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Speaker 3: Football League. Welcome to another edition of mix Shots. Did
Speaker 3: any of you get the prediction right last Monday? Kansas
Speaker 3: City versus San Francisco in the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4: We got half a half? We got half?
Speaker 2: Which half?
Speaker 4: Did you get right of Kansas City?
Speaker 3: Yea?
Speaker 5: All of you pick Kansas I picked the raven You.
Speaker 2: Picked the Ravens.
Speaker 4: I thought Kansas City.
Speaker 6: I picked the Ravens.
Speaker 3: She was everybody picked Detroit?
Speaker 2: No, yes, yes, yes we did. Yeah you did too, No,
Speaker 2: yes you did.
Speaker 3: I picked San Francisco. Yeah yeah, this season.
Speaker 4: He picked it in his head show.
Speaker 3: You know, I always picked Dallas to go to the
Speaker 3: Super I always picked the Dallas Cowboys versus the Dallas
Speaker 3: Texans and the Super.
Speaker 7: Bowl And as I was driving in this morning, I thought,
Speaker 7: I'm so stupid. I keep picking the Cowboys, so you
Speaker 7: stupid too.
Speaker 2: So here we are.
Speaker 3: We got the Chiefs and the forty nine ers and
Speaker 3: ought to make for a very entertaining Super Bowl, and
Speaker 3: we had a very entertaining championship Sunday on Sunday? Would
Speaker 3: you all agree?
Speaker 4: Quite entertaining?
Speaker 7: Yes, it's like we called it in the Chiefs game.
Speaker 7: I think all of us could see, well some of
Speaker 7: most of us that I just I just couldn't see
Speaker 7: Baltimore's offense keeping up.
Speaker 2: That's what I just couldn't see it.
Speaker 7: Because they're high powered offense, but they're ground and pound,
Speaker 7: and I just knew that.
Speaker 3: They decided not to ground and pound.
Speaker 2: Well, you just couldn't keep up with uh.
Speaker 4: They didn't have the ball, you couldn't.
Speaker 2: Keep up with it.
Speaker 7: And that's I pretty much thought that's how they were
Speaker 7: going to get This game was going to be played,
Speaker 7: and I thought that was gonna be the game plan.
Speaker 3: Of the Chiefs scored seventeen points.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but they got a head right. Baltimore had to
Speaker 8: play from behind, and the so called NFL MVP when
Speaker 8: he's behind and he's got to throw the ball, he'll
Speaker 8: make a mistake on you.
Speaker 3: But they through a touchdown pass that was fumbled at
Speaker 3: the goal line.
Speaker 7: I was going to say that was the key play
Speaker 7: right there, if they scored that talking a whole different thing.
Speaker 8: Not a very bright player. Well they Flowers, I.
Speaker 2: Mean not just him, but did it against Casey. It
Speaker 2: was the same thing, but he.
Speaker 8: Did two stupid things within five minutes.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: I think they were even saying on the broadcast the
Speaker 5: emotions kind of got the better of the Ravens just
Speaker 5: the way that they were playing, and some of those
Speaker 5: calls like they couldn't control even some of their emotions
Speaker 5: on the field, and that affected even.
Speaker 3: When the order came from the sideline to jump off sides.
Speaker 3: They couldn't control their emotions, and Roguewan Smith gets a
Speaker 3: personal file penalty, which gave them an additional ten yards.
Speaker 8: And it was pretty obvious you could jump off side
Speaker 8: to stop the clock.
Speaker 3: Or tip the guy.
Speaker 4: You don't have to lay out, just clock them.
Speaker 7: But I didn't know that that was worth a personal file.
Speaker 7: I thought you could just hit them. I thought you
Speaker 7: not like.
Speaker 3: That, not intentional. Credit to the officials for figuring out
Speaker 3: what was going on here.
Speaker 7: I have a feeling depending on what team did and
Speaker 7: what player did, what I think, you know, I don't
Speaker 7: know if that's automatic, Oh I have I don't know
Speaker 7: if that's.
Speaker 3: I immediately said, that's got to be a personal really, Oh,
Speaker 3: just laid him out. And the reason that they were
Speaker 3: jumping off sides is they wanted to make it first
Speaker 3: and ten and not first and five at that juncture
Speaker 3: in the game, and so they would have could have
Speaker 3: ended the game earlier. As it turned out, the end
Speaker 3: of the game anyway, with a third and nine pass
Speaker 3: down field to MVS, which I didn't think was a
Speaker 3: surprising play call at all. No, No, you had to go.
Speaker 3: And Tony on the broadcast was unbelievable that threw it downfield,
Speaker 3: And I heard another former coach this morning talking about unbelievable. No,
Speaker 3: that's how you end the game right.
Speaker 4: There, special if he'll catch the ball, and.
Speaker 3: The only the only risk involved in it is it's
Speaker 3: an income well and with Mahomes at quarterback, he's going
Speaker 3: to take care of the football and so the only
Speaker 3: risk really is an incomplete pass where you're not taking
Speaker 3: some time off the clock. Where Baltimore with the defense
Speaker 3: like the Chiefs have. You put the ball down there,
Speaker 3: and you think the Ravens are going to drive the
Speaker 3: length of the field for a touchdown.
Speaker 8: But what they assumed was they were going to get
Speaker 8: single coverage and they were going to have everybody at
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage to stop the play.
Speaker 4: So the easiest thing to do is throw it deep.
Speaker 3: But the Ravens had used their timeouts and that meant
Speaker 3: you're just north of the two minute warning. That means
Speaker 3: you get a first down. This ball game is over.
Speaker 2: You know for it.
Speaker 8: You can look at stats all you want, but it's
Speaker 8: when you make plays.
Speaker 4: And that's what Mahomes did.
Speaker 8: He didn't while you with completing twenty of twenty five
Speaker 8: passes for three hundred yards.
Speaker 3: Twenty five in the first half, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Trying to go downfield though, and that.
Speaker 3: Is merely the only way they were going to lose
Speaker 3: the game is if they committed a turnover in the
Speaker 3: second half.
Speaker 4: You know, it just came out the NFL network.
Speaker 5: How about those catches by Travis Kelce, Just some incredible
Speaker 5: catches from him.
Speaker 6: I think I saw something he passed uh one of.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for most post season catches in a career.
Speaker 7: Well, well, you know what you saw was to me connection,
Speaker 7: You saw a team work.
Speaker 2: You saw a.
Speaker 7: Quarterback and a tight end that were they just doubted.
Speaker 7: They just doubted, Like.
Speaker 8: The one that Mahomes ran forward and threw it the
Speaker 8: last minute makes a diving a not.
Speaker 4: A real good pass, not a good path.
Speaker 2: But it was the past much chance to make the play.
Speaker 7: It wasn't gonna be You're not going to get a
Speaker 7: great pass, and Kelsey was prepared for wherever it came.
Speaker 7: And the touchdown itself, that was just both of them
Speaker 7: just being in sync. Back shoulder. The dB was in
Speaker 7: perfect position, perfect position, and all he had to do
Speaker 7: was react. He was in position, but he didn't react
Speaker 7: in time and just the way that Kelsey, Kelsey.
