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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shot
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves,
Speaker 1: and Mickey Spagnola. Here it is. It's twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: The good news is we made it through twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: It's now twenty twenty one, and it officially became twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one for the Dallas Cowboys about three o'clock Dallas
Speaker 1: time on a little after three o'clock Dallas time on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. And here we are for another edition of
Speaker 1: Mick Shots to break it all down. Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC Mortgage studios there at boards
Speaker 1: Center at the Start in Fresco, which is a very
Speaker 1: busy place as it always is on the day after
Speaker 1: the season. Maybe not as not the same layout as
Speaker 1: in past years, of course, because of the environment that
Speaker 1: we are all in here, we are it's a it's
Speaker 1: a new year, and I guess we'll start with you, Mickey.
Speaker 1: It's it was a disappointing twenty twenty in more ways
Speaker 1: than one. But that doesn't take long. The team flips
Speaker 1: the page to the new year. Thank God for a
Speaker 1: new year, right, couldn't get here fast enough, although three
Speaker 1: days in the new year bled back into twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I think for the Cowboys on how that final game
Speaker 1: turned out, I thought the game was a reflection. Just
Speaker 1: that game was a reflection of everything that took place
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys in twenty twenty, from slow starts to
Speaker 1: a defense not playing well enough, to an offensive line
Speaker 1: not playing well enough, to the Cowboys inability to score
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the red zone. We can go on and on,
Speaker 1: but I thought Mike McCarthy hit the nail right on
Speaker 1: the head after the game when he said the game
Speaker 1: was a microcosm of the entire season, And I think
Speaker 1: it was. It was very obvious. You know, I've always
Speaker 1: looked at guys that when you get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and I know this wasn't technically a playoff game, but
Speaker 1: it was sort of a playoff game. And when you
Speaker 1: get beat a lot of times your warts get exposed
Speaker 1: in games like that in Winter else games, and I thought,
Speaker 1: no matter the three game winning streak, the Cowboys warts
Speaker 1: got exposed by the Giants not giving themselves to hang
Speaker 1: in there to see what the inevitable end was it
Speaker 1: going to be with Washington playing Philadelphia, which was maybe
Speaker 1: one of the worst games I think I've ever watched,
Speaker 1: and I thought the only justice for this year would
Speaker 1: have been Philadelphia winning and the three teams tying for
Speaker 1: first place at six and ten. That would have been
Speaker 1: justice for this season. I thought it was just me.
Speaker 1: It was so I was so disinterested in how they played,
Speaker 1: of course interested in in the outcome itself, but the
Speaker 1: performance on the field as well as the performance on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Somebody tell me what the hell coach Peterson
Speaker 1: was thinking. I mean when he makes the move to
Speaker 1: take hurtside of the game. Not only did he look
Speaker 1: foolish in the game, he even more foolish trying to
Speaker 1: explain it at the press conference after the game. It
Speaker 1: just didn't look good. It wasn't a good look at all.
Speaker 1: His explanations sounded made up, and he sounded like he
Speaker 1: sounded like the kid that got his hand cart in
Speaker 1: the cookie jar. He just started railing and just basically
Speaker 1: flailing with explanations that had nothing to do with why
Speaker 1: you didn't try and finish that game and win that game.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had a bet. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he had an arrangement. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the hell was going on. But almost if
Speaker 1: he got a call from the President and said, look,
Speaker 1: you're losing this game today, I don't even try. You're
Speaker 1: too close. Well, and you know you got a Black
Speaker 1: Sox scandal going on here? What the hell? But that
Speaker 1: was the most unusual game I had ever seen, and
Speaker 1: I had the exact same feeling. I felt like I
Speaker 1: needed to go take a shower after what in that
Speaker 1: And but it was it was evident on the last
Speaker 1: play of the game. If anyone had any any wonderment
Speaker 1: over what he was doing, it was evident on the
Speaker 1: very last play of the game when Nate Sudfelt, instead
Speaker 1: of throwing deep, throws a little pass about five yards
Speaker 1: in front of the line of scrimmage and the receiver
Speaker 1: made no effort to even lateral the ball. They had
Speaker 1: every intention they showed up and played in the first half,
Speaker 1: but at a certain point they had every intention to
Speaker 1: get the highest draft but the best draft pick they
Speaker 1: could possibly have. And the other part of it is,
Speaker 1: and I can see this a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: if if Jalen Hurts is going to be your quarterback
Speaker 1: going forward in twenty twenty one against Chase Young in
Speaker 1: that Washington defense, the worst thing that could possibly happen
Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia Eagles on that day was Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: getting hurt in that game. And so I'm thinking that's
Speaker 1: why he pulled Hurts from the game. But uh, and
Speaker 1: also uh, he'd had no intention of winning that game
Speaker 1: because um, you know, they get a better draft pick.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if a memo was passed around to
Speaker 1: certain people. You know, everyone didn't know about it. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll just tell the quarterback, We'll just tell the young quarterback,
Speaker 1: and we'll tell the receivers. Okay, guys, the fix is in.
