these field goals. How about that they won without 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.880 a field goal? Uh, first game they didn't kick a 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.040 field goal, I believe right If I probably so, I 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.639 think so, I would think probably. So that was off 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.760 the top of my head and I didn't include that 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:23.400 in my column for right now this afternoon. But yeah, 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.080 and so there it was. They gave up twenty nine 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.880 points and you had to score. Sometimes you got to 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.080 score to win. You know this whole thing about complimentary football, Well, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.560 it's great when the defense is doing its job, but 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:41.960 when it gets nailed for twenty nine points, then yeah, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.280 you gotta score. You know what I prefer Rather than 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:50.959 complimentary football with the E compl I like complimentary football 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.680 with an eye every day, where we have nothing but 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.160 compliments for the performance on Monday. And if you think 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:04.280 about it, uh, from a defensive stamp point, they very 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.560 well would have held them to nineteen points if it 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:12.960 wasn't for the BS roughing the quarterback penalty that took 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:17.160 the interception away. They went down and scored a touchdown. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.560 And then I don't know why the Cowboys thought they 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.400 had to be aggressive at the end of the half 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.240 when they got the ball back with less than a 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.080 minute to go, throwing the ball down field, it gets 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.440 intercepted and they ended up. Well, they got aggressive because 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:35.440 the ability to stop and then and then that was 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.200 that was a field goal, So that was ten ten 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.640 points they kind of were gifted to the Bears. Otherwise 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.080 it's forty Well that's how that's how it got to 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.800 forty nine at the end. Yeah, because had that not happened, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.840 then in the finals would have been like they wouldn't 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.680 have push it, right, that's right, but they still would 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:59.720 have got the the fumble return for a touchdown by Superman. Amazing. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.680 I mean week after weeks, that's two in a row. Well, 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:09.480 and again on that one, it was Mica playing all 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.960 the way through the whistle which never came right. I 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.400 mean he is, he's getting double teamed. He basically forces 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.320 the quarterback out of the pocket and so he is 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:26.479 fifteen yards upfield and but he hustles and is in 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.479 position when a good thing happens. Layton Vanderesh forces the 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.280 fumble to recover the fumble right. And then as the 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:38.080 presence of mind that, okay, Justin Fields just decided to 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:42.919 show off his vertical rather than touch me because standing 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:48.040 broad jump good thing. He was so athletic. He leaps 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.840 right over back in college and you know you're going 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.839 down right, and he leaps over not to you know, 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.440 get a roughing penalty or whatever. And a parson stands 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.960 up and goes, WHOA, I don't like anybody touched me. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.119 But but it just like the week before, he didn't 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.080 give up on the play, right. And so when it 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.920 comes on the heels of his conversation with dan Quinn, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.360 he talked about, you know, using his superpower. Well there 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.480 it is again. His superpower comes into play when you 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.240 think that the play has passed him and he's he's 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.559 got no involvement in the play. I mean, think about 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.280 how far behind the line of scrimmage he started that, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.479 and how far the ball had gone, because the pass 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:32.279 was at least fifteen twenty yards, wasn't it. I've got 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:38.120 it here somewhere we can figure out do the math 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.200 on it. Well, it was a thirty six yard return 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:49.880 and the line of scrimmage was the Chicago nineteen nineteen. Yeah, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.080 so you're right, so that way, and so he was 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.520 in the backfield, right, that's right. Wow, I didn't even 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.320 consider that he was in the backfield getting double team blocked. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.719 And then the pass is completed and it was a 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.279 third and sixteen play, so they had to get to 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.600 the thirty five yard line, and sure enough, and so 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.919 he was right. I remember him being right at the 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.839 stix with a fumble occurred and so ball pops out 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.200 the thirty six yard line and that's where he So 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:24.440 he ran literally twenty yards upfield to thirty six yards 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:29.600 on a play that seemingly was over And as far 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.160 as he was concerned, did you hear what McCarthy had 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.880 to say afterwards? And Dak, they both rolled their eyes 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.359 and they go okay, and McCarthy goes, now, he's going 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.760 to be at my office every day of the week 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.880 saying I need to run the football. I guarantee you. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.480 I mean, if they had decided that they didn't want 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.440 to bring up Quadrea Allison, right, Parsons could have been 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:58.800 their emergency if he was totally healthy, because remember in 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.120 high school that one year he ran for like two 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.320 thousand yards or some ridiculous number and all these touchdowns 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.200 as a running back and playing defense at the same time. Yep. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.040 Uh And even Dak, Dak's like, oh gosh, now I 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:18.960 got to hear this all. Well, it was a fun day. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.720 And there was so much uh, so much that went 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.840 on in that game, so much to talk about here. Yeah, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.640 just uh and it it sure makes it fun when 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:33.200 the offense is at will just uh, you know. And 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:40.200 I resurrected my quote from Jerry uh for my column 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.720 on Friday, uh talking about all of what Dak adds 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.880 to the team, that he's an additive when he comes back. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.560 And he said, and if we get that with the 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.480 way the defense has been playing, we're gonna be a 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.920 mess out there, meaning you know, really good. It's kind 0:07:59.960 --> 0:08:05.160 of a Southern lingo for you know, outstanding. And he 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.280 was exactly right, because that was a mess out there 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.600 offensively scoring forty nine points, you know, And I was thinking, well, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.600 when's the last time they scored that many points. I 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.080 was like, well, they scored fifty one against the Eagles 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.560 to finish off last season, but they had. They had 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.720 the most points scored this year, forty two by the offense, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.600 seven for the defense. They had the most yards gained 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.160 this year by a lot. Right, They had six touchdowns. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.480 That's half as many as they had in seven games 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.520 this year. So yeah, the offense emerged and third down 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:47.400 was huge, nine of eleven conversions, along with three of 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.760 those scoring touchdowns, including Dak running for one. It was 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.520 the first drive, right, he had the first urchdown, so yeah, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.880 cde Lamb gets involved. And then let's not barry the lead. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:06.680 Tony Pollard has a field day out there. Although guess what, 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.880 that's his second fourteen carry, one hundred and thirty one 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.760 yard performance in his career, and the other one was 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:20.880 against the I looked it up, but I forgot Giants. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.720 I don't know. Oh, I think that's I think that's who. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:31.480 And it was maybe two years ago, okay, because because 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.520 he only his his high and in carries single game 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.200 high and carries was fourteen twice and he ended up 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.280 with fourteen. One of them was the other game that 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.520 Zeke missed due to injury against San Francisco a forty 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.720 one to thirty one Cowboys win late in the season 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.120 twenty twenty. I can't remember. Yeah, I think high and 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.640 I had it written down last week. I don't have 0:09:56.679 --> 0:10:00.480 it now. Um, he had fourteen carries in game, but 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.640 I don't remember the yardage off to look it up. 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.280 And he had six receptions. So even going into this 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.360 game on our pregame show, I said, he'll get about 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.920 fourteen carries with six receptions. Well he got less than 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.840 the as far as the receptions go, but that's the 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.360 load you want to give him. Now. One of the 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.880 reasons he only got fourteen carries is he takes one 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.040 to the house fifty four yards. Yeah, so other running 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.080 backs it would take five on a good day, would 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.640 take five carries to go fifty four yards. And on 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.480 that touchdown run, it was like you were watching some 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.760 sort of track meet because there were guys running with 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.000 him right, and he just kept pulling away and pulling 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:51.880 away and pulling away. It kind of reminded me of 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:56.480 of one hundred meter run. And I remember covering the 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:02.520 Olympics that one year. Florence Griffin Florence s Griffith Joiner, Uh, 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.280 the track coach, said, you know, normally when you running 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.959 a hundred meters. When you get to about eighty or ninety, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.240 you're slowing down. She was speeding up, and that's what 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.640 he was doing. Going fifty four yards. He kept speeding 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.240 up and left everybody behind it rather mate. But again, 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.240 fourteen carries everybody. He's got to have more. He's got 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:28.160 to have more. Fourteen carries is it's just about right 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.800 for him for optimum production. It's the same same principle 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.160 at play with a rotation on your defensive line. Those 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.480 guys are going to be more effective by rotating them 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.760 in and then if they were playing every single play, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.200 and you you it's a change of pace, right, it's 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.680 a change of pace when Zeke's out there. He doesn't 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.160 need to be out there carrying the ball twenty twenty 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.640 five times, and Zeke carries it five times. It's a 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.640 it's a great rotation. And you know he can't wait 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.560 to see it, you know, come back again when Zeke 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.400 gets back, and I think he would have a chance 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.360 to get back for the Green Bay game. All right. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:12.160 So along those lines, we had a little birthday party 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.040 at the house last night, and my daughters and son 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.960 and sons in law all see that Tony Pollard. See 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.640 they need to be playing Tony Pollard all the time. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:25.120 And of the opinion, No, we gotta love both of them, right. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.040 I love what Zeke does. I love what Tony does. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:32.880 Both of them part of And I said my daughter Jordan, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.960 I said, so did you see Zeke on the sideline? 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.959 And now that's what a team player does. I mean 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.959 he was genuinely happy for what Tony Pollard was doing 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.240 in that game. No, absolutely, he was the first one 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.720 to greet him after the third. It was at the 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.720 third the fifty four yard touchdown run, he was the 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.760 first one to greet him. And again and they spelled 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.200 him a little Davis h in his his rookie debut 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.760 touching the football, had eight carries and you know he 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.640 caught the one pass it almost was a touchdown. He 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.240 shows he's got a little something too. U So I 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.640 think the key thing, would Pollard is you don't want 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:20.000 to over expose him and allow teams to sort of 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:25.720 plan and kind of prepare for what he is. And 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.400 I've always used this analogy. You know, you get a 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.840 second baseman that gets two hundred and fifty at bats 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.600 during the season, and he bats two eighty. You give 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.760 him five hundred a bats and then he's bat in 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.880 two twenty and so with him, this is just what 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.719 you want to get out of him. You know, he's 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.400 a home run hitter, and you know when he hits 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.160 that hole, it's rather amazing. H So, yeah, what a 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.760 what a great combination they'll have. And Mike McCarthy said 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.199 it after I believe it was after the game. He goes, 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.120 you know, Zeke's are number one back and Tony Pollar's 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.200 a number one back too, and that's the way they're 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:08.120 going to continue to look at it. And boy, and 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.120 I think we saw all this nonsense before. Well you 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.800 know what, Cooper Rush, we got to play like that. No, 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.360 you gotta play exactly the way they played in this game. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.680 And I know the Bears don't have a great defense, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.760 but did you see some of the passes as Dak 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.640 made over the middle And a couple of them were 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.480 in tight coverage, though a couple of them I thought 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.520 they were playing against air. I don't know what the 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.800 Bears were doing with those passes over the middle to 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:42.080 Cede Lamb, but yeah, and then pulled the ball down 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.560 and ran with it a couple of times too. All right, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.560 we'll get into much more of that. The only the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.840 other point on Pollard. I've talked about Zeke's attitude in 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:54.200 that relationship. 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And then tomorrow we get 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:10.040 the assistant coaches. Oh okay, not just the coordinators, all right, 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.800 they have their own day. But we haven't talked to 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.680 the assistant coaches probably since training camp, I think think 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:22.680 so for an arranged thing anyway, Yeah, and then it's 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.720 a bye week and all right, so more importantly as 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.520 far as the fans are concerned, not that they don't 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.960 care about the coach, Yes, but what is the players 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:36.399 schedule this week? I think today kind of a review 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.520 and they do their little Monday run and lift, and 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.200 I think they're done for the rest of the week. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.200 And they had to be done by Wednesday. I mean 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:51.320 Wednesday was the last for the CBA mandated. Yeah, they 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.159 have to be done by Wednesday or I mean they 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.160 get all. I think the rule was four consecutive off 0:18:57.240 --> 0:19:00.760 days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Okay, But I think McCarthy 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.040 basically told them their gift six. They they're getting more, 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.639 which you'll help them get healthy because one of the 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.080 things I think that got overlooked yesterday was the number 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.560 of people that were missing in the game. And if 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:23.400 not just Zeke, Noah Brown was out, then Malie Hooker 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:31.720 was out. They they ended up losing Anthony Barr with 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.920 like two minutes to go in the second quarter in 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:42.400 twenty five steps. Then at one point j Ron Curse 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.760 had to go off twice and come back. Donovan Wilson 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:50.600 ended up cramping out and going off. I believe he 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:57.280 ended up coming back, and Jordan Lewis was missing, so 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.520 Sam Williams and then Sam Williams two. So think about 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:06.919 the guys that stepped up in those guys places. Uh 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:12.800 Dron Bryant Bland goes in for um Jordan Lewis breaks 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.600 up a pass in the end zone right and really played. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:20.800 I thought, pretty well, you I only remember the guy 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:26.600 he was covering catching a ball once. So you had 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:31.720 at times Marquis Bell in there at safety. Mcquamu had 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:37.560 to play more at safety, h Dante Fowler junior more 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:42.879 at defensive end. With Sam Williams out. We talked about 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:47.200 Tony Pollard, but Malik Davis got to play to help out. 