Speaker 2: Knew Will was coming and that was just a beautiful.
Speaker 7: Catch, beautiful connection. You know, those are the times when
Speaker 7: you need your quarterback and your wide receiver all you
Speaker 7: receiver to be. This is the time when you need
Speaker 7: to dial it up on the same page. And they did.
Speaker 8: And there was also another indication if you get pressure
Speaker 8: on the quarterback, and I don't care who he is,
Speaker 8: it's going to cause problems.
Speaker 4: And that was one of the things down the stretch,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys could not do well.
Speaker 7: You had a one thing about this this playoffs, you
Speaker 7: saw good defenses. No matter which side, you still gave
Speaker 7: your quarterback a chance, you know your quarterback, and didn't
Speaker 7: have to keep scoring just to stay in the game.
Speaker 7: You had defenses that kept things. I mean even Baltimore's defense,
Speaker 7: as you said, Casey didn't score.
Speaker 4: That seventeen points.
Speaker 2: Right, come on, I mean that defense played their asses off.
Speaker 7: They just made a few mistakes, but they gave the
Speaker 7: offense a chance at all times. And that's what we
Speaker 7: needed out here. We need a defense that the offense
Speaker 7: can rely on. I don't want to offense that the
Speaker 7: defense can rely on. That's just not the way the
Speaker 7: game is really supposed to be playing.
Speaker 8: What happened to that complimentary football? The defense didn't do
Speaker 8: much complimenting in significant games.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: Here's the other thing that I thought stood out to
Speaker 8: me was and if we can just switch over to
Speaker 8: Detroit running.
Speaker 4: Backs do matter?
Speaker 2: They do? They do?
Speaker 9: They?
Speaker 4: And is it okay to take one in the first round?
Speaker 9: It?
Speaker 8: And Gibbs, what I saw from him was he made
Speaker 8: people miss in the hole, and the Cowboys running backs
Speaker 8: were always such in a hurry to get to the
Speaker 8: line of scrimmage. It was like straight line running instead
Speaker 8: of making people miss. And boy can make people miss
Speaker 8: as long as he doesn't go the wrong way on
Speaker 8: a handoff.
Speaker 2: Well, I gotta say this McCaffrey.
Speaker 7: Yes when he did not want to be brought down,
Speaker 7: I saw something I didn't.
Speaker 2: I always thought he.
Speaker 7: Was good as I thought his footwork was more amazing
Speaker 7: than anything. But that kid is strong. He had some
Speaker 7: big guys falling off of him on a couple of
Speaker 7: those last drives on the second half. That was key,
Speaker 7: and so he and party working together. I just thought,
Speaker 7: I have a brand new respect for christ McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: That's the other thing he saw in both games yesterday.
Speaker 3: It is tough, physical football, man.
Speaker 7: That was good stuff at not a lot of high
Speaker 7: scoring that was That was kind of.
Speaker 2: Like throwback football.
Speaker 7: Those are the games that we saw back in the day,
Speaker 7: you know, when, especially in the AFC, where the best
Speaker 7: team didn't come out looking so pretty.
Speaker 2: They just came out that was all they had to do.
Speaker 8: And we thought we thought Dan Campbell was stubborn when
Speaker 8: the your point.
Speaker 5: I kept saying to myself in my living room last night,
Speaker 5: Kick the field goal, Kick the field goal, and they're nope,
Speaker 5: they're going on four down and always.
Speaker 6: It has been a tie game last night.
Speaker 3: And it could in turn, and it played out the
Speaker 3: same way. Now, who says it would in turn? That
Speaker 3: means when you get down on the go line at
Speaker 3: the end, all you need to field goal to win it.
Speaker 3: He probably would have gone for the touch.
Speaker 2: We're not happen, We're not winning a game in the field. Gone,
Speaker 2: we're winning it.
Speaker 3: We're getting into an angel.
Speaker 4: My god, that's what he did. All lion.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lions.
Speaker 4: The reason why they were where they were, well, yeah.
Speaker 7: But sometimes you have to lift at things and say,
Speaker 7: you know what, that's stubbornness has gotten me in trouble.
Speaker 2: Maybe I need to set my ass down and just
Speaker 2: kind of go kick.
Speaker 3: What was the biggest mistake he made coaching wise? It
Speaker 3: was down on the goal line at the end of
Speaker 3: the game, on third down, running the football and you've
Speaker 3: got three timeouts because you cannot leave that game in
Speaker 3: the hands of an on side kick. And there's how
Speaker 3: what are the chances of recovering an on side kick?
Speaker 8: They said, very close to, very close to zero per.
Speaker 3: But no, but but but when you're down there, third
Speaker 3: and goal at the one yard line, you have to
Speaker 3: throw the Now, you can run it on fourth down, okay, because.
Speaker 4: The is going to stop it anywhere.
Speaker 3: But you cannot run the football because if you don't.
Speaker 3: Now you can all say that, oh, if you made it,
Speaker 3: there's a great call. No, it's still a bad call
Speaker 3: to run the football in that situation because if you
Speaker 3: don't make it, you just ended the game. And it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter whether you score the touchdown or not.
Speaker 8: But just think of the things that went wrong for them.
Speaker 8: Josh Reynolds with the two drops, one on fourth down,
Speaker 8: one on the third down.
Speaker 3: It's again, it's about being mentally strong, you know.
Speaker 8: And then the the fifty one yard pass off the
Speaker 8: DB's face.
Speaker 4: Masks, man, what is going on? When I saw that?
Speaker 4: When I saw that, I.
Speaker 2: Said, this is the.
Speaker 4: This is a bad sign.
Speaker 2: Just catch the ball, just knock it down. I don't
Speaker 2: know one of the two.
Speaker 6: And then the catch from Brandon Aiyuk that's the one. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was just incredible.
Speaker 8: And after the game they're asking him what was going
Speaker 8: through his mind, Well, not a damn thing. He just
Speaker 8: saw the ball up in the air and well, I
Speaker 8: better go get it right. God like he planned it
Speaker 8: out that way.
Speaker 7: So let's let's let's do we need to take a
Speaker 7: look at Party.
Speaker 2: Do we need to look at him in a different
Speaker 2: way after these two.
Speaker 3: Well, I was looking at him at halftime as he's
Speaker 3: this he's a seventh round draft pick, in the last
Speaker 3: pick of the draft. And then at the end of
Speaker 3: the game, I'm like, okay, he's the first round pick.
Speaker 3: I love the way he ran the ball.
Speaker 8: In those two runs he made were huge, but it
Speaker 8: opened up and he just took I never seen him.
Speaker 3: Run, and he showed a toughness he did.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 6: He took opportunities to run the ball and it worked.
Speaker 2: Out for that.
Speaker 7: And so when did they vote for the m v P,
Speaker 7: So even before the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody needs to vote for an m v P
Speaker 3: after the after the whole thing is done. All right,
Speaker 3: let's start out here.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, look, look who's look who's on top? Now?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we talk about Dak, We talked about Lamar, and
Speaker 7: no one wanted to include Party even though we knew
Speaker 7: he had good stats.
