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to talk about. Once aboard, you know, well almost predicted that score about exactly right. Mickey headed for a second there, and then I remever, so, what was your score? I believe mine was thirty to twenty eight with a game driving, game winning field goals. You edited twenty eight. I mean, Seattle was up thirty to twenty eight, Mickey. I thought I had it with a game winning field goal. Also,

didn't you? Mickey? I did? And you know, when it was around thirty twenty two, I'm thinking, okay, because I picked thirty six thirty three, right, I'm thinking Seattle's gonna kick another field goal. If the Cowboys at least score two more touchdowns and miss an extra point, which certainly could happen. Right, they were gonna hit thirty six. I go, I got this, and then it didn't work out so well?

All right, before wit orgage started, here a little message, let's behind the scenes message to Chris Beam that we are hearing what's going on. I think we care either on topic. All right, very good, you know, and if memory serves me right, I had Seattle winning that game. Yes you did, and I think it was thirty eight. Yeah, you were in jinks. You were the reason we lost that. We need positivity here and not wait, you didn't say thirty one, did you? I want tape on that. I believe,

I said. I believe the score was pretty low if I would call no, I had it. Wait, I had a high scoring. I had like thirty four, thirty one? Okay, okay, so yeah, so um. But anyway, so much to get to and it could have very easily have been the other way around if not for mistakes, mistakes, mistakes, the mediad of mistakes that put this team in another howl. And Mickey, I'm sure you could fill more than forty five minutes talking about all I absolutely could, because I did.

I just got done finishing fourteen hundred heard words on it, by the way for Dallas Cowboys dot Com. But I thought Mike McCarthy after the game, on his postgame press conference hit it on the head. He goes, we are not a very clean football team right now, and I couldn't agree with them more. You cannot make the mistakes they make. And I don't care if you throw for four hundred and fifty yards again and become the second quarterback in NFL history to have back to back passing

yardage of at least four fifty. I don't care if you become the first Cowboys team to have plus five hundred yards in back to back games. If you make the mistakes they made in that game, I don't care if you overcome a fifteen yard deficit. It's still hard to win a game. You can't fumble the ball at the goal line, recover at the one and it turns into the safety. That's two points you can't have. And I'm going to maintain both of those extra points were blocked.

The first one if you go back and look at it, poona Ford gets penetration he's got his hand in the air and the ball did just a weird thing. So I'm gonna give zirline the benefit of the doubt. But even not, you can't miss two extra points. Now, I just gave you four points, right, If I take those four points, give the Cowboys two more and Seattle two less that they shouldn't have had only thanks to the Cowboys.

It's a thirty six thirty three game in that last possession, and Dak doesn't have to desperately throw the ball into the end zone at the end because he's got a field goal in his back pocket to tie the game. And if I you know what, and if I go into the two turnovers Dak's interception at the end of the half, there's not hardly any time left. And in twenty nine seconds they score a touchdown, and then you come out, he gets sacked, the ball comes out, they

score another touchdown. You've got a struggling defense as it is, and then you just hand the hottest quarterback in the NFL fourteen points. He didn't need those fourteen points. He was doing enough on his own. And you make those mistakes and until they clean this stuff up, you are not going to recover the way they did in Atlanta every week and score forty points to have to win a game there. I only took five minutes, then took it. Gave me a chance to have some notes. I put

some notes down while you were talking. I would have to say that, you know, can we say that the defense actually improved from the two previous games. We're allowed to say that. I mean, when you think about it, a third down ccentage was way up. I was impressed with the effectiveness that they had in spots against Russell Wilson, to see him be a little bit hesitant and some

of the things that he was doing. We actually were consistently holding them to at least to have them think about what they're trying to do, as opposed to just being able to just go up and down the field. We had actually gave them a bit of resistance, and then that's when the mistakes happened. It's not just fumbles, it's not just extra points. It's also coverage. You know, we had. I believe in the three touchdowns that I saw, I don't think anyone was around for I'd say about

