The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick Shots screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, and Nicky Spagnola, And here we are for another week of Mick Shots. Bill Jones with Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola back home in his SWBC mortgage studio at Ford Center at the Star in Frisio. It's yes, it's it's Mickey.
Did you spend your whole holiday there at the SWBC Mortgage studio? I am proud to say that I was here on Friday, but not Saturday and Sunday. There you go, all right, So you had your Thanksgiving holiday consisted of a normal weekend day, Saturday and Sunday off. Of course, you spent Thursday at at and T Stadium, And maybe we won't have to talk about that for very long here on this edition of Mixed Shots. But we've got so much to get to since we last convened ever
sin hours. Your Thanksgiving, Ah, Thanksgiving was kind of normal, except for the depressed part of it. You know, everything was fine before three thirty, and then all of a sudden things just went downhill. My weekend was just as average as any trying to play it safe. So I'm kind of in a brooding mood right now. That's why that's why I bought my hoodie. I'm all in, you know what I'm saying. Still all in, Still all in, but nonetheless brooding. Can I can I take that stance? Can?
I can totally understand that I showed up with the hood all I thought maybe he was doing it with the windows open outside. Well, you got to have a proper ventilation here in these COVID days, So I would advise everyone, even if it's forty outside like the day, Uh yeah, keep the keep those windows open. We went good ventilation, all right, Mickey, There's so much to get to. Where should we start on this edition of mix Shots? How do you think? Bill? Uh? Last time we talked
was Wednesday? Right, So much has taken place, not only with the Cowboys on the football field, not only with Cowboys strength and conditioning coach Marcus Paul passing away after our show, and then all the stuff that's happening in the league along with the Cowboys. Thursday night game being pushed back to the following Tuesday. I'll leave it up to you, since you're steering the ship, where you want to exactly start this thing, because a lot of this
is tied together too, by the way, Yep, that's exactly right. Well, I'm always start with Marcus Paul because on Friday morning I taped the Mike mcco and I got the feeling and of course he did a media availability I think, yeah, Friday morning too, right, Yeah, And I got the feeling that he had basically spent and by then he even though it hadn't been officially announced yet, I think he pretty much knew that the game against the Ravens was going to get pushed back, so he didn't have to
do the normal things that you he would do on a normal work week, which is what it would have been had the game still been played on Thursday. And so I think he spent a good portion, if not all, of the morning on Friday morning taken in phone calls. You know a lot of people knew that, you know, he obviously had a game on Thursday, and they didn't call about Marcus until Friday morning. Uh, And so I think and he talked with the I believe the family
on Friday morning and so forth. And I think that is you know, it's at a point after all that had transpired in the previous seventy two hours, that you sit there and you just, um, you reflect on one what's happened, you know, you know. And in fact, he apologized at the end of a taping of the Mike McCarthy Show that he just didn't have the energy. I said, I didn't either. I mean, none of us had energy after that, And so I can only imagine what those
close to the family are still going through. And then for the players too, as we talked about last week. You know, the players are very close. We're very close to Marcus and Natural Uh, you know, probably as close as any coach to the team and the team. Lake vanderash talked about it, uh, you know, especially for him. You know, he had been side by side with him throughout the offseason because coming office surgery, he could be at the Star when he was at back home in Idaho.
