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Speaker 1: Savannah Humoler, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 2: And it's time to move on to Dolphins Week.
Speaker 3: Here on mix Shots, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Savannah Humoler,
Speaker 3: Everson Walls is out today and it is the day after,
Speaker 3: but it's also six days.
Speaker 2: Before the next most important game of the season.
Speaker 4: Another one on the road, Yes.
Speaker 3: Another one on the road, and it actually the task
Speaker 3: might be more daunting this week than it was yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as possible.
Speaker 5: The next opponent might be better.
Speaker 2: Might be but then again, they might not be better,
Speaker 2: might not be better.
Speaker 4: You know, I really appreciate your enthusiasm yesterday on.
Speaker 3: Our Oh yes, we and the breaking story here, Savannah
Speaker 3: has now she's arrived.
Speaker 2: She's now on the group text.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's regretting and giving out her phone.
Speaker 4: I was sitting there reading everything. I'm watching the game,
Speaker 4: and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh boy, oh it was twenty four to three.
Speaker 3: Okay, at the time you made some comment. Okay, so
Speaker 3: it was twenty four to three, and my comment was,
Speaker 3: we got them right where we want them, in position
Speaker 3: to do exactly what we did in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 3: twenty five, twenty four come from behind.
Speaker 5: When Yeah, but didn't happen at least been somewhat scoring
Speaker 5: some points that game, right, right?
Speaker 2: Is that the positivity that you're looking for at.
Speaker 4: The time, Yes, because I was I was a little.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you were watching watching the watching the game. Yeah,
Speaker 6: here were my options yesterday. My family, as parts of
Speaker 6: my family anyway, they for some reason last summer scheduled
Speaker 6: on sun on a Sunday afternoon in December, a trip
Speaker 6: to the Polar Express in grape Vine, which is a
Speaker 6: grape Vine, Texas is the Christmas Capital of the world,
Speaker 6: is the way they describe it.
Speaker 2: And so everyone loads up on a little train and
Speaker 2: you travel to the North Pole. And so that was
Speaker 2: scheduled for four thirty yesterday afternoon, and I'll.
Speaker 3: Darn it, I can't go on the Polar Express because
Speaker 3: I got to watch the Cowboy game, and I got
Speaker 3: about through the first quarter of the Cowboy game, and
Speaker 3: I wanted to get a reservation on the Polar Express.
Speaker 3: I could have spent my afternoon much better had I
Speaker 3: gone to.
Speaker 2: The Polar Express and gone to the North Pole.
Speaker 4: Very much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was, yes, pretty deflating. And my take from
Speaker 5: that game, and I know everybody's making a big deal
Speaker 5: out of can't win on the road, they would have lost.
Speaker 5: To use Jason Garrett's line, they would have lost that
Speaker 5: game at home, away the parking lot or the moon.
Speaker 5: That didn't matter where they were. Being on the road
Speaker 5: doesn't mean that you got to let some guy name
Speaker 5: James Cook rush for one hundred and seventy nine yards
Speaker 5: one seventy nine and the Bills as a team for
Speaker 5: two hundred and sixty six yards to sixty six. The
Speaker 5: only thing I can think of more than that was
Speaker 5: the playoff loss at the Rams for two seventy three.
Speaker 2: Well, that two thousand season, the Cowboys exceeded that, but
Speaker 2: that that doesn't count. That was a that wasn't a
Speaker 2: bad team, but also got.
Speaker 3: The defensive coordinator fired and Michael Parsons was drafted the
Speaker 3: following year.
Speaker 2: I mean to fix this thing.
Speaker 5: They they only had to throw the ball fifteen times
Speaker 5: to score thirty one points fifteen. They didn't even have
Speaker 5: one hundred.
Speaker 2: Ninety four yards passing.
Speaker 5: Not even one hundred yards passing. All this talk before
Speaker 5: the game, Dak versus Josh and all this stuff. No,
Speaker 5: it came down to some guy named James Cook, which
Speaker 5: I found out, and I didn't realize he was Delvin Cook.
Speaker 5: He talked about it.
Speaker 2: But but you went to Georgia.
Speaker 5: The names are his name is James Delvin Cook, and
Speaker 5: Delvin's name is Delvin James Cook.
Speaker 4: Wait, really, yes, that's interested.
Speaker 5: And however you want to slice it. They looked like
Speaker 5: they acted like they didn't know number four. They must
Speaker 5: have thought he was a wide receiver or something. I
Speaker 5: don't know. They were allergic so tackling him.
Speaker 4: They just gave him the ball, whether it was to
Speaker 4: run the ball or to catch the ball. He was
Speaker 4: acting like a receiver half the time.
Speaker 5: Well, he did catch two passes for forty two yards
Speaker 5: along of twenty four, and I believe he had the
Speaker 5: eight was an eighteen yard touchdown. Yes, that they didn't
Speaker 5: bother to cover, just let him float out there all
Speaker 5: by himself.
Speaker 4: Not that it matters at this point since the game
Speaker 4: is over. But what were his stats going back the
Speaker 4: past few games? I know we talked to them.