ten yards on each touchdown. The first three touchdowns, they were so wide open. Those also came from a coverage mistakes in the secondary, not just that. When you look at the pass rush for the Cowboys, we did improve. We got three sacks by one player. He had a great game and Alton Smith that's kind of what we have come to expect from him. But the problem you

have is people staying in their lanes. When you have a player like Russell Wilson, you've got him on third and six, he knows that you're gonna become an after him. He saw that our pass rush was better, so he started to use that against us. He would allow you to lose your lane coverage when he came to the pass rush, and then he would buy more time with his amazing pocket presence. He would fake like he's gonna run, draw you in by himself, room for the outside, and

there's your man wide open. Thirty and six thirty for we tried to do a good thing. We had Jayla Smith as a spot. That was a good idea, but the spot also has pass coverage. So there was this game between Wilson and Smith in regards to do I make him stay back and play pass or that I can run for those yards and sometimes he would come he would fake the run, come back, Jayleen would come forward,

or any of the coverage would come forward. They become disarrayed and there's an open man right in the middle. It was a chess game that we lost because we've never defensively been able to play chess. We're always playing checkers on defense while a quarterback, at least in this particular instance, he was definitely playing chess. And that's Russell Wilson. So I'm gonna ask you guys this question, and you both can maybe give me a good answer. How do

you have that many busted coverages in one game? Because, as Everson said, you know, and I wrote in my column, you know, social distancing is good for our society, it's not good in coverage. You can be within six yards of the receiver. There was there was. Of his five touchdown passes, only one was somewhat contested. Okay, the rest of them, they're wide open. How do you have that many busted coverages? Were Hunt found this week about the

CG the defense. Jalen Smith complained about the defensive game plan was always too thick. They were going to whittle it down a little bit to where we could kind of absorb it defensively. Well, maybe it did happen a little bit because we seem to have a little bit more effectiveness against a blazingly hot quarterback. But in the end, it was still the same old story. Not only one of the mistakes there, but the pressure was not down

the strets. I'd say his last three drives, I don't know if Russell Wilson got touched unless he decided to run past the line of scrimmage. And it was so disappointing to see how we were effective in most cases without the mistakes, and then when it came down to it, especially after we had the game, what we thought was to go ahead drive in the game, we thought it was gonna be a game winning drive, we still ended

up collapsing defensively on the D line. You know, it seemed like at times, and you guys tell me, it seemed like one guy in the secondary didn't have the call right, Like everybody's playing zone and that guy wants to play man and leaves an area, or everybody's playing man and that guy thinks he's zone and he drops off, and no one covers a guy running free down the middle of the field. How does that happen? You can't

make that many mistakes. You know, it's one thing to physically get beat, when you get beat mentally in the secondary like that, that part I don't understand. You know, even the one that somewhat was contested by Thompson. He and I don't know if he was supposed to that. They were zoning that guy out of the slot, but Jordan Lewis didn't even reroute the guy. He just stood

there and let him go by. And then he stood in space like this, and there wasn't a receiver in twenty yards of him, So what was he supposed to be doing? You know the other one that the guy ran by down the field, you know, Trayvon Diggs is going with him and then he backs off, and I don't know if the safeties thought, oh he's got him covered and he runs right by the whole secondary. You can't make those mistakes. That part I didn't understand, and I can't excuse. And once again here you have a

situation where someone needs to make a play. Just any play at any time would make a difference in a close game like this. I almost had my tray Von Digs interception. I almost predicted that. I was so close, but he didn't catch it. But any one of those instances when you make turnovers, then you put doubt in the receiver's mind, and you put doubt in the quarterback's mind. And we did that from a rush standpoint. But while he was looking down the field, Russell Wilson saw no

threats coming at him. And he's had wide receivers wide open running down the field at any time. You have to counter that with not just sacks, because sacks won't do it. You have to counter that with turnovers, and that would give you momentum and like I said, it puts it out in the quarterbacks mind. You know, I think any quarterback can learn a lot from from Lunch and Russell Wilson. And you know, Dad would be well served, I think from the standpoint of him taking care of

the ball. You know, and we looked looked up his stad is sax last year. I think he was sacked forty eight times. Last year. He was sacked four times in this game. The big thing he doesn't do is turn the football over. I think it's only five picks last year. And you know, sometimes you know, a sack is not a good thing. But you could see and you talked to Everson about his pocket presence, and you know, the Cowboys, the Cowboys were getting decent pressure on him.

