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locker room. Victory Monday or victory Monday, that means a victory. Fight song the Stampede. It's a victory over Washington. No less singer Chris Beam asleep at the wheel when you see when you made that song you Washington. That's exactly right to day. That's the first team try Yes, as predicted here inside the Star in Frisco, Cowboys win on Sunday in landover Maryland at FedEx Field, and the Cowboys now have a commending three game lead in the S

with four games to go. Did you guarantee that one? I did not have to guarante didn't have to as the head coach, right, supposedly guaranteed it, although I never heard the word guarantee ever did but well we did. We did. We co signed his statement though, that's right, Yes, we did backt on on Friday. We all co signed it with our predictions, and okay, let's start there. What was your prediction, Everson? I was one point off. Twenty

eight to twenty was my score? No way? Yeah, yeah, But I said Diggs, we'll get a pick, and he actually had a tough game. What did you have, Mickey and the CD lamb huh. I wonder what mine was? Oh? Shut up? Bill was twenty seven to seventeen, So you blew it? Next up? Next? Up to go ahead? What's going on? No? No, that's the pick to click? What pick to click? I can't read that. I don't know.

Carson Carson. You can't go wrong if you pick Parson click. No, no, no. But really, for real, as good as he's been playing, this was it. I mean, this was like, whoa, this guy's really could be another Lawrence Taylor m M. I mean, he just really could be. It a rookie that wins Defensive Player of the Year, and man, Mickey's the one who discovered him. No one else had discovered him. It was Mickey. I'm the one that said, who needs what I need? If not just a linebacker, what if he's

Lawrence Taylor? And somebody said, oh, you're gonna go there, and I said, okay, you watch, dude is here. And now everybody's bringing up Lawrence Taylor's name. It is crazy. He is. He is taking over games by himself, just setting the tone. But and you should have seen what they were trying to do too to him, when you go back and look at it. They were trying they they were trying to double him with two offensive linemen. They tried to depending on which way he went right,

They tried blocking him with a tight end silliness. Yeah, yeah, Ron Rivera should have worried more about more, worried more about Randy Gregory and Micah Parsons than what Mike McCarthy had to say. And then they were trying to chip him with a running back. Yeah, that ain't gonna work right. That five man front, no matter where they put him, was dangerous because they caused them to single block everybody across the middle to the point they left their poor

center get hurt. Because Neville Gallimore ran over him for a sack. My brothers, my brothers did y'all. That was just amazing. I don't think I've seen you. I'm sure, I hope, Okay, I get all that. But that had to be the most embarrassing, dominating play I've seen in a long time. I mean, not only did the bull rush the center, yes, and into the quarterback, he injured both of them, just one of them, jured both of them. They're both laying on the ground and Randy Graggy's going

over there crazy like, dude, who are you? Oh my god? What happened? Man? It was the most That particular play was typical of how they felt about Washington's offense. Yeah, they just disrespected them. Did we Blitzmots at all? I don't know if you considered bringing five bringing five is a blitz. But you know, when he's lined up in the line of scrimmage, what do you think he's doing, especially when it's passing situation. He's not playing a strong

side linebacker. You know he's probably coming and in the play at the end when Gregory forced the fumble, he just beat DeMarcus Lawrence to it. Because DeMarcus Lawrence and they doubled DeMarcus Lawrence on the left side of the Cowboys line, and he still got there, and had had Randy not forced the guy in, he would have gone right into DeMarcus Lawrence. It was like a feeding frenzy. You know. The other thing about it when they bring those it was That's exactly what it was. When they

bring those five. Even if they run a draw play, you've pretty good that Parsons or especially Parsons or DeMarcus Lawrence can come off the pass rush and tackle the ball carrier if they ran a draw play or something, so they're protected even if they don't throw the football. You see just their athleticism and their ability that they've already shown demonstrated that they can play the run as well.