Speaker 2: But they kept on talking about mystery I relevant.
Speaker 3: So okay, let's take a vote right now, who's the
Speaker 3: m v P and the we're taking it all the
Speaker 3: way to the Super Bow, all right now, who's the
Speaker 3: m v P in the league.
Speaker 2: That's easy call. Who I vote for?
Speaker 7: Mahomes? Mahomes, I like it. I just didn't like that
Speaker 7: took to it. I mean if you go take everything, okay,
Speaker 7: that right there. That's why I say party, because you
Speaker 7: know you have to take the season also into consideration.
Speaker 4: And the look what Mahomes did with nothing.
Speaker 3: We just want you an example of why they base
Speaker 3: it on the regular season, because otherwise, whoever does the best,
Speaker 3: whoever wins the super Bowl, is going to be the
Speaker 3: m v P.
Speaker 8: So does that mean that these other coaches there on
Speaker 8: the hot seat now.
Speaker 4: At halftime, on the sitting there.
Speaker 8: At halftime, going Shanahan on the hot seat, you can't
Speaker 8: get this team to the super Bowl and win one.
Speaker 7: Now, but you got Campbell's on the hot harball?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what about when's that harball guy?
Speaker 8: Do they need money back from from Lamar Jackson's contract?
Speaker 4: Did they regret it because.
Speaker 2: He looked clueless over there?
Speaker 8: He didn't look clueless, And that's one of the reasons
Speaker 8: why you know, the sacks he had.
Speaker 4: He he didn't get rid of the ball.
Speaker 5: Confused out there like he was looking for somebody to
Speaker 5: be open, and then he just was like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 5: just gonna I'm gonna hold on too.
Speaker 8: That's why I didn't pick Baltimore. I just I didn't
Speaker 8: trust him.
Speaker 2: No, well, I didn't trust the entire offense.
Speaker 4: Especially if you stop him from running right right.
Speaker 2: And that's what I mean. It's a limited game plan,
Speaker 2: that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: I can't remember exactly when it was, but I think
Speaker 3: it was in the fourth quarter, and there was a
Speaker 3: time where he got flushed out of the pocket and
Speaker 3: he wound up me may have gone as a sack.
Speaker 3: He was out on the near side of the field,
Speaker 3: and I think he was cut short of getting back
Speaker 3: to the line of scrimmage, which was probably counted as
Speaker 3: a sack. But I was like, okay, there there's nothing
Speaker 3: open down field. You were in the open field, You're
Speaker 3: the best running back in the league. Scrambled right sidelines. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm like, take off the yeah, and he was taking instead.
Speaker 3: What was it when you get out in that neighborhood
Speaker 3: and go ahead and make a move.
Speaker 7: He actually stopped on the sideline though, that's like, let
Speaker 7: him catch up.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that was.
Speaker 3: And I can't remember what the down and distance was,
Speaker 3: but it was down and it wasn't much, and I
Speaker 3: was like, run run the ball. Now there's your here's
Speaker 3: your opportunity.
Speaker 2: You're in the old He kept making moves and faking and.
Speaker 3: But that's where that's where uh, Mickey's cousin did a
Speaker 3: great great job of confusing Lamar Jackson and the Ravens confused.
Speaker 2: On that play well.
Speaker 8: And here's the other problem with their offense. They ran
Speaker 8: for eighty one yards, the leading rusher Lamar Jackson with
Speaker 8: fifty four. So your other guys ran for basically twenty
Speaker 8: seven yards, and you had a quarterback with an.
Speaker 4: Efficiency rating of seventy five point five. You got a problem.
Speaker 3: You like that Kansas City cornerback McDuffie.
Speaker 4: He's pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: I like h number thirty eight Sneez.
Speaker 4: Knocked the ball out of it.
Speaker 2: Was making plays all season long for them.
Speaker 7: He's helped them defensively, keep everything intact while Mahome's trying
Speaker 7: to get.
Speaker 8: So you think Za Flowers learn some lessons, like after
Speaker 8: you make a big catch, don't get up and spin
Speaker 8: the ball in the guy's face.
Speaker 6: I think, I think he has a lot of learning to.
Speaker 8: Do, and then stand over the guy and then two
Speaker 8: plays later dive exactly.
Speaker 5: Like That's what I kept like thinking. I was like,
Speaker 5: he just he doesn't know how.
Speaker 6: To control these emotions right now.
Speaker 7: Well, they didn't control any of it during the season
Speaker 7: because he was so amazing and he played off of
Speaker 7: that emotion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think everyone was saying, Gosh, look at
Speaker 5: how good this kid is, and he can make these catches.
Speaker 5: And then when it wasn't working out for him, you
Speaker 5: saw another side.
Speaker 3: You think, like Pete Carroll, Steve Spagnolo has a eye
Speaker 3: for cornerbacks, defensive backs. He's got it in his background,
Speaker 3: just like Carol does. Seattle seems to come up with cornerbacks.
Speaker 8: Flowers also learned that when you take your gloves off
Speaker 8: and you go to the bench and get pissed off,
Speaker 8: don't slam your bare hands against your helmet.
Speaker 4: They were talking about cut his hand.
Speaker 3: I go down.
Speaker 4: He didn't cut his hand. He had gloves on. That
Speaker 4: didn't happen in the game. Goodness gracious.
Speaker 7: And so when you're dealing with an organization that this
Speaker 7: year you know, always came out on top. Then how
Speaker 7: do you play when you're from behind? Yeah, and we
Speaker 7: saw what happen.
Speaker 4: I was afraid that Detroit was ahead because I've seen.
Speaker 8: That before with them get a big lead and then
Speaker 8: they disappear in the game.
Speaker 4: I said it at halftime, I'm going I don't know now.
Speaker 7: I never felt comfortable if I'm as a because I
Speaker 7: picked Detroit.
Speaker 2: I never felt comfortable that my.
Speaker 7: Pick, uh was gonna be what was gonna hold up
Speaker 7: in sant fan Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my mine was based more on what San
Speaker 3: Francisco is capable of than what.
Speaker 7: At home at home. So once you and it's just
Speaker 7: like we always see it. Once you make that one
Speaker 7: play which I use played, I knew it was over.
Speaker 7: I knew it was over. Okay, we go, there, we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me post this question when we come back.
Speaker 3: Your responses. What is the just It doesn't have to
Speaker 3: be the most important thing, but the name of thing
Speaker 3: that the Cowboys can learn from the four teams that
Speaker 3: played yesterday. What do you think of that? I think
Speaker 3: you like it?
Speaker 5: Love that.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's see if we all have the
Speaker 3: same answer. We have four different answers. When we come
Speaker 3: back here on mixed shots.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's go around the horn one of the
Speaker 3: Cowboys learn from Sunday the four participants in the championship
Speaker 3: games on Sunday, and the answer my answer to the
Speaker 3: question isn't even an answer to the question. I post
Speaker 3: the question wrong for my answer. So I'll let you
Speaker 3: all go first, and then I will correct. So I'll
Speaker 3: chime in with just my observation. It's more like an
Speaker 3: observation from the games on Sunday and how they apply
Speaker 3: to the Cowboys. Have ever seen you want to go first?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I think with me, And it's something that SPACs just
Speaker 7: brought up, and I said it all year long. I
Speaker 7: don't really care much about numbers and things of that nature.
