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office as well. Because the Cowboys somehow yes yes on Sunday Afternoon today at and t cdm Okay, here's what I said. I stole the line from Jack Buck when Kirk Gibson came out of the clubhouse and hit a home run in the World Series against Dennis Eckersley in the A's in nineteen eighty eight. I don't believe what I just saw. That's what I said when Greg Surline had the most unique on side kick I've seen since

Tony Fritch in nineteen seventy two. I remember that one one he had the right foot went behind the left foot right, Remember that behind the back one behind the behind the ankle behind the calf, Billy, you got companies bags. You don't remember that one too. I think I probably wasn't intimately watching the Cowboys in nineteen seventy two. We're gonna delete. We're gonna delete you from this conversation. Got All I got when in college was either the card

the Cardinals or the Chiefs. That's all we got. Oh, well, yeah, you saw the Cowboys kick plenty. But then if right, I like Brad Sham's final words was after we kicked the field goal, kiss that pig. I believe, kiss that pig. I love that one. I love that one. There was an ugly win, but it was still extremely exciting. So I guess kiss that pig would be the one that pretty much captures everything about that game. Yeah, if they could have just started in the second half, it would

have There wouldn't have been a pig. You would have said, oh, what a remarkable performance, right getting rid of the first quarter? Cheese, oh pete. Maybe they thought it was a three o'clock start. I don't know, but it sure didn't work out at noon for them for sure. Well, we were you know, the Falcons were on East Coast time, so they should have been the ones that had to wake up issues

because they came out extremely aggressive. I don't know if they saw something in film or whatever, but they came out just punching at the ball every time they had a chance. Sometimes it wasn't just fumbles. I mean, it was a calculated effort to knock the ball out of our receiver's hands. And that's including Zeke Elliott. So you know it was Zeke's high school team ain't doing it. Yeah, he knew something. He knew something, That's what it was.

That's from an old school game plan that he came out with on that one so very unusual game, very ugly game, I gotta tell you, guys, but in the end, I did not care how ugly we won. Let's let's face it, guy, we have lost so many games in that same fashion. So I'm I'm not going to you know, Dallas water on this wind, you know, as as as little as I can. I mean, there's things that we have to sort out, but you know, we are so

accustomed to losing games like this. I'm not going to be ashamed to say that I was happy that we won the game that we should have lost. Let's just be real, we should have lost, and so let's just finally we get to flip the script on all those guys, all those fans that against the Dallas Cowboys. Well, how would you like to be in the falcon shoes and sitting there going, well, we should have won and you didn't. I think that's probably easy. We've been there. That's the problem. Yeah,

I think so many times that's the issue. So I just thought, you know, if you can, you can get past the start, uh and basically get past past the majority of the defensive possessions other than the one that they had to have, uh, you know, from an offensive standpoint, I mean they five hundred and seventy yards. Think about that,

Dat threw for four hundred and fifty yards. It's rather remarkable with the protection he was facing or wasn't facing, didn't have and playing with two undrafted offensive tackles, one a rookie, the other one in his second year, starting his second game, and you still threw for four hundred and fifty yards. I mean, I just thought that was the most remarkable performance under those circumstances and falling behind so many times that you would ever see in a

football game. So my point on this whole game is I don't want to hear nothing else about Dat can't do this and DAT can't do that. He can't come from behind, he can't win a close game. The guys got fifteen come from behind victories since the start of the twenty sixteen season, and that ties him for the most with guy named Drew Brees along with Derek Carr. So stop the nonsense from now on. Okay, that's my point on this show, and this is so weird s facts.

You will still find commentary that talks about how his receiver has basically bailed him out on so many different occasions. And as I look at, you know so many great quarterbacks that are human and we still give them the benefit of the doubt. Dak has always been that guy. They will concentrate so much. There will always be an asterisk by any stat that Dak Prescott throws up there. The asterisk is always going to be the key, and I think that's extremely unfair for a guy who's got

the heart that he has. Okay, I got a question for you. Do you want me to do something about my dog, Romo? Please do That's not bothering your dog, Romo. Feed your dog. Is I got two beagles, uh Bo and Romo, and I've got that huggeting up to where they're supposed to be in the kitchen. It sounds like they might have got out. And Romo is the one barking in the background. And I think he's barking because he's upset because Deck has now matched Romo with four

hundred yard games in his career. But two beagles, they were they were born in two thousand and seven, so they're thirteen years old, Romo's first year as a starter. And we name one Romo and the other one I wanted to name to but my wife and daughters said, no, we get to name the other. I'm sure Romo doesn't watch. Don't rename bow Deck because Romo would really really be pissed. Okay, So I'm leaving for one second to go close my office door so we don't hear Romo as well. So hope.