At times it wasn't probably wasn't consistent enough, but you know, he's he has the ability to let plays develop. And in fact, Troy was calling the game and he talked about some of the stuff being coverage sex or nearly coverage sex, that there were times the Cowboys seemed to be doing a good job. But I think a lot of that too is Russell is patient in the pocket where he lets things develop and can see the whole

field and so forth. And I mean credit to him for having that ability, and I think that is um you know, being a veteran quarterback, the maturity of a veteran quarterback and understanding it that it's not the end of the world to take a sack. You know. One of the critical um um scenarios in that game was with a minute left in the first half and the Cowboys throw the interception and the Seahawks were able to

convert that into a touchdown. And I don't know, Mickey, I'm sure you're going to go off on the double. Uh penalty and they pick up the flag on the Cowboys. Uh that on the completion of Gregor was an olson Elli sideline of years. That was awesome down the sideline out and um, you know we're we're gonna we're not gonna, We're not gonna worry about the Seahawks penalty on this one. It's the cowboy penalty. You know. I don't know that

Jalen Jalen did not push him out of bounds. The initials shove sent him to the sideline and he was losing it balance and he fell out of bounds. I don't know what the official rules are on that, but uh, that was that was a bad break for the Cowboys. You know, you throw the pick and then you give up seven. There's that's a tough one, you know, where you're down twenty three fifteen at halftime instead of sixteen fifteen.

Well yeah, and it wasn't just that one. I think they had a third down stop and Russell Wilson's out of the pocket. He's way out of the pocket, and I forgot I think it was Whirlie ran into the wide receiver and they called him for a legal contact. I thought when the quarterback was out of pocket. You helped me, Everson. I thought, once he's out of the pocket, you can hit a wide receiver no matter where he's at.

And I thought that was a ticket. If the quarterback is out of the pocket, he has the propensity to run, right, So now he becomes a runner and the wide receiver is a potential blocker. And if he's a potential blocker, then all bets are off. They called and they called interference and are holding and they wasn't holding that. They both ran into each other and he's outside the pocket. How do they call that? And that's a significant play. So yeah, I mean there was a couple of those

weird calls in this game. Uh. And then kind of the unfortunate one on their two point conversion when they got to redo after Tristan Hill clapperd you know, Russell Wilson in the shoulder or head or whatever he hit Uh, And they got a reader to me, Yeah, that's what I thought, you know. And and they said on TV that it was head to head cont you know, No, it wasn't head to head contact. He Hitler really was not hit to hit. No, it was not head to hit. If anything, it was hand to head, and I don't

think it hit him on the head. I thought it hit him on the shoulder. That's what it certainly, I must I have to ask you in regards to these, how do you bring a player down, uh, if he's in the pocket versus if he's a runner. When the young man I believe it was a wagner, he grabbed Zeke by the yes, by the ear the ear hole, like the back of his helmet. It isn't that also? Uh? Face mask? I wasn't sure about that, But I didn't know you could grab someone by the head anywhere under

pelment at any time. I thought. I just assumed that that was also either a horse caller or consider the face mask not I'm wrong, No, I thought it was a horse caller too. I mean, what's what's more dangerous grabbing the guy by the shoulder pads are grabbing him by the back of his helmet and yanking him down basically the neck. Yeah, grabbing him by the neck and slinging him down. Yes, And the referee was right there.

