WEBVTT - Mick Shots: The Bitter End 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:15.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.120 screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.840 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:32.840 and Mickey Spagnola. Here it is. It's twenty twenty one. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.680 The good news is we made it through twenty twenty. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.880 It's now twenty twenty one, and it officially became twenty 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.120 twenty one for the Dallas Cowboys about three o'clock Dallas 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.279 time on a little after three o'clock Dallas time on 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.559 Sunday afternoon. And here we are for another edition of 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.480 Mick Shots to break it all down. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:00.280 Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage studios there at boards 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.160 Center at the Start in Fresco, which is a very 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.639 busy place as it always is on the day after 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.759 the season. Maybe not as not the same layout as 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.560 in past years, of course, because of the environment that 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.399 we are all in here, we are it's a it's 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:22.080 a new year, and I guess we'll start with you, Mickey. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.639 It's it was a disappointing twenty twenty in more ways 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.520 than one. But that doesn't take long. The team flips 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.200 the page to the new year. Thank God for a 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.920 new year, right, couldn't get here fast enough, although three 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.880 days in the new year bled back into twenty twenty. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.800 I think for the Cowboys on how that final game 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.920 turned out, I thought the game was a reflection. Just 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.080 that game was a reflection of everything that took place 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:01.480 for the Cowboys in twenty twenty, from slow starts to 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:07.200 a defense not playing well enough, to an offensive line 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:13.720 not playing well enough, to the Cowboys inability to score 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.760 touchdowns in the red zone. We can go on and on, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.560 but I thought Mike McCarthy hit the nail right on 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.200 the head after the game when he said the game 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.760 was a microcosm of the entire season, And I think 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.600 it was. It was very obvious. You know, I've always 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:35.079 looked at guys that when you get into the playoffs, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.920 and I know this wasn't technically a playoff game, but 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.440 it was sort of a playoff game. And when you 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:46.440 get beat a lot of times your warts get exposed 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.760 in games like that in Winter else games, and I thought, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.600 no matter the three game winning streak, the Cowboys warts 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.560 got exposed by the Giants not giving themselves to hang 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.760 in there to see what the inevitable end was it 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.600 going to be with Washington playing Philadelphia, which was maybe 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.040 one of the worst games I think I've ever watched, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.400 and I thought the only justice for this year would 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.840 have been Philadelphia winning and the three teams tying for 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.480 first place at six and ten. That would have been 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:30.720 justice for this season. I thought it was just me. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:37.040 It was so I was so disinterested in how they played, 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.480 of course interested in in the outcome itself, but the 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.880 performance on the field as well as the performance on 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.640 the sideline. Somebody tell me what the hell coach Peterson 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.440 was thinking. I mean when he makes the move to 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.520 take hurtside of the game. Not only did he look 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.640 foolish in the game, he even more foolish trying to 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:06.160 explain it at the press conference after the game. It 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.240 just didn't look good. It wasn't a good look at all. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.640 His explanations sounded made up, and he sounded like he 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.000 sounded like the kid that got his hand cart in 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:21.480 the cookie jar. He just started railing and just basically 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.919 flailing with explanations that had nothing to do with why 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:30.840 you didn't try and finish that game and win that game. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.520 I don't know if he had a bet. I mean, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.120 I don't know if he had an arrangement. I don't 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.200 know what the hell was going on. But almost if 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.240 he got a call from the President and said, look, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.080 you're losing this game today, I don't even try. You're 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.960 too close. Well, and you know you got a Black 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.440 Sox scandal going on here? What the hell? But that 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.840 was the most unusual game I had ever seen, and 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.120 I had the exact same feeling. I felt like I 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.320 needed to go take a shower after what in that 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.400 And but it was it was evident on the last 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.039 