So we don't need you, Bill, We don't need you, you know, And and and Everson. One of the remarkable things was that that was the when the Cowboys fell behind by twenty points to start the game. That was their largest deficit to come back. Our second largest deficit to come back in and win the game. And I was looking at the other games and I was there. Well, now I'm there for four of the top five the largest deficits they had with twenty one points. That was

the season opener against Saint Louis in twenty fourteen. My first game I covered for the Dallas Times Herald of a Cowboys game was that Sunday night game against New New Orleans Saints in nineteen eighty four. It was the overtime victory. Had fallen behind by twenty one points, and remember it came back in that last nit or two with two touchdowns to tie it up. I believe it was a Randy White forced fumble that Jim jeff Cote recovered uh in the end zone. Kenny Stabler was the quarterback.

That was. Ken Stabler was a quarterback, and I have never seen Randy White act like such a child ever and was hilarious. Remember that video was watching him jump up and down after bumble was the funniest thing I had ever seen. And it was the coolest thing I've ever seen, you know, because you're watching the manster of all people, who's one of the most honorary people you ever want to meet. I think he was the more proud of himself at that moment than he has ever

been in his tire life, you know. And I remember he was like he was jumping on a pogo stick. Yes, yes, like a little guy. I can imitate it, but I won't do it right now again. You know what in that game, if you remember, it was a Sunday night game, and it started late because the presidential debates went long and so and to set the stage for it, I think that at the time, maybe the Cowboys were four and three and they were you were falling off the face.

And Randy Galloway in the Dallas Morning News basically wrote an entire column that the Cowboys were dead, that they were you know, they're gonna lose this game, and the

Cowboys are dead, right. Well, remember Tex used to sit in the press box and he sat right in the row right behind me, And this is my first game, and I don't know know what the protocol is or anything, and he's he's grumping up there, and everybody's on deadline because the game started late, and basically everybody had written their stories right ready to go, just needed the final score. The Cowboys come back and tie it up, and it

goes into overtime, and you hear everybody banging the tables right. Oh, that text leads out. He looked, he leads out, and he yells, hey, Randy, you look dead. And then the Cowboys ended up winning the game in overtime. And then the other one was the season opener in in in UH nineteen. It was at nineteen ninety nine when they fell behind like thirty five thirty five seven or something

like that. Uh, and and Troy Aikman came back with three touchdowns to tie it up, uh near the right at the end, and then through the deep ball to uh rocket rockmail after Rocket had dropped the same pattern earlier in the game. And the uh the name of the play was red glare. So it was a rocket red glare. So don't forget the only one would have been there against the Redskins down twenty points. Yes, and it looked like that was the reasons we were down

twenty points. I was one of the reasons we were down twenty points. Uh. The Redskins had figured out I would flex defensive coverage. UH. They realized that you could easily put the Cowboys from a zone into a man to man just by the positioning of the backs, and coach Joe Gibbs figured that out, and that was the first time we had started seeing what you called hitch routes.

They had. They had eaten us alive. They would put us in a man to man situation and they would throw five yard routes, knowing that we always covered off from a zone position because that was the zone call out of the Hubble, And what it did was put us at an extreme disadvantage, isolating the cornerbacks one on one, so they would have the little fun bunch that they had, those little smurfs, I believe is what they had called them.

I think Howard Cosell started called them smurfs. So they had the little smurfs out there, one brown and they would catch the ball a lot of distance between us and them. They would shake us down. Next thing you know, they have a drive going down the field. We're down like twenty three to three, if I'm not mistaken. All of a sudden, we decided to change up the defense and go to a cover two. Now you can't run

those hitch routes. They could not make the adjustments. The Redskins could not make the adjustments, Tony Hill and Danny White start to go off. I remember Tony Hill going down the sidelines and just eating up their dbs alive. I think he caught two touchdowns passes in that game, and we ended up coming back and winning that game. At that time, that was our most I think it was our most the big comeback we had ever had

in Cowboy history up until that point. I don't know if I right, because the twenty one the twenty one point deficits came in eighty four, ninety nine, and twenty fourteen, so yeah, you're absolutely right. And we also did that in RFK Stadium as well, So the second half of that game you would have thought it was a COVID game because you could not hear anyone in the stands, but Cowboy fans in RFK the best feeling in the world. Bill, Are you good? Are you done? Dog City? Oh yeah, yeah,