And so anyway, Uh, that's kind of where it was on Friday. Yeah, and it was it was it was even emotional draining. I think after we got the word here when the announced or the you know, the statement came out. It was about quarter to six on Wednesday, and you were just kind of waiting to see UH. And then after you know, the game and going over
everything the guys said. Mike McCarthy said on his press conference, Jerry said, when he did his radio interview, and UH, I got charged with writing about Marcus for the Game Day upcoming Game Day magazines, and I'll tell you what, guys, and I sort of wrote the story from the aspect of after I read all this stuff that came out about him, all the tweets from from Syracuse, the university, from the former assistant coach Randy Edsel, who recruit recruited
Marcus to Syracuse, to Darryl Johnston, who I didn't put two and two together. They were teammates and co captains their senior year there, UH in eighty eight, to the Giants coming out with statements and all the people that he had touched. I was sitting there going, you know, I feel cheated because I didn't get to know him that well, but I felt like I got to know
him by listening to everybody else react to him. And by time I got done with that, I was emotionally drained from just going through the whole thing and kind of reliving it and seeing how much he meant to so many different people and so many any different walks of life, to the point that you know, he was a teammate Ron Riverez at Washington and you know, and he had to coach the game on Thursday, and it
sounded like they were pretty close. And even in the pregame show on Thursday, Michael Strahan talking about how they were they were bus run or they were ride buddies to the airport for the away games that they spent that time together, and he goes, and if you know about your ride buddy to the airport, you end up
being pretty close. So it was just amazing how many people he touched in his not only professional playing career, but when he became strength and conditioning assistant at New Orleans, followed Mike Woissick to New England, he was with the Jets, and then I guess what I missed was that he spent eleven seasons with the Giants and won two Super Bowls with them, three with the New England and Pat Hanlon,
who's their community vice president of communications. I had a couple of tweets that were very heartfelt, and yeah, it was amazing how many people he touched. But as you said, Bill, strength and conditioning coaches, they touch everybody. In fact, one guy that I got a text from was who I hadn't put two and two together at all on it. But it's just sort of an example of you don't realize how close the fraternity is if you haven't been
in that fraternity like Everson has been in. You know, a friend of mine, Brian Jones, who works for CBS Sports college football analysts, he texted me back last week, asked me what I knew about his condition and so forth, and I was like, so, how do you know. I mean, he was with the Saints and when Marcus Paul was with the Saints twenty years ago, before he was with the paid Reach. Remember Wisick was with the Saints for a short time. Uh, and so he was his assistant
there with the Sataness. So that's how he got to know him. And then he's and Brian said, he's one of the greatest guys that he has met that he met in his entire time in the NFL. And you know too, a couple of things in regards to what you just mentioned, Bill, you are so right. Just being an athlete going through the league and having many years, you're blessed to go through it. And if you're blessed to play with several teams, then you're going to have
a connection in some kind of way. There's always going to be a six degree of separation, and that's just as a player. And he continued to be part of different staffs even after he played, and that really solidified his relationship throughout the entire NFL with whoever he touched. And I'm sorry I don't know her name, but his
daughter Conspats what's her name, Tabitha, Tabitha Man. She really personalized everything for us with the words, her words of hope and and just her words of love and then recollecting what her father meant to her and also where
he meant to so many other people. So I thought Tabitha's addition to this entire emotional experience, I just thought it kind of tapped it, topped it off in the right way to where you know, yes, it's a game, but right now, this is someone's father who's going through this. And so that family U had had my prayers and I'm sure everyone else's, and really that's that's what's more important here than anything else. And by the way, she posted uh Friday or Saturday that her dad was an
organ donor and saved four people's lives. Right, I saw that. I saw that bill Thanksgiving Day. Basically, wow, I didn't see that. That's that's amazing, you know. And and the thing that it kept coming out about him was that he was such a sweet person and it was always nice around here, and my only interaction would be passing him at the training table during lunch, and always a smile on his face, always kind of upbeat and moving quickly.