I know everybody wanted to make a deal out of the five sacks, all right, but they also had four tackles for losses, nine quarterback hits, and eight passes defensed, meaning they got their hands on eight passes. Not to mention keep that record, no one, that's a higher that's a high number of passes right to get your hands. Don't think I've ever heard that number. As far as it was almost one game, it was almost like the passes Washington was thrown up. It was like fifty fifty balls. Well,

we'll just see what happens here. Well, they hit on one right, because he should have got a pass almost defensed on the touchdown because his hand was here with the ball. I don't know if Dorn's Armstrong got credited with a pass defense on Randy Gregory's interception or not, but they actually had two passes defense. Randy knocked it up in the air, but prior to that, Dorian's Armstrong got his hand on it. Great timing, that's how at

the time, something like that. Yeah, and then just to be able to jump that high and make that kind of move, have that kind of by the control from an instant. You know. It's not like he planned that, Oh he tipped it. Oh let me adjust my angle. No, he just kind of reacted up and Armstrong benefited from all those other guys being there. He ended up with six tackles. He had a pass down to pass defense credit for it, a fumble recovery. They should put that

in there here. Touchdown and a touchdown too the other game. Yeah, he had so from a defensive standpoint, Uh, this was about as dominating as I think we've seen a Cowboys defense in quite some time. And I understand, you know, heinike Kyle Allen. That's fine. But they shut down Washington's

running game. Uh that that was as impressive as anything like five I think it was five of six games they had at least one hundred and twelve yards rushing and twice one hundred and ninety yards rushing going into that game, and they shut them down and the other thing forced them into right. And I don't think I've ever seen a halftime stat like this. Washington's net passing yards halftime was minus seven, minus seven, Oh my goodness. And then the game ended up twenty seven. I know

what is going on. But you know what I liked about this? This is one of those games I'm always you know, throwing love to Pittsburgh and Baltimore about how they win ugly no matter what, you know, they could easily stumble and and do something stupid and just flip all over them stills themselves. Uh, this game was that game. This win was that game. It was controlled defensively. No matter how much our offense will screw up, we got this. This is easy. The frenzy is on. Like you said,

it's a feeding frenzy. And that's that's the kind of playoff football that you want. That's playoff football on the road, hostile stadium. A team that came in with four straight I mean, I don't know who those wins were, but Tampa Bay, come on now, Tampa Bay, Carolina blast toel was Vegas, Vegas. And and in this day in time, the way these games are, the way everyone's beating everyone.

Any any wins a quality win, yeah yeah. And and and they hadn't given up more than twenty one points in any of those four games in fifteen in the last two, so they still gave up twenty. But still, you know,

that's a decent defense. And the Cowboys problems and I know we'll get into that, but they got they moved the football, they got to the red zone, and they only converted one of well really five attempts in the red zone into a touchdown because the last one they ended up at the nineteen and at the end of the game, and they didn't care, but but they they were, they were moving it. And then they got inside the twenty and they bogged down and had to kick field goals.

Otherwise this thing could have been forty five to fourteen. But you know, on the other hand, the defense put them in such a good field position all the time, right, it's still a big disappointment. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, you could you could say how close we were, but you know, you were set up well more times than not by the defense. So I saw after the game when they shook hands, McCarthy and Rivera, there was a

little smile. They were exchanging pleasant Yeah. It was almost like Vera knew what he was doing, right, Yeah, exactly. I think probably I would love Maybe NFL films will maybe it will come out at some point this week the actual audio of what was said. But one of them said to the other one probably something about winning the game, the guarantee quote unquote guarantee, and they laughed about it. I bet you I told you so. Yeah, you could you see Mike McCarthy being that guy, you know,

Buddy Ryan type of guy. You don't come on, that's just you can't even see that. Rivera is not either, not at all, not at all, man. And I'm sure he probably said no, no harm intended, and Rivera probably said, oh, say right, just had to say they may they may have talked before the game too, Yeah yeah, yeah, who knows. Yeah, but it was interesting. Yeah. All right, So I'm looking at my wa We're going to get into the end of the game in the next segment. How's that? Yeah,

that's okay? Right? And all right? So others who off the top you want to point out? So before we go any further, I keep hearing people running to know. Okay, you know, how close are they to wrapping up the NFC East with four games to go? So if I've got this figured out correctly, their magic number to clinch is three, meaning any amount of Cowboys victories and or Washington or Philadelphia losses that get to three would eliminate. Depending on which of them lose, then the Cowboys would clinch.