I've been enjoying the conversation. We need we're up against her break. But let me give you now, you were just listening the top comebacks in Cowboys history in terms of how many points they were down overcoming deficits twenty and twenty one point deficits the top five in Cowboys history. I put this game in the way it finished the last minute comeback in my top five favorite Cowboy comebacks

of all time. And I started in nineteen seventy two with the playoff game against San Francisco, the game we alluded to earlier. Tony Fritz had the on side kick and Roger had two touchdown passes, one to Billy Parks and the other to Ron Sellers. I think that was the game where Larry Cole was. I'm rolling around on the sideline. That's right. They were down twenty eight sixteen with two minutes left, and they came back and one thirty to twenty eight. I'm doing this in chronological order.

The second one is the Hail Mary with thirty two seconds left of the game. The next one would be Rogers last regular season game in nineteen seventy nine, which is two touchdowns in the last couple of minutes, one

to Ron Springs. All together Tony him yeah against Washington thirty five, thirty four, and then I'll fast forward all the way to two thousand and seven and Tony Romo throws picks against Buffalo Monday Night football, and the Cowboys come back, and they scored ten points in the last twenty seconds of that game, a touchdown pass and then a Nick folk on side kick, and with six seconds left, and then with two seconds left he kicks a fifty

three yard field goal to win it. And then I'll put this one in as a number five on the list. There's others in there, but for me, those are my five all time favorites. Those are good favorites. Bill, Okay, all right, when we come back, let's break down what went wrong and what went right a lot of the dude, and we'll need all week to discuss this. But mix shots continues in a moment. Hey, they're Cowboys fans. With Tight Cleaners at home pickup and delivery, cleaning your clothes

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Falcons and now the Seattle Seahawks. This week and then what a win for Seattle last night over New England thirty five to thirty as New England had the ball down at the one yard line and Cam Newton was stopped short by a TCU hornfrog mister Collyer from a first round draft pick making the play. But we'll get into the Seahawks this the week progresses. There's so much to break down on Sunday's game. First off, I just

love having fans in the stands. I know, I don't care whether they are just a smattering of fans or not, but but I like the fact that they were fans of the stands any so funny, no matter how small the amount of fans, you could still hear the booze. The booze were real loud, right at right at half time twenty one, seven hundred and eight. Yeah, and they were all kind of spaced out, and uh, you know, I don't know, I don't know if TV showed many

shots of the stands, but they showed everybody was spaced out. Now, there would be groups of people, and remember you could buy as many as six and they put you in a pod. But if you were six in a row, there was nobody sitting in front of you and nobody's sitting behind you. And then the next row had some more people that way, and so they spaced everything out, and uh, the only thing I noticed was those masks didn't last for four quarters on the majority of the

people sitting there. I mean, did you expect them to at all. There's no way you can keep your mask on because they were eating and drinking, yes, right, and of course yes, and screaming there that has something to do with it, and screaming their brains out right. You can't you can't boom, you can't boo effectively with a mask on. It just doesn't work. Well, there was a lot of boo on four of the first five the processions, well in the first quarter. I mean, it reminded me

of the way the nineteen ninety four three Championship game began. Yeah, well they were playing in ninety season. Yeah, no, it was a ninety four season, yeah, sorry, ninety four season, yes, yeah, yeah, ninety four season January ninety five. The three turnovers that San Francisco turned into twenty one points the first seven or eight minutes of the game whatever it was, Uh, and then throwing in a fake punt that didn't work

as well. Uh So the Cowboys actually could have been further down than what they were at the end of the first quarter, but they were as it was down twenty to nothing. Yeah, they were able to those last two possessions, the fourth and fifth one. They held him to field goals. After the fake punt failed, which should have worked if c J. Goodwin kept his feet, he slipped and fell. Uh and then Dalton Shoultz losing. Oh you're gonna put that on CJ. Well, you didn't think