Speaker 7: And this era of football, you know, you can have
Speaker 7: numbers all you want, but you just got to make
Speaker 7: the plays when it's time to make the plays. And
Speaker 7: I do a lot of ego stroking when I get
Speaker 7: on the treadmill or whatever. I always watched the old
Speaker 7: games that we played, and I do try and mentally
Speaker 7: compare them to what we did back then versus what
Speaker 7: we did now. Back then, in nineteen eighties nineteen nineties,
Speaker 7: we romanticized it so much, you know, about how we
Speaker 7: played and how we won.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we won so ugly.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about eighties and nineties, I mean just ugly games, and.
Speaker 2: We lost to some people we never should have lost to.
Speaker 7: But when it was time to step up and play
Speaker 7: in December, after Thanksgiving and in the playoffs, most times
Speaker 7: we did that. And I'm talking about whether it was
Speaker 7: me with the Cowboys or with the Giants, those teams
Speaker 7: knew how to elevate themselves when it was time. I
Speaker 7: remember some thirteen ten games that were exciting, damn games,
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys pulled it out because of some heroics
Speaker 7: in the nineties, especially by Emmi Smith or someone like that.
Speaker 2: I think we get so.
Speaker 7: Caught up in numbers and how pretty the score looks
Speaker 7: when it's got all these high numbers up there. I
Speaker 7: think we need to go back to where we were
Speaker 7: and let the defense control the games for us.
Speaker 2: It's okay to score a lot of points, but.
Speaker 7: In games where the real boys come to town and
Speaker 7: the games where the tough teams come to town, you
Speaker 7: gotta be able to play. When I say down to
Speaker 7: the level, I mean play is low down, dirty as
Speaker 7: you have to to win a ball game. So to me,
Speaker 7: once again, it's all about when you make the plays,
Speaker 7: not how many plays you make.
Speaker 8: So you want to like screw with the kicker before
Speaker 8: the game and move its t throw it.
Speaker 3: In the end. Ze perspective on Justin Tucker and why
Speaker 3: he was at that end of the field and the
Speaker 3: Chiefs were at that end of the field, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think you took it that far.
Speaker 3: Well, he was stretching or something, wasn't he he was
Speaker 3: just the video I saw he was. He was down
Speaker 3: stretching and he had his helmet off whatever it was,
Speaker 3: and Kelsey came over and grabbed his helmet and his
Speaker 3: footballs and threw him or whatever whatever it was.
Speaker 13: And the side I think, but that's one of those
Speaker 13: things where okay, if we need to, we need a
Speaker 13: broader perspective on who is that wrong here?
Speaker 3: Who was there first? And who's supposed to be at
Speaker 3: that end of the field.
Speaker 8: You know, the kicker warms up and that's what happened
Speaker 8: last year in the playoff game in San Francisco midfield
Speaker 8: do whatnot?
Speaker 3: Was that closer to midfield though?
Speaker 8: Well, he was probably trying to tempt from about forty.
Speaker 3: Yards because this one looked like it was down near
Speaker 3: the goal.
Speaker 4: This was at the goal. Yeah right, but last time he.
Speaker 3: Was way on the either the Chiefs end of the
Speaker 3: field of the Chiefs.
Speaker 8: But around they trade sides, and you know it's just
Speaker 8: the kicker he's not and then anybody's way is.
Speaker 2: Just being a jerk.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: That's how that is. Man.
Speaker 7: You can tell he starts firing people out.
Speaker 8: The needed big dom out there to take care of
Speaker 8: that stuff.
Speaker 3: But when I first heard about it, without seeing the video,
Speaker 3: I thought that there was they get he got in
Speaker 3: his face or whatever. But the way Kelsey did it,
Speaker 3: he just grabbed it and threw it over to the
Speaker 3: side or whatever I thought it was. That was the
Speaker 3: way to do it.
Speaker 8: Now, here's what you do, because this is what San
Speaker 8: Francisco did. They just stood right in front of mar
Speaker 8: and they couldn't kick the ball, were just standing in
Speaker 8: his way.
Speaker 3: But that was confrontational. Yes, this one was.
Speaker 7: Just and you could imagine what some of the kickers
Speaker 7: were done back in the day.
Speaker 2: They would kick the freaking ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I want to stand there.
Speaker 7: I can see Chicago Bears kicker Butler butt head they
Speaker 7: called it. I can see butt head. He kicked the ball. Hey,
Speaker 7: that's they called him. I didn't call it.
Speaker 3: That's what they call Can's City's kicker.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: Butker, Okay, that's Harrison, Butker's Yeah, we just we just
Speaker 3: called him that.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, Savannah Europe, Yes, all right, thank you.
Speaker 5: Back on this season and then watching some of the
Speaker 5: games yesterday, I really did love seeing how San Francisco
Speaker 5: was able to come back when they were playing from behind,
Speaker 5: and their ability to make big plays that were meaningful
Speaker 5: and actually get them somewhere.
Speaker 6: I think was one of the biggest takeaways.
Speaker 5: And when you think about games that we played just
Speaker 5: this season that we lost to big opponents, when we
Speaker 5: lost to San Francisco and we just could not fight,
Speaker 5: and then when we lost to Miami. Yes it came
Speaker 5: down kind of to the end there, but still things
Speaker 5: like that. And then against Buffalo, I really recognized, like
Speaker 5: we already mentioned, the running back situation. You saw Christian McCaffrey,
Speaker 5: you saw the ability for him to make huge runs,
Speaker 5: huge plays.
Speaker 6: You see brock Party running the ball.
Speaker 5: I think that there was just a lot of inconsistencies
Speaker 5: in some of our really big games when it came
Speaker 5: to rushing and the.
Speaker 7: Ability games, Like you said, the big games was against
Speaker 7: a tough opponent.
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly, and you look at all these other teams
Speaker 5: that have a really stacked group of running backs and
Speaker 5: you see how the how well they're doing. Look at
Speaker 5: Pacheco and look at how Edwards, Hilaire and Holmes.
Speaker 6: They all know how to run the ball, and I
Speaker 6: think the Cowboys need to do a better job at that.
Speaker 5: And I think going first round with the running back
Speaker 5: is actually a great idea.
Speaker 4: Running the linebackers. Don't don't steal mine.
Speaker 8: Don't go out there and try to finesse the linebacker positions,
Speaker 8: especially when teams go heavy and they're playing a full
Speaker 8: back the way San Francisco plays a full back, or
Speaker 8: go two tight ends as much as some of those
Speaker 8: teams did, and be out there with six defensive backs
Speaker 8: that are masquerading as linebackers. You got to have linebackers
Speaker 8: out there making plays. And don't get caught short handed
Speaker 8: just because your third round draft choice got injured in
Speaker 8: training camp and you kind of threw your hands.
Speaker 4: Up and go, well, oh, well, what.
