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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys have now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, here we are. It's a Monday
Speaker 1: after a Cowboys victory. There we go, Dallas Cowboys. We're
Speaker 1: wearing that song out. Yeah, and you know the senior pros,
Speaker 1: they kind of played like a college team on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I feel like I was watching a Big twelve game
Speaker 1: with all the scoring that was going on, seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in one game, forty nine points the most scored in
Speaker 1: an NFL game this season? Or was it really? Because
Speaker 1: I know at halftime it was the combined most points
Speaker 1: an the Cowboys. Forty nine points was the most scored
Speaker 1: by an NFL team in a single game this season. Well,
Speaker 1: what an offensive passing the Seattle Seahawks who got forty
Speaker 1: eight in a forty eight forty five win over Detroit,
Speaker 1: a Big twelve game that was played last month, So
Speaker 1: how about that? Well, or an offensive explosion, which is
Speaker 1: what Mickey Spagnola was calling for on Friday. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and it was about time. And my point being that
Speaker 1: at some point some team's going to score thirty points
Speaker 1: on you, and you're gonna need to score to win,
Speaker 1: none of this cozy defensive stuff in one touchdown or
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and the field goal kickers got to kick
Speaker 1: all these field goals. How about that they won without
Speaker 1: a field goal? Uh, first game they didn't kick a
Speaker 1: field goal, I believe right If I probably so, I
Speaker 1: think so, I would think probably. So that was off
Speaker 1: the top of my head and I didn't include that
Speaker 1: in my column for right now this afternoon. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and so there it was. They gave up twenty nine
Speaker 1: points and you had to score. Sometimes you got to
Speaker 1: score to win. You know this whole thing about complimentary football, Well,
Speaker 1: it's great when the defense is doing its job, but
Speaker 1: when it gets nailed for twenty nine points, then yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta score. You know what I prefer Rather than
Speaker 1: complimentary football with the E compl I like complimentary football
Speaker 1: with an eye every day, where we have nothing but
Speaker 1: compliments for the performance on Monday. And if you think
Speaker 1: about it, uh, from a defensive stamp point, they very
Speaker 1: well would have held them to nineteen points if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for the BS roughing the quarterback penalty that took
Speaker 1: the interception away. They went down and scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know why the Cowboys thought they
Speaker 1: had to be aggressive at the end of the half
Speaker 1: when they got the ball back with less than a
Speaker 1: minute to go, throwing the ball down field, it gets
Speaker 1: intercepted and they ended up. Well, they got aggressive because
Speaker 1: the ability to stop and then and then that was
Speaker 1: that was a field goal, So that was ten ten
Speaker 1: points they kind of were gifted to the Bears. Otherwise
Speaker 1: it's forty Well that's how that's how it got to
Speaker 1: forty nine at the end. Yeah, because had that not happened,
Speaker 1: then in the finals would have been like they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have push it, right, that's right, but they still would
Speaker 1: have got the the fumble return for a touchdown by Superman. Amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean week after weeks, that's two in a row. Well,
Speaker 1: and again on that one, it was Mica playing all
Speaker 1: the way through the whistle which never came right. I
Speaker 1: mean he is, he's getting double teamed. He basically forces
Speaker 1: the quarterback out of the pocket and so he is
Speaker 1: fifteen yards upfield and but he hustles and is in
Speaker 1: position when a good thing happens. Layton Vanderesh forces the
Speaker 1: fumble to recover the fumble right. And then as the
Speaker 1: presence of mind that, okay, Justin Fields just decided to
Speaker 1: show off his vertical rather than touch me because standing
Speaker 1: broad jump good thing. He was so athletic. He leaps
Speaker 1: right over back in college and you know you're going
Speaker 1: down right, and he leaps over not to you know,
Speaker 1: get a roughing penalty or whatever. And a parson stands
Speaker 1: up and goes, WHOA, I don't like anybody touched me.
Speaker 1: But but it just like the week before, he didn't
Speaker 1: give up on the play, right. And so when it
Speaker 1: comes on the heels of his conversation with dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: he talked about, you know, using his superpower. Well there
Speaker 1: it is again. His superpower comes into play when you
Speaker 1: think that the play has passed him and he's he's
Speaker 1: got no involvement in the play. I mean, think about
Speaker 1: how far behind the line of scrimmage he started that,
Speaker 1: and how far the ball had gone, because the pass
Speaker 1: was at least fifteen twenty yards, wasn't it. I've got
Speaker 1: it here somewhere we can figure out do the math
Speaker 1: on it. Well, it was a thirty six yard return
Speaker 1: and the line of scrimmage was the Chicago nineteen nineteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're right, so that way, and so he was
Speaker 1: in the backfield, right, that's right. Wow, I didn't even
Speaker 1: consider that he was in the backfield getting double team blocked.