it was a horrible, horrible pass athlete. I keep hearing about what a great athlete our quarter our putter is, and he throws a duck. It never should have been that difficult guy. He had fallen before the baby got there. He did slip. Now he was on the ground, no reason, because he's always known, even for him to even have to be on the ground, that ball should hit him

in the chest. That's all. That's the problem. That's the problem with running a fake punt when Danny White's not a punter, saying billing a pass to a defensive back, none to a wine receiver, No, no, no, It depends on the defensive back let's be really yeah, okay, unless the defensive back has fifty seven inter subjects, then you can run that thing cornerback. I just I just really felt that this was one of the ugliest winds we've ever had. I said it earlier and even when we

started off the fourth quarter. I mean, you talk about the first part of the game. Of course, these fumbles. You know, Schultz finally gets them to make a catch. You know, he's looking forward to having a good game. They puss the ball out on him. Zeke comes out of I don't know how Zeke fumble twice. If I'm not mistaken, they only recovered one, and so we once again, we could have been a much better situation. What worst situation?

And the other thing I say is I can't believe I'm giving the defense credit after a game they end up forty to thirty nine because when you look at three of those four turnovers, they actually held, which was unusual.

They actually held the Falcons to a couple of field goals, which you know, when you when this is a game like this, every victory helps, you know, any individual win, any situational win helps in a game like this, because as we go on, we will note many times where that particular play kind of held the game in balance. So this is this is one of those just topsy turvy games. Well, if you look at if you look

at the defenses part in this. After the first two possessions, the Falcons scored on eight of ten possessions, eight of ten, all right, and and the one they stopped them, they had to stop them to get the ball back, and that was the first sack of the game. Everson Griffin got a sack on second down which led to them having to actually mount the ball and Mikky the other one, Jones dropped a touchdown. Yes, absolutely so they were. They

were like, oh fer after the first two possessions. Yet when they needed to get the stop to create that next possession for the Cowboys offense, they got it somehow, some way, which was rather remarkable because the defense, I'll tell you what, they better hurry because that front gave Matt Ryan the time of day in the pocket to the point where he's running out in gaining yards when no one's open. Uh. We we talked all training camp about this pass rush, this, this and this, and it's

non existent. They're not getting there. I don't know what the deal is, but they're not even coming close to putting pressure on an opposing quarterback. And you know, and now they got it next week, you know, next Sunday with Russell Wilson and this guy. If you don't get pressure on him, you know, he's either completing it or he's running by you. So they better figured it out

real quick. Russell Wilson last night. Russell Wilson last night against the number one defense in the league last year, which returned virtually all of their secondary is back this year, and he threw five touchdown passes to five different receivers last night. Yeah, he doesn't get picked up, didn't he get picked off for a touchdown right the start of the game, And then after that m according to start the game pick six, and then after that the roof

came in. So yeah, this defense, you know, Meal, you got to score forty points to win a game. You gained five hundred despite the turnovers. They gained five hundred and seventy yards, five hundred and seventy yards, four hundred and fifty passing, scored forty points, and you had to score forty to win by one. It's just absolutely remarkable.

So you know, this defense starting to look like stuff I saw in that twenty that you know that twenty thirteen season when they gave up forty five, thirty seven, forty nine, thirty one, and fifty one to Denver and got fifty one forty eight. So they better figure things out quickly. Well. Yeah, the thing that I can point out as well, the Falcons did their best to give us the game, and there were moments where we were like, nine, we don't want it. You know, you can have it.

You can have this game. We'll go oh and two, We'll be fine with that. That's just the way that game seemed to go out. As many mistakes as we made, the Falcons probably made a few more. I thought one instance, it was a very understated moment. But while the Falcons are up with all these points and that the clock in their favor, I believe it's about fourth something left in the game, they throw the ball on like second

and ten or something like that. You know, there was no reason for them to even attempt to throw a ball at that time. The Cowboys hadn't stopped them doing anything. When they threw that ball that stopped the clock. I think we ended up getting the ball back again with about three thirty left. If they would have just kept running the ball, the Cowboys would probably have gotten that ball around the two minute warning at the end of

the game, still down by fifteen. So just small things in that game where the Falcons really showed how they're just as incompetent as we are as Dallas Cowboys. I've never seen a game where it seemed like two teams really didn't want to win, you know, they just wanted to go out there, and I think they wanted to extend the game. They looked like they wanted to just play more. Probably ever, was when they ended up there was four thirty nine left the Cowboys that called a