Speaker 5: He's been changed play callers ever since Joe Brady became
Speaker 5: the play caller. He started using cooks more and he's
Speaker 5: singular cook cook.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Well it looked like there was a bunch of
Speaker 5: cooks out there and there wasn't too many cooks in
Speaker 5: the kitchen for this one.
Speaker 2: Some guy Dave James cook.
Speaker 3: Ah, it only was good enough to get a scholarship
Speaker 3: to Georgia.
Speaker 5: That was probably a poor performance for what he did
Speaker 5: at Georgia seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Oh one of those days.
Speaker 5: Well, but you know what, their game plan reminded me
Speaker 5: of what took place in Arizona when they gave up
Speaker 5: two hundred and twenty two yards rushing.
Speaker 3: It's what we couldn't believe the Giants didn't do when
Speaker 3: they played the cowboy.
Speaker 2: Right, just give the ball to Barkley.
Speaker 5: And they attacked the edges. They attacked the edges. The
Speaker 5: Cowboys acted like they'd never seen a running back go
Speaker 5: to the edge. They didn't hold down the edge. And
Speaker 5: when they won big and you guys have heard me
Speaker 5: say this before, two tight ends or tight end in
Speaker 5: a full back. The Cowboys are out there with a
Speaker 5: bunch of safeties and they get out physical at the
Speaker 5: point of attack at some point. Sometimes you got to
Speaker 5: play three linebackers, and you know, and against these good
Speaker 5: teams that want to run the ball, and they obviously
Speaker 5: came in with the idea that they could run the
Speaker 5: ball on the edge of the Cowboys. And that's not
Speaker 5: a novel idea. People have done that before. And you know,
Speaker 5: somebody was like, well, how did Mozie Smith play? You know,
Speaker 5: I'm glad Mike McCarthy said, Hey, this was a group effort.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just missing you know, Jonathan Hankins. Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 5: ain't set in the edge. Yeah, I just thought they
Speaker 5: they they had their number, they had what they wanted
Speaker 5: to do, and they did it.
Speaker 4: Their defense just looked unstoppable.
Speaker 5: And then defensively they attacked the Cowboys up front. Dak
Speaker 5: did not have the time of day in the pocket.
Speaker 5: He was rushed and too many times he just had
Speaker 5: to throw it to throw it. That might be the
Speaker 5: most passes broken up I've seen him have in quite
Speaker 5: some time. But guys weren't open the way they were
Speaker 5: playing their defense. So yeah, that was not not what
Speaker 5: you expected to see out of a team that had
Speaker 5: won five consecutive games.
Speaker 3: You asked, I think before we came on the air, here,
Speaker 3: when the last time the Cowboys had one hundred and
Speaker 3: were held to one hundred and ninety five yards the
Speaker 3: San Francisco game this year, it was one hundred.
Speaker 2: And ninety seven yards.
Speaker 3: Say there, So I'm going back in time to find
Speaker 3: the last time the Cowboys. Well, actually you don't have to.
Speaker 3: This game doesn't count. Washington the end of the year
Speaker 3: last year was under eighty or so, so that one
Speaker 3: doesn't count because it was a meaningless game.
Speaker 5: Probably have to go to that last time they played
Speaker 5: what was there was a what was the was at
Speaker 5: the end of the year the six to nothing game
Speaker 5: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Again, those usually don't count.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, okay, here's one in twenty.
Speaker 2: Twenty.
Speaker 3: Okay, middle of the season against Washington, that twenty five
Speaker 3: to three loss. The Cowboys had one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: two yards total offense.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's the answer that question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty twenty done, County.
Speaker 2: Either And okay, since I'm on that twenty twenty, you.
Speaker 5: Know what you need to look up and this will
Speaker 5: take way too much time. And twenty last time a
Speaker 5: good offensive team. The Cowboys had only at got one
Speaker 5: hundred and ninety four yards.
Speaker 3: And just switching over to the run defense since I'm
Speaker 3: on that twenty twenty season right now. From the Cleveland
Speaker 3: game that was the what am that was about three
Speaker 3: hundred It was forty nine thirty eight Cleveland won. It
Speaker 3: was a three hundred and seven yards rushing that Cleveland
Speaker 3: had in that game. Wow, Arizona with Kyler Murray coming
Speaker 3: in here thirty eight to ten loss, they had two
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty one yards rushing.
Speaker 2: So Buffalo beat them yesterday.
Speaker 5: But those teams weren't ten and three.
Speaker 2: Arizona had a good team that year.
Speaker 5: No, I mean the Cowboys weren't. Oh okay, those were
Speaker 5: poor f and then Baltimore that year, remember that game.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, covid well two hundred and ninety four yards
Speaker 5: rushing in that game.
Speaker 3: So just to put in perspective, remember how bad that
Speaker 3: was that year? Well, that's how bad yesterday was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely, and you know, and I want to hear
Speaker 5: anything about the weather. The Bills had to play in
Speaker 5: the same mess.
Speaker 2: That's why they were in the ball so much.
Speaker 5: And so a roof a roof maybe, but they're not
Speaker 5: going to do it on their new stadium, and they're
Speaker 5: not used to playing in the rain or prack to
Speaker 5: sing in the rain. When we pulled up, they've got
Speaker 5: a brand new and I don't know when they built it,
Speaker 5: but it looks new practice facility with an indoor practice
Speaker 5: field in Buffalo. Yes, so you know they're not stupid.