Speaker 1: And then the pass is completed and it was a
Speaker 1: third and sixteen play, so they had to get to
Speaker 1: the thirty five yard line, and sure enough, and so
Speaker 1: he was right. I remember him being right at the
Speaker 1: stix with a fumble occurred and so ball pops out
Speaker 1: the thirty six yard line and that's where he So
Speaker 1: he ran literally twenty yards upfield to thirty six yards
Speaker 1: on a play that seemingly was over And as far
Speaker 1: as he was concerned, did you hear what McCarthy had
Speaker 1: to say afterwards? And Dak, they both rolled their eyes
Speaker 1: and they go okay, and McCarthy goes, now, he's going
Speaker 1: to be at my office every day of the week
Speaker 1: saying I need to run the football. I guarantee you.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they had decided that they didn't want
Speaker 1: to bring up Quadrea Allison, right, Parsons could have been
Speaker 1: their emergency if he was totally healthy, because remember in
Speaker 1: high school that one year he ran for like two
Speaker 1: thousand yards or some ridiculous number and all these touchdowns
Speaker 1: as a running back and playing defense at the same time. Yep.
Speaker 1: Uh And even Dak, Dak's like, oh gosh, now I
Speaker 1: got to hear this all. Well, it was a fun day.
Speaker 1: And there was so much uh, so much that went
Speaker 1: on in that game, so much to talk about here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just uh and it it sure makes it fun when
Speaker 1: the offense is at will just uh, you know. And
Speaker 1: I resurrected my quote from Jerry uh for my column
Speaker 1: on Friday, uh talking about all of what Dak adds
Speaker 1: to the team, that he's an additive when he comes back.
Speaker 1: And he said, and if we get that with the
Speaker 1: way the defense has been playing, we're gonna be a
Speaker 1: mess out there, meaning you know, really good. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a Southern lingo for you know, outstanding. And he
Speaker 1: was exactly right, because that was a mess out there
Speaker 1: offensively scoring forty nine points, you know, And I was thinking, well,
Speaker 1: when's the last time they scored that many points. I
Speaker 1: was like, well, they scored fifty one against the Eagles
Speaker 1: to finish off last season, but they had. They had
Speaker 1: the most points scored this year, forty two by the offense,
Speaker 1: seven for the defense. They had the most yards gained
Speaker 1: this year by a lot. Right, They had six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's half as many as they had in seven games
Speaker 1: this year. So yeah, the offense emerged and third down
Speaker 1: was huge, nine of eleven conversions, along with three of
Speaker 1: those scoring touchdowns, including Dak running for one. It was
Speaker 1: the first drive, right, he had the first urchdown, so yeah,
Speaker 1: cde Lamb gets involved. And then let's not barry the lead.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard has a field day out there. Although guess what,
Speaker 1: that's his second fourteen carry, one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: yard performance in his career, and the other one was
Speaker 1: against the I looked it up, but I forgot Giants.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, I think that's I think that's who.
Speaker 1: And it was maybe two years ago, okay, because because
Speaker 1: he only his his high and in carries single game
Speaker 1: high and carries was fourteen twice and he ended up
Speaker 1: with fourteen. One of them was the other game that
Speaker 1: Zeke missed due to injury against San Francisco a forty
Speaker 1: one to thirty one Cowboys win late in the season
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I can't remember. Yeah, I think high and
Speaker 1: I had it written down last week. I don't have
Speaker 1: it now. Um, he had fourteen carries in game, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember the yardage off to look it up.