play of the game. If anyone had any any wonderment 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.880 over what he was doing, it was evident on the 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.560 very last play of the game when Nate Sudfelt, instead 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.839 of throwing deep, throws a little pass about five yards 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.400 in front of the line of scrimmage and the receiver 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.840 made no effort to even lateral the ball. They had 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:30.000 every intention they showed up and played in the first half, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.160 but at a certain point they had every intention to 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.919 get the highest draft but the best draft pick they 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.200 could possibly have. And the other part of it is, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.760 and I can see this a little bit. I mean, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.640 if if Jalen Hurts is going to be your quarterback 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.440 going forward in twenty twenty one against Chase Young in 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:54.120 that Washington defense, the worst thing that could possibly happen 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.080 for the Philadelphia Eagles on that day was Jalen Hurts 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.159 getting hurt in that game. And so I'm thinking that's 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.440 why he pulled Hurts from the game. But uh, and 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:07.360 also uh, he'd had no intention of winning that game 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.800 because um, you know, they get a better draft pick. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.919 It's almost as if a memo was passed around to 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.640 certain people. You know, everyone didn't know about it. You know, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.800 we'll just tell the quarterback, We'll just tell the young quarterback, 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.159 and we'll tell the receivers. Okay, guys, the fix is in. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.560 You know. It was it was. It was. It was 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.480 like you said it was. It was slimmy. It was 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.200 a little slimy, Bill, It was a little slim So 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.200 what if the Cowboys had won over the Giants and 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:42.320 we're all sitting there watching thinking, Okay, Philadelphia is gonna 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.760 legitimately give this a shot, and you know, Hurts probably 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.800 wouldn't even played in the game at all. If the 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.680 if the Cowboys were gonna make the play opposite if 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.480 the Eagles won that game, but he would have done 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.479 it if he would have done it, if the Cowboys 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.880 would have won that game, and he would have done 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.680 it's in the same manner that he did it. We 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.359 will be looking at an internal investigation right now in 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:13.000 the NFL. We d d the d J, I'm sorry, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.320 the DJ would be down here just so quick, you know, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.520 and Jerry Jones would be the one on the other 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.160 end of the phone call. So man, we would we 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:26.480 would have send us to the Supreme Court because at 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.600 something might listen to that one at some point, and 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:35.680 at some point there's gonna be a sweetheart trade between 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:41.760 Washington and Philadelphia. You watch, Yeah, one of those those 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.120 backdoor deals, right, and that what they called the back 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.480 room deal. That's one of those backroom deals. And pace 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.720 you know, how was it last year or the year 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:54.520 before when when uh, when Andy Dalton led Cincinnati to 0:07:54.640 --> 0:08:03.080 that win in Buffalo, fans all uh contributed to his charity, right, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.360 I don't I don't know what Philadelphia's charity is. Bet 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:12.440 I bet to the Washington fans are doing to it 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:18.200 to day. Yeah, yeah, anyway, and they have the and 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.360 and so they win the right to host Tom Brady 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.480 and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers UH this coming weekend. All right, 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.160 back to the task at hand, which is us dissecting 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.800 what happened to the Cowboys on Sunday, And we won't 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.040 have time to get to the entire season. We can 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.679 start on that tomorrow. But how about how about we 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:42.600 start with UH what everyone was talking about after the game, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:48.160 the decision by Mike McCarthy not to challenge the UH 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.560 catch by Dante Pettus on the third down play UH 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.640 and the Giants subsequently kicking the fifty yard field goal 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.360 they gave him a four point lead. What what do 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.600 y'all think of that? Go ahead? Go ahead it Okay, 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.400 I'll go, I'll go. No, I'll go, I'll go. Yeah. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:10.840 I I still don't know if that would be overturned. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.439 I looked at it. I looked at it, and I 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.920 wanted so badly to say that this would easily be 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:26.200 overturned if it would have been called incomplete. That play 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.119 would have stood the fact that that play was called complete. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.280 I truly believe at this situation, the Cowboys just don't 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.200 get those breaks. Okay, back to me, I think they 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:44.360 would have come back and said, uh, cowboys lost the challenge, 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.360 and now you're down another time out. You had three, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.560 you were working well with your three timeouts. We would 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:57.880 have been in an even more dangerous position. With two timeouts, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.120 we would have had even lesser chance on that last drive. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.840 Tough to risk right there. And you know how McCarthy is. 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.240 He's been gambling so much early in the season and 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.079 it cost us some games. This was not the time 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.679 for him to make a risky challenge like that. I 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.160 thought he did a good job at just kind of 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.959 laying off of it, keeping that red flag in his pocket. See, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.600 I absolutely agree with you, and I thought maybe I 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.640 was nuts. So that's why I was hoping somebody was 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.880 going to back me up, because look, here's what happened. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.840 I just he could have challenged it, and maybe he 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.600 should have in the circumstance it was in, but he 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.280 wasn't gonna win it. They weren't going to overturn that call. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.320 No way they were going to overturn it because it 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.200 was called to catch on the field, and you know 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.880 how defensive players react when they see the ball it 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.559 should be incomplete. No one really did that. The Cowboy 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.000 players were like, okay, caught it. And then when they 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:10.480 showed it, and they showed it three times and did 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.360 the ball hit the ground, Yes, but he still had 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.280 possession of it, and I just I don't think it 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.920 would have been I don't think it would have been overturned. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:25.000 And so everybody's and here's what happened. Joe Buck and 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.960 Troy Aikman gave everybody a license to jump on the 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:36.520 band and whoever, who a pre or whoever, yeah, whoever 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.520 it was, they gave everybody a license to go. Yeah, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:44.119 see he should have done that and give the excuse 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.000 because the Cowboys never win a game, lose a game, right, 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.560 there's always a reason why they lose, and so it 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:55.160 gave everybody an excuse to hammer on something that was okay, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:01.439 was it significant? Okay, fine, right, But you weren't assured 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.320 if you got that and they punted that you were 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.000 going to drive down and kick a field goal, right, 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.599 And even if you did get into position to kick it, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.040 that doesn't mean he was gonna make it. So we're 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:16.720 assuming all this stuff when the facts of the matter 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.640 were the Cowboys weren't good enough to win the game. 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:26.000 Playing and simple they weren't good enough on the offensive line. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.760 They weren't good enough on defense, giving up twenty three 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.600 points to a team that had scored no more than 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.199 nineteen in their last five games. They allowed their quarterback 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.040 to get sacked six times by a defense that had 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.480 two sacks in their last three games. He got hit 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:49.120 nine times, and they had nine tackles for losses. Think 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.160 about that. They only ran the ball twenty seven times, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.040 so a third of the times they ran the ball 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.160 it was for a loss. So let's look at the 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.160 real facts on why they didn't win the game instead 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.040 of coming up with some Kakamini reason for the loss 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:09.160 in blaming on not challenging a call that was not 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:15.079 going to be overturned. And that's the things fags. I mean, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:20.960 the guy, a ball can still hit the ground after 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:27.040 the defensive back or the player had control of it. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.400 You know, just because it hits the ground, it doesn't 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.240 mean that that's what allowed the defensive player to complete 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.800 the catch. All he needed to do was show that 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:44.079 that ball stopped spinning, it stopped moving almost simultaneously to 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.320 when it hit the ground. And to me, that could 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.760 have easily been deciphered during that a proposed challenge and 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.800 he would have lost it. I think they would have 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.240 lost it. I think the referee would have been extremely 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.960 hesitant to say, Okay, we have to overrule this. And 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.079 that's the key, guys. It was called a catch first, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.320 so for them to overrule it, it had to be 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:15.480 something extremely clear and to me, and you know this 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.240 is coming from a guy. I got robbed like that 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:24.720 in the championship game against the Redskins, and it was 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.440 one of the best interceptions I never made. I mean, 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.240 I did some kind of stuff. I don't know how 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.480 I did what I did. It was overthrown to Charlie Brown. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.520 It was gonna go behind me somehow. I dropped, hit 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.280 my butt, turned around in one motion and caught it. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.720 But they said, as I turned around and caught it 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.040 and I did my revolution, that the ball hit the ground. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.840 I was the most angrous I've ever been in a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.680 football game, because first I was a championship game. We 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.720 end up losing that game, and I knew we had 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.440 a It was a tough time for us to win 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.400 that game. So it was because that ball. They said 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:03.320 that that ball, the round stopped the ball's momentum. I 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.520 said that my hands stopped it. They said, no, so 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.880 tough to overturn. Guys, it's I've been a victim of that. 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.440 And boy, if you if you take that challenge and 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.800 guess what happens and you lose that challenge, then everybody's 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.400 gonna be on the other side, you know, say this 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.960 guy's too aggressive, so that in that situation. Coach McCarthy 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:27.040 is in the no win situation. Bill, What did you think? Well, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.160 I agree wholeheartedly with you on what you're said. What 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.760 you said about the network announcers buck In Ekman, and 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.560 I think it may have been Blandino. I'm not sure 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.880 who the official was in the booth. It's amazing how 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.640 many times the narrative gets established, not only in the 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.960 postgame talk shows and throughout the week and with questions 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.240 post to coaches and players after the game, especially in 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.280 this environment where the reporters are all listening to the 0:15:56.320 --> 0:16:02.320 network broadcast. If they are assertive and their statement that, oh, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.320 he should have challenged it, he should have challenged it, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.560 that becomes the narrative. Whatever. Okay, the only thing I 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.840 will say about it is I did not and I 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.400 agree with you on the merits of the challenge. In 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.880 the big picture of the last six minutes of that game, though, 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.240 I just didn't have a good feeling that the Cowboys 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.240 were going to be able to put the football in 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.040 the end zone. I didn't think they were going to 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:30.360 score a touchdown because they hadn't shown the ability to 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.720 do it. They scored obviously once earlier in the game, 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.080 but they hadn't shown the ability to once they got 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:38.400 down into the red zone. Especially so in my mind 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.160 as I was thinking that through at the moment, I'm thinking, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.200 you know what, this might be their best chance to 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.920 win this game, and just grasping at straws to go 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.840 ahead and challenge that where they don't get a four 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.000 point lead on you and make it a field goal 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.640 game down the stretch. That was just my only feeling 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.880 on it was I didn't have confidence in the offense scoring. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.120 And you think about it, the fact that McCarthy wanted 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.400 to make sure he kept his timeouts. I don't think 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.440 he had confidence that the Cowboys are going to put 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:11.879 the ball in the end Zoe, that he was going 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.879 to need those timeouts even after their next possession at 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.959 the end of the game because they'd be behind and 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.040 need it to in order to come back and win 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.840 the game, sort of like sort of like when you're 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.760 trailing by four points and you try a fake punt 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.720 from your own twenty three yard line because the head 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.560 coach doesn't think the head coach doesn't think we can 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.520 stop them, so I better steal a possession right here, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.119 you know. Okay, everybody, it's a bonehead decision. I get it. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.520 But I understand what he was doing. The other thing 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.560 that I think went on. I don't know that he 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.160 got a look at it on the video board. And 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.919 for my understanding of what was going on, they weren't 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.960 showing any many replays on their video board, and they 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.320 sure as hell didn't want to show that, right because 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.080 even the Giants were like, oh, we better get through 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.640 the line of scrimmage, you know, and kick this thing 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.800 right away as soon as we can. Uh So, yeah, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.119 I'm not sure, and I'm not And so the TV 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.960 broadcast showed three replays right away before he kicked it. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.040 I don't know if the coaches booth gets those that fast. 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.680 I'm just not sure on you know, what, the intel 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.879 was down to the sideline, But it didn't sound like 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.800 it didn't sound like he was talking to anybody at 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.960 that time, So I think I think people on the 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:40.000 sideline thought, yeah, it was a catch, so um, I 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.800 just and it was. And by the way, Chris, Chris 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:48.320 pointed out, it was Pereira who was the analyst. Pere okay, 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.159 And and let's be real, guys, you don't want to 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.840 make just like we did with the fake punt in 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.080 our own back back backed up in our own side 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.520 of the field into the field. You don't want to 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.200 make a death decision. You know, you don't want to 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.840 make a decision like that under a desperate situation because 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.520 then you know that that never turns out. Well, he 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.680 wanted to stay within the moment. He wanted to stay 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.880 focused on what the plan was, and keeping those three 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:21.080 timeouts was more important because, as you guys said, the 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.240 Giants were very stubborn defensively. 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Don't miss new episodes of 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:10.639 season fifteen every Tuesday night at nine o'clock Central Time 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:16.560 on CMT, we are breaking down what happened on Sunday 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.000 as the Cowboys loss to the Giants and they turned 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:24.440 their attention towards an off season that will be very interesting, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:28.480 to say the least. What were your general feelings. Yeah, 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.560 I hate it when the season ends every year, and 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.880 yesterday it was to me, it was a depressing day. 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:42.600 You know, this game ends, Okay, I don't really want 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:48.520 to watch these other games. I'm sitting there. I got 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.920 those Christmas lights outside. I'm like, okay, I went out 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:56.560 and took my Christmas lights down, and so so that 0:22:56.680 --> 0:22:59.280 was depressing too. Now it's the end of the holidays 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.720 and now reality sets in. It's back to work on Monday, 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.840 and we got no no Cowboys until August, as far 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:11.280 as hopefully we got some games in August. And so 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:15.160 that was the way I felt by six o'clock yesterday afternoon, 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:17.640 and I felt worse well after I watched the Washington 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.159 Philadelphia game, and that's when I decided to take a 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:23.880 shower when I got finished with work last night. It 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:29.639 was so anti climactic the entire evening yesterday. You know, 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.480 I've been using this show and you know, the Cowboys 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:37.560 researchers as an excuse not to finish my renovations in 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:41.960 my home. You got to do that, You got no excuse. 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:50.080 So we had a long talk last night. Yeah, I 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:54.400 have to start making my schedule out accordingly. Now we're 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:56.240 just going to one show a week, so I will 0:23:56.280 --> 0:24:00.840 have so much extra time to do things that needed 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:05.320 around the house. But at the same time, I hate 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:10.320 it when we lose games, and that's usually the Cowboy. 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.159 You know, when we saw the Cardinals game, we are 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:16.600 blown out. Okay, boom. We could always point to those 0:24:16.720 --> 0:24:19.800 critical moments where okay, we could have won, we could 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.240 have done this, but you know, we got blown out. 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.440 This these kinds of games to where you know, here 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.080 we are, guys, all right, you know, let's go, let's go. 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.840 Here we go. You know, let's make the moves. Don't 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:33.679 do this, don't do that, do this, do that? All 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:35.840 right here we don't looking good, looking good? Oh what 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:39.640 the hell are you? You know what I'm saying. I 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:43.600 hate those kind of games because then there's this what 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:48.679 if that just hangs around you, you know, and like 0:24:48.840 --> 0:24:52.560 Spat said, it was a Michael Cosmo about season. So 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:57.160 you know, realistically, what happens if we win this game? 0:24:57.640 --> 0:24:59.760 I mean, you know, realistically, you know, do we come 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:01.919 do do we just all of a sudden use that 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:04.639 momentum rise up and then we're gonna beat Tom Brady. 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:08.520 Now we're legitimizes, you know, all of it enough. No, no, 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.919 that that was a bit unrealistic. But at the same time, 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:17.719 we were still brought to that break of hope, you know, 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.719 And that's what I hate, being brought to that brink 0:25:20.760 --> 0:25:24.800