Speaker 5: They don't go outside and practice in that stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, you said off the top, when we were looking
Speaker 3: at Buffalo or Miami, which one has a better team,
Speaker 3: and they are two different type teams. Now that Buffalo
Speaker 3: has figured out what they need to do to win
Speaker 3: football games and maybe to go to where people have
Speaker 3: predicted that they might be able to go, and that
Speaker 3: is a more balanced offense, and that's what they've done
Speaker 3: with the change of their play caller.
Speaker 2: But you go back and look at.
Speaker 3: Their season this year. They are eight and six right now,
Speaker 3: and remember in their season opener they lost to the
Speaker 3: Jets on a punt return in overtime by Xavier Gibson,
Speaker 3: which so that is a game that's like an Arizona
Speaker 3: game for them, okay, And they somehow lost at New
Speaker 3: England twenty nine to twenty five. Okay, so there are
Speaker 3: two games on their schedule. I mean, if it goes
Speaker 3: according to chalk, okay, they should have won those games.
Speaker 3: I mean just based on what they have on their team. Okay,
Speaker 3: that puts them at ten and six six. Yeah, what
Speaker 3: they're eight, and it puts them at ten and four,
Speaker 3: ten and four. There are other games. They lost to
Speaker 3: Jacksonville twenty five to twenty. They lost at Cincinnati twenty
Speaker 3: four to eighteen when Cincinnati had Joe Burrow. They lost
Speaker 3: to Denver twenty four to twenty two. The Broncos were
Speaker 3: on their hot streak, and they lost to Philadelphia thirty
Speaker 3: seven thirty four in overtime over time, and these are
Speaker 3: all so these are all which is the one score,
Speaker 3: one one score games that could have gone either way. Well,
Speaker 3: now they have figured things out. They also lost two
Speaker 3: key defensive players, their best defensive player, linebacker Matt Mlano
Speaker 3: in early October, and they lost Tredavius White, their cornerback.
Speaker 3: And they have figured out now how to win games
Speaker 3: by running the football as well. And now they're in
Speaker 3: a position where as they talked about during the broadcast yesterday,
Speaker 3: this is a team in the AFC you don't want
Speaker 3: to face. Now you look at Buffalo going forward. They
Speaker 3: got the Chargers this week, okay, so they're nine and six.
Speaker 2: They got New England.
Speaker 3: Next week, so they're ten and six, and then they
Speaker 3: go to Miami to close out the season. Miami's got
Speaker 3: Dallas and Baltimore the next two weeks and then they
Speaker 3: get Buffalo.
Speaker 5: So you're telling me they have a chance.
Speaker 3: So I'm telling you that the NFL should go ahead
Speaker 3: and flex Buffalo Miami to the Sunday night game to
Speaker 3: end the season. Idea that's going to be for the
Speaker 3: AFC East, and Buffalo is in a great position now
Speaker 3: to get to where people projected that they might be
Speaker 3: able to get by the end of the season, which
Speaker 3: is the Super Bowl. That's the team that the Cowboys
Speaker 3: faced yesterday. It's also, as we talked about last week,
Speaker 3: an offensive line that has lost no games, no starters
Speaker 3: to injury throughout this season. They looked like it too, exactly,
Speaker 3: and it makes a big difference when you've got a
Speaker 3: healthy team at this time.
Speaker 2: Of the year.
Speaker 4: I was going to say they looked outstanding yesterday, and
Speaker 4: they gave Josh Allen, although he didn't have a crazy
Speaker 4: amount of passing yards yesterday. They gave him the ability
Speaker 4: to escape and nobody was getting to him. They protected
Speaker 4: Josh Allen s Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Was able to dictate whatever they wanted to do on.
Speaker 5: Offense, on defense, on special team.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of that to get to.
Speaker 5: Also, Yeah, because not only did they play well, they
Speaker 5: had a bunch of key plays repeatedly go their way
Speaker 5: in that game that you in the probably half game.
Speaker 3: And we have figured out with this Cowboys team and
Speaker 3: the way it is built, that you better get ahead
Speaker 3: and you better not fall behind by a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 3: which is what happened in yesterday's game. And there are
Speaker 3: different reasons, not just the run defense, why that game
Speaker 3: slipped away from them in the first half yesterday in Buffalo.
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Speaker 3: All right, and Savannah has a question she wants to
Speaker 3: pose here at a moment, but Mickey wants to start
Speaker 3: this segment as we dissect what happened on Sunday. Well,
Speaker 3: the Cowboys got some good news about a half hour
Speaker 3: before the game that they had made the playoffs. But
Speaker 3: then after that there was a coin toss.
Speaker 5: Mickey and the Cowboys won the coin.
Speaker 2: Toss, so more good news. Won the coin toss.
Speaker 5: And the team that leads the league in scoring, has
Speaker 5: a quarterback that leads the league with twenty eight touchdown passes.