Speaker 1: You know. It was it was. It was. It was
Speaker 1: like you said it was. It was slimmy. It was
Speaker 1: a little slimy, Bill, It was a little slim So
Speaker 1: what if the Cowboys had won over the Giants and
Speaker 1: we're all sitting there watching thinking, Okay, Philadelphia is gonna
Speaker 1: legitimately give this a shot, and you know, Hurts probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't even played in the game at all. If the
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys were gonna make the play opposite if
Speaker 1: the Eagles won that game, but he would have done
Speaker 1: it if he would have done it, if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would have won that game, and he would have done
Speaker 1: it's in the same manner that he did it. We
Speaker 1: will be looking at an internal investigation right now in
Speaker 1: the NFL. We d d the d J, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: the DJ would be down here just so quick, you know,
Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones would be the one on the other
Speaker 1: end of the phone call. So man, we would we
Speaker 1: would have send us to the Supreme Court because at
Speaker 1: something might listen to that one at some point, and
Speaker 1: at some point there's gonna be a sweetheart trade between
Speaker 1: Washington and Philadelphia. You watch, Yeah, one of those those
Speaker 1: backdoor deals, right, and that what they called the back
Speaker 1: room deal. That's one of those backroom deals. And pace
Speaker 1: you know, how was it last year or the year
Speaker 1: before when when uh, when Andy Dalton led Cincinnati to
Speaker 1: that win in Buffalo, fans all uh contributed to his charity, right,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what Philadelphia's charity is. Bet
Speaker 1: I bet to the Washington fans are doing to it
Speaker 1: to day. Yeah, yeah, anyway, and they have the and
Speaker 1: and so they win the right to host Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers UH this coming weekend. All right,
Speaker 1: back to the task at hand, which is us dissecting
Speaker 1: what happened to the Cowboys on Sunday, And we won't
Speaker 1: have time to get to the entire season. We can
Speaker 1: start on that tomorrow. But how about how about we
Speaker 1: start with UH what everyone was talking about after the game,
Speaker 1: the decision by Mike McCarthy not to challenge the UH
Speaker 1: catch by Dante Pettus on the third down play UH
Speaker 1: and the Giants subsequently kicking the fifty yard field goal
Speaker 1: they gave him a four point lead. What what do
Speaker 1: y'all think of that? Go ahead? Go ahead it Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll go, I'll go. No, I'll go, I'll go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I still don't know if that would be overturned.
Speaker 1: I looked at it. I looked at it, and I
Speaker 1: wanted so badly to say that this would easily be
Speaker 1: overturned if it would have been called incomplete. That play
Speaker 1: would have stood the fact that that play was called complete.
Speaker 1: I truly believe at this situation, the Cowboys just don't
Speaker 1: get those breaks. Okay, back to me, I think they
Speaker 1: would have come back and said, uh, cowboys lost the challenge,
Speaker 1: and now you're down another time out. You had three,
Speaker 1: you were working well with your three timeouts. We would
Speaker 1: have been in an even more dangerous position. With two timeouts,
Speaker 1: we would have had even lesser chance on that last drive.
Speaker 1: Tough to risk right there. And you know how McCarthy is.
Speaker 1: He's been gambling so much early in the season and
Speaker 1: it cost us some games. This was not the time
Speaker 1: for him to make a risky challenge like that. I
Speaker 1: thought he did a good job at just kind of
Speaker 1: laying off of it, keeping that red flag in his pocket. See,
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with you, and I thought maybe I
Speaker 1: was nuts. So that's why I was hoping somebody was
Speaker 1: going to back me up, because look, here's what happened.
Speaker 1: I just he could have challenged it, and maybe he
Speaker 1: should have in the circumstance it was in, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna win it. They weren't going to overturn that call.
Speaker 1: No way they were going to overturn it because it
Speaker 1: was called to catch on the field, and you know
Speaker 1: how defensive players react when they see the ball it
Speaker 1: should be incomplete. No one really did that. The Cowboy
Speaker 1: players were like, okay, caught it. And then when they
Speaker 1: showed it, and they showed it three times and did
Speaker 1: the ball hit the ground, Yes, but he still had
Speaker 1: possession of it, and I just I don't think it
Speaker 1: would have been I don't think it would have been overturned.