I don't know if we can throw challenges there. But as we talk about the I guess incompetence or question the incompetence of the referee. I think the Cowboy coaching staff should also be on point to make sure and bring these up to them in the future because and when I say the future, that means future just future plays, not future games, but future plays, because that could be a factor when it comes to another critical part of

the ball game where a flag is not called. I think that they have to have some type of quality control on the sidelines. I'm sure they do. We always did. I'm sure every NFL team has quality control on the sidelines and regloss that someone needs to check the ref in regards to how consistent they are in the calls that they make. Sky Judge Sky just being started. We're just we're getting started here on a Mick Shuns Monday

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The Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop introduces the New Era nineteen sixty headwear collection. Find the full assortment at your nearest Cowboys Pro Shop and on shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com. Micky, do you have any headwear? They're in the SWBC mortgage studios today. I had it last week and I didn't bring it down this week, things got a little bit rushed to fit everything in I needed to do before

this show started. It doesn't go with his outfit. Bill, any Cowboys gear goes with whatever Mickey is where right? You know that? Get it right? That's right. I was trying to look up the rule on the face mask twisting, turning or pulling the masks. Yeah, I mean it looks like it's mask only, but you're right in that case, when you're grabbing around the bottom of the back of the helmet and as the same effect of pulling a

face mask, they need to do it. They need to address that rule if it's if it's not a pleasure that they have talked about that you have so many instances where yeah, I thought so too. Yeah, yeah, in many ways the face mask, if it's not a twist turn or and you know one has something to do with it. I guess a twist turner pool. I don't have enough time too. I would have to say that he was definitely pulled them down twists before he went there. Yeah.

But anyway, Um, there's so much to get into. Mickey. Where would you like to go next? You know what I thought I'd point out, uh and and Everson pointed it out in his first segment rant uh Alden Smith the guy if if I got my stats right, I know he had three sacks. Okay, he also ends up with four quarterback hits. So now in three games he's got four sacks, and in his contract, if he ends up with eight sacks, he gets an extra five hundred

thousand dollars. He's halfway to it in three games. If he gets ten sacks, he has a million dollar incentive. So it has been phenomenal what he's been able to do. And they kind of moved him around. You know, he was on the right side and he went to the left side, and if somebody else could come along with him, you know, they they ended up hitting Russell Wilson eight times and he gets sacked what was it four? Five

times or four times? They just need they need something else in the middle of least Antoine Woods helped out and and got that sacked. At time they get they're getting no push from the middle, none whatsoever. In fact, I thought, I'm not I thought Smith should have been

crentity with it. That should have been by half a sack age, right, Yeah, he would have had four and a half three and a half, three and a half, three and a half in that case, well he got him on my notes could see an NT one, you know,

but into one. They needed that out of somebody else, one of the interior guys being able to put some pressure up the middle on him, and Antoine has that ability, and they're not they're they're getting if it's a by game plan, But when you have Russell Wilson, it seems as if when it was time, I don't know if it was by design or not, but it seemed as if they were able to keep the two tackles at bay on the pass rush while our defensive Vans was clearly be he forced outside, and Russell was able to

step up almost any time he wanted to, especially on those key third down plays. I'm not sure if that's by design or not, but it seemed to work perfectly for him. And as much as all Done was coming around the outside, as much as DeMarcus was coming around the outside, they were doing nothing but leaving a big gap for Russell to pretty much have a clear view

of the field. And I thought that was I thought that just has to be by designed or at least something that Russell anticipated because of the way the game was going on. That's why I say it's a chess match. He you know, that's something that he doesn't have to tell anybody else. That's something that Russell Wilson himself would probably recognize and use it to his advantage. Yeah, it was almost like they put a bigger priority in blocking them up the middle than they did on the edges.