Speaker 1: And he had six receptions. So even going into this
Speaker 1: game on our pregame show, I said, he'll get about
Speaker 1: fourteen carries with six receptions. Well he got less than
Speaker 1: the as far as the receptions go, but that's the
Speaker 1: load you want to give him. Now. One of the
Speaker 1: reasons he only got fourteen carries is he takes one
Speaker 1: to the house fifty four yards. Yeah, so other running
Speaker 1: backs it would take five on a good day, would
Speaker 1: take five carries to go fifty four yards. And on
Speaker 1: that touchdown run, it was like you were watching some
Speaker 1: sort of track meet because there were guys running with
Speaker 1: him right, and he just kept pulling away and pulling
Speaker 1: away and pulling away. It kind of reminded me of
Speaker 1: of one hundred meter run. And I remember covering the
Speaker 1: Olympics that one year. Florence Griffin Florence s Griffith Joiner, Uh,
Speaker 1: the track coach, said, you know, normally when you running
Speaker 1: a hundred meters. When you get to about eighty or ninety,
Speaker 1: you're slowing down. She was speeding up, and that's what
Speaker 1: he was doing. Going fifty four yards. He kept speeding
Speaker 1: up and left everybody behind it rather mate. But again,
Speaker 1: fourteen carries everybody. He's got to have more. He's got
Speaker 1: to have more. Fourteen carries is it's just about right
Speaker 1: for him for optimum production. It's the same same principle
Speaker 1: at play with a rotation on your defensive line. Those
Speaker 1: guys are going to be more effective by rotating them
Speaker 1: in and then if they were playing every single play,
Speaker 1: and you you it's a change of pace, right, it's
Speaker 1: a change of pace when Zeke's out there. He doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be out there carrying the ball twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five times, and Zeke carries it five times. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a great rotation. And you know he can't wait
Speaker 1: to see it, you know, come back again when Zeke
Speaker 1: gets back, and I think he would have a chance
Speaker 1: to get back for the Green Bay game. All right.
Speaker 1: So along those lines, we had a little birthday party
Speaker 1: at the house last night, and my daughters and son
Speaker 1: and sons in law all see that Tony Pollard. See
Speaker 1: they need to be playing Tony Pollard all the time.
Speaker 1: And of the opinion, No, we gotta love both of them, right.
Speaker 1: I love what Zeke does. I love what Tony does.
Speaker 1: Both of them part of And I said my daughter Jordan,
Speaker 1: I said, so did you see Zeke on the sideline?
Speaker 1: And now that's what a team player does. I mean
Speaker 1: he was genuinely happy for what Tony Pollard was doing
Speaker 1: in that game. No, absolutely, he was the first one
Speaker 1: to greet him after the third. It was at the
Speaker 1: third the fifty four yard touchdown run, he was the
Speaker 1: first one to greet him. And again and they spelled
Speaker 1: him a little Davis h in his his rookie debut
Speaker 1: touching the football, had eight carries and you know he
Speaker 1: caught the one pass it almost was a touchdown. He
Speaker 1: shows he's got a little something too. U So I
Speaker 1: think the key thing, would Pollard is you don't want
Speaker 1: to over expose him and allow teams to sort of
Speaker 1: plan and kind of prepare for what he is. And
Speaker 1: I've always used this analogy. You know, you get a
Speaker 1: second baseman that gets two hundred and fifty at bats
Speaker 1: during the season, and he bats two eighty. You give
Speaker 1: him five hundred a bats and then he's bat in
Speaker 1: two twenty and so with him, this is just what
Speaker 1: you want to get out of him. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a home run hitter, and you know when he hits
Speaker 1: that hole, it's rather amazing. H So, yeah, what a
Speaker 1: what a great combination they'll have. And Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 1: it after I believe it was after the game. He goes,
Speaker 1: you know, Zeke's are number one back and Tony Pollar's
Speaker 1: a number one back too, and that's the way they're
Speaker 1: going to continue to look at it. And boy, and
Speaker 1: I think we saw all this nonsense before. Well you
Speaker 1: know what, Cooper Rush, we got to play like that. No,
Speaker 1: you gotta play exactly the way they played in this game.
Speaker 1: And I know the Bears don't have a great defense,
Speaker 1: but did you see some of the passes as Dak
Speaker 1: made over the middle And a couple of them were
Speaker 1: in tight coverage, though a couple of them I thought
Speaker 1: they were playing against air. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: Bears were doing with those passes over the middle to
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb, but yeah, and then pulled the ball down
Speaker 1: and ran with it a couple of times too. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get into much more of that. The only the
Speaker 1: other point on Pollard. I've talked about Zeke's attitude in
Speaker 1: that relationship. Pollard's attitude as well in that relationship that
Speaker 1: goes hand in hand where egos don't get in the
Speaker 1: way of what the the whole team concept is all about.