Speaker 5: Going into the game, he's second in quarterback efficiency, and
Speaker 5: the Cowboys defer. Now, why not take the ball? Since
Speaker 5: number one, you're five to zero when you score on
Speaker 5: your first possession, regardless if it's the first possession of
Speaker 5: the game or your first possession, and the fact that
Speaker 5: you play well when you have the lead, So why
Speaker 5: give the opponent a chance to score first? And now
Speaker 5: you've got to play catch up? Because when the Cowboys
Speaker 5: have the lead and teams have to play catch up,
Speaker 5: they can't sit there and just run, run, run run.
Speaker 5: At some point you got to throw the football. And
Speaker 5: that leads into what the Cowboys do best. But no,
Speaker 5: they deferred, and what happens immediately within six minutes, in
Speaker 5: fifty four seconds, they're behind seven to nothing immediately, and
Speaker 5: then it gets worse fourteen than nothing, than twenty one
Speaker 5: to three. Why don't you take the ball and try
Speaker 5: to score and put them in ketchup mode? I don't
Speaker 5: get it. The analytics say, well, you want the last
Speaker 5: possession in the first half, which you're not guaranteed, and
Speaker 5: the first possession in the second half. Well, what happened.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys could have had the last possession in the
Speaker 5: first half and they didn't get very far and had
Speaker 5: to punt. And they got the first possession in the
Speaker 5: second half and they got to the thirty nine yard
Speaker 5: line and had to punt. So deferring did nothing to
Speaker 5: help you other than get you behind.
Speaker 2: And one of the reasons that they couldn't do anything.
Speaker 3: At the end of the first half or the beginning
Speaker 3: of the second half, they were already behind twenty one
Speaker 3: to three, and the opponent knew they were going to
Speaker 3: throw the football.
Speaker 5: Now, just why don't you take the ball? I don't
Speaker 5: get it. I just don't get it. And I gave
Speaker 5: you the stat last year there were two hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty deferred on winning the coin toss and only twenty
Speaker 5: two times have teams taken the ball.
Speaker 4: Doesn't make any sentence put to me, to me.
Speaker 5: You're scoring, you can score, and they've been scoring the
Speaker 5: last three games. The first possession they scored points and
Speaker 5: they deferred. Okay, we're going to play to our defense.
Speaker 5: Well that didn't work out so well.
Speaker 4: Well do you think that they learned that lesson from
Speaker 4: this game. Do you think let's say we go into
Speaker 4: this next week.
Speaker 5: And they win the toss and we win the hoss.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know, if they thought maybe the weather
Speaker 5: was bad and it's like, okay, we'll play defense first.
Speaker 2: Maybe they'll you know, cough it up, and yeah, they
Speaker 2: won't be able.
Speaker 4: But I just for just to test out to see
Speaker 4: what Buffalo's offense was coming out with. But they came
Speaker 4: in hot.
Speaker 5: This whole game is about the football, and you give
Speaker 5: it away. It's not a turnover, right, but to me,
Speaker 5: it's a giveaway because you just gave it to them.
Speaker 3: Well, and as it turned out, Buffalo drove down the
Speaker 3: field and they used a lot of run plays to
Speaker 3: drive down the field and they face a third and
Speaker 3: four at the sixty yard line. They threw went in
Speaker 3: completion in the end zone and Marcus Lawrence gets called
Speaker 3: for ruffing the basser.
Speaker 5: And boy, he didn't get his money's worth. I mean,
Speaker 5: come on, he's put it. He put a forearm to
Speaker 5: the guy's chest and he six ' five, two hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty five pounds, and well.
Speaker 2: He immediately pointed to his head.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he acted like he got hit in the head,
Speaker 5: which he did or he got face masks, which he didn't,
Speaker 5: and the guy fell for it.
Speaker 2: So that gave him a first down.
Speaker 5: And not only that, they stopped and I'm not saying
Speaker 5: they were going to have a goal line stop stand
Speaker 5: at the two, but on the second play, after they've
Speaker 5: held him to one, they stopped Murray and they did
Speaker 5: not blow the ball dead. He's momentum was stopped and
Speaker 5: they let him go with it. I'm gonna watch my
Speaker 5: words push that such and such pushing thing, pushing.
Speaker 2: So okay, stopped. So now it's seven to nothing and
Speaker 2: now you're getting the football. Yeah, okay, so you got
Speaker 2: the football.
Speaker 3: And on third and six, right, Dak goes for thirteen
Speaker 3: yards and then Taylor rap hits him. He slides and
Speaker 3: Taylor rap hits him, and then Zach Martin comes over
Speaker 3: and it's offsetting.
Speaker 5: Penalty and he didn't get his money's worth either.
Speaker 4: See. I liked in a way when that was happening.
Speaker 4: I liked seeing Zach Martin step up and set the
Speaker 4: tone for hey, like, you're hitting our quarterback. But I
Speaker 4: think it was just like the amount of aggression he
Speaker 4: came in with because they had thrown the original flag
Speaker 4: for unnecessary roughness on Dak and then it came to
Speaker 4: Zach Martin, so it was you would have backed off
Speaker 4: a little. This might be a different story.
Speaker 5: But it was. It ended up being a push right
Speaker 5: exactly the fifteen. You didn't get the fifty because of that.
Speaker 2: You would have had the ball. Okay, you would have.
Speaker 5: Been in the same place, right, No, okay.