So here's the easy way to look at it. If the Cowboys win two more games, Wash Shington can't get to eleven because there's only four games left, then they're stuck at six right now, right, same thing with Philadelphia. If the Cowboys win two more games, and if the Cowboys win two games and beat Philadelphia, they can't get to eleven, so and they've got to play each other. So somebody in this week, that's right, two of the next three games they play each other. Here, somebody's got

to lose. Here's the easy way that I look at it. Okay, if the Cowboys beat the Giants this week, the loser of the Washington Philadelphia game is out come out exactly. And then if it happens to be Washington winning, then if the Cowboys beat them, then next week the clinches the division. Right, So the other thing that will clinch it. And I realize it doesn't happen, but if Washington, if Dallas wins, and Washington and Philadelphia tie, the Cowboys would

win the divisions. Neither of them could, Yeah, catch up with them, right, they don't have enough wins? There you go. And if you look at it, nine and wins, that's more than they've had since it's a winning season team. Hey, this is a winning season, right. How many people predicted a winning season before the season started because they were judging off of six and ten? Right as you guys before did you have a preseason? I had him in the Super Bowl, Noddy. I think, let's see, with a

seventeen game season, it's confusing. I had him at ten or eleven one, I had ten. Yeah, I had ten. I said that they would reverse last year's so it was six and ten. So I said ten and six and struggle down the stretch here. So it was either going to be eleven and Pearson and six or ten and seven. Hey, hey, there's the other part of this. That best record in the NFC is just within reach. I mean, and pay close attention to this game to night,

Arizona game tight. Arizona has two losses right in. It's in Arizona. Now. The Rams also, they're sitting there they could uh, I don't have to skit these standings in front of you, but okay, well they're three losses. They have three, So if the Rams lose, they would have the same record as the Cowboys, nine and four, right,

all right? And then the only other two teams that are between Dallas and Arizona are Tampa Bay and Green Bay, who are both ten and three right now and one game, yeah, one game ahead of them, right, So Bay has the type. So if if the Rams beat the Cardinals tonight, then Arizona, Tampa Bay, and Green Bay would all be ten and three Dallas and the Rams would be nine and four they're not going to be them and here winning this game. And here's the key thing on all that too. The

Cowboys are seven and one in the NFC. They have the best NFC conference record against NFC teams. Impressive, so um, and that's the second tiebreaker, I believe when it comes to the seating. So they're sitting pretty there. How is the Arizona's schedule on the way out. Arizona has to play Detroit, Indianapolis, Dallas in Seattle, so Indies, Indies tough.

So so really, what we're looking at the if the Cowboys could really use, if we're if we're intent on catching Arizona, is have the Rams beat Arizona tonight and then the Cowboys if they can basically went out and then they which would mean a victory over Arizona, they would have the same record as Arizona and have the tiebreaker if it wound up in a head to head, the two way tie. But now you also got to deal with Tampa Bay and Green Bay in that scenario.

And here's the other thing. Even if you don't get the top seed, if you get the second seed, you're playing a lesser team of the wild card dudes, so, um, there's something, there's something to be said. Are playing out this season? So I mean, as it stands right now, though Dallas is the has the fourth best record of the division leaders. Arizona number one, and then Tampa Bay and Green Bay are at two and three, and then

Dallas at four. So you would write that is not ideal because you would be facing the fifth see the random in the first round of the playoffs, and at this point it would be the Rams. So you want to do that. We've been down that road before too many, too many times. He wouldn't even here in nineteen eighty remember Cowboys round, it was Billy Whitey Remember cats a glow across the field? Touch down? Hell, Mary, come on what it was before you corrected things in that Cowboys secondary? Five? Yeah?