And I wish I could remember who said this, but they talked about what a nice guy he was, but in the job he was in and so close to the players, being nice was one thing, but also figured out how to be tough to get guys to do what he wanted them to do. And that's not an easy juggling act a lot of times for those guys
in that position. Because again, offseason, he's the head coach, right, he's in charge because the coaches aren't allowed to be around the players during that part of the offseason workouts in training, and it sounded like, yeah, the guys and you know, all they had to say after the game, and the fact that I think a couple of things stood out. It looked like part of the team meeting Wednesday night, Mike McCarthy let the guys stand up and say what they had to say about them, whoever wanted
to talk. And then, you know, before the game, after they finished their pregame warm up, they all gathered in a big circle basically kneeling, and it looked like Sean Lee was kind of in charge of saying something, holding hands. And then the other thing I noticed guys before the game, and I don't think this might have gotten on television, but before they did that started the tribute on the big video board, the offensive lineman. The whole group towed
the line together. They were the only ones there for the before the start of it, like they were braced for it. And after the tribute, they kind of went in a circle and they hugged each other and went around and it was like, oh my god, you guys are going to break my heart, you know. And so yeah, there was a there was a lot of outpouring of emotion. And the thing that you know, kind of occurred to me. If you count fifty three guys on the roster, you
got sixteen guys on the practice squad. You got, however many guys that are injured reserve. And I counted it all up, and it got into you know, the seventies, high seventies, and I wanted to see how many guys were no more than twenty five years old, and I counted forty nine, forty nine. And think about when you were twenty five, people close to you, other than maybe your grandparent, they didn't pass away. You were young, and
they were young. And for these guys to have to deal with somebody that close to them passing away less than twenty four hours before kickoff, I'm sure it was a very very tough emotionally time for them that night, even you know, before the game started. And I'm not saying it affected how they played, because those guys came out and played hard, but just to have to go through that a young age is very tough. And you know, something else about that spacts When you think about society today,
everything is just more public. It's just the way it is. It's hard enough having to deal with the loss of a loved one privately, but that's something that you can compartmentalize maybe easier because you don't have to necessarily share it with everyone. But when it's when it's a and after where everyone's involved, it can be taxing. It can be emotionally taxing. It's like being at a funeral. You know, you really don't the emotions don't come out until you're
around all of the sadness and the emotion. So when everyone you know, around the sports world and everyone's commenting on it, you know, now it's out there in public. And to have to deal with something like that, uh, like you said, at such a young age, and then you know you mentioned just everything that's going on in twenty twenty, it's uh man, it's a lot to deal with and and I feel for these young young guys, but you know, they gotta get through it. They gotta
get through it. Well. I think that Uh. You know, we talk a lot of times about the bye week, whether it came in a good time or not. The postponement of this game came at a good time, being able to give them a long weekend here and postponing
it to where they didn't have to be back. Uh, they're they're not back into to practice until Wednesday, um and uh with a game push back till Monday, and that still gives them an extra day to prepare for the Ravens and Ravens play a game on Tuesday night with with what's left of the Ravens due to COVID. Uh right now, Yeah, we think Thursday a Tuesday night.
In fact, at least they'll have a quarterback, right at least a quarter Yeah, so when we come back, and there's so much to get to in terms of whether a team has quarterbacks or not, whether the Ravens can play, and so much more. But right off the top, I thought it's appropriate for us to talk about Marcus Paul and let the Paul family know our thoughts and prayers are with them as they go through this time. Mix Shots continues here in just a moment. Hey, they're Cowboys
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We're back in a tasty tree that's sweeping airwaves and taste buds. It's new Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda. Let's take a listen, Doctor Pea and Cream Soda. Is he a new Combone's music to my ears? Okay, Doctor Pepper, Time in a glass, Music to my ears and mouth. New Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda A delisious to back back back to mixed shots. Well, I'm looking through our live reads trying to figure out which one would be appropriate for today, and the Washington one would not be.
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find something other than the start to talk about. Unfortunately, I think those were forwarded to me, and I forgot all about him. Oh that's why you didn't have it, okay, right, And so I looked at Dog, I'll look at Monday last week. Oh, we got single game tickets for Washington. You know, it brings us to the San Francisco forty nine Ers, who the Cowboys will play on December twentieth.
They got a little issue there in Santa Clara, California, where they cannot play any football games there, and they got two home games the next couple of weeks. And apparently San Francis forty nine Ers have reached an agreement with the Arizona Cardinals to host their next two games against Buffalo and Washington at State Farms Stadium there in Phoenix, which is now what they call the Dome Stadium there
in Phoenix that the Cardinals play in. So I guess the Cardinals must be on the road the next two weeks. And I was thinking, Mickey that it would be and I looked up. Arizona is not allowing fans in the stands now. There for a little while they were, but the COVID outbreak has hit Arizona to the point where they did not allow fans in the stands for the
latest Cardinals game, nor would they for San Francisco. But I was thinking what the Niners ought to do is come here to Arlington and seeing as how they play the Cowboys the third game down the road, they could
host their two home games this Monday night. It's scheduling from Monday against Buffalo and then the following Sunday against Washington, and then they would play the Cowboys the following Sunday, and they could just set up shop here for a couple of weeks and work out at Globe Life Park, the Rangers old baseball park which has now been converted to football. They'd have their own locker room they stay at.