That's true, because they know the edges that coming around that they know that all they have to do is just give them a shoulder or a pathway outside, and they must take it. And all Russell does is faint as if he's doing his normal drop back, and as soon as he plants, he sees the discrepancy there in the middle, and he takes advantage of it. On the rule on the face mask not the way you need

to dwell on this at all. But no player shall grasp and control, twist, turn, push, or pull the face mask or a helmet opening of an opponent in any direction. If a player grasping an opponent's face mask or a helmet opening, he must immediately release it. If he does not immediately release it and controls his opponent, it is a foul. That's a personal file. That's a pre file. The ear hole. Would that be an opening on the helmet, yes, it would, or underneath the bay that's open. Yeah, there

you go. All of it is open, all of it anyway. All right, all right, mickey, Yeah, give me a positive. What's what's what's Give me a positive. They came out of this despite the lack of coverage, I mean the lack of protection. Dak still throws for four hundred and seventy two yards four hundred and seventy two. No cowboy quarterback has done that in back to back games for fifty or more. Uh. And you know he was under siege quite a bit. Now he only got sacked twice,

but he got hit ten times. They had ten quarterback hits. Wow. And and here's my question, now, somebody you know there, it's being thrown out there that Terrence Steele had uh you know, food poisoning or stomach problem before the game. He had to take ivs and then they ended up taking them out. I was thinking they should have made that move long time ago. Why did they wait till there was forty seven left in the third quarter? Put Zack Martin out at tackle at least protect him from

that side. And after they made that move on the offensive line, moving Zach out Looney to guard and Beadish to center, they went down and drove ninety four yards for a touchdown. I believe they drove another eighty nine for a touchdown, and then drove seventy for a field goal. They racked up two hundred and fifty three yards of total offense on those three successive drives, scoring seventeen points.

So I just think that's got to be a thought if Lall Collins is not able to come back, and it sure sounded like from what Stephen Jones said on his radio interview this morning, that he may be a little further out than what we thought. And so if he can't come back and Tyrn can't come back, they can't put those two young offensive tackles back out there again. Everybody's got tape on it now. They know what's coming

or not coming, so they're taking advantage of it this week. Yes, I know some guy named Miles Garrett, and I'm sure he's fired because everybody, everybody from Dallas that didn't get drafted by the Cowboys, they're pissed off, right, So they're all fired up. What's that Martin? In fact, he ward the Tom Landry Award as the best high school football player in North Texas and then went to Texas A and M and Cleveland Browns. And now, how many the wards does Tom Andrew have out there? Myself and I

didn't them in high schooling? You know that this is when we didn't start until about ten or eleven years ago. Um, you know. And by the way, Miles Garrett happens to be, unless it's changed since he signed the contract this summer, the highest paid defensive defensive player defensive lineman in the National Football League. So there's that. And I have to say,

Bill before you continue. You talk about the problems you have with the offensive line, you could see that there was also affecting in what he was trying to do in the ball game. You just didn't have a connection between all of the offensive linemen. One thing that the Seahawks are good at, regardless of what kind of problems they're having, They've always been able to play the run. Well. The only acceptance exception to that throughout the past has

been against the Dallas Cowboys. But for some reason this particular time and maybe because of the injuries, maybe because of our we didn't have the continuity in regards to the offensive linement that we've usually had, they were able to take advantage of our hesitancy in regards to the blocks that were supposed to make. So even though Zeke didn't get the yards that they wanted, what you're gonna see in the future teams are gonna start playing us

pass first. That's gonna be pressure on the passing game. So we need to take a look at that development as we moved forward. How is that going to continue to put these numbers up while teams are going to continue to start putting more dbs out there, and eventually they might even stop start playing those Amba defenses against us at all times and other one a very few linemen and a lot of linebackers in one of those lines.

Everson I went back and looked at it trying to figure out, you know it was there a certain play that Terence Steele did not make on the previous drive that led them. That was kind of the final straw we got to make a change here on the fourth and one play on the what was the Cowboys second possession of a third quarter where Zeke barely got the first down. Boy, we had a right on that they were with steel. Sarah got driven back into the backfield by L. J. Coyer the defensive end out of TCU.