Well I was definite, yeah, and that was just running the football. Yes, yes, yeah, I still have Eric Dickerson, still have a little horse shoe on my hand. Put it right, man, right then, Eric Dickerson, who by the way, went into the College Football Hall of Fame. How did it take him that long to get into the College Football Hall of Fame? Oh? Hello, yes, maybe? And he talks too much documentaries. Yeah, sometimes just be quiet, all right, pony express, All right, we gallop into our next segment

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January seventeenth vote. Dak, all right, that was a degree of difficulty, real high on that WP o oh you got damn m oh why making stuff up at first, But I think you actually made sense. And then you talk about faith, fight and finish. And yesterday morning a member of our crew had a lot of faith, he had a lot of fight, and he finished his outdoor run. I'm saying here at the Dallas half marathon, not the full marathon, the half marathon. Everson Walls, I've got the detail.

You wanted to reveal the details, go ahead, all right, Everson Walls. Total calories burned two thousand and sixty one in a from nine to eleven am until eleven fifty two am, two hours and forty one minutes. He covered thirteen point one five miles. And you know what your average heart rate was, I think it's like one forty nine, one forty nine. That's crazy. And my heart does not be fast at all. We have slow, hard average pace

twelve minutes sixteen seconds a mile. Dude, that would I didn't start walking until almost four fifty four point five seven, and after that I couldn't stop stopping, you know, And so when I walk on like, okay, if I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna walk real fast. So about fifteen minute a mile pace walking. But the job, oh man, I stopped so many times. I stopped so many times, but I still got that time. So that that's the only And your buddy Timmy knew some former cowboy you were on

his heels. Yeah, I don't know about that. He was two thirty three, and Tim usually was full marathons. He travels wow to do full marathons. For some reason, he says when he's at home, he only does half. I don't know why they did. And of course, who else are we talk about Scott. We did the full marathon full marathon. He was the man. He went four hours and twenty minutes. Wow, man, that's something else. Mickey watched the farthest You've ever run ten k Okay, did it

eight miles? Did it? No? Sin yeah, did it about three three times, although one time I was like, went out way too fast and I got within two miles of the finished mile and a half and I made the mistake on a very hot day to run through somebody was hosing everybody down and went through the water and then all of a sudden, I felt my body getting chills, and I go, you know what, I've finished this thing twice. I am not gonna pass out this. I quit and walk quit. I walked the rest of

the world. Oh but you finished, Oh yeah, but when I stopped, I was at a buddy's house and I sat two beers. So you finished, But I finished, And I said, you know what I'm not in. It was finishing at at Faroe Field in Columbia, and I said, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I'm not gonna run. After I walked the last basically laugh half mile, I said, I'm not gonna get to the track and make a triumphant run around for the four forty and I walked. No, No,

I did the same. I was man after a while, when you stop so many times, it's really easier to stop every time. And I'm thinking about you. I could just hear you know, the more time, just stop. That's what I went through my hand. But I was swear that went through my hands. I was like, I'm gonna keep on doing so I was like, yeah, yeah, I had all these friends coming by because we were sitting out in the front yard. Come on, let's go. I go. No,

I'm done, that's it. No. I made the trot end though, Yeah, and then mustered up that much energy you have to. I walked about and then the proof that I could do it again at some point when I lived here. I did it in Um lost Collinus. I ran a ten k and I finished And this was the fiftieth so it's kind of special. Yeah, that was personally good for you, not to take anything away from your two hour and forty one minute. The winner winner of the full marathon was what two hours, one hour, two hours

and change. Yeah, I saw you can you imagine running right by them because at one point, they're running, you know, alongside, but the roof is between us and dude, they're just they don't even look human. They're just they're just lean and just you know, some some short and they just they had they're just like the whole time. I mean, you're talking to six for twenty six miles. I can't. I can't run one mile in secret due I almost locked up a couple of times. I mean that's like, yeah,