The Omney. Would have been the great little bubble for them, but they've decided to go to Arizona instead, and and and the key on it would be they would be able to play in front of as many fans as they bought tickets up to what Cowboys have had thirty thousand in there, but they decided to go to Arizona route instead. Wow we've had thirty thousands. Yeah, yeah, Wow,
that's tough. It's a big stadium. You can better be that only feel not only filled a lot of real estate in there that only fills a third of it. So it was thirty eight I think on third on Thanksgiving. So yeah, have they opened the suites back up yet? Uh? Some of the suites. I think people had the right to use their suites, A lot of them remained empty.
And remember the way they sold tickets. It was like, I think season ticket holders had the right to purchase tickets to two games and then after that it was general general public. But there was rules that you know, if you bought four tickets then it had to be four people sitting together. You can't you know, sell them to some stranger. It had to be the people in
your group. So I don't know how well they can enforce that, but yeah, yeah, man, it was weird last night, you know, or yesterday watching the game the Packers and the Bears with nobody or there was a smattering of a few people at lambeau Field to watch that game. That was strange, you know, I would think from the forty nine ers perspective on that. Yeah, and if you could pre sale tickets and you knew in advance it was gonna happen, I mean, how many fans people are
hungry for football. But could you get twenty five or thirty thousand for a Niners Bills game here, a Niners Washington game here. It's pretty tough to sell that many tickets in that amount of time. Yeah, I can't. I can't see that. Yeah, and you just wouldn't do it. And the other part of that is who is going to handle the cost of staffing it and everything. So from the Niners perspective, they probably would just say, hey, it's as you know, it's a loss. We're not getting
fans in the stands. We might lose money if we took on that assignment. You got to have more staff that comes here to handle it, or you hire people here to handle it. They may have just to say that said, you know what, it's easier to just do this Arizona thing. From a travel standpoint, it probably was easier. You know, they could have played the game at at Global Life Park if they needed to. They could that option too. They could go outdoors there, that's right, because
there's boxing there. There's boxing at AT and T Stadium Saturday. So I don't think they want to stay in Dallas for three weeks. Bill, that be you'll just being a forty nine er. You know, yeah, I don't think they feel very comfortable no matter where they were going to have to go because they can't practice that their their place in Santa Clara. They can't practice either, no no contact anything. I don't think even high school sports are
being played, canceled everything. Yeah, I knew that, and in fact, in California high school sports who was put on the back burner till the spring. Yeah, Shanahan wasn't the most happy with the NFL or with the CAB and they didn't communicate with them at a time. They found out when they were on the on the flight to the to the Rams game, that that's what was going to take place. Do you think that was a distraction? But
they ended up winning the game? Yeah? Okay, let's say let's move on to uh, speaking of the game, where do you want to go to Thursday's game, Thursday's game or yesterday? In the NFL, I would go to Thursday's game. Let's go Thursday's game. This is our first chance to talk about it. How about we start with ever since I saw you, hold on, let me get ready, hold on, let me get ready, hold on? All right, here we go he's going, Okay, now three days later, what are we?