Speaker 3: If Zach doesn't do that, then you're at the but
Speaker 3: it's a fifteen yard penalty and you're at the Buffalo
Speaker 3: forty three well. On the next play, the Cowboys completed
Speaker 3: a pass to CD for fifteen yards. You're at the
Speaker 3: forty three, so you're at first intent. One play later,
Speaker 3: you had first intend at the forty three and the
Speaker 3: Cowboys ran it to Pollard twice facing a well. On
Speaker 3: the second one, a holding call on Tyler Smith set
Speaker 3: him back. Make it second and seventeen, and then it
Speaker 3: wound up being a sack and a punt, and then
Speaker 3: Buffalo gets the football back. Cowboys actually stopped him, stopped him.
Speaker 3: It was a three and out. But then the Cowboys
Speaker 3: can't do anything and Zach Martin gets hurt on then
Speaker 3: ensuing possession. And now we come to the Buffalo possession
Speaker 3: that started at their fourteen yard.
Speaker 5: And hang right there. So they had two possessions right,
Speaker 5: two punts. M hm, that's one more punt than they
Speaker 5: had in the previous two games.
Speaker 2: Combine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, fourth and eight twenty six yard line. Sam
Speaker 3: Williams comes free on the punt.
Speaker 5: And he's I was already writing down block punt because
Speaker 5: when the he punted one. When the guy punted, he
Speaker 5: did one of those end over end things. So I said, oh,
Speaker 5: he got the ball, and then the punt kept going
Speaker 5: and going and going, and I said, he didn't block it.
Speaker 5: How did he miss the ball?
Speaker 4: That was the turning point for me because it gave
Speaker 4: Buffalo the possession again of the ball going into the
Speaker 4: second But the force that Sam Williams came in with
Speaker 4: it almost was it looked like it was about to
Speaker 4: block it. But he just came in over on top
Speaker 4: of their punter.
Speaker 2: So how did he as the technique?
Speaker 5: But he came right up the middle.
Speaker 4: But he jump speed must have been so much.
Speaker 3: He jumped high in the air and so the ball
Speaker 3: goes under. If you with technique, you go for you
Speaker 3: dive for the foot and then number one you're not
Speaker 3: going to rough the punter and number two, you're going
Speaker 3: to block the punt. But when you jump like that,
Speaker 3: it comes down the discipline. You have to be disciplined
Speaker 3: to use the technique that your coach to use in
Speaker 3: that situation. It comes down the discipline. Even though we
Speaker 3: don't agree with the roughing the passer call on de
Speaker 3: Marcus Lawrence, you have to understand the situation that it's
Speaker 3: third and four and if you got to rough in
Speaker 3: the passer, you're giving them a first down.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 3: You have to, even with Zach Martin, even though we
Speaker 3: like the fact that Zach defended dak On that you
Speaker 3: have to have discipline and not use your head gear
Speaker 3: into an opposing player.
Speaker 2: Because you're mad.
Speaker 3: Whatever jay Ron Curse, you're facing second in nineteen that
Speaker 3: they have a second in nineteen. It's an incomplete pass
Speaker 3: and you can't. You have to have discipline and know
Speaker 3: that they're looking to throw flags on penalties like that,
Speaker 3: and those these are for the most part, the three
Speaker 3: veteran players with Curse, Martin, and Lawrence, where you have
Speaker 3: to have discipline in big game situations like that, knowing
Speaker 3: that this could give them a first down and take
Speaker 3: away the good play that you just made.
Speaker 5: And you're asking too much for figure discipline because if
Speaker 5: he was a left footed punter, he smothers the punt
Speaker 5: and it could have been a touchdown.
Speaker 3: So all of this, I think all of this is
Speaker 3: a great lesson for this team to learn as they're
Speaker 3: in tight games. They have not been in tight games
Speaker 3: all year. That could have been a tight game if
Speaker 3: you don't make the mistakes that you made in the
Speaker 3: first half of the game. I mean, even the way
Speaker 3: they ran the ball on you, you could have kept
Speaker 3: it within striking distance first half.
Speaker 4: With the penalties, what did we lose in yards?
Speaker 5: So anyone, now, yeah, I've got it, good question.
Speaker 3: It was the penalty yards were it's it was just
Speaker 3: four penalties for forty three yards. Yeah, but they were costly,
Speaker 3: they were they were the timeliness, the untimeliness of the penalties.
Speaker 5: Well three, well there was three of them, right for fifteen.
Speaker 4: The Zach well didn't the one with Zach Martin offset.
Speaker 5: That would get that that would have been fifteen more right, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that one didn't count.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he.
Speaker 5: Missed the ball.
Speaker 2: So that's a game changer. And now pose your question.
Speaker 4: So then I believe this was second quarter, correct the
Speaker 4: pass from Allen to Diggs right, and you see this
Speaker 4: play happen, and all of as a sudden they show
Speaker 4: the replay and you see the ball come out and
Speaker 4: it's recovered by Dallas. I believe it was.
Speaker 5: Was it Wilson?
Speaker 4: Wilson, You see him get the ball and then all
Speaker 4: of a sudden you see him set up again and
Speaker 4: they snap the ball.