my armstrains just dying. It was bad. It was bad, well, speaking of locking up in the fourth class on the stretch the stretch home. All right, so what's your take on it? A what was I described it as a near colossal collapse. I mean, it's like I've seen that happen before with Washington. Right, remember the uh, what was the play that was? There was a fun there was an interception and then a face mask that got Washington into field goal range for the final play and they

kicked the winning field against the Cowboys. Right, Yep. I didn't really feel that kind of doom, but I was concerned on how we are not performing when we really need to perform. Well, well, you know how I described it afterwards, I said, you know at the beginning the Cowboys, the way they played took your breath away, and by the time it finished, they had you holding. You know. It's kind of getting to be a pattern that and this concerns It's just like the New Orleans game the

week before. What happens when you cannot run the football effectively because you can't close out games and to get that extra possession to kill the clock, you're kind of forced to go, Okay, I'm gonna have to throw it here, and let's throw a safe pass. And for some reason, Dak's decision wasn't good. I know there was a guy in his face, but at that point you just got to throw it away. But he should he should have

seen them way before the guy came into his view. Uh. And we've been getting this pattern here with him down the stretch. It's like he loses his confidence and it has nothing to do with technique. His shoulder looks fine, the flight of the ball is great, his legs fine. Everybody's like something's wrong. He loses his touch, and he's becoming more and more hesitant in the situations where we need a play. I think there's still too much hesitancy

in not wanting to run. I think that, but tis the times when he should make up his mind immediately if you have that much confidence in running. I thought. The way I look at it is that was the situation where you need not to make a play and for this, don't take a chance you can't. And the same thing happened in the New Orleans game where it's a double digit lead. And remember remember the playoff the interception. On the interception, it's like there was they were panic.

It was a twenty to ten game and the Cowboys were acting as if they were behind twenty to ten, trying to get this playoff and make sure everybody's on the same page and everything going crazy, and everything's that thing. We throw it over the mental endage center. So we're losing our poise when we have the advantage, right, And that makes just zero sense to me, exactly, And it's it's something that you do not expect from a team. We have young guys up front, but the ones that

are making these bad decisions, they're veterans. And the guys that will accustom that are a customed to making plays in much tougher situations to that. I saw Dak throw some crazy passes and then all of a sudden you see him drop a dime to Michael Gallo. Yeah, that you go wow. And so the inconsistency is it's not just about when it happens, it's why the inconsistency and that that bothers me from just a mental standpoint. We need to be we need to be more comfortable with

ourselves going down the stretch offensively. Let me let me add to the uncomfortableness. He ended up getting sacked four times. He ended up getting hit five times. This doesn't this doesn't happen normally. Five of his passes were batted down, and he ends up running the ball, running the ball seven times for fifteen yards. Now he's not running the ball because they're called runs, are they're RPOs. They're running to keep from getting sacked. So some reason, this offensive

line is just not functioning. And to make it worse, they end up without both starting offensive tackles for the final quarter because one gets thrown out for sticking up with his quarterback, which everybody wanted them to do last year, right, And then there's a price to pay, and then Tyrn goes out with you know, aggravating that foot injury again. Yeah, and so it's never good to have steel in the

secy playing your offensive tackles for nearly a quarter. But now, even saying all of that, uh, that can lead to our inability to move the ball, that leads to our inability to get third downs to finish drives. I get that. But as a quarterback, you are the person that needs to make the right decision that can counter whatever faults you're having. You have to you have to be better, and he has been better, and all of a sudden he's not better. It's like the decisions are bad. That's

all it is. It's the decisions at all exactly. And that is that worries mean, like what is going on with It's in its situational awareness. I mean there is uh. You take over with five h nine left in the game. They had just cut your lead to thirteen points, right, and Clement carried for three yards. You're you're facing in seven and that interception the touchdown was scored at four

thirteen left in the game. Right. If you just I'm talking whether it's Dak or Kellen Moore or whatever, you just run the ball twice and you're taking at least two minutes off the clock where they're getting the football back with basically two and a half minutes left and they're down thirteen points and you've punted the ball away. They got to drive the length of the field. It just took them five minutes in the fourth quarter to go all the way down the field against you. They're

not going to be able to do it twice. You can't. The only way that they can come back in this game is if you do what you did. You can't be cute with time management, you just can't. You gotta be smart. Even after that, Even after that, they got the ball back with four h seven left and they had a three and out, and the last of it was third and three and they tried to throw a slant to gallop and it was incomplete. And now well, and at that point you're only up six or seven.