Speaker 8: Happens if you get an injury and don't get shorthanded
Speaker 8: at cornerback, especially in the playoff game when you've got
Speaker 8: to play a guy with a harness on his shoulder
Speaker 8: that you don't want to be in single coverage and
Speaker 8: start playing zone defense.
Speaker 4: That they had no idea what they were.
Speaker 3: Doing, and a lot of to your point with Marquise Bell, everyone,
Speaker 3: we've been applauding him all season for he had one
Speaker 3: of the best season him best seasons of player. But
Speaker 3: there's something to be said for having played linebacker your
Speaker 3: whole life, you know, and being able to read and react,
Speaker 3: you know, to dissect your instincts exactly, and and Marquise
Speaker 3: Bell will have that, okay, but there were so.
Speaker 2: Many kids a linebacker. I wanted to have that as
Speaker 2: a defensive pack, right.
Speaker 3: And because there are occasions that he will be lined
Speaker 3: up in the box and just like you saw with
Speaker 3: the teams yesterday, but they always have at least two
Speaker 3: linebackers on the field.
Speaker 2: I think with me, it's.
Speaker 7: You got you have to know that this is where
Speaker 7: the game is going now, this is what has beaten you.
Speaker 7: We weren't able to make those big plays in the
Speaker 7: big games that she was talking about because we were whipped.
Speaker 7: You know, we want tough enough up front. That's just
Speaker 7: the way it is. And I'm not talking about just offensively, defensively.
Speaker 2: We went tough enough up.
Speaker 7: Front, and we were wishing our way through each game.
Speaker 7: You know, we were talking about it and here like, man,
Speaker 7: we got just sixty b's, sevent dy b's that running
Speaker 7: all of us. And thank god we even stayed in
Speaker 7: the Dolphins game, that was one of the better games.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't have put that in the big game because
Speaker 7: we actually played well in the end.
Speaker 2: But those other games.
Speaker 7: The Buffalo game, you know, we have to get those
Speaker 7: out of our system. They cannot happen with a good team.
Speaker 7: You got to go in there and show you got
Speaker 7: something down there. You can't just go in and say, oh, well, guys,
Speaker 7: you know, and you look soft as a team and
Speaker 7: therefore your reputation. Ron Springs used to say all the
Speaker 7: time because we did business together. He said, your rep
Speaker 7: is all you got, and that's on the real Your
Speaker 7: rep is all you got.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: So if you come in there and they think that
Speaker 7: you're a certain way, that's how they're gonna play you,
Speaker 7: and they will always look at you that way.
Speaker 8: One of the tough decisions they're going to have to
Speaker 8: make is can Mozzy Smith play better, make that second
Speaker 8: year jump or did we make a mistake with a
Speaker 8: first round pick, Because if you're relying on him to
Speaker 8: get in there and provide some bulk in the middle,
Speaker 8: you better be right because if not, you saw what
Speaker 8: happened when Hankins wasn't in there, by the way, and
Speaker 8: he's getting older, and he's an unrestricted free agent, by
Speaker 8: the way. So that's one of the decisions they're going
Speaker 8: to have to make, along with what the running back
Speaker 8: position that we pointed out with both guys unrestricted, how
Speaker 8: do you restock.
Speaker 4: That running back position, resigning what.
Speaker 8: You have free agent draft Those are kind of some
Speaker 8: of the big decisions they're going to have to make,
Speaker 8: and Bill, I'll let you have.
Speaker 3: The floor on Mine is more of a positive one, Okay,
Speaker 3: you negative nancies those tight ends. Look at those tight
Speaker 3: ends that played yesterday. Yes, the Niners with George Kittle,
Speaker 3: the Chiefs with Travis Kelcey. Mark Andrews was back for
Speaker 3: the Ravens. But even when Andrews was out since November,
Speaker 3: Isaiah Likely and then the young the rookie with the
Speaker 3: Lion Sam Laporta, and the Cowboys have to feel really
Speaker 3: good about what they have at the tight end position
Speaker 3: with Jake Ferguson, because I think Jake Ferguson fits in,
Speaker 3: fits in with the He's a younger, he's there, he is,
Speaker 3: He's right there with Laporta. He's one year more experienced
Speaker 3: than Laporta, and he is, assuming he stays injury free. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's going to have a career that rivals what those
Speaker 3: other guys are doing.
Speaker 8: Well, if you need to know what the NFL thinks
Speaker 8: of Jake Ferguson, who's going.
Speaker 4: I can't play in the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 3: Two of them? Kittle ed Kelsey.
Speaker 8: So Ferguson's going to replace the NFC. Yes, I hear
Speaker 8: he's going to replace him.
Speaker 4: He was that, he was close.
Speaker 2: He deserves it.
Speaker 3: So you're right, he's going to do what in Orlando.
Speaker 4: He's going to do what. He's going to replace Kittle
Speaker 4: on the NFC.
Speaker 3: So what do they do.
Speaker 8: They're going to play flag football, Flag doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: The wars.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised they're they're adding Did they add players to
Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl team as often back in your day?
Speaker 3: Ever since? Do you recall that they did?
Speaker 8: No, not a lot, but there were a lot of
Speaker 8: it for the injury reasons or but.
Speaker 7: Nobody held out nobody like, I'm not going it was
Speaker 7: it was Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Everyone wanted to go to the Hawai Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and even back then. But plus I got some
Speaker 3: money for it.
Speaker 2: Chump change.
Speaker 3: It wasn't chump change. If you make twenty thousand dollars a.
Speaker 8: Year, yeah, but you had to pay for your family
Speaker 8: to come with you.
Speaker 2: Years I was making twenty thousands.
Speaker 3: I thought that was your bonus.
Speaker 2: My bonus was more than twenty thousand.
Speaker 8: Come on, man, So when remind me when the Pro
Speaker 8: Bowl was played?
Speaker 2: Back then, it was after the season, so it.
Speaker 4: Was after the Super Bowl, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, it was a week after the Super Bowl, right,
Speaker 7: and the teams that won the Super Bowl. I remember
Speaker 7: the Niner guys coming in after the game. They can't
Speaker 7: we went practice already. They would come in later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because it was like that in the nineties too, right.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember when the nineties.
Speaker 7: The nineties and when it got when it started to
Speaker 7: was going now only because during the eighties when I
Speaker 7: was there, that's when you can tell people like, hey man,
Speaker 7: I'm not going to go out here and bust my
Speaker 7: head open in this game. And I haven't been practicing
Speaker 7: since for mid December. Yeah, you know, and now you
Speaker 7: want Chuck Munsey to come out there, who's usually two
Speaker 7: thirty five when he plays me, he walks around at
Speaker 7: two sixty. Now you want me to come out here
Speaker 7: and try and make a thirty and three, you know.
Speaker 7: So it started to get to that point when nobody
Speaker 7: really wanted to go out.
Speaker 3: There, and especially they've been drinking beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, right.
Speaker 7: The playoff teams, we were still you know, in shape
Speaker 7: because we had just finished playing. But if you talk
Speaker 7: about guys that didn't make the playoffs, yeah, and then
Speaker 7: that coming in here, you talk about.
Speaker 3: Their season was over at Christmas.