Speaker 1: And so everybody's and here's what happened. Joe Buck and
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman gave everybody a license to jump on the
Speaker 1: band and whoever, who a pre or whoever, yeah, whoever
Speaker 1: it was, they gave everybody a license to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: see he should have done that and give the excuse
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys never win a game, lose a game, right,
Speaker 1: there's always a reason why they lose, and so it
Speaker 1: gave everybody an excuse to hammer on something that was okay,
Speaker 1: was it significant? Okay, fine, right, But you weren't assured
Speaker 1: if you got that and they punted that you were
Speaker 1: going to drive down and kick a field goal, right,
Speaker 1: And even if you did get into position to kick it,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he was gonna make it. So we're
Speaker 1: assuming all this stuff when the facts of the matter
Speaker 1: were the Cowboys weren't good enough to win the game.
Speaker 1: Playing and simple they weren't good enough on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They weren't good enough on defense, giving up twenty three
Speaker 1: points to a team that had scored no more than
Speaker 1: nineteen in their last five games. They allowed their quarterback
Speaker 1: to get sacked six times by a defense that had
Speaker 1: two sacks in their last three games. He got hit
Speaker 1: nine times, and they had nine tackles for losses. Think
Speaker 1: about that. They only ran the ball twenty seven times,
Speaker 1: so a third of the times they ran the ball
Speaker 1: it was for a loss. So let's look at the
Speaker 1: real facts on why they didn't win the game instead
Speaker 1: of coming up with some Kakamini reason for the loss
Speaker 1: in blaming on not challenging a call that was not
Speaker 1: going to be overturned. And that's the things fags. I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy, a ball can still hit the ground after
Speaker 1: the defensive back or the player had control of it.
Speaker 1: You know, just because it hits the ground, it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that that's what allowed the defensive player to complete
Speaker 1: the catch. All he needed to do was show that
Speaker 1: that ball stopped spinning, it stopped moving almost simultaneously to
Speaker 1: when it hit the ground. And to me, that could
Speaker 1: have easily been deciphered during that a proposed challenge and
Speaker 1: he would have lost it. I think they would have
Speaker 1: lost it. I think the referee would have been extremely
Speaker 1: hesitant to say, Okay, we have to overrule this. And
Speaker 1: that's the key, guys. It was called a catch first,
Speaker 1: so for them to overrule it, it had to be
Speaker 1: something extremely clear and to me, and you know this
Speaker 1: is coming from a guy. I got robbed like that
Speaker 1: in the championship game against the Redskins, and it was
Speaker 1: one of the best interceptions I never made. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did some kind of stuff. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I did what I did. It was overthrown to Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1: It was gonna go behind me somehow. I dropped, hit
Speaker 1: my butt, turned around in one motion and caught it.
Speaker 1: But they said, as I turned around and caught it
Speaker 1: and I did my revolution, that the ball hit the ground.
Speaker 1: I was the most angrous I've ever been in a
Speaker 1: football game, because first I was a championship game. We
Speaker 1: end up losing that game, and I knew we had
Speaker 1: a It was a tough time for us to win
Speaker 1: that game. So it was because that ball. They said
Speaker 1: that that ball, the round stopped the ball's momentum. I
Speaker 1: said that my hands stopped it. They said, no, so
Speaker 1: tough to overturn. Guys, it's I've been a victim of that.
Speaker 1: And boy, if you if you take that challenge and
Speaker 1: guess what happens and you lose that challenge, then everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna be on the other side, you know, say this
Speaker 1: guy's too aggressive, so that in that situation. Coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: is in the no win situation. Bill, What did you think? Well,
Speaker 1: I agree wholeheartedly with you on what you're said. What
Speaker 1: you said about the network announcers buck In Ekman, and
Speaker 1: I think it may have been Blandino. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: who the official was in the booth. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: many times the narrative gets established, not only in the
Speaker 1: postgame talk shows and throughout the week and with questions
Speaker 1: post to coaches and players after the game, especially in
Speaker 1: this environment where the reporters are all listening to the
Speaker 1: network broadcast. If they are assertive and their statement that, oh,
Speaker 1: he should have challenged it, he should have challenged it,
Speaker 1: that becomes the narrative. Whatever. Okay, the only thing I
Speaker 1: will say about it is I did not and I
Speaker 1: agree with you on the merits of the challenge. In
Speaker 1: the big picture of the last six minutes of that game, though,
Speaker 1: I just didn't have a good feeling that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were going to be able to put the football in
Speaker 1: the end zone. I didn't think they were going to
Speaker 1: score a touchdown because they hadn't shown the ability to
Speaker 1: do it. They scored obviously once earlier in the game,
Speaker 1: but they hadn't shown the ability to once they got
Speaker 1: down into the red zone. Especially so in my mind
Speaker 1: as I was thinking that through at the moment, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: you know what, this might be their best chance to
Speaker 1: win this game, and just grasping at straws to go
Speaker 1: ahead and challenge that where they don't get a four
Speaker 1: point lead on you and make it a field goal
Speaker 1: game down the stretch. That was just my only feeling
Speaker 1: on it was I didn't have confidence in the offense scoring.