You're up seven, right, and you gotta get a first get right, And so I got no quarrel with throwing at that. The game's on again at that point. Now to your point, Zeke was back in the game. And you have to be able to be able to run the football well enough to put away teams in the fourth quarters. Playoff football, and then the worst part was that it's you don't pick it up. It's fourth and three and anger, who's hitting fifty and sixty yard punts.

It's like a twenty forty yarder. Thank god for the defense, Yes, okay, thank god they did everything they could have got. The guy dropped the ball on the pass down the side, man, that was a really beautiful pass. It was I gotta say, we got we gotta break on that one. It was right right there. What he's stumbling for, just catch the ball and fall. I think he wanted to score, all right. What do you think of the fumble that was reviewed, whether it was a pass or a fumble? I was

with Dean Blandino. I didn't think there was enough of as to reverse the call. I think it was a good call and should not have been reversed. I think it was a good call from the get back. No, it's still with the ball. His hand did not come forward with the ball in his and that's what he said, with control, right, that's the key right there, even when he was going forward, by that time, he had lost control.

So to me, that that were there made the difference and the okay, it went forward, but you know you you're you're going forward, you know what I mean. So, yeah, it's gonna be going forward. But you did not have control of it even when your hand was going forward. All right, we've got more. And by the way, if they had ruled it a pass, does he get called for grounding because he wasn't throwing it to anybody? There was nobody. Well, everybody was getting you're getting hit. Yeah,

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You need to go ahead and let the listener know what we were talking about because we have not even mentioned the Cam Sims touchdown on the air. Okay, so the Cam Sims touchdown, Mickey says, it should not have been a touchdown. Me and the guy that was standing right next to it right, Trey, no fish that he was out of bounds. He was out of bounds. Well, I thought he was in bounds. I thought his knee hit face and I hated to make that call. I

thought his elbow hit. The only thing I was waiting to see is when his elbow hit if he still had to control of the ball. But I couldn't see. I didn't have a good shot of that. I don't think they have a showed a good shot of that. That's the only that's the case. If call on the field is incomplete, then there's not enough to overturn. They went with the knee. They went with the knee. You know when John Madden says one knee was two feet, then you know they didn't take that to the bank.

I'm with him, yeah, But the elbow I thought hit out of bounds first. And think about how well the defense played too, by the way, because that that got him to fourteen points. Otherwise they would have had seven and eight takeaways in two games. And you know, we we we always count our blessings and we should because as much as we uh just pointed out some mistakes that Dad made, there were about three interceptions they should have caught and the once again passes that were just

Anthony Brown had two of them. Oh wow, man, come on. One of them was like going, you know how you do warm ups of the first wide receivers lined up, We run down the sidelines, you guys like Troy and Romo and Danny Wade. They throw you the ball and you catch it and everybody plays wide receiver, just a warm up. Who had the other one? Was it? Um? Was it Diggs? No? Diggs? Uh? He actually turned around to look for the ball on his other knockdown. No,

maybe that was it. I just thought there was and we tried to kind of put his hands up to the Yeah. Yeah, So tell me this. Have we changed the identity of this team? Is it a defensive team now or not an offensive team? I think they're both an inconsistent team. You know. I wish the defense could play like this all the time, but they don't. I wish Jordan Lewis could be that dude with every game, but sometimes he's completely the other dude. He gets lost. Yeah,

but this game he was amazing. I Mean, you're proud of him one game and then you're like baffled. So what we're talking about last week. I said, going into the ute down, what the knee is down? Every shot shot there's a shot of Cam sims. Uh, it's from a ground level that shot. The knee is down before the elbow is down. Yeah, it appears. I like the way you use those words. You got it there. In other words, he said, look, you're blind bat. That's what