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Speaker 1: on Mick Shots on a victory Monday inside the SWBC
Speaker 1: podcast studio. Now, they're as far as the Cowboys availability today,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, the regular three o'clock press conference on the
Speaker 1: day after a game, now, yes, and then the coordinators
Speaker 1: will be thereafter. We already had a conference call with
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence and we were awaiting Zach Martin. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to have an appearance. And then tomorrow we get
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches. Oh okay, not just the coordinators, all right,
Speaker 1: they have their own day. But we haven't talked to
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches probably since training camp, I think think
Speaker 1: so for an arranged thing anyway, Yeah, and then it's
Speaker 1: a bye week and all right, so more importantly as
Speaker 1: far as the fans are concerned, not that they don't
Speaker 1: care about the coach, Yes, but what is the players
Speaker 1: schedule this week? I think today kind of a review
Speaker 1: and they do their little Monday run and lift, and
Speaker 1: I think they're done for the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: And they had to be done by Wednesday. I mean
Speaker 1: Wednesday was the last for the CBA mandated. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have to be done by Wednesday or I mean they
Speaker 1: get all. I think the rule was four consecutive off
Speaker 1: days Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Okay, But I think McCarthy
Speaker 1: basically told them their gift six. They they're getting more,
Speaker 1: which you'll help them get healthy because one of the
Speaker 1: things I think that got overlooked yesterday was the number
Speaker 1: of people that were missing in the game. And if
Speaker 1: not just Zeke, Noah Brown was out, then Malie Hooker
Speaker 1: was out. They they ended up losing Anthony Barr with
Speaker 1: like two minutes to go in the second quarter in
Speaker 1: twenty five steps. Then at one point j Ron Curse
Speaker 1: had to go off twice and come back. Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: ended up cramping out and going off. I believe he
Speaker 1: ended up coming back, and Jordan Lewis was missing, so
Speaker 1: Sam Williams and then Sam Williams two. So think about
Speaker 1: the guys that stepped up in those guys places. Uh
Speaker 1: Dron Bryant Bland goes in for um Jordan Lewis breaks
Speaker 1: up a pass in the end zone right and really played.
Speaker 1: I thought, pretty well, you I only remember the guy
Speaker 1: he was covering catching a ball once. So you had
Speaker 1: at times Marquis Bell in there at safety. Mcquamu had
Speaker 1: to play more at safety, h Dante Fowler junior more
Speaker 1: at defensive end. With Sam Williams out. We talked about
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, but Malik Davis got to play to help out.
Speaker 1: Jalen Tolbert had to start as a top their third
Speaker 1: receiver when they went out there with three wide. Then
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern goes out, Jesse Peters comes in right and
Speaker 1: that was that was short lived. But Peters was in
Speaker 1: two as a blocking tight end. So yeah, um, you
Speaker 1: know they and they also because of Um Forniac missing,
Speaker 1: they activated off the practice squad. Dakota Shepley. We had
Speaker 1: talked about him, kind of a guard center, had played
Speaker 1: in the Canadian Football League and he was on special teams.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of guys that hadn't played
Speaker 1: as much that had to step up and play in
Speaker 1: this game. And once again we see what these tight
Speaker 1: ends are doing. And I think I added it up um.
Speaker 1: Between the three tight ends, Schultz, Ferguson, and pender Shot,
Speaker 1: they ended up playing snaps together. Schultz had forty one
Speaker 1: snaps on offense. Uh, Ferguson had thirty two snaps, and
Speaker 1: Hendershot had twenty one. Yes, so so a total of
Speaker 1: ninety four snaps for the tight ends in the game.
Speaker 1: Now is the other one with fourteen seven hundred and
Speaker 1: eight or one hundred and seven, So that's a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps. And they went a lot of two tight
Speaker 1: end and even three tight end at times. And how
Speaker 1: about on that pallor touchdown run Ferguson and Um and
Speaker 1: even um McEwan downfield but uh yeah, he didn't have
Speaker 1: to do much just pull Zack Mark pushed the guy
Speaker 1: from the butt back. But it was Ferguson, right who
Speaker 1: who made the key block there? Yeah springing, Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I love Ferguson, I think really good training camp and
Speaker 1: just hearing him talk and training camp, I mean you
Speaker 1: can tell, and Hendershots from that same mold. Uh, these guys,
Speaker 1: they are even though they're rookies, they have a veteran
Speaker 1: sense about them. They played a lot of football in
Speaker 1: the Big Ten where they emphasize the tight end at
Speaker 1: Wisconsin and Hendershot at Indiana, and they're they're subtly different,
Speaker 1: you know, types of tight ends. And the Cowboys when
Speaker 1: they went into the draft, they knew they had a
Speaker 1: need at tight end. And this was a very deep
Speaker 1: draft as far as tight ends are concerned. And I
Speaker 1: know that they were looking at a guy in the
Speaker 1: second round. They were hoping to get one a second
Speaker 1: or third round. They decided to go a different direction
Speaker 1: and they hit on two of them. And this you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Hendershot wasn't drafted. That is going to set them
Speaker 1: up nicely here the next few years. Herod McCarthy called
Speaker 1: them last week, no frickin frack. I heard that and
Speaker 1: never and I said, oh, that would over everybody's head.