time out. It was second and twelve, and that's when Griffin sacked Ryan to make it thirty and eighteen and forced them to punt, and the Cowboys got the ball back with two fifty seven left, down thirty nine thirty and then that's where things even got the more interesting, right. Yeah, But to your point, I think he was on the

previous possession. If we were on Atlanta Falcons Radio today, we'd be talking about the previous possession where they're ahead thirty six to twenty four and I don't have the time. It was with about eight or nine minutes left in the game, and they've got a first and ten at the twelve yard line. They ran girly for four and then on second down a second and six, they throw an incomplete pass. And on thirty six they throw an incomplete pass. They could have they could have if they

run the ball there. They they got a twelve point lead, and they wound up kicking a field goal. Anyway, on second and third down, they could have run a minute off the clock, and that's about giving the Cowboys the ball back with a third with a fifteen point lead. They gave the ball back with seven fifty seven left. There would have been six fifty seven left. I mean, there's things like that you make. You make offensive play calling decisions like that, and you're gonna blow a twenty

eight to three Super Bowl lead. And you know what that was the first time. You know what that was the first time I think Alden Smith actually you knew he was in the game because he got pressures on both of those incomplete passes. And they finally got around Ryan on second and seven and third and seven at the night. Yeah, they got a little greedy. You're you're exactly right, because the Cowboys did get the ball back

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All right, do you remember who your picks to? Click? We're on Friday? Everson Walls reminded me, why are you smiling so much? Spagnola? He is? You know, he just pulled that out of his butt last week, and all of a sudden, Z line comes and does Well, I think I called like four field goals or something like that, and he would hit the game winners, So basically I can credit for the onside kick too. Right. I don't think I've ever I'm not sure I've ever seen one

like that. It was almost you know what, I doubt I thought that they were going to call a quick kick, you know, like in baseball you quick picked somebody. He quick kicked it because I think they thought he was standing there, set the ball up parallel to the line of scrimmage on the ground, and then he was going to back up. And he just stood there flat footed and kicked it. And the thing went like sideways, and he kept going and going and going, and you know,

and c. J. Goodwood, God bless him. He had the patience to know where he was and win to pounce on the ball. It was incredible. There was a reason he was the Special Team's captain yesterday. Yeah, J, let's be let's let's let's be one thing. I've always known about great plays like that, and I've been a part of them. Of course, Uh, great plays happened for one

team because of the failure of the opposition. The failure of the opposition has as much to do with the completion of a great play than the team that made the play, than them being able to carry through with it. I've always said that, So when you're gonna make a great play like Goodwin did well. It was because of the ignments of the Falcon Special teams and the hold up his was crazy. They called the time out when they saw what Spags was just illustrating just what he's

talking about. So what the hell did they talk about during the time out If they do not know that they can test the ball before ten yards, that made it even more ridiculous. This guy, in my eyes, and when really made it ridiculous. We've all known since we started playing football when we were seven eight years old, what the rules are on an onside kick, all right, I mean, well, and to think about it, okay, when the coaches get or in their special teams meeting in Atlanta.

All right, you were going to have to fall on that football at some point. You might as well do it before it goes to ten yards where it is uncontested. Where you jump on the football, your chances of recovering it are much better if the other guy's not jumping on the pilot the same time. Right, they could have had three guys jump on it. One guy could have

jumped on and two guys could have covered up. Right, and they sat there and waiting, waiting and waiting and it was like, oh my, it was like they were hypnotized. You know. The only excuse I've heard, the only excuse I heard. I had a great lie. Let me go, okay, go ahead. I had a great line. They said they thought when they were competing in curling. Yeah, that's the best line. They just didn't have. They didn't have room

trying to blow it foul. Tony Gonzalez said on the postgame show that he goes the only excuse I could even come remotely to give him is that they didn't think it was gonna make ten yards, so it didn't matter. And it's like, okay, but still it was almost stopped. All you had to do is fall on it. I don't think I've ever seen one like that before, and

think about it. In fact that I thought of this, this was the first time the Cowboys have ever played a game the same day as the final round of the US Open, and I thought it was it was fitting. It was fitting that they win the game on a perfectly lagged on side punt by Greg Zurline. I mean, if he if he had a putter out and he was he was putting a seventy yard putt he could not have lagged it any bad. I just thought it