Three days later later, there's still stuck in your crawl on happened on Thursday? Four days later. You know, I have to admit as a guy that you know was a former player. Uh, there's a certain commentary that you know comes from there, you know, But watching that game, you know, when I watched the games, I my emotion
comes as a fan. I've been a fan since I was I guess born, you know, been through the whole hell Mary's all of that, all of that, played with him, hated them when I had to leave, and then my family brought me back. So I'm watching the game as a fan, and I'm pretty suious, uncomfortable around me when when it's a game like this one, because you know, I just turned into my dad. I just started coaching almost every play, you know, it just becomes kind of
ridiculous to watch. And so I saw how as Spags said, they came out so strong, they came out very determined, and I and inspired. Actually it's what I saw. And then all of a sudden, the coaches got involved, and I'm like, what the hell is going on? I couldn't help between a couple of things, the fake punt, those things that it almost showed me. I don't know if it showed me, but it hinted to me that McCarthy is in panic mode right now. You know, I didn't think it was panic time yet. I know he was
trying to be aggressive. I get all of that, But when you look the way this ball game was being played up until the point to where we start shooting ourselves in the foot, I thought that we had a great chance to win this ball game. I thought the guys had played well and they deserved to win this ball game up until the whole the disappointments started. And yes, fags, I know what coaches always say, and I'm part of that.
That's eternity as well. Any play can work as long as you run it right, okay, But you know, then there's the whole analytics side of it, such as you still don't you don't run, or you don't go for a fourth and one on your own nine yard lines, so to speak. And I'm just speaking in general, general
generalities at this point. So I just don't think you gamble so much when you have a game that is still fully intact and that you have a chance to win, I think, and I was torn on Thursday when I was writing my column between being too cute and being too desperate, and I think desperation had set in if
you look at how the game was going. You know, I know they stopped Washington the previous possession and they got the interception, but think about this, the interception gave you first and goal at the four, and your offensive line was such a mess you ended up having to kick a field goal from the six because you couldn't gain a yard. And I think this was starting to weigh on him, like, I don't know if we're gonna be able to score and we're gonna run out of possessions.
And while they said, yeah, they stopped him, but if you look at what happened from the second quarter on, it was field goal for Washington touchdown, end of half, field goal, interception, and then they finally forced them to punt for the first time since the first possession, and the Cowboys were sitting there field goal at the end of the half when they got to the twenty yard
line and couldn't get closer. Then they come out they fumbled the first possession of the second half, and then it was downs, and then it was field goal right from the four yard line, or I'm sorry, it was fumble punt field goal from the four. And I think he was just starting to say, we're not getting anywhere, and we're not doing a real good job stopping their
running game. That's the only way. And he finally kind of set it on Friday in his conference call that you have to as a head coach kind of judge the flow of the game. And even Jerry Jones said it on Friday morning. He said, we were teetering and they kind of were. Now I understand where they we're at, and even if they picked it up, it certainly didn't guarantee that you were going to go down and score,
right And you know, and he said, I don't. I don't call a game from the negative, which means, oh, if we don't get this, here's what we're gonna give up, right, um. And the unfortunate thing is that you were relying on a wide receiver who had been a quarterback in high school, uh to make two reads, and when he made the first read, he didn't ever got to the second. Because if you go back and look at that play boy C J. Goodwin down the field is wide open, but
he never is. I don't even think he looked, because he tucked the ball like this was a running play the whole time. And I don't even know if he's throwing it. As soon as he got it right, said first he was going to throw it to nice Wander and the guy out there didn't go. He stood and hung in there instead of following CJ. Goodwin, who was the gunner. And but CJ. Goodwin I wrote it down. Uh when when? When when Wilson, When Cedric Wilson he was he was at his thirteen. Goodwin was wide open
at the forty two. I mean why they just forgot about him? And so yeah, it was a gamble, but they would have had the ball at midfield if it had worked. Unfortunately it didn't have. Then one play later and I keep hearing this, but if you go back and look at the play, when Gibson ran the next one in for a touchdown, the Cowboys didn't give up.
I just thought they were in another bad alignment with how they play on that offensive line or defensive line, with only one linebacker in a linebacker position, one linebacker in a linebacker position on the field. Yeah, and one safety deep. That was it. So all they had to do was blocked that side of the line, and there's no way that vander rash could get there because they had Jalen Smith. I believe it was on the line of scrimmage or it was just Smith as the linebacker.