Speaker 1: That's and along those lines, how about Schultz and his
Speaker 1: situation in his contract year franchise player, and he sees it,
Speaker 1: I mean, he sees these other tie ends, you know,
Speaker 1: and obviously a team needs more than one tied end
Speaker 1: to begin with. Uh And the way that as far
Speaker 1: as being a teammate. And obviously they really like each
Speaker 1: the whole Tide End group. They really like each other.
Speaker 1: And would you like to describe the celebration the touchdown celebration?
Speaker 1: Ask you do you do you think they were? They
Speaker 1: were in some rodeo roping competition where you jump off
Speaker 1: the love it and rope the calf's legs together. Uh,
Speaker 1: that was pretty inventive. I don't know where that came from,
Speaker 1: Well it came out on a practice field or you know,
Speaker 1: it's basically which one of them the country that would
Speaker 1: know about that stuff. I haven't talked to him enough
Speaker 1: to know. But while one guy Ferguson said town in Indiana,
Speaker 1: and Ferguson said, we played for the Cowboy. So the
Speaker 1: idea was they were the cowboys. We got to come
Speaker 1: up with something they were roping, something that shows that
Speaker 1: we're cowboys. But going back to Shultz, so he playing
Speaker 1: through injury, missed a game or two, and he's got
Speaker 1: twenty catches for two hundred and three yards ten point
Speaker 1: two average. And that catch he made over the middle
Speaker 1: that was kind of high. He went up and got it.
Speaker 1: It was spectacular and it just shows you the value
Speaker 1: of those tight ends and he was using them almost
Speaker 1: like a long handoff right early in the game to
Speaker 1: shorten the third downs to use the tight end, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was very effective. So I didn't hear any complaints
Speaker 1: about play calling. Right, you win, and it's like, oh yeah, now,
Speaker 1: Kellen Morrison, he's looking for a head coaching job again.
Speaker 1: It's amazing And we'll talk about maybe that more tomorrow
Speaker 1: as we go on during the week, about all the
Speaker 1: perceptions that were out there that have just been destroyed
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys what winning six of their last seven games,
Speaker 1: six and two records. And the other thing is with
Speaker 1: the bye week hitting right now, and you talk about
Speaker 1: the injuries that they are working through right now, I
Speaker 1: think for any team this season is so long, this
Speaker 1: is the perfect time for a bye week. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're basically right smack in the middle of the season
Speaker 1: right here, and especially as far as the Cowboys are concerned.
Speaker 1: Every year they're going to play a Thursday game on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: You go into the month of November and you've got
Speaker 1: you always have a bunch of games and a short
Speaker 1: amount of time. I think you could not if you
Speaker 1: were going to hand pick a week to have the
Speaker 1: bye week. Even before we knew how the first half
Speaker 1: of this season is going to play out, this would
Speaker 1: be the week that you would hand pick. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is where I want my bye week. Than we mentioned
Speaker 1: all the injuries that they and going to green and
Speaker 1: even now Green Base three and five, but the Vikings
Speaker 1: or six and one the week after that, and then
Speaker 1: you got the Giants on Thanksgiving. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a big stretch coming up here leading up to Thanksgiving. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, and with all that's going to be happening
Speaker 1: with the McCarthy going back to Green Bay next week
Speaker 1: and so forth, this this is the perfect time to
Speaker 1: get healthy and to take a breath and now you
Speaker 1: start your you know, and that last half and that
Speaker 1: was his take after the game. It's he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I want them to get away, although knowing this team,
Speaker 1: these guys will be back in here this week doing something,
Speaker 1: but they deserve a break the way they've been working.