was amazing. You know, they're they're also see that's that that is that lets you know the Falcons are just as in or even more in as we are. Because what you saw, the failure you saw with the Falcons, that's what we were accustomed to, like especially the second half of last season. The entire second half of last season, we always had some type of backle that led to some unusual loss on our part. So it's just good

to be on the other side of it. Great to be on the other side of you know, if you go back and watch the replay of that after after a good one fell on it, I thought John Fossil was going to jump on the pile to cover him up. The official had to yank him off the field and get him behind him so he could come in and make the call. He was so exciting. I'm thinking, well, he needed fail after two failed faith right, he needed that.

Boy did he need that. We all needed that. Okay, the other thing that had to happen, and the other thing that had to happen. The Cowboys weren't in field goal range and they came through, and I would like to let you all know that reminds you that my pick to click was a guy named CD Lamb. And how about CD Lamb and the way he played in this game, and how about the veteran move that he made.

And he was well coached by somebody on that staff with a receivers coach, Adam Henry whoever it was that, Okay, here's the game plan. We recover this on sidekick and now we do not want Atlanta to have the football again. We're going down to score. And so he uh, you know, he broke the ankles of the DP that was covering him and then he's running down field twenty five yards and he didn't go out of bound bound. He doesn't take it hit, doesn't risk losing the football. He were

in field goal range at that point. A very heavy moved by a rookie right there. No, he was. He was removable in the game, man, you know, and he would have had, you know, another great play if not for I guess the block they called him on. I just thought it was a real heavy play on his part. And you know there was another tackle that that did a tough call Scags, that was such a tough call, absolutely yes, it was, but he showed it and I

got his hands. Yes, I like the way you had certain guys, and once again I'm going back to defense. Believe it or not. I thought Joe Thomas, Yes, especially the second half of the game. I thought he came through and played the way a linebacker should play. I thought his blitzes were time like him. I thought that he read a couple of plays. I think he shot the gap on his own a couple of times. The Latists some big losses, timely losses for the Falcon's offense.

So I just had to give up give him some love because I saw a different type of play out there. You saw a guy shooting the gaps. You saw a guy making plays. You saw a guy that made some big plays that made a difference in the game. Ended up with twelve tackles, one tackle for a loss, and one quarterback hit. Is quiet. It was kept Jalen on the game. The game stats had thirteen tackles. He had twelve, So yeah, awfully good game for him filling in for

Layton Vanderish. Then I'll throw it out Dalton Schultz too. Yes, yes, like I really like the way Dalton Schultz plays and I think the Cowboys. You know, yeah, there's now because of his threat down field. But but I like Schultz a lot. Just talked about it last week. I talked about it last week. I think Schultz is just as athletic because jar One. I really do. He just hadn't had his opportunities yet. Jarlin may be a bit more athletic, but I don't think we'll see much of a drop

off for this season. Schultz is gonna be big for us. You just wait and see. As a blanker, yep, you know. I like the way he's built. He's got the length as a blanker. He's got a toughness about him. Yes, and black melan as a blocking tightens the second tight end. I think Blake Miller is one edition. Even though it was called back, I just thought that was an amazing catch by him and his his his hunger to to continue to keep going down the field. Look forward to

the block by CD. He kind of read that well. CD came in I thought just in time and perfectly. I wish he could have they could have kept the tackle. In regards to to Bell's reception, but I really enjoyed how he stepped up to the moment we ended everybody at that time. He ended up playing the snaps Bell did so from a two tight end situation. Uh yeah, that was that was working. That's why I think if people watch this game, you know, all right, Jarwin's hurt. Okay,

who can we go get? Well? Sometimes you just got to rely on the guys you have. They're they're there for a reason and give them a chance, you know, Schultztein Not everybody's a reason. They kept mckeinn too. Yes, yes, there's a reason they kept Sean McKeon too, because they could have exposed him to waivers and might have got into the practice one. But they liked him enough to keep a fourth tight in. All Right, we just uh, that flew by, and we've got so much more to

get to tomorrow here on mix Shots. So much to even break down from that game, and we'll start paying some attention to the Seattle Seahawks as well. It's a big game coming up. But wow, what a much needed win that was on Sunday over the Falcons. All Right, we'll see you again tomorrow here on Mick Shots. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football club m