Speaker 3: The other part on that, you saw Stefan Diggs motioning
Speaker 3: to his bench hurry up, hurry up. Yeah, when I
Speaker 3: saw Stefan motioning to his bench, let's go like this,
Speaker 3: hurry up. He knew he had fumbled, and oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you know. But the problem is the Cowboys bench is
Speaker 3: on the opposing the opposite sideline, so they don't have
Speaker 3: us look live at the play. It would have been
Speaker 3: right in front of him if they're on the Buffalo bench.
Speaker 3: That's why Buffalo knew we got to go quick here.
Speaker 3: And then you're in the opposing stadium, Mickey, you were there.
Speaker 3: I assume they're not showing replays of it.
Speaker 2: In the state.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so then you've got to very quickly have
Speaker 3: communication from upstairs, throw.
Speaker 5: The flag and it didn't come down in time because
Speaker 5: Mike said he had his hand on the red flag
Speaker 5: ready to throw it. But by time they said, yeah,
Speaker 5: they had already snapped the ball. But my thoughts are
Speaker 5: the dude up in the replay booth, if he sees
Speaker 5: what you saw and they're signaling we got to hurry up,
Speaker 5: you think he should look at it, you know, buzz
Speaker 5: down and say I.
Speaker 2: Got to check this.
Speaker 4: I just have a question, because I do have the
Speaker 4: option to do that. Now, Yes, would it have make
Speaker 4: it made sense if they took a time out in
Speaker 4: that scenario?
Speaker 2: Could they?
Speaker 4: Could they take a timeout in that scenario.
Speaker 2: That tapping so fast?
Speaker 4: Go back and be like this is what?
Speaker 6: How?
Speaker 4: But on the previous play, would that have made sense
Speaker 4: to take a timeout?
Speaker 5: They could have, but that didn't That didn't ensure that
Speaker 5: they would have looked at the play. And if they did, well,
Speaker 5: then you did wrong and then you lugs both time outs.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, but definitely now but anyway, your point is
Speaker 5: well taken. They had the ball, right, They had the ball.
Speaker 3: So at that point it was a fourteen to three game,
Speaker 3: and let's say the Cowboys do challenge, they get the
Speaker 3: football back, they would have had it at the forty
Speaker 3: seven yard line in Buffalo's endo the field.
Speaker 5: But see and then here's and then here's what happened
Speaker 5: with the Curse thing right, because they're hurrying up caused
Speaker 5: Alan to get sacked. They lose nine yards, and now
Speaker 5: it's second and nineteen, and then they get the personal
Speaker 5: file for fifteen yards for roughing or unnecessary hit.
Speaker 3: So it was a double whammi there where you don't
Speaker 3: throw the flag what would have been a turnover for you,
Speaker 3: And then one play later, what after an incompletion which
Speaker 3: would have made it third and nineteen, And the way
Speaker 3: they were throwing the football yesterday, they were going to
Speaker 3: convert third at nineteen unless you commit a penalty, and
Speaker 3: the Cowboys gave it to him.
Speaker 5: And now it's twenty one to three.
Speaker 2: So as they completed that drive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course it doesn't mean just because Curse committed
Speaker 3: the penalty that they have to be able to go
Speaker 3: the last forty seven yards for the touchdown.
Speaker 2: But they did, Yeah, because you can't stop the run.
Speaker 5: And then it was a four yard run, a nine
Speaker 5: yard run, a nine yard run, and then cook up.
Speaker 3: For twenty where Dion Dawkins just pancake devone.
Speaker 5: Clark, Yeah, at the goal line, and then they get
Speaker 5: the one yard run by You knew Allen was going
Speaker 5: to take it right second. So they got two second
Speaker 5: in goal touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Ye short yardage right on the goal line.
Speaker 5: And but there was another one thirty six left and
Speaker 5: the Cowboys got one first down and had to punt
Speaker 5: with thirty four seconds left.
Speaker 2: And so that reviewed the first half for you.
Speaker 5: And really, we only have one more quarter to go,
Speaker 5: and I don't know if we even need to do it,
Speaker 5: because they had a eight eight and a half minute possession,
Speaker 5: I believe, And they just ran out the third quarter.
Speaker 3: Which was twelve runs, two pass plays and then the
Speaker 3: field goal. In that they went from ten to fifty
Speaker 3: four left in the third quarter to two thirty six
Speaker 3: left in the third quarter in twenty two what it
Speaker 3: was eight twenty two drive.
Speaker 5: Fifteen plays. Couldn't get off the field, yep.
Speaker 2: And so it goes on to Miami next here on mickshots.
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Speaker 2: Okay, want some good news? Yes, I do want some
Speaker 2: good news. Hopefully's on Zach Martin.
Speaker 5: Yes, I heard it, you know on Second Look or whatever,
Speaker 5: and they had it wrapped up. He had strained his squad.