he's saying. Look you're blind bat. But you don't think it's elbows down? No, not down yet, no, not yet. No, that's that's just the angle. It looks kind of funny. Look at you go, hit play on it, Hit play on it now, no left hand corner down the bottom and you'll see the newcasts there you go, No, just go que don't ever give it fun So what are you giving in we win? Yes, okay, all right, because I never got to see that ever came up. It's

off the game broadcast. So this defense, here's the weird thing on the defense is going into this Saints game, they were fifteenth in total defense. After the Saints game, they were twenty seventh. And now they're come on, come on, man, hey guess what I was. Once it took me a while to make the run. I was on the way home. So I had to listen to Brad. You got to listen to Brad. You didn't have to listen, thank you, sir. You agree with you on that, not the other guy.

So anyway, just the other guy. So uh no, he talked about how uh god, what we're talking about? So you got total defense, total defense, third downs. Yes, the Dallas Cowboys are one of the top third down defensive teams in the NFL. Yes, which is ridiculous. On the other hand, when it comes to third and ten plus, the one of the worst because they give up that big What has happened? What is going on? You know? I think they backed on the tippet points we got

going here, man. You know, that's when you need to send them boys in there. That's when you go to get it. You're going for too many picks and they're getting Yeah. That's when. Yeah, that's that's when they kid. That's where you're supposed to kill it. That's when you're supposed to put the knee on the neck and not

this time. They that's when they give it up. They don't run in enough picket fits defenses to keep the defense marinelli The picket fits there they're third and twenty and they let them throw underneath, underneath and everybody, and they gain eighteen. Right, let's go, Okay, you got off the field, but you could have had them punny two first downs further done, you can that's the mentality anyway, I guess what it's all said and done, But you

just started off from a different position. You know. The other thing, the Cowboys are twelfth in points allowed, twenty two point one. And get this, after what did they end up with like three hundred and twenty some yards total offense whatever it was, they're now number two in total offense. They're one yard a game behind Tampa Bay Bay. Yeah, and when it comes to points, they're now twenty nine

point two their second Tampa base thirty one one point five. Well, let's look at that, you know, of course, yeah, I like this. One of the offense, one of the shows, one of the shows. I always talking about putting things into perspective as you look at just those two teams, Cowboys, Bucks, Uh, the Bucks. Since the loss, they seem to have writ

this right at the ship. They seem to be on a better path than we are since getting momentum wise by Washington yes, and and even though record wise, you know, we had to stumble now two in Ago, so you could say, what three out of four we won? Correct, they're like three and three after being let's let's just six Syston count six, three and three four. The last four you're talking about Cowboys two and two lost two two straight and one two straight. Okay, so let's look

at the one. Let's let's look at the last three. Then we won two out of three. Yeah, So once again, the the path sounds good, you know from just just hearing it, but from what we've seen, it's the inconsistency is still there. And that makes me know. I'm looking at Tampa Bay. Since that lost to Washington on November fourteenth, they've won four straight games. I guess the Giants at Indianapolis, at Atlanta, in Buffalo, and they've scored thirty or more

points in all four of those games. That's pretty quiet. You know, who righted the ship after beating the Cowboys, basically it was Kansas City. They haven't lost since, and they're tied for the best record in the AFC now, and look at how they're doing it. And then guess who went the other very unspeculated, spectaculate. After the Raiders beat the Cowboys and overtime, they hadn't won another game.