Speaker 1: And you think about it, the fact that McCarthy wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure he kept his timeouts. I don't think
Speaker 1: he had confidence that the Cowboys are going to put
Speaker 1: the ball in the end Zoe, that he was going
Speaker 1: to need those timeouts even after their next possession at
Speaker 1: the end of the game because they'd be behind and
Speaker 1: need it to in order to come back and win
Speaker 1: the game, sort of like sort of like when you're
Speaker 1: trailing by four points and you try a fake punt
Speaker 1: from your own twenty three yard line because the head
Speaker 1: coach doesn't think the head coach doesn't think we can
Speaker 1: stop them, so I better steal a possession right here,
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, everybody, it's a bonehead decision. I get it.
Speaker 1: But I understand what he was doing. The other thing
Speaker 1: that I think went on. I don't know that he
Speaker 1: got a look at it on the video board. And
Speaker 1: for my understanding of what was going on, they weren't
Speaker 1: showing any many replays on their video board, and they
Speaker 1: sure as hell didn't want to show that, right because
Speaker 1: even the Giants were like, oh, we better get through
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, you know, and kick this thing
Speaker 1: right away as soon as we can. Uh So, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, and I'm not And so the TV
Speaker 1: broadcast showed three replays right away before he kicked it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the coaches booth gets those that fast.
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure on you know, what, the intel
Speaker 1: was down to the sideline, But it didn't sound like
Speaker 1: it didn't sound like he was talking to anybody at
Speaker 1: that time, So I think I think people on the
Speaker 1: sideline thought, yeah, it was a catch, so um, I
Speaker 1: just and it was. And by the way, Chris, Chris
Speaker 1: pointed out, it was Pereira who was the analyst. Pere okay,
Speaker 1: And and let's be real, guys, you don't want to
Speaker 1: make just like we did with the fake punt in
Speaker 1: our own back back backed up in our own side
Speaker 1: of the field into the field. You don't want to
Speaker 1: make a death decision. You know, you don't want to
Speaker 1: make a decision like that under a desperate situation because
Speaker 1: then you know that that never turns out. Well, he
Speaker 1: wanted to stay within the moment. He wanted to stay
Speaker 1: focused on what the plan was, and keeping those three
Speaker 1: timeouts was more important because, as you guys said, the
Speaker 1: Giants were very stubborn defensively. So we didn't really feel
Speaker 1: good about how can I say, harpooning ourselves by losing
Speaker 1: a challenge and now you've got one less bullet than
Speaker 1: your gun in regards to your timeouts. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a good no no challenge by coach McCarthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the moment, he's got to make each got to
Speaker 1: make that call on whether the challenge on the merits
Speaker 1: of that play, not on the other stuff that that
Speaker 1: I was even talking about a moment ago. All right,
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Speaker 1: on CMT, we are breaking down what happened on Sunday
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys loss to the Giants and they turned
Speaker 1: their attention towards an off season that will be very interesting,
Speaker 1: to say the least. What were your general feelings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hate it when the season ends every year, and
Speaker 1: yesterday it was to me, it was a depressing day.
Speaker 1: You know, this game ends, Okay, I don't really want
Speaker 1: to watch these other games. I'm sitting there. I got
Speaker 1: those Christmas lights outside. I'm like, okay, I went out
Speaker 1: and took my Christmas lights down, and so so that
Speaker 1: was depressing too. Now it's the end of the holidays
Speaker 1: and now reality sets in. It's back to work on Monday,
Speaker 1: and we got no no Cowboys until August, as far
Speaker 1: as hopefully we got some games in August. And so
Speaker 1: that was the way I felt by six o'clock yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: and I felt worse well after I watched the Washington
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game, and that's when I decided to take a
Speaker 1: shower when I got finished with work last night. It
Speaker 1: was so anti climactic the entire evening yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been using this show and you know, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: researchers as an excuse not to finish my renovations in
Speaker 1: my home. You got to do that, You got no excuse.
Speaker 1: So we had a long talk last night. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to start making my schedule out accordingly. Now we're
Speaker 1: just going to one show a week, so I will
Speaker 1: have so much extra time to do things that needed
Speaker 1: around the house. But at the same time, I hate
Speaker 1: it when we lose games, and that's usually the Cowboy.