So you're talking on the thirty seven yard run. Yeah, yeah, You're talking about the thirty seven yard run, not the twenty three yard or right after the fake punt, right, yeah, I mean, and in that situation, there's three minutes or so left in the game. It's third and six at the thirty seven yard line. It's it's a twenty seven to sixteen lead for Washington. They are not throwing the football there. Okay, they may give it a look that they but they are running the football. They never really
like the football. Well, the entire game bill and why you would be in in a dime defense and you have your you're one linebacker that's on the field is up on the line of scrimmage. It was just there's no little wonder that the red sea opened for the running back right there on that play. And Emerson's right, because I went back and countered it up if you
if you count Terry McLaurin. And this was funny. Somebody this morning said, can you name can you name a wide receiver on Washington other than Terry McLaurin, And I couldn't do it. It was Edmond and sums. Right. But if you take mclauren's receiving yards along with Gibson's, the tight end, Thomas the running back McKissick, those guys totaled one hundred and fifty four of the one hundred and
seventy seven yards passing. So everything Alex Smith was doing was little dump offs, little hooks, except for the past that mclauren kind of got him on on the twenty eight It was a was a twenty eight yard that the touchdown pass, but that was it. They were nibbling. So why are you playing the way you were when
they were just going to run the ball? And we this is nothing new, right, We've said this before, playing that nickel and playing that dime when teams are kind of in running situations, And that part is the part I still don't understand. Yeah, well, you know, here's my thing, Bill, I have to say this last what was that last Sunday we were just all over the coaching staff or
the great adjustments that they made. I don't know if them staying in our nickel package and being able to control Cook the way they were that Sunday, I think that gave him a little confidence that they still could stop the red Skins with the dying package. I don't know why they continue to do that. But even when you look at the lack of defensive adjustment, because they came out running the ball from the get and they never disguised anything about what they were trying to do.
They all they ran it the entire time. And when you looked at the passing yards, I think at one time in the first half, Alex Smith may have had fifty eight yards passing, maybe seventy five yards passing, something very minimal to where I'm not even going to put an extra defensive back in the ball game if that's all they're gonna try and do to throw the ball. The second thing is we've got our defensive corder, got offensive corder killer Moore, I get it. Spacts, you've got
two offensive lineman hurt. I can't even recall if they were hurt yet before we got into that scoring position, they were still I'm sorry they were. Well, here's my thing. You still have to attempt to run it in spacts. You can't just say, oh, well, here we go. They've got five first rounders on the front, so it's not even try to run it. We got too cute too soon. To me, you got to be solid, okay, Or you're talking about the first series of the game. I'm talking
about the first series of the game. You do now, you got on the running player. I don't care if you're in the team. If you're inside the ten yard line, then to me, this Dallas Cowboy team they need to try to establish a running presence at that time. You can get cute sometimes and it works. That depends on what the defenship. Playing against the Washington football team. I almost said it, the Washington football team. Yes, they have
the best front line you've seen. So you're not gonna have time for a bunch of junk and cute stuff. You have to come with the bread and butther you have to run the ball as best you can. Yah Zeke fumbled the ball again, but that had nothing to do with blocking. I'm talking about a guy to need to that was hungry enough to where I think we could have gotten him mban zone if we would have stopped with that game plan instead of relenting and trying to be more fin this. Well, all right, we gotta
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all the holiday savings. You got right right, all right, Mickey, Yes, don't forget what you were gonna say. Yeah, forget what you were gonna say. So that the first possession when the Cowboys had to kick a field goal their first and ten at the twenty, they ran Pollard got all of two yards second and eight. I thought it was a neat call. It was a tight end screen the Schultz.
They only got three yards. And then on third and five at the fifteen, obviously you're you're throwing the ball right, but he tried to throw that slant down the slot to to Coop and I'm not sure what happened there, if he just missed him or Coop didn't see the ball. And then when they got down to the goal line after the interception return, it's first in goal at the four, they tried to run Zeke. He barely got the handoff because the offensive line broke down and he ended up losing.