Speaker 5: They think he might be able to be okay to
Speaker 5: go this week. He probably can't get in much practice,
Speaker 5: but there's a chance that it's not like season ending
Speaker 5: or anything like that. And you know what, for the
Speaker 5: most part, I thought TJ. Bass did okay. There was
Speaker 5: one play that they got a sack on. He just
Speaker 5: fell down, He slipped and fell. The guy didn't even
Speaker 5: touch him. And that put two guys against Terrence Steele
Speaker 5: and he got one and one came free and ended
Speaker 5: up in a sack. And then the other good news
Speaker 5: is the Cowboys are going to the playoffs. Yes, they
Speaker 5: are clinched with a little help from their friends. So
Speaker 5: I got this sheet here if anybody can see it,
Speaker 5: and it's got all these scenarios on how they could
Speaker 5: have clinched besides just winning on their own right and
Speaker 5: before the game started, So there were thirteen other scenarios
Speaker 5: that had to take place for the Cowboys to clinch
Speaker 5: a playoff before they even played. And the fifth scenario
Speaker 5: and the eighth scenario came true, which were fifth one.
Speaker 5: They needed Green Bay to lose, which they did. They
Speaker 5: needed Atlanta to lose to Carolina, which they did nine seven.
Speaker 5: It was that right last second field goal, and they
Speaker 5: needed Detroit to win the night before, which happened. Also,
Speaker 5: they needed Tampa Bay to lose, which they did, Minnesota
Speaker 5: to lose, which they did, and Detroit to win, and
Speaker 5: that happened. So they doubled up on scenarios to clinch
Speaker 5: a playoff berth without having to win themselves. So basically
Speaker 5: what it means is if the Cowboys would lose out
Speaker 5: and finish ten and seven, they still would be in
Speaker 5: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Amazing enough.
Speaker 3: Okay, there is some unfinished business from week fifteen though, Okay,
Speaker 3: and that would be tonight. The Cowboys need the Seattle
Speaker 3: Seahawks to beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5: I don't know how much more help you can get
Speaker 5: from your friends, right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, and I'm looking and I need to look to
Speaker 3: get the latest on Jalen Hurts as of yesterday, and
Speaker 3: he was you know, he was on the injury report
Speaker 3: questionable with an illness. I thought I heard he was
Speaker 3: traveling separate from the team, which makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: If he is battling an illness, you don't want him
Speaker 3: on the flight where other people are getting sick too.
Speaker 3: But anyway, it's a big game for the Cowboys tonight.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is because because as.
Speaker 3: It stands right now, after losing yesterday, the Cowboys need
Speaker 3: the Eagles to lose two of their last four games
Speaker 3: in order to have any chance of winning.
Speaker 2: The NFC East. If they lose.
Speaker 3: Tonight, then they just have to lose one of the
Speaker 3: three left against the Giants or Arizona, which is still
Speaker 3: a tall order.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you're getting ahead of yourself because the first
Speaker 5: tibe breakers head to head, which doesn't count. The second
Speaker 5: Pride tiebreaker is division record, which if they lose to
Speaker 5: the Giants in one of those two games and the
Speaker 5: Cowboys beat Washington, they got a better division record, Right,
Speaker 5: that's the second tiebreaker. The third tiebreaker I think is
Speaker 5: strength of schedule. And then it's you're.
Speaker 3: Going to tell me that they that it's okay if
Speaker 3: Philadelphia beat Seattle tonight, because it's not a division game.
Speaker 4: I'd just like to see them lose.
Speaker 5: No, they still have to lose. The Cowboys would have
Speaker 5: to win out.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh sure, and then they need to.
Speaker 5: Lose another game, and that would have been to lose
Speaker 5: another game, and that would be another just one of
Speaker 5: their last four. That would that would mean they lost
Speaker 5: another NFC game, right, and the Cowboys have lost two.
Speaker 2: Okay, explain to me. Just explain to me, if.
Speaker 5: They lose to the Giants, well, the Cowboys have lost three.
Speaker 3: NFC right, Just explain this to me, Mickey, Is it possible.
Speaker 3: Tell me these scenarios where it's possible Cowboys, it's a
Speaker 3: given Cowboys went out. Yeah, where the Eagles only have
Speaker 3: to lose one time, and the Cowboys win the NFC
Speaker 3: East because they.
Speaker 5: Would be tied right, the same record, and then the
Speaker 5: next the next tie breakers head to head, which they split,
Speaker 5: and the next tiebreaker is division record. So if they lose,
Speaker 5: so the Cowboys are already ahead.
Speaker 12: Of them, okay, right, exactly the half game, right, So
Speaker 12: they need to win their next two division games against
Speaker 12: the Giants, and the Cowboys would have to beat Washington,
Speaker 12: which we're assuming.
Speaker 5: So now it goes to the third tiebreaker, and I
Speaker 5: swear it's strength of schedule, so we'll see what happened.
Speaker 5: That has to and then the next one I believe
Speaker 5: is the conference record, and the Cowboys would have three
Speaker 5: losses in the conference. They would have say they lose well,
Speaker 5: all their next games are conference games.
Speaker 3: Yes, they've got Seattle, they've got the Giants, they've got Arizona,
Speaker 3: and they've got the Giants.
Speaker 5: Okay, so they would they would win on that for sure,
Speaker 5: because if they will know because if they lose, they'll
Speaker 5: have a loss to the Cowboys, a loss to Seattle.
Speaker 5: If they lose to Seattle, and then the previous loss
Speaker 5: was the Jets ye out of conference, so they would
Speaker 5: only have two conference losses. The Cowboys would have three
Speaker 5: right the Arizona games, so they would host that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's got to play out.