Speaker 1: You know, when we saw the Cardinals game, we are
Speaker 1: blown out. Okay, boom. We could always point to those
Speaker 1: critical moments where okay, we could have won, we could
Speaker 1: have done this, but you know, we got blown out.
Speaker 1: This these kinds of games to where you know, here
Speaker 1: we are, guys, all right, you know, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: Here we go. You know, let's make the moves. Don't
Speaker 1: do this, don't do that, do this, do that? All
Speaker 1: right here we don't looking good, looking good? Oh what
Speaker 1: the hell are you? You know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: hate those kind of games because then there's this what
Speaker 1: if that just hangs around you, you know, and like
Speaker 1: Spat said, it was a Michael Cosmo about season. So
Speaker 1: you know, realistically, what happens if we win this game?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, realistically, you know, do we come
Speaker 1: do do we just all of a sudden use that
Speaker 1: momentum rise up and then we're gonna beat Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Now we're legitimizes, you know, all of it enough. No, no,
Speaker 1: that that was a bit unrealistic. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we were still brought to that break of hope, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's what I hate, being brought to that brink
Speaker 1: of hope and then just having those hopes dashed with
Speaker 1: really what I thought was an unnecessary, desperate move from
Speaker 1: a quarterback who was doing decent, not doing too well,
Speaker 1: but doing decent enough doing the entire ball game, and
Speaker 1: who was really turning the second half around because of
Speaker 1: what he did or didn't do in the first half.
Speaker 1: So the momentum was on his side. He just had
Speaker 1: to stay more poised, which is, I know, tough to
Speaker 1: do when you've got big Blue coming, you know, breathing
Speaker 1: down your neck all the time and breaking through our
Speaker 1: offensive linemen. But yeah, I had problem making a sense
Speaker 1: of the first half of Andy Dalton. I just didn't
Speaker 1: understand what was going on. You know. First I said
Speaker 1: it is the ball. He was just it was astonishing
Speaker 1: how off he was and and it looked like that.
Speaker 1: It looked like you the movies how they have the fan,
Speaker 1: the big fan that can blow it blow and make
Speaker 1: it feel like you're in the hurricane. Felt like he
Speaker 1: had that in his face the whole game, Like where's
Speaker 1: he that one passed through? That one passing through to
Speaker 1: the side. It was like it was like ten feet
Speaker 1: over the guy's head. It's like what And the ball
Speaker 1: was coming out of his right hand badly. It was
Speaker 1: coming out weird, and I was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: And then it turned it around the second half spite
Speaker 1: getting his left hand stepped on, and that's when he
Speaker 1: ain't better. Yeah, all of a sudden he's playing better. Then.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he's holding on to the ball. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, let's look at this like we always look
Speaker 1: at Dak. I like to give him the same type
Speaker 1: of deal. Tough, tough game for for Dalton because at
Speaker 1: one point man he could have thrown him at least
Speaker 1: two pick sixes, at least at least sexes. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about just in the sception. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about no one stopping this guy, it's gonna be a touchdown.
Speaker 1: You know. Those are the kind of things that really
Speaker 1: gave me pause in the first half just seeing him
Speaker 1: be that inaccurate, as well as the misses. He had
Speaker 1: about three misses as well that really could have just
Speaker 1: turned this game around. And we gotta we gotta say it,
Speaker 1: you know, Bill, I mean, I love you, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm oh you man, just like you. I'm not texts,
Speaker 1: I'm O you. But we're not even talking about any
Speaker 1: of this. If I a boy just holds on to
Speaker 1: the ball he's getting Ceedee Lamb because he had a
Speaker 1: little they had a little interference in front of him.
Speaker 1: It would have been a great play for the Giants
Speaker 1: to stop him at the three yard line on that play.
Speaker 1: That's what I truly believe. The way he's able to
Speaker 1: run the ball and manipulate himself for a few extra yards,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb would have caught that ball and would have
Speaker 1: at least gotten inside the five yard line. So it's
Speaker 1: all said and done. If he makes that play. We
Speaker 1: got a whole different attitude this morning as we talk
Speaker 1: on Mike us. And that's the that's the crazy thing,
Speaker 1: and and and and that stuff gets overlooked because what
Speaker 1: was it was first in goal at the seven if
Speaker 1: I'm right, yeah, first in goal at the seven, and
Speaker 1: and they get they get the first play. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find it here to make sure I'm right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first and goal at the seven, one fifty three left.
Speaker 1: And what happens, Oh, of course he gets sacked by
Speaker 1: Williams right who they didn't block the entire game. Second
Speaker 1: down in seventeen. Yeah, he hits lamb and he drops
Speaker 1: it and it's like, no, you didn't drop it. And
Speaker 1: then now you're third down. No immediate interference at all.