I mean basically one hand, just just uh Stone name and driving back into the and Zeke had to it just on his run because he had to go around Steele. So I mean that Maia played a factor because at that point, you know, they basically made the decision with Mickey with eleven minutes left in the third quarter, they were making the change. That's when the Cowboys drive ended.

But then Seattle had the ball until the six and a half minute mark, and so that's when uh It manifested for us watching um but I think that was the one play that was glaring that that Steele got beat on a play leading up to that, and by way the stamps for Dak which would have been in the final twenty one minutes and thirty eight seconds of the game. After they made that switch on the offensive line, he was twenty out of twenty nine for two hundred

and seventy four yards and two touchdowns. That was the final twenty one minutes of the game. He passed for two hundred and seventy four yards and two touchdowns. Well, I think that's plan going forward. I was going to ask, do we have a new offensive line now? Do we have a new line up? I mean, they just can't get they can't get five guys out there to play together for any amount of time, you know. And maybe

the same thing on the defensive line. You know, DeMarcus Lawrence, I think I think he only played twenty let me see here, he played thirty one snaps, so forty one percent of the snaps. Now, at least he got out there and he was getting penetration. I know he didn't get a sack, but he had a couple of tackles and he was kind he was making a pest of himself. But again, you know, they need more, They need more. They just can't have one or two guys doing that.

And then same thing on the offensive mind, these guys just aren't playing together enough and they keep switching things out. All I know is when this happened last year and they had both of their starters missing that that one game, and I was like, okay, so Jason Garrett, who's the next who's the next tackle up? If one of those those guys get hurt. And he basically looked at me, raised his eyebrows and he goes, probably Zach Martin. You know, it was almost like, we can't be fooling around with

these other guys. We got to protect our quarterback. Nope, we need a real and one other thing. Now you start talking about the different options that we have. I like Zeke in regards to uh, how how we're trying to get him the ball. We're trying to be very creative because we weren't running well. But when we start throwing these screen passes, all the passes have to be better and he's got to catch them. They gave him

I think they gave him four drops. I'd have to say that that should share in two of those drops because you know, you just got to get it to him better. You need to put it in a better place because when you're going out for a screen pass, you know you've got to it's a it's a decoy move. So while you're trying to set the office the defensive linement up, I want to be able to catch that ball quickly and turn around and see where I gotta go. And there are times when Dad just didn't put it

in a friendly spot. Yes, he should have caught him. He would never blame Dad for that, but I'd give d I'd give him half of those those two drops of the head. Right, we continue with more and Mick Shunson just him more it. Hey, they're cowboys fans with Type Cleaners at Home pickup and delivery, Cleaning your clothes has never been more convenient. Simply sign up at your local store, set out your dirty clothes, and one of our ty Cleaners professionals will come directly to your home

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fault for guys dropping my passes. Oh that was a little false story there. We got pen lions five yards. He was dealing with a high maintenance client, that would be And by the way, I wanted to add this stat too. Prescott, through three touchdowns of forty plus yards or more in the game right, broke a record that the three Cowboy quarterbacks had Craig Morton, Tony Romo and Dak Prescott all once had three. How about that? So they he tied it. I'm sorry, Uh, they all had

three forty or more yard touchdown passes. Rather incredible. You know we talk about something positive Bill, what about number eless? Yes, yes, where we lose the Mari Cooper and we don't miss a beat? Am I Right? Well, they they kind of he kind of spelled them at times to give him some Uh. So he didn't have to play the entire game with that foot that was bothering him. But ever

since he had a sparkling training camp. He was doing that stuff in training camp and you could see Dak trust because he would go to him when they got in those team situations. So you know, he's been hurt. Those first two years. He was on and off injured reserve. He was never healthy. Now he's healthy and he's got that ability. I mean he ran away from people. It's not the fact that he just caught the ball and

ran away from people. So now you got four. You catch a receiver who usually when you catch a receiver, you know, first time in the game, he gets a chance and oh my god, here comes the ball. They usually catch it and then their feet stop working. The whole brain stops working their content with the reception, and but this guy ready to go to the house every time he touches the ball. Now, the two touchdowns were amazing, but it was a first down on a bubble screen