Speaker 2: That's why I was continuing, they needed to lose twice.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, okay, but I'm pretty sure the conference thing
Speaker 5: is the.
Speaker 2: Foot I haven't. I haven't studied it all the way through.
Speaker 5: I was helping you had I did. I mean, I
Speaker 5: studied the scenarios.
Speaker 4: So we're big Seahawks people tonight.
Speaker 5: That would that would certainly.
Speaker 4: Help exactly Gino Smith if.
Speaker 5: He's healthy, he's not playing for sure.
Speaker 4: Well Jalen might not be playing.
Speaker 5: Either, watch out one way or the other.
Speaker 3: All right, anything else from yesterday and your journey to
Speaker 3: Buffalo you would.
Speaker 2: Like to share with us before we truly.
Speaker 3: Move on to Miami tomorrow because we do not need
Speaker 3: to dwell on this thing any longer.
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, although way, we will be.
Speaker 2: Dwelling on it because ever so, we'll be back and
Speaker 2: he'll dwell on.
Speaker 5: It and then, yeah, anything else I wanted to chew
Speaker 5: on after giving up thirty some points in two of
Speaker 5: the last three games, let me.
Speaker 4: Just ask this question, if we hit the reset button today,
Speaker 4: what does that reset look like this week for the Cowboys?
Speaker 4: Meaning meaning, what do we need to do this week
Speaker 4: in preparation as far as hitting that reset button? We
Speaker 4: have another road game ahead against a huge opponent. Reset button?
Speaker 4: Is it injuries?
Speaker 2: Penalties and along those lines the run defense?
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I know what was said after the game,
Speaker 3: and I'm not pointing fingers at any one person or anything,
Speaker 3: but Jonathan Hankins makes a difference, right.
Speaker 5: I agree, But when you're attacking the edge, Hankins is
Speaker 5: not on the edge, right, And so this is a
Speaker 5: matter of discipline on the defensive ends.
Speaker 3: And they played, which is the issue that the Cowboys
Speaker 3: ran into against Arizona even was.
Speaker 2: Not setting the edge.
Speaker 5: And they tried, I know they I was gonna look
Speaker 5: at the snap count. They tried using Chauncey Golston a
Speaker 5: little more at the defensive end. I believe that's where
Speaker 5: he was. Colston, he had forty of the snaps. They
Speaker 5: got him listed a defensive tackle, but I saw him
Speaker 5: at end quite a bit. And the fact that they
Speaker 5: keep putting Micah Parsons on the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 5: he ended up with one was it one tackle and two?
Speaker 2: I think it was too total?
Speaker 5: Two assisted tackles? Yeah, that's it zeroed out, got taken
Speaker 5: out of the game. They made him play the run
Speaker 5: and so yeah, he said, yeah, it's mind boggling how
Speaker 5: we can't win on the road or against good teams.
Speaker 3: Right, And I'm with you, I don't care whether it's home.
Speaker 3: The biggest difference that this team has not been able
Speaker 3: to play as well.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 3: It's who they're playing on the Road's right, exactly. They
Speaker 3: played San Francisco, they lost to San Francisco, Philadelphia and Buffalo.
Speaker 3: All three teams have been picked by somebody along the
Speaker 3: line to go to the Super Bowl this year. Okay,
Speaker 3: that that's they didn't play. They played Philadelphia at home,
Speaker 3: and they want them. They wanted home, but Philadelphia wasn't
Speaker 3: playing the same last week at home when they played
Speaker 3: them here as they were a month earlier. They wasn't
Speaker 3: the same team, That's what it was a month earlier.
Speaker 5: Well, they've only played three teams with winning records at
Speaker 5: the time at home. Right the Jets were one to zero,
Speaker 5: Philadelphia had a winning record, and Seattle was six and five,
Speaker 5: and I.
Speaker 3: Had one in six weeks now until the night, we've
Speaker 3: got our hopes on. But it's just been a lot
Speaker 3: easier home schedule than what the road schedule has been exactly,
Speaker 3: And they have and they put up numbers against bad
Speaker 3: teams on the road, but it's and again go back
Speaker 3: to the Arizona game. They were playing without three offensive linemen.
Speaker 3: And I don't care if they weren't playing without those
Speaker 3: three offensive linemen on any of the home games. They're
Speaker 3: not putting forty points up on the board on any others.
Speaker 5: And they really didn't play bad at Philadelphia. They were
Speaker 5: within inches of when it.
Speaker 2: Was game exactly.
Speaker 5: So we got this Buffalo game in the San Francisco game,
Speaker 5: basically is what they have to look at and say, Okay, now,
Speaker 5: why did we lose this game? It wasn't because they
Speaker 5: were sleeping in a hotel room. It wasn't because they
Speaker 5: had to take a flight.
Speaker 3: That's fallen behind, Yes, and then falling further victim to
Speaker 3: a physical run.
Speaker 5: Game and a weird and all those weird plays we
Speaker 5: pointed out that kind of turned the game around. Penalties
Speaker 5: and the penalties. All right, see, we got it, we
Speaker 5: figured it out.
Speaker 2: We have now they just need to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll back at you again tomorrow at noon here
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