Speaker 1: And and and Alan Dalton said after the game, and
Speaker 1: I give him credit. He goes, in hindsight, I wish
Speaker 1: I had it back. I didn't need to do that.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking maybe he thought, well, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be third down and goal from the seventeen. I've got
Speaker 1: to throw the ball twenty yards into the end zone.
Speaker 1: I'll never have time for my receivers to get that
Speaker 1: far downfield before somebody's in my face because sometimes they
Speaker 1: just chose not to block the guy off the right side, right,
Speaker 1: And he makes an excuse for his offensive line. Well,
Speaker 1: that was my guy. Well the guy that was double
Speaker 1: teaming inside. It's like, well what about that guy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Remember pressure on a three man freaking rush. Yes, they
Speaker 1: got a sack on three man rush. We had three
Speaker 1: guys blocking one man on the left side and on
Speaker 1: the on the right side. We get a whiffed by
Speaker 1: the tackle back. I'm sorry that we got whiffed by
Speaker 1: the by the guard. I think Connor whiffed. He's in
Speaker 1: there right away, and the tackle didn't do much better either.
Speaker 1: So it's just no escape. I just that was very
Speaker 1: because once again, once again though we compound. We always
Speaker 1: compound our problems with the mistakes that we made. We
Speaker 1: always do that. It's not good enough that we just
Speaker 1: dropped the ball. No, no, let's continue to roll downhill
Speaker 1: and tumble downhill and just pile onto the mistake that
Speaker 1: we just made with another mistake. So let's say it
Speaker 1: was an incomplete pass and it's fourth and goal at
Speaker 1: the seventeen. What does Mike McCarthy do. Then they had
Speaker 1: two timeouts, You had three timeouts left. The reason that
Speaker 1: you kept your timeouts was that you have three timeouts left, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can kick and goal at the seventeen do you
Speaker 1: kick it to make it twenty three twenty two, and
Speaker 1: then you can kick it deep and then you stop him,
Speaker 1: and now you just need a field goal to win
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, well, there's one price you do that.
Speaker 1: There's one problem there. Stop You got to stop him
Speaker 1: right now. Now. Having said that, okay, here's the other
Speaker 1: part of that, Mickey though, having said that, if you
Speaker 1: get the points on the board, your defense has a
Speaker 1: different mentality. You tell me, eversonce, does the defense have
Speaker 1: a different mentality if they just need a field goal
Speaker 1: to win the game? To stop him on the difference
Speaker 1: between it would be unconventioned of the ball because we
Speaker 1: have no timeout. So we've got like less than two
Speaker 1: minutes in the game. Someone's stripped the ball, they got
Speaker 1: four downs. Yeah, there's a difference between that and trying
Speaker 1: to stop them so that you can get the ball
Speaker 1: back to your offense. Yes, the attitude is a bit different. Now,
Speaker 1: how much time was left If we were it was
Speaker 1: a minute hit the ball minute fifteen, it was a
Speaker 1: minute twenty four fifteen at the time of the interception.
Speaker 1: So and and by the way, and Bill, I understand
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but again, it just occurred to me. Now,
Speaker 1: I didn't think of it at the time, right, But
Speaker 1: but again, the Cowboys had three timeouts, the Giants had
Speaker 1: the ball first and ten at the twenty with one
Speaker 1: fifteen left. How well did that turn out? Right? Exactly?
Speaker 1: You know? And stop it and I'm the key play
Speaker 1: on second in five? You know, Gallman tries to give
Speaker 1: the ball back to the Cowboys as hard as he
Speaker 1: could with the pouring down rain, and he sits on
Speaker 1: the ball and somehow it ends up on his stomach.
Speaker 1: How did we not? Okay? Man? It's something about now,
Speaker 1: is that play? You have to have a mindset when
Speaker 1: you dive into the power. That must be a mindset
Speaker 1: when you dive in there and you see the ball.
Speaker 1: You don't just dive in there and not know what
Speaker 1: to do with your hands. You have to dive in
Speaker 1: there and encompass anything within your grass that's close to
Speaker 1: that ball. If I'm I think that was a you wood.
Speaker 1: If I go in there, I'm going to grab the
Speaker 1: ball and I'm sorry, but his balls as well, anything
Speaker 1: that I can give my hands on around. Kid, you
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying. You gotta be in there. You
Speaker 1: can't just be there laying on there. You gotta be
Speaker 1: in there grasping and everything. You should have been hurting
Speaker 1: that guy because you're like, oh, I'm sorry, man, wrong one.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I gotta get all I
Speaker 1: can get, and I just I don't. We just don't
Speaker 1: have any awareness. It's no way he should have been
Speaker 1: able to reach down and get that ball when I've
Speaker 1: got two cowboys ascending on him from different directions. Just
Speaker 1: those key little things. I can't. You can't have a
Speaker 1: drill to teach someone how to get a ball out
Speaker 1: from other guys. But that's just up to you to awareness.