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about it, you go back to
Speaker 1: when when did the plane leave for Oxnard in July
Speaker 1: twenty fifth or fourth round that? Yeah, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: you're looking at August up to you're you're more than
Speaker 1: three months into it. And if you're going to where
Speaker 1: you want to go in February, okay, November, December, January,
Speaker 1: it's another three months. You're basically at the halfway point
Speaker 1: of what you hope your journey is. And you've played
Speaker 1: eight games, and some of these guys had to play
Speaker 1: all three preseason games, so that's eleven games, right, and
Speaker 1: the two scrimmages might as well have been games. So yeah,
Speaker 1: this break can't come, I think at a better time.
Speaker 1: They're sitting there six and two, So we were waiting
Speaker 1: for the conference called the start today and somebody just
Speaker 1: kind of set out loud, well, when's the last time
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been six and two in consecutive seasons?
Speaker 1: And I think are brought after a slight pause because
Speaker 1: he looked it up media relationships brought nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety five was the last time, and we
Speaker 1: know how those turned out, right, Two NFC title game
Speaker 1: appearances in one Super Bowl? Okay, so mark it down.
Speaker 1: So how'd they do in ninety two and ninety three?
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Speaker 1: T Stadium. Col went back in the Super Bowl run
Speaker 1: in the nineties the Cowboys. As we mentioned right before
Speaker 1: the break, the last time the Cowboys had a six
Speaker 1: and two record through eight games was nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: Ninety five, nineteen ninety three they were also six and two.
Speaker 1: They started that year seven and two before their third loss,
Speaker 1: and then in ninety two they actually started the year
Speaker 1: they were seven and one through eight games, So that
Speaker 1: was a four year stretch from ninety two through ninety five,
Speaker 1: these Super Bowl years where the Cowboys started the season
Speaker 1: with at least a six and two record in the
Speaker 1: first half of the year. So they were in ninety one,
Speaker 1: they were five and three at the halfway point, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty six they were six and two, and
Speaker 1: then the ninety six they were two. In eighty six,
Speaker 1: eighty six, okay, and they were six and two and
Speaker 1: the roof caved in because Danny White broke his wrist
Speaker 1: and toured ligament in this ninth game against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and they only won one more game and the Giants
Speaker 1: never lost another game, so they wound up seven and
Speaker 1: nine that year. So in eighty six they were six
Speaker 1: and two. In eighty five they were six and two.
Speaker 1: In eighty four they were five and three. There you go,
Speaker 1: and eighty two was the strike season they only played
Speaker 1: night in games. So so this I thought was a
Speaker 1: really good story in this game that may have gotten overlooked.
Speaker 1: But their rookie fifth round draft choice, Damon Clark got
Speaker 1: to play for the first time in his NFL career,
Speaker 1: and if everybody remembers the story, during the combine, it
Speaker 1: was discovered that he had a disc problem in his
Speaker 1: neck and needed surgery to fuse two of his vertebrae together.
Speaker 1: Where the bad, the bad, the slip disc, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it was, and he started the season
Speaker 1: on non football injury. He didn't go through training camp.
Speaker 1: He could not practice with the team until a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago when they activated him. And when Anthony
Speaker 1: he was supposed to just play on special teams this week,
Speaker 1: they put him on the fifty three man roster this
Speaker 1: past week for the first time, and with two minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the game, Anthony Barr gets hurt limps
Speaker 1: off with a strained hamstring and Damon Clark tells me
Speaker 1: he's standing. He said, I'm standing. Next to coach Lett
Speaker 1: coach Leon meaning Leon Let, and he said, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I hear coach George George Edwards, the linebackers
Speaker 1: coach screaming, demon, Demon, Demon, you're in let's go. And
Speaker 1: he said it just dawned on me. He said, I
Speaker 1: didn't have time to think. I just ran out there
Speaker 1: and I saw it happen. Laton vander As saw him
Speaker 1: coming into the huddle and vander Esh gives them a
Speaker 1: big hug, and Clark said. Layton says, all right, brother,
Speaker 1: let's go. I got your back. And this kid played
Speaker 1: and he ended up playing forty snaps in the game
Speaker 1: because he didn't think he was going to play one
Speaker 1: on defense. He was just going to play special teams.