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.960 Jalen Tolbert had to start as a top their third 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:55.880 receiver when they went out there with three wide. Then 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.199 Connor McGovern goes out, Jesse Peters comes in right and 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:02.200 that was that was short lived. But Peters was in 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:07.679 two as a blocking tight end. So yeah, um, you 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:15.600 know they and they also because of Um Forniac missing, 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:21.040 they activated off the practice squad. Dakota Shepley. We had 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.520 talked about him, kind of a guard center, had played 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.240 in the Canadian Football League and he was on special teams. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.520 So there was a lot of guys that hadn't played 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:35.359 as much that had to step up and play in 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:40.359 this game. And once again we see what these tight 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:45.359 ends are doing. And I think I added it up um. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:50.840 Between the three tight ends, Schultz, Ferguson, and pender Shot, 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:58.720 they ended up playing snaps together. Schultz had forty one 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:05.439 snaps on offense. Uh, Ferguson had thirty two snaps, and 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:10.240 Hendershot had twenty one. Yes, so so a total of 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.360 ninety four snaps for the tight ends in the game. 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:17.520 Now is the other one with fourteen seven hundred and 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.679 eight or one hundred and seven, So that's a lot 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.040 of snaps. And they went a lot of two tight 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:25.560 end and even three tight end at times. And how 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.080 about on that pallor touchdown run Ferguson and Um and 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:35.080 even um McEwan downfield but uh yeah, he didn't have 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:38.560 to do much just pull Zack Mark pushed the guy 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.920 from the butt back. But it was Ferguson, right who 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:45.080 who made the key block there? Yeah springing, Yeah, So 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.920 I love Ferguson, I think really good training camp and 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.760 just hearing him talk and training camp, I mean you 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:57.680 can tell, and Hendershots from that same mold. Uh, these guys, 0:22:57.720 --> 0:23:01.360 they are even though they're rookies, they have a veteran 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:03.879 sense about them. They played a lot of football in 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.239 the Big Ten where they emphasize the tight end at 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:11.960 Wisconsin and Hendershot at Indiana, and they're they're subtly different, 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:16.360 you know, types of tight ends. And the Cowboys when 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:19.000 they went into the draft, they knew they had a 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:22.000 need at tight end. And this was a very deep 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.000 draft as far as tight ends are concerned. And I 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:26.760 know that they were looking at a guy in the 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:28.960 second round. They were hoping to get one a second 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:31.240 or third round. They decided to go a different direction 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:35.199 and they hit on two of them. And this you know, 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.840 obviously Hendershot wasn't drafted. That is going to set them 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:42.200 up nicely here the next few years. Herod McCarthy called 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:46.200 them last week, no frickin frack. I heard that and 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.400 never and I said, oh, that would over everybody's head. 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:52.879 That's and along those lines, how about Schultz and his 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:58.399 situation in his contract year franchise player, and he sees it, 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:00.679 I mean, he sees these other tie ends, you know, 0:24:00.840 --> 0:24:03.600 and obviously a team needs more than one tied end 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:08.080 to begin with. Uh And the way that as far 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:12.800 as being a teammate. And obviously they really like each 0:24:12.880 --> 0:24:15.000 the whole Tide End group. They really like each other. 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:20.119 And would you like to describe the celebration the touchdown celebration? 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:23.120 Ask you do you do you think they were? They 0:24:23.119 --> 0:24:27.840 were in some rodeo roping competition where you jump off 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:33.760 the love it and rope the calf's legs together. Uh, 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:36.720 that was pretty inventive. I don't know where that came from, 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:40.040 Well it came out on a practice field or you know, 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.359 it's basically which one of them the country that would 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:47.280 know about that stuff. I haven't talked to him enough 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:51.320 to know. But while one guy Ferguson said town in Indiana, 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:55.040 and Ferguson said, we played for the Cowboy. So the 0:24:55.160 --> 0:24:58.439 idea was they were the cowboys. We got to come 0:24:58.520 --> 0:25:01.840 up with something they were roping, something that shows that 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:05.280 we're cowboys. But going back to Shultz, so he playing 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:09.120 through injury, missed a game or two, and he's got 0:25:09.119 --> 0:25:11.840 twenty catches for two hundred and three yards ten point 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.920 two average. And that catch he made over the middle 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:16.919 that was kind of high. He went up and got it. 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:20.600 It was spectacular and it just shows you the value 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:24.120 of those tight ends and he was using them almost 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:28.000 like a long handoff right early in the game to 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:33.680 shorten the third downs to use the tight end, and yeah, 0:25:33.720 --> 0:25:38.000 it was very effective. So I didn't hear any complaints 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:42.360 about play calling. Right, you win, and it's like, oh yeah, now, 0:25:42.440 --> 0:25:45.200 Kellen Morrison, he's looking for a head coaching job again. 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:49.320 It's amazing And we'll talk about maybe that more tomorrow 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:51.919 as we go on during the week, about all the 0:25:51.960 --> 0:25:55.760 perceptions that were out there that have just been destroyed 0:25:55.840 --> 0:26:00.680 with the Cowboys what winning six of their last seven games, 0:26:00.720 --> 0:26:03.159 six and two records. And the other thing is with 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:05.080 the bye week hitting right now, and you talk about 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:09.600 the injuries that they are working through right now, I 0:26:09.640 --> 0:26:15.680