Is that something? And that they have been losing badly? See, that's well, they just played two well but love Washington Washington game. Yes, come on, and they had lost two before that also, so that was not See that's the losses that stick in your throat, right because okay, Kansas City beat me at home nineteen to nine. Fine, the Denver won. Those things happened, But losing to the Raiders like that, they're just horse bleep. Look at this. Oh yeah,

America's rivalry. You know what, we almost give my stuff out. We almost had almost had another chapter there, come back. You know what that play reminded me of. It reminded me of when what ninety two when the Cowboys were going to clinch the NFC East and they were at Washington. Remember the fumble in the end zone and then Emmett went to try to pick it up. Oh, I got I was in the locker room after that game and Jimmy, Oh, it was so tense in that locker room, and so

there's reporters crowded around Jimmy and it's just quiet. Everyone's afraid to ask questions, I guess, And so Jimmy said his bit, and then uh, maybe somebody asked a question, and it's just silence, and you just hear the smacking of Jimmy's lips. And then finally, and then finally I broke the silence. I said, so, are you upset about the play in the zone, Jimmy. Jimmy says, I'm upset about a lot of things that he stormed off. That was it? That was it? Oh no, no, that was

not it. And they got in the flight home and uh, they were serving dinner and he cut off food service. He got mad at somebody that was kind of yucking it up eating hill. Yeah, and uh they no more food. Get get the food out of here. We're not eating. Are you proud of me for having the guts to ask a question? Though? I don't think it wouldn't matter what you said. He was going to walk off the stage.

That's right, It didn't what you said. But yeah, I think maybe the fact that you said that, he's like, uh, Bill's cool. Here was another. Here's another, quickly, another Jimmy story. You know, there's the famous one where the Monday after a loss, and Edward er, Uh, it was in the library at Valley Ranch, and it's kind of informal press conference, not carried by, you know, on the radio or anything. And uh, what was it that Ed Edward smirked or something?

I don't know what. Hey, Jimmy said something and I don't know. Jimmy was getting up to leave, and Ed laughed at something like oh yeah, ha ha ha and that right. And so as Jimmy's walking out of the library, he says something funny ed something something humorous, something funny, ed, something humorous, and he storms off. Well, then there's another time.

It was myself and John Radick and it was the big Tuesday press conference in the team meeting room and John and I were sitting up in the far owner of it. I wasn't planning on asking any questions or anything. Don't fall for it twice and so Ratigan showed me something that was funny or what I don't remember, and so we were laughing. It's so Jimmy. Jimmy looks up at me and he says, you got a question, Bill, Good? Okay?

So so and so it was one of those he's just dead serious yeah, he's so mad whatever, and so he basically stormed out of the meeting room. That was back when we used to have you know, Jerry would service lunch at the branch. So we're leaving. We were in the players parking lot. Media could park in the Players parking lot and everything. Jimmy, this is half hour later. I'm leaving, going to my car. Jimmy is coming in

from his noon jock and the parking lot. He sees me across the parking lot and laughing yells at me, you got a your bill like that? It was all just always always I try to tell everybody, come on, get out of here, Jimmy with that. You remember the time, you remember the time in the in the team meeting room,

he got huffy about something and he stormed off. He just walked out out of the out of the press gusts right, which yeah, and I found out later he was already planned because he wanted to set the tone for Wednesday when they got They do they do the players like that all the time. Yeah, they do the players like that all the cause he knows they're why they're gonna pick somebody. Yeah, you know that's gonna be the guy who's gonna be using for an example or

something like that. And I'm not saying that being critical of it. I think you know that was that was just his coaching, you know. Yeah, you have a recent or the time for the type the type. John Roper fell asleep in the team meeting, right, and they were all getting up to leave, and they were gonna wake Roper up and Jimmy's like, no, let him and he ends up waking up. And that is a lefty room, right, And Bruce Mays walks in and says, get your playbook.

Jimmy wants to talk to you. Oh, oh, that's bad. And then and then Jimmy always says if it was Michael or him, he would have got him a pillow. That I don't like that. I don't like the game man. The story I told you about Michael missing the charter flight to Detroit, right, Michael had to pay for the flight to get there himself. And then Jimmy calls him in and basically says, Okay, your punishment is you're out the first series of the game. You're benched. So Norm, Wow.

Norm finds out about it, right, Norm turn it. He finds out about it and he tells Jimmy. He goes, so if we kick off, is that the first possessions? That's a possession? All right? Oh? What are all right? I just been entertained. I was not telling any stories, all right. And we will be back with a shortened version of Mixed Shots tomorrow, Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.