Speaker 1: And he ends up with six tackles. I will say,
Speaker 1: right now you are looking at the future starting middle
Speaker 1: linebacker of the Dallas Cowboys. This guy I thought he
Speaker 1: snuffed up, snuffed out a couple runs that it had.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was amazing to me that he hadn't
Speaker 1: played in the game since LSU's final game of last season.
Speaker 1: And he comes out and ends up with six tackles
Speaker 1: one solo, I think it was five assisted. And the
Speaker 1: team leaders in tackles yesterday, there was four of them.
Speaker 1: They had eight. He was next with six, and he
Speaker 1: played forty snaps. I thought it was an amazing story.
Speaker 1: Someone asked him afterwards, did he think about his neck?
Speaker 1: And he goes, you know, I didn't. He goes, I
Speaker 1: didn't think about it. I knew I was healthy and
Speaker 1: I knew it was ready to play football. And he
Speaker 1: just sounds like a great kid. He's got a great nature.
Speaker 1: I think he he. I don't know if yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go at LSU. I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: the captain, but he was eighteen. He wore eighteen, right,
Speaker 1: and that says a lot about the character, right what
Speaker 1: they thought he was. He's from Baton Rouge, stayed there,
Speaker 1: went to LSU, and I just probably New Orleans and
Speaker 1: moved to Baton Rouge because of Hurricane Katrie. The family
Speaker 1: moved Hurricane Another went to Southern lab High School, same
Speaker 1: high school that produced the great Marcus Spears right, and
Speaker 1: another CD Lamb story. Because CD and he moved, they
Speaker 1: moved to Houston. So I just thought it was a
Speaker 1: really neat story for him to not only overcome the surgery,
Speaker 1: but to get a chance to play in the game
Speaker 1: when he wasn't expected and he was ready to go.
Speaker 1: And I think that says something about a guy like that.
Speaker 1: And I'm as you're talking, I was looking back at
Speaker 1: some draft reports now by the time, because because it
Speaker 1: was detected at the combine, the draft grades on him
Speaker 1: from the so called experts had him as a fourth
Speaker 1: through sixth round prospect because he had he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play his rookie year, right, because he
Speaker 1: was the projection. Yeah, And so I'm wondering how was
Speaker 1: he graded before they learned that he wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to play his first year, And I'm thinking he would
Speaker 1: have He's he would have been third round. Now, the
Speaker 1: middle linebackers typically don't go as early unless they're just
Speaker 1: freaks of nature and and he, uh so, I would
Speaker 1: think he for sure is a top one hundred prospect, yes,
Speaker 1: and even if fully healthy. And so that shows you
Speaker 1: for him to get back mid season, before mid season
Speaker 1: of his rookie year from that and just the um,
Speaker 1: you know, because the football gods put him in the game,
Speaker 1: um you know, the first time he's active and he
Speaker 1: gets forty snaps and shows what he can do. I
Speaker 1: mean that the Cowboys made a very prudent move there
Speaker 1: with four fifth round picks to use one of them
Speaker 1: on a guy like him, and they might have used
Speaker 1: if they had one fifth round pick, he might have
Speaker 1: been the guy that they picked. And another fifth round
Speaker 1: pick they used was on Duran Bland, the cornerback who's
Speaker 1: got to start his second game in the nickel, which
Speaker 1: is not an easy position to play as a rookie,
Speaker 1: by the way, um, and you get something out of him.
Speaker 1: So and another fifth round pick they used on John Ridgeway,
Speaker 1: who they because of what roster maneuverings they lost to
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders. Well, they thought so highly of him
Speaker 1: that they went out and traded for Jonathan Hankins last
Speaker 1: week to replace him basically, and Hankins play I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention him. He played his first snaps with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and um, let's see, he ended up with thirty three
Speaker 1: snaps of the snaps in the game, and you know,
Speaker 1: he was a he was a presence in the middle.
Speaker 1: He ended up with three tackles. That's what you're looking for,
Speaker 1: that's what you wanted right against the run. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of contributions from guys that you
Speaker 1: probably don't know much about. And I don't know on
Speaker 1: the TV broadcast if they made a big deal out
Speaker 1: of Damon Clark or whatever. But took a while for
Speaker 1: them to notice that he was in the game wearing
Speaker 1: thirty three thirty three. Huh Daryl probably noticed right off
Speaker 1: the bat. Yeah, yeah, I think he did, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the analysts didn't have time to point that out yet.