He ended up losing two yards. And then he basically threw the touch down past the CD in the in the end zone and he drops it. It was a little high, but I think he catches that right. And then the third the CD won't even accept that excuse for him, right, and he didn't either, by the way. And then third and goal at the six, they tried that smoke screen because he didn't think his offensive line
could hold up. And I think a lot of what happened in that game and decisions were made was because they lost their starting two offensive tackles, especially Zach Martin on that first possession, and they just couldn't hold up. I just think trying to run the ball too much in the in those situations, they couldn't run it and they couldn't protect. So I don't know what you do,
and that's why I think he gambled, you know. And the first gamble, by the way, on the fourth down past the CD, how does that guy miss the interference? It was so blatant. Man, Oh my god, I mean he bout strangled him. Right, and he hit him away before the ball got there. How do you miss that? I told you we have the We always get the COVID teams. They're the one there there there referees in training. We get the worst teams every week. I'm sorry, just the way it is. And I and I and I
wrote down the guy's number. It was one sixteen, I told Bill, and I looked at finally looked at my flip card. Mike Weatherford was the guy on that side of the field. How do you miss that ball? I don't understand it. That's why you need I will say this, you get at least thrown a flag. All right? Do you know why the fake punt didn't work? In my opinion? I can't wait. I got him an opinion. I got two opinions. Why, but go ahead? Well they had it, they had it pretty figured out from the from the
get go right, Yes, all right. I think the Cowboys have run so many fake punts that in special teams meetings each week, the one theme of special teams meetings each week is watch out for the fake punt. This team might run a fake punt from its own ten yard line, and so the element of surprise is totally gone. You are not going to surprise any team with a fake punt. And that's okay, Bill, that's okay. It's good to be known as a team that's not just gonna
line up with the same old status quo. You love that because now you've got them does not necessarily alert. Sometimes you have the lake the heels and now they don't have the punt return on and so they're going to fair catch it, okay, because they're watching for the exactly we're gonna get the you're gonna get the total distance out of your spunt. Now, okay, we dictate this situation is gonna go so to me. I get it.
People are hurt. Yeah, we're flailing at this point. But you don't just throw what they say throughout the baby with the bathwater. You can't do that. You still have to pump that ball. That does mean we just said, oh well, let's just forget conventional football here. Now let's just start doing anything. Who was at it says, oh, Willie Nilly. Now, let's not go Willie dilly yet, and and let's still be a professional football team that has still a chance defensively to make some plays. And so
just gonna go out and give it up. That means the defense might go out there and make a play for you and put you in physicians exactly and make Alex Smith beat you. Okay, load up and stop that run and see if Alex Smith can be Patrick Mahomes. I don't think he can be, because what you saw, what I say, what you saw defensively from them, they knew as facts said, you can't protect, you can't run.
We're still tru I ain't to run our conventional pass routes on a secondary that is squatting down on every route that was run. So to me, that's where you get the willy nilly going. If you want to be if you want to gamble, then that's where you have some deep passes that are disguised from what you normally run. It. Trust me, it works. I've gotten toasted several times while jumping short routes. I know it can happen. It happens to the best of us. To me, that's where you
start to gamble. You can't go into a shell offensively, but yet when it comes to special teams, you want to gamble away any opportunity you might have instead of the ball game I think they got a little twisting in that regard. All right, Niky, you got the final word here. Oh damn. I tried to talk it out. My bad. I didn't talk about well, since it's called
mix shots, I thought i'd give him. They I just I just think that, as I said, they got desperate, and I understand, I understand that you probably don't want to take that chance at your own Where were they the twenty twenty three yard line or so? Man, I don't think I've ever seen that the four yard line. It's like, that's why the surprise was supposed to give him. Who the world wouldn't do that? Oh wow, you know what. I at a time, it's like, whatever can go wrong
go wrong with this team, from injuries to play calls. Uh. When I saw the two guys go down, I thought it used bags. When I saw Irvan and and I'm there, go down, Martin, go down. By the way, they are out multiple yeah, And I kept qualifying because it was like, this is gonna be the first consecutive week with the same five in the same game in the same spot, right, And I kept saying, it didn't even take one quarter. I didn't take one quarter. One serious, Maybe we can
get through the national anthem this time. And they oh my god, they had him for six plays. Yes, they had him for six plays. Unbelievable. All right, it doesn't for mix Shots. We'll talk at you again tomorrow live at one thirty on mix Shots. It's been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.