Speaker 1: But but tell me this, how was that play any
Speaker 1: different than how the deciding score happened in the first
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game. Down by contact, laying on the ground with
Speaker 1: the ball on the stomach and it gets ripped out.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a fumble that was returned for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: It was down by contact. So that guy there was
Speaker 1: down by contact, even though he didn't end up with
Speaker 1: the ball exact same not the Cowboys stadium, Not the
Speaker 1: Cowboys stadium. No, No, I remember I remember that atmospas.
Speaker 1: You are so right, and one of the odds that
Speaker 1: there would actually be a camera angle that would show
Speaker 1: Gallman with the ball. It is the last one, the
Speaker 1: last one, because all the other ones didn't show anything.
Speaker 1: All the other ones showed, right, is him sitting on
Speaker 1: top of the ball and the cowboys diving in there. Goodness,
Speaker 1: But you know it'swhere it's just it's just it's just
Speaker 1: sums up the season that they had. That's all I
Speaker 1: can say. But but but once again, once again, and
Speaker 1: then and I got to go back to it. I
Speaker 1: know we got break. But I love my man, Bill,
Speaker 1: me and you. That's our boy. But he is CD.
Speaker 1: He's gonna think about that. He's he feels like I
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Speaker 1: thirty throughout the off season. The offseason starts tomorrow and
Speaker 1: and we will be every Tuesday at eleven thirty, right, Mickey, Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And depending on my radio commitment, we might be able
Speaker 1: to go for an hour, all right, we do anyway.
Speaker 1: We always going away anyway, so it's no difference. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. To Chris's chagrin, that's right, all right.
Speaker 1: If you could sum up one aspect of this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team that affected things yesterday, what would it be? Position groups? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's obvious. The offensive line. It just it killed
Speaker 1: this team. It just destroyed everything that yesterday. The whole season,
Speaker 1: the absolute whole season, you know. And everybody says, well,
Speaker 1: they weren't winning with Dak Prescott thrown for five or
Speaker 1: you know, gaining five hundred yards offense when he was planned,
Speaker 1: But at least they were two and three, and then
Speaker 1: two and three turned into two and seven, then turned
Speaker 1: into three and nine. And when you don't have Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl type offensive linemen out there for the entire season
Speaker 1: and your plan went backups to the backups, it's a
Speaker 1: no win situation, you know what. It reminded me of
Speaker 1: that year, and it might have been two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, guys, helped me out. When Bill
Speaker 1: Parcels started Rob Petiti at right tack for the entire season,
Speaker 1: he didn't even know. He didn't even know Petiti's first name.
Speaker 1: He used to call him this Petiti. That's how he
Speaker 1: referred to him, right dad or something. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He started sixteen games. The next year, he didn't make
Speaker 1: the team. He didn't make the team. And you've got
Speaker 1: two guys out there right now, and God bless them,
Speaker 1: they gave him everything they could, Terence Steele and Brandon Knight.
Speaker 1: One didn't have any NFL experience. The other guy had
Speaker 1: played two games and started one in his first year,
Speaker 1: and they started basically the entire season at tackle. If
Speaker 1: you can't if you can't block on the edge, you
Speaker 1: have no chance of winning. And you think Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: Oh year ago this week, Mike McCarthy was named head
Speaker 1: coach of the Dallas Cowboys. If at the opening press
Speaker 1: conference someone told Mike McCarthy that you're going to play
Speaker 1: the bulk of this season without Tyring Smith, Lyle Collins,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, and Travis Frederick, what do you think his
Speaker 1: answer would be? He would have said, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that job with the Giants. He would
Speaker 1: have turned right back around. I'm going and handed back home.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the bar. By the way, you
Speaker 1: won't have an off season program. You're going to have
Speaker 1: to be on something called WebEx for your offseason program,
Speaker 1: and training camp is with no preseason games, no nothing.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Bill though, to me, as you
Speaker 1: posed a question, Uh, mine is not necessarily about the unit,
Speaker 1: any particular unit, and because we've got all the units
Speaker 1: had issues. But to me it was it was you know,
Speaker 1: I've always been inspired, you know, by an attitude, you know,
Speaker 1: a mindset. You know, to me that that makes all
Speaker 1: the difference in the world, not just in any individual
Speaker 1: and in any field, but also with any group. You know,
Speaker 1: the mindset has to be clear from everyone in the
Speaker 1: locker room. And whether we had Dak Prescott or whether
Speaker 1: we had Andy Dalton, no matter whether we had uh,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy or whether we had Jason Garrett, the attitude
Speaker 1: here it has always been incomplete. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: one side that's doing good, you got another side that's
Speaker 1: not doing well. You got another fashion of the game's
Speaker 1: not doing well. But to me, by the fact that
Speaker 1: we are not all in unison and as a mindset,
Speaker 1: that's what leads two compounding mistakes early in the ball game.