Speaker 6: It's a rough game.
Speaker 8: So they were still playing it after the Super Bowl
Speaker 8: for sure in ninety three because I remember Troy was
Speaker 8: supposed to fly to Hawaii after the Super Bowl and
Speaker 8: he ended up bowing out and he went to doctor
Speaker 8: Andrews in Birmingham to do some check ups on.
Speaker 4: Of course that but it was that were in the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. Yes, but now you replace those guys with.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I wanted to go.
Speaker 8: You don't need to replace them for like football.
Speaker 2: But if you're the guy defensive line.
Speaker 3: But theirs is the Hall of Fame resumes What.
Speaker 8: It does is to let you know that what other
Speaker 8: people thought, who was next in line.
Speaker 2: But we never we never had to go that deep.
Speaker 2: We just did. People wanted to come and play and so.
Speaker 3: But think how many more Pro Bowls you would have
Speaker 3: made had there been the same number of people that
Speaker 3: were not going yesterday.
Speaker 2: I've been waiting.
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Speaker 3: Right, very good and in fact practice going on this
Speaker 3: morning here at Ford Center at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 3: The East squad was there this morning working out, and
Speaker 3: the West squad later and that game on the Thursday night.
Speaker 3: And a face on the field, not a face in
Speaker 3: the crowd, but a face on the field was one
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn here back home today. Oh yeah, well it
Speaker 3: remained is home. It's the question this.
Speaker 6: Week were they outside or were they indoors?
Speaker 3: Indoor? Indoors?
Speaker 8: Okay, we should go as a team. You're going to
Speaker 8: get a suite for the game.
Speaker 3: Do you afford it? Making?
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any sweets up there.
Speaker 8: Can we take one of the coaches booths like we
Speaker 8: watch practice.
Speaker 6: There, bring some binocular So Dan was supposed.
Speaker 4: To by the way, since you brought it up, he's
Speaker 4: supposed to fly.
Speaker 3: That's why I brought it up.
Speaker 4: He was trying to sneak that in there.
Speaker 2: So what happened?
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn was in Seattle the end of last week.
Speaker 3: That link is on Thursday, interview there at his second
Speaker 3: interview is in person interview there, and he is headed
Speaker 3: to Washington, d C. And reportedly to interview for the
Speaker 3: Commander's head coaching job tomorrow. And they've other reported candidates
Speaker 3: that they have include Ben Johnson, the Lions offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: Mike McDonald the Ravens defensive coordinator. Uh so they got that,
Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn, the Lions defensive coordinator. And those seasons are over,
Speaker 3: and so the commanders are going to have a head
Speaker 3: coach here pretty soon.
Speaker 4: And Bobby Slowick offensive coordinat So who are which is
Speaker 4: Bob Slowick's son?
Speaker 2: Who are we interviewing?
Speaker 4: Well you got nothing nobody yet.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean he's going around taking interview as you said, Quinn.
Speaker 8: Well but what if he doesn't get a higher question? Well,
Speaker 8: they better have a list right now.
Speaker 2: Who do you have you heard anything that we're looking at?
Speaker 3: And there's there are I've got an. I have a
Speaker 3: thought a thought on one.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's been reported out there that the Cowboys might be
Speaker 3: interested in the former head coach of the Commanders, Ron Rivera.
Speaker 3: I have a thought that there's a former head coach
Speaker 3: of the Minnesota Vikings that I would be interested in.
Speaker 3: That would be Mike Zimmer. What do you think of that?
Speaker 8: I like, no problems with it whatsoever either one.
Speaker 4: Actually, I don't need.
Speaker 8: A first time just like I didn't want a first
Speaker 8: time head coach if they moved on from McCarthy, I
Speaker 8: don't want to. I don't need a first time defensive
Speaker 8: coordinator at this point, especially with the offensive. I mean
Speaker 8: with the head coach on his final year of his contract.
Speaker 8: The one thing I've noticed with some of these talks
Speaker 8: going on, like the thing in Seattle, they want to
Speaker 8: talk to Ben Johnson, the Detroit offensive, and they want
Speaker 8: to talk to Mike McDonald. And that's why they haven't
Speaker 8: made a decision yet because they couldn't talk to them.
Speaker 8: Now that they've lost, they can talk to them this week.
Speaker 4: So see, here's the other deal with this.
Speaker 8: You just mentioned all the different people Washington wants to
Speaker 8: talk to, So you fire your head coach not knowing
Speaker 8: what you're going to do, Well, what if you end
Speaker 8: up with worse?
Speaker 3: If you could bring the head coach back in for
Speaker 3: an interview.
Speaker 8: Yeah right, Just like by the way, I think that
Speaker 8: made a mistake.
Speaker 3: George George Steinbrener did that with Billy Martin all the time.
Speaker 8: I mean, you should have a list of what you
Speaker 8: want and you don't go out there just fishing, right.
Speaker 4: You know what. It reminds me that you said that.
Speaker 8: Charlie Waters tells the story that for the final cut
Speaker 8: his rookie year, Uh, coach Myers.
Speaker 4: Came.
Speaker 8: He was the he was the the guy that came
Speaker 8: in and told everybody, you're cut right, uh.
Speaker 2: And the Myers he was too happy to do it.
Speaker 4: He was what did they I forgot what was the name?
Speaker 4: What was the name they gave that guy? Not the
Speaker 4: hatchet man?
Speaker 7: No, I can't, but thank god I didn't have to
Speaker 7: know what his name was.
Speaker 8: Anyway, he calls he calls Charlie in and says, you know,
Speaker 8: we're sorry you didn't make the team, right, And Charlie's like,
Speaker 8: what am I doing with my life now?
Speaker 4: I didn't make it? And it goes on for a.
Speaker 8: Couple of hours and he gets a phone call and
Speaker 8: coach Myer says, uh, Charlie scratched that we made a mistake.
Speaker 4: It wasn't you that.
Speaker 15: Was getting killed someone else, Yeah, Charlie, And I think
Speaker 15: Charlie like started cussing, like son, don't talk to me
Speaker 15: like that.
Speaker 3: So in the past the has been the name.
Speaker 4: That's what I was sorry.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it would apply to appropriate.
Speaker 4: To Yeah, the sorry. We didn't mean to tell you
Speaker 4: you were cut.
Speaker 3: Speaking of coaching moves, you know who the happiest person
Speaker 3: in the room is, don't you, Savannah.
Speaker 6: I was going to bring this up the guys first.
Speaker 5: I was going to bring up did we all see
Speaker 5: that Kellen Moore is going to the Eagles?
Speaker 3: Yes? I was going to get to that. I was
Speaker 3: going to get to that. I thought, more importantly for you,
Speaker 3: we ought to talk about Jim.
Speaker 5: Jim coming in to coach the Chargers. Actually was so
Speaker 5: happy with that move. Family's really happy with it. And
Speaker 5: then I honestly think, now that he is there, you
Speaker 5: have to look at Justin Herbert a little bit more seriously.
Speaker 5: He's going to really coach that guy up. So I'm excited.
Speaker 8: I wonder who they bring in is their offensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: He's got to be good because he's got a good quarterback.