Speaker 1: But um, but yeah, it was. It was a neat
Speaker 1: day for that kid. Speaking of that before we let
Speaker 1: yesterday get away as we go into tomorrow. Uh, Emmett
Speaker 1: in the broadcast booth with Darryl was great. Yes. Uh.
Speaker 1: They re enacted the hug from twenty years ago along
Speaker 1: those lines. Did you see the end of the Carolina
Speaker 1: Atlanta game? I did not. DJ Moore for the Panthers
Speaker 1: the wide receiver, wide receiver. They're down, Carolina is down.
Speaker 1: This relates to Ibbott Smith. Carolina is down six points,
Speaker 1: final seconds of the game. P J. Walker, Uh lofts
Speaker 1: a hell Mary towards the end. Zoe, what a great throw.
Speaker 1: It was, great catch in the end zone, complete touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's how they game tied. Thirty four thirty four DJ
Speaker 1: Moore celebrates in honor of Emmett Smith. You remember the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl twenty eight MVP in Atlanta, Yes, he takes
Speaker 1: off his helmet. The Emmett Smith rule, of course, was
Speaker 1: born because of that Super Bowl win basically with Emmott
Speaker 1: did that and in Atlanta, DJ Moore takes off his
Speaker 1: helmet in the end zone. So now Carolina has got
Speaker 1: to kick a forty eight yard field goal to win
Speaker 1: the game. They miss it. They go to overtime. Now,
Speaker 1: a he missed the extra point. Yeah, didn't feel the
Speaker 1: point after, Yeah, but so forty eight yard point after
Speaker 1: and missed it. They go to overtime. Now, in overtime,
Speaker 1: Carolina got down and had a thirty two yard field
Speaker 1: goal to tip that they also missed. So I guess
Speaker 1: DJ Moore can say, well, we will missed the extra
Speaker 1: point anyway, and the Atlanta winds up winning on a
Speaker 1: field goal thirty seven thirty four. But I thought it
Speaker 1: was it was right after the Cowboy game ended, and
Speaker 1: that happens, and the first thing that I thought of
Speaker 1: Atlanta Emmett, Emmett's Emmett rule. And this guy pulls that
Speaker 1: and they lose the game, and Carolina and speaking of Emmett,
Speaker 1: this is how tone. What's the opposite of tone, death, tone,
Speaker 1: conscious or whatever. Dak Prescott's got an Emma Smith sweatshirt
Speaker 1: on Emmitt Smith in his celebration on there in honor
Speaker 1: of the twenty year anniversary of him breaking Now Now.
Speaker 1: Darryl said on the broadcast that it was just happenstance
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys and Bears happened to be playing this weekend.
Speaker 1: That it wasn't something that the league, although you make it.
Speaker 1: If I was in the league office, I'd be taking
Speaker 1: scheduled that we want Dallas in Chicago to play in
Speaker 1: Dallas that weekend. Yeah, but yeah, it was pretty amazing
Speaker 1: that well, no, no, number one, not that Emmett was there,
Speaker 1: but that Dak had to wear with all to get
Speaker 1: one of those sweatshirts and wear it. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if they sell him or if he had one
Speaker 1: mate he could have said, hey, guys, whoever he's with,
Speaker 1: get me a sweatshirt could commemorate Emma at Smith. So
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. As a guy who grew up
Speaker 1: you grew you rooted for who the Packers, but you
Speaker 1: lived in Chicago, I did what do you think of
Speaker 1: the uniforms. I just can't stand it. I called him.
Speaker 1: It was like they were wearing cream sickles, remember the cream.
Speaker 1: And so this is funny, My I told you last week.
Speaker 1: My college roommate was a huge Bears fan, and um,
Speaker 1: I text him and I said, ah, they're in. This
Speaker 1: was before the game started, right, I texted him and said, oh,
Speaker 1: they're in those orange jerseys with orange helmets and uh.
Speaker 1: He goes, oh no. And then he he text me
Speaker 1: back at the middle of the first quarter and he goes,
Speaker 1: why isn't this game on there? They're showing some replay
Speaker 1: of a Clemson game and he got me right, I said, no,
Speaker 1: the game should be added and he goes, got you
Speaker 1: reference to the orange jerseys. All right, So we'll do
Speaker 1: it again Tuesday and Wednesday, he will, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna take some time off the rest of the week
Speaker 1: through the bye week. And so that does it for
Speaker 1: mix shots on a Monday, and we will shot at
Speaker 1: you again tomorrow at noon. Go Cowboys, Oh there you go.
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