The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This is nick shot screening live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Nicky Spagnola and Niners Divisional Playoff Week is officially underway. The days are coming at us fast this week as the playoffs roll on. Inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola. And there's an empty seat here, Mickey, what's
going on? Well, I don't know. Did we lose Everson in the playoffs? Oh? No, we have Everson on at a remote location. He would not miss this week. This is Niners Week. How you doing, Everson? I look forward to coming in next week after we kick some ass. There you go, Andy, When the Cowboys will be facing When the Cowboys will be facing one of Everson's former teams, the New York Football Giants at at n T State. Do you be the NFC Championship game? Right? Everson? That's
what you're hoping for, right? I know that's what you're hoping. That's what Jerry's hoping for. That can happen. It can happen, It can happen. All right, very good, Well let's get well, Mickey. What you can't see here, Everson and all of you listening as well, and even those of you watching you probably cannot see what Mickey has in front of him. It's a lot of graphics with forty nine er red on it, which means he has printed out the San Francisco forty nine or media notes, and he is hard
at work preparing for this game. And what page do you think I went to immediately brought Deebo Samuel Okay, my man debo. So this one, this one, this one stuck out to me. Where he go ahead? I was gonna say this one stood out to me immediately. He is one of three players and the only wide receiver in NFL history to have at least one thousand receiving yards in a season, five receiving touchdowns and five rushing touchdowns,
which he did all in twenty twenty one. The other two players to accomplish that triple were Marshall Falk in nineteen ninety nine and Roger Craig in nineteen eighty five. So how rare is this guy? That's very impressive. That's very impressive. And there's a more. There's a there's like another full page of these firsts and onlies that he has accomplished in his uh short NFL careers, you know.
And the other thing that Mickey will be quick to point out this week, you said in his Little Green note Book he had Deebo samuel I rated as one of the top prospects coming out South Carolina once upon a time. It didn't take you long. You didn't need to go very much deeper into your little Green notebook. You do it. Just like with Micah being drafted by the Cowboys, Mickey said, this is the guy the Cowboys need to draft. Well, Debo was that guy that year
in Mickey's Green note Book. Since my daddy said, this is a football game, spa spag, I have just found out. You do everything but make you make the best picks and you go. You check the field as well. So, by the way, since you brought that up. The Cowboys punter Brian Anger, who actually punted in Tampa at one point in his career, he said, it was a year or two ago the NFL PA radio the five worst grass fields in the NFL and Raymond James Stadium was
among those five. So my pregame analysis of that poor field was very accurate because it's still one of the worst five fields in the National Football League. And as Anger said jokingly, they're in Tampa, they're in Florida, they get rain, they get sunshine. They ought to have the best grass in the NFL, and they don't. I don't understand it. I don't understand it at all. I don't get Bill. I'm sure you're already working on the other four fields in the NFL. I know you're looking it up.
I can just feel it. Let's hope, let's hope it's not it's not Santa Clara right in Levi's Stadium. And so I think maybe what we talked about yesterday, it might be that Tampa they played too many games. They have, like the University of South Florida plays there. They've got the Gasparilla Bowl there, another college bowl game, there's probably high school games there. They played too many games there, and so that's why that's why the Cowboys missed four
extra points here. Now, now, how about this also that came up yesterday when we interviewed when John Fossil had his basically his conference deal press conference. And by the way, it was very interesting. Normally all the three of the coordinators are available the day after the game. Now this is a short week, but they made sure that the special teams coordinator was available the day after. Well he didn't have to probably spend as much time on his
game plan as the other day. But he also pointed out, so I don't know if you guys heard this the week before that, and I forget which team did this, but they were putting a marker on the field to place the ball down on place kicks, and the NFL sent out a memos saying you cannot do that. Well, what the Cowboys had been doing, and Anger, who's the holder, said, when we get like a field like that, he goes a grass field, I will go get a piece of white grass and I'll put it on the mark where
we want to put the ball down. And he said the official came up to him and said, you can't do that and swiped away his spot with the white grass. It wasn't like it was elevating the ball like cant right. And then the other thing that took place, And I think I might have mentioned this yesterday and I don't remember, but each team has three K balls, meaning those are the balls you kick with. So Anger pointed out that before the game they get those three balls and they
can rub them down to get the shine off. And he said, we spend forty five minutes with the first ball. He goes about fifteen with the second ball, and we're figuring by time we get to the third ball, we're probably not going to need that, right, and he goes, well, on the first two bad extra points, the balls went into the stands they lost them. So there was a discussion on the sideline what are they gonna do if
they lose their third K ball? Were they going to have to go to Tampa Bay and say we need to use one of yours. So that became a discussion too. Not to give any excuse for missing four extra points, but all I know is that turned into a national story because last night, at the opening of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue, he brought up Brett ma who I'm sure he had never loved before, and they showed the highlights of all four miss kicks, one after another after another after another,
a national TV unbelievable. America loves a good failure. Yeah, but they did. But they did it just it just it just feels our soul. It feeds our soul, it really does. But at least they showed the one he made, so uh, you know. And and my thinking is for Brett Maher. The kickers are always saying, I'm just trying to go one for one, and you hope he keeps that in his mind, that those are gone and next game to go one for one. Those four misses don't count, all right, So he will be here next week then
this week. Yes, yes, we have not seen any tryouts going on this week out on the practice field. At that was Jimmy. Now, if that was Jimmy, you know, that'd be a whole lot different. We have some a lot of guys out there kicking, you know. In fact, I got a text from a friend after I think the second missed extra point the other day and he's simple My friends said, where's the asthma field? Yeah? Okay, mickey. Yes, we've had an open locker room already today. We did
because that's where I listened to Brian Anger speak. Anybody else you want to know about, well, you tell us what we need to know. Jay Ron curse, seemed kind of confident that he'd be ready to go in this game. U. I've