Speaker 8: Because he's talking about bringing his defensive coordinator with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's bringing in the defensive coordinators I heard,
Speaker 5: but offensive, yeah, it's questionable.
Speaker 8: And there was two other guys. Names came up for
Speaker 8: his defensive coordinator, Greg Roman's still out there way and
Speaker 8: then somebody named Tanner Engstrand, the Lions pass game coordinator. Okay,
Speaker 8: they were thinking of maybe he would be brought in,
Speaker 8: but I think he was bringing in his defensive coordinator
Speaker 8: from Michigan.
Speaker 3: So in that AFC West, now you've got Andy Reid,
Speaker 3: you've got Sean Payton, and you've got Jim Harbaugh along
Speaker 3: with Antonio Pierce with the Raiders. So it's fun.
Speaker 6: That's fun.
Speaker 3: So are you confident now that the Chargers are going
Speaker 3: to supplant the Chiefs as the team to beat the
Speaker 3: AFC West because Jim Harbaugh is there?
Speaker 6: Yes, you guys will wait and see next season. We'll
Speaker 6: come full back to this.
Speaker 3: Conversation writing it down right now.
Speaker 6: The Chargers are on the come up.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, all right, okay, okay, So Kellen Moore to
Speaker 3: the Eagles, what do we make of this?
Speaker 6: I think it's a little wild, pretty wild.
Speaker 2: That means they're going to throw the ball more.
Speaker 3: It's just good.
Speaker 2: The Calgary is going to be happy with that.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts, Jalen Hurt. He goes from Justin Herbert, Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, He's going to run the ball more
Speaker 3: than what he did here because Jalen Hurts will run
Speaker 3: the healthy Jalen Hurts will run the ball more.
Speaker 7: Run my quarterback as often I think Jalen. I think
Speaker 7: he will make Jalen throw more.
Speaker 3: So you think that may be one of the reasons plays.
Speaker 3: You think that may be one of the reasons that
Speaker 3: they decided on Kellen Moore is that he's more pass happy.
Speaker 7: You saw what happened with Hurts at the end of
Speaker 7: the season, the mid seasons. He's hurt all the time,
Speaker 7: and that's just not the way you want to use
Speaker 7: your quarterback. You don't want your quarterback to be a
Speaker 7: running back. And they have enough good running plays and
Speaker 7: a couple of good running backs back there that are
Speaker 7: sufficient enough to where if you throw the ball enough,
Speaker 7: then Jalen Hurts can control the ball game, but it's
Speaker 7: got to be an entirely different system because everyone seemed
Speaker 7: to figure him out this year.
Speaker 8: Maybe I should point out that in twenty nineteen, when
Speaker 8: he took over as the Cowboys offensive coordinator, that Ezekiel
Speaker 8: Elliott ran the ball three hundred and one times. So
Speaker 8: this notion that all they did was the Cowboys threw
Speaker 8: the ball is pretty false because when they ran it,
Speaker 8: Zeke was running the ball more than two hundred times
Speaker 8: a season. And if you look at twenty twenty one,
Speaker 8: Zeke ran the ball two hundred and thirty seven times
Speaker 8: and Pollard ran it one hundred and thirty times. And
Speaker 8: last year, when Pollard led the team with one thousand
Speaker 8: and seven rushing yards, Zeke still ran the ball for
Speaker 8: two hundred and thirty one yards for eight seventy six.
Speaker 8: So there's this notion out there that all they did
Speaker 8: was throw the ball, and that's just not accurate about
Speaker 8: Kellen Moore.
Speaker 4: I just think he got a bad rap here.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if Doug Nussmeyer is going to Philly
Speaker 3: two to be the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Coach coach too.
Speaker 3: Yes, Alex Tanney was a quarterback, that's right, and they
Speaker 3: he is free to move on. So there and nuss
Speaker 3: Meyer was with more with the Chargers.
Speaker 8: Now with Siriani what but wasn't he but an offensive guy?
Speaker 1: Yes, he's the offensive guy, so maybe he So that's
Speaker 1: the more the more critical thing I think for.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is who's the quarterback coach?
Speaker 4: Right right?
Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens there
Speaker 3: and he's.
Speaker 2: Just gonna be.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so, mm hmm, like the quarterbacks
Speaker 3: coach here. He could he could do both, but you
Speaker 3: want someone who, especially with a quarterback like Hurts and
Speaker 3: like a quarterback with Dak, you wanted someone who is
Speaker 3: total yeah, and on mechanics and so forth.
Speaker 8: So and I think somewhat this year McCarthy was part
Speaker 8: of that and is coaching the quarterbacks. If you noticed
Speaker 8: when they did their quarterback deal before practice that he
Speaker 8: wasn't out there with the rest of the team.
Speaker 4: He was in there with the quarterbacks. So yeah, he
Speaker 4: had a heavy hand in doing the quarterbacks here.
Speaker 8: And I do think quarterback coaches do make a difference,
Speaker 8: especially with young guys that don't know everything yet.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 8: So yeah, but that's a that's an interesting choice, isn't it?
Speaker 8: So somebody thought a lot of Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: It's kind of close to home.
Speaker 4: Close to home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, juicy.
Speaker 4: Now you're going to say twice.
Speaker 3: It's one thing. It's one thing when he's with the
Speaker 3: Chargers and you're just facing somewhere. Now, when you're your
Speaker 3: chief rival in the division and you're going head to
Speaker 3: head with him twice, it's a different story. Now intriguing.
Speaker 8: I saw somebody report that, uh, some two teams requested
Speaker 8: permission to talk to Aiden Derney as the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Who the Cowboys defensive line coach.
Speaker 2: Wow, I don't even know his name.
Speaker 8: He's the guy that got started as part of the.
Speaker 3: It's the international international program they had for coaches. It's
Speaker 3: a green bay. The Rams and Atlanta have sought permission
Speaker 3: to speak to Cowboys defensive line coach add and Dirty,
Speaker 3: per multiple sources. According to Todd Archer two days ago, Okay,
Speaker 3: I thought, would you like to know more about Dirty's
Speaker 3: football journey?
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: Having grown up in London, he played in NFL Europe
Speaker 3: before joining practice squads in Carolina and Kansas City. He
Speaker 3: helped train players like f a Obata, remember him when
Speaker 3: he passed through here through nfl UK he was the
Speaker 3: d C for the London Warriors. There's some background on
Speaker 3: Dirty highly respected as obviously as three teams now want
Speaker 3: to talk to him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he was a guy that Quinn wanted to
Speaker 8: bring along with him.
Speaker 7: Well, the thing that I see about the the different
Speaker 7: defenses this year that up successful. They're all successful with
Speaker 7: a lot of pressure upfront from their first from their
Speaker 7: front four, And to me, I think that really if
Speaker 7: we could have a system like that where it takes
Speaker 7: a lot of pressure off the guys in the back seven,
Speaker 7: you know, that's something that we've got to really take
Speaker 7: a look at because right now, our linebackers I put
Speaker 7: them air quotes, they need to be able to see
Speaker 7: better and right. And when you see the Cowboys don't
Speaker 7: play well, it's because they are being attacked by these
Speaker 7: big offensive linemen downfield and they're coming underbated. So to me,
Speaker 7: you've got to put some linemen there that are going
Speaker 7: to hold these guys.