Speaker 1: That's what leads to being behind and always playing catch
Speaker 1: up with an extremely talented team. As much as Dak
Speaker 1: was throwing the yards there was sometimes he just had
Speaker 1: a brain for it, just like Andy Dalton did in
Speaker 1: the game. These guys are better than that. And that's
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not one person, it's not one unit.
Speaker 1: To me, it's a mindset. We certain teams come out strong,
Speaker 1: that's their EMO. They come out strong, they come out
Speaker 1: ready to play. The Cowboys emo is not that they
Speaker 1: need to change their motorsoper end so that they can
Speaker 1: be a better team from beginning to end of the game.
Speaker 1: Because what we saw, as Spac said, all we saw
Speaker 1: was just a Michael coosum of everything that went wrong,
Speaker 1: and guys we always hoping Pray got the fingers cost
Speaker 1: But when it's all said and done, the odds are
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna happen to your team in the last game.
Speaker 1: If that's what you show throughout your entire season, what
Speaker 1: do you have, Bill? So what's that? What do you have?
Speaker 1: What what what part uh mine was? Offensive line? You
Speaker 1: know what? This reminded me of and and and I
Speaker 1: think I got the year right. It was either twenty
Speaker 1: eleven twenty twelve. It was a year before they drafted
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick to play center, so he might have been
Speaker 1: that might have been twenty twelve, maybe twenty thirteen, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. And that's when Jason Gart. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: when Jason Garrett decided, you know, we got to rebuild
Speaker 1: this offensive line. It's awful. And they started with Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith right, and that helped out at the left, But
Speaker 1: the middle of that offensive line, I could remember one
Speaker 1: day he am telling me and he goes, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to disparage my guys up there that we're
Speaker 1: trying so hard. He goes, And it's one thing to
Speaker 1: get knocked back when you're pass blocking. He goes, we
Speaker 1: were getting knocked back in the middle of that line
Speaker 1: when we were trying to run the ball. And I
Speaker 1: got offensive lineman two and three yards deep, and he goes,
Speaker 1: you can't win that way. If you can't if you
Speaker 1: can't play on the offensive line, you can't fake it, right.
Speaker 1: I remember Larry Lacewell once telling me, He goes, you know,
Speaker 1: if you don't have a quarterback and you don't have
Speaker 1: a decent offense, it's hard to fake it. He goes. Defensively,
Speaker 1: I can fake things. I can try to do some
Speaker 1: weird things defensively to try to hold down the fort
Speaker 1: he goes, But if I don't have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can win, if I don't have an offense that can
Speaker 1: score points, it's hard for me to fake it. And
Speaker 1: they tried to fake an offensive line this year with
Speaker 1: all that fancy gingerbread plays to the outside and sweeps
Speaker 1: and double passes. But at some point point, you gotta
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball straight ahead. You've got
Speaker 1: to be able to protect the quarterback. And they couldn't
Speaker 1: do it all season long and finish the season giving
Speaker 1: up six sacks and letting your quarterback hit nine times
Speaker 1: and have nine tackles for losses. For the Giant's head,
Speaker 1: you can't win that way. And that's why you sat
Speaker 1: there with the nineteen points. And we'll get into it
Speaker 1: starting tomorrow. But the Cowboys, as they assess things they
Speaker 1: got to figure out, are they at the same point
Speaker 1: with their offensive line now as they were in twenty
Speaker 1: eleven when Jason Garrett took over as a head coach.
Speaker 1: As far as making sure that they've got I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the shelf life of offensive lineman in this league?
Speaker 1: As far as injuries going everything. Tyrant Smith's still young,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin still young, Lyle Collins, but how much more
Speaker 1: with the wear and tear in this league? What do
Speaker 1: they need to do to shore up that offensive line?
Speaker 1: And they started last year with Tyler Biadi. They might
Speaker 1: be a ser age biologically. Tyland Smith and some of
Speaker 1: these offensive linemen, they are much older. How much tread
Speaker 1: is on the tire? What it says in the program, Yeah,
Speaker 1: how much trade is on the tire? All right? We
Speaker 1: will continue at eleven thirty in the morning on Tuesday
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