that may have impressed me even more. I think it was only third and two, third and three. We had this complicated option read bubble screen way too much for a third and two or third and three. But thank god it turned out. And it turned out because he was able to make a last second on the linebacker before getting blasted that would have prevented him from making that first down. He saw the guy coming, made an instinctive move, linebacker misses him, he goes forward for about

three or four more yards. I think that first down was probably as big as his second testdown that he made. We needed that drive to continue. Five catches, one hundred and seven yards and two touchdowns for Cedric Wilson. And by the way, because I think he was spilled not only Cooper but also Cedee Lamb there in the second half, maybe get us a little bit too. When you throw the football fifty seven times for four hundred and seventy two yards and you're throwing it down field like the

Cowboys are you need all five of your receivers. I mean, Noah, Broilers get a lot of playing time or great in the game as well. You know, we talked so much about the three headed monster at wide receiver. If we're going to throw the ball fifty seven times, and they don't want to fill the ball fifty seven times. They want to play from ahead in these games, and then you're not having to throw for over four hundred yards and at fifty seven passes. But in this type of offense,

you need those five receivers. Just I was thinking at the end of that game. In fact, I said that my wife we were watching it. I'm like, these receivers have to be so gas right now. On that last drive, I mean, think about just how many miles they had

logged just running routes yesterday. Yeah, especially on the last drive when they allowing on that it down field and he was having to throw everything underneath, and so they're making all that effort and they're not getting anything because he can't get the ball down the field because they had those safeties almost twenty yards deep on that entire drive. They weren't going to let anything behind them. But you

know what. Having said that on that near sack that he spun out of and it got intercepted in the end zone, I see what he saw. He just didn't get enough on the ball because he had two receivers behind all the defenders. If he had gotten it up a little higher, a little further, Michael Gallup's gonna make that catch. I guarantee you he would have. And that was the you know, everybody goes, oh, what is he doing? While I saw what he was trying to do. He

just didn't get enough on it. Yeah, I And you know, maybe in his mind and maybe in his mind that that play probably felt like it was twenty seconds long and he's thinking, I'm running out of time. I gotta go right. And if he would have taken if he would have just dumped that off onto the sidelines and all of a sudden this only there's nothing on the clock, it would have been the like the bull play of

the year. And I agree with the skads from all of that, stumbling around you in the pocket, all of that, I don't have time to look and see what the play clock is doing or what the game clock is. I'm he did it. It was not a good pass, but it was the best he could do. I'm with you, Spags that they had to be running off r sixteen cent like you said, Bill, running a whole lot of pass routes. I believe it was sixteen cent once that

by snapped. So it was a ten second to be like watching it did it took more than sixteen seconds. It ended up being a It ended up being a ten second play because it ended at six. So yeah, I'm sure in his mind he was like, God, I've been doing this forever. I gotta go, I gotta throw it.

That's one of those things where it's silly see for us watching in a press boxer at home munching on television, because we can see what the clock said when when he's under durest and it was such a remarkable athletic play just to keep his bounce. The game is over if his knee hits the ground there. Yeah, and and so at that point his head is not only his buddy was stinning, but his head had to be spinning so much. He didn't I and I saw exactly on

the replay, Nikki, what you're talking about too. At the time that he had to make the decision to pull the trigger on it. You can see from that end zone shot that they had. He had a couple of guys there, but they collapsed to it. You're right, Yeah, this isn't This isn't like the NBA when you can sit there and dribble and you're looking at the basket and there's a timer right above the backboard, right, you don't have time to kind of oh, where where's the

time in the stadium here? Oh okay, I can throw this out of bounce, I get I get a hill marriage and nobody's getting nobody's getting nobody's getting No one's getting hit in basketball either. Yeah, all right in the head like that. It's a totally different or aware that problem that you have. Yes, all right, that does it.

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