Speaker 6: Up starts up front, upfront.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got to be one in the trenches.
Speaker 7: I like our linebackers, I do, but you need to
Speaker 7: have a team that has that DeMarcus launch mentality to
Speaker 7: where you go. I'm gonna make this play myself. And
Speaker 7: I don't mean coming out of this, going out of
Speaker 7: the scheme of the defense, but being able to just
Speaker 7: control your area to where it doesn't spill off to
Speaker 7: the rest of the team.
Speaker 2: And we just didn't do.
Speaker 3: It when you're not pin in your ear bags going
Speaker 3: after the quarterback.
Speaker 8: And this might be too obvious of a question, but
Speaker 8: how many Cowboy defensive linemen finished in their top ten
Speaker 8: of total tackles?
Speaker 4: Got a guess?
Speaker 2: None?
Speaker 3: Are you considering Parsons to be a defensive lineman?
Speaker 4: I don't consider him.
Speaker 2: Oh what is? He?
Speaker 3: Is? An edge rusher?
Speaker 2: As an edge rusher, so is that a defensive right
Speaker 2: la And now.
Speaker 8: Once again Lawrence Lawrence finished with fifty seven tackles. Parsons
Speaker 8: finished ninth with fifty six. Okay, so what you were saying,
Speaker 8: they didn't get a lot of production. Now osa Uh
Speaker 8: was eleventh with fifty three, which tied Jordan Lewis, but
Speaker 8: he only had twenty four solo tackles, so you have
Speaker 8: to go down to number thirteen. Dorance Armstrong with thirty three,
Speaker 8: and he finished second with seven and a half sacks
Speaker 8: to Parsons right fourteen.
Speaker 4: He's an unrestricted free agent.
Speaker 2: That's a that kid there.
Speaker 7: That's pretty good numbers there, and he considering he didn't
Speaker 7: really get too much.
Speaker 8: And his percentage of plays went down his snapcot last year.
Speaker 3: Who are you talking? Okay, yeah, from last year to
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 8: It because they probably played Parsons more at defensive end.
Speaker 7: And that's another issue when the new well, I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm not I fired the man already, but defensive so sorry, yeah,
Speaker 2: we are so sorry.
Speaker 7: Well, I think what we have to look at is
Speaker 7: what the hell are we gonna do with Parsons? I mean,
Speaker 7: we need to define what he's doing. We're not doing
Speaker 7: ourselves in favor by I guess trying to trick the opposition.
Speaker 2: We're tricking ourselves. We don't know.
Speaker 3: Where he's supposed to be supposed We can't answer that
Speaker 3: question until next week. You're on mixed shots, okay, because
Speaker 3: next week we will know who. We will know whether
Speaker 3: or not the defensive coordinator is returning or not. Right,
Speaker 3: we'll know this week whether dan Quinn is headed or coming.
Speaker 4: We should know that and.
Speaker 7: So it should be defined. I think going forward may
Speaker 7: be defined.
Speaker 2: What is his position?
Speaker 3: It may make a difference to the defensive coordinator is.
Speaker 7: If they will start there, we could you know, if
Speaker 7: he's a linebacker, then that means that we just need
Speaker 7: one more linebacker, right, I mean as far as starting,
Speaker 7: you know, but then you have to have another edge rusher.
Speaker 7: So yeah, we have to figure this out who and
Speaker 7: it goes to who we want to draft or who
Speaker 7: we want to sign.
Speaker 8: And if you think about it, when you stock your
Speaker 8: linebacker position you use we have we can see it
Speaker 8: five or six linebackers, right, because you need linebackers to
Speaker 8: play special teams.
Speaker 4: Right. Yeah, Well they had one after Van der rsh
Speaker 4: got hurt. It was Clark.
Speaker 8: They used the elevations on Jefferson.
Speaker 3: Uh, what do you got? Fifty years ago today, the
Speaker 3: Cowboys drafted out of Tennessee State one Ed.
Speaker 2: And this is.
Speaker 3: The picture on draft to him getting the phone call shirt.
Speaker 2: Look at the hand.
Speaker 3: Was tweeted out by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Fifty years ago today, the Cowboys made history by selecting
Speaker 3: ed two tall Jones first overall in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3: At Mark, the first and still only time from an
Speaker 3: HBCU was taken with the number one pick. Congratulations had
Speaker 3: two tall Jones. You know how the Cowboys got that
Speaker 3: draft pick? Oh?
Speaker 2: Go ahead, and I knew.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're so smart. Tell us.
Speaker 8: They had some inside intel that he was eligible for
Speaker 8: the draft. Everybody else thought that he wasn't eligible. He
Speaker 8: had to play one more year.
Speaker 3: How did they acquire the pick? Oh?
Speaker 4: How did they acquire the pick?
Speaker 3: They made a trade with the Houston Oilers, and they
Speaker 3: traded a wide receiver named Billy Parks and a defensive
Speaker 3: end named Tody Smith to the Houston Oilers, and they
Speaker 3: acquired the number one overall pick from the Oilers. They
Speaker 3: to Jones, that's and I have a great fondness for
Speaker 3: Billy Parks because you know why I have a great
Speaker 3: fondness for Billy Parks because over the weekend, my daughter
Speaker 3: gave birth to my fifth grandson, dang and the name
Speaker 3: the name William Parks Griffith watch I'm going to call him,
Speaker 3: of course, No, not at all. No, My name is William,
Speaker 3: My dad's name is William, my father in law's name
Speaker 3: is William, my brother in law's name is William, and
Speaker 3: so there, and then on my son in law's side
Speaker 3: of the family, Parks is a family name. He's going
Speaker 3: to be called Parks, but he's I'm going to call
Speaker 3: him Billy Parks of the Cowboys wide receiver, Billy Parks.
Speaker 3: I've got a basketball team now, five grandsons. Yeah, Billy.
Speaker 4: So when somebody yells, hey, Billy, come here for people,
Speaker 4: that's right.
Speaker 2: So that's all right.
Speaker 3: So hopefully Billy Parks Griffith comes home from the hospital today.
Speaker 8: It's a it's a it's a deep story on how
Speaker 8: they got to Jones.
Speaker 3: So you know, always got something.
Speaker 4: So the draft was this was this early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to have it. They used to have
Speaker 3: it like in December. It was like at the end
Speaker 3: of the round.
Speaker 4: It used to be in November. Okay, November before the
Speaker 4: season ended.
Speaker 8: That's why the Cowboys didn't have a draft their first
Speaker 8: year because the draft for nineteen sixty was already done
Speaker 8: in November of fifty nine, during the season. So now
Speaker 8: you know the rest and you only get that here
Speaker 8: on Mix Shots.
Speaker 2: By the way, all.
Speaker 3: Right, that does it for this edition of Mixed Shots.
Speaker 3: And who knows who the Cowboys defensive coordinator will be
Speaker 3: when we reconvene next Monday.
Speaker 2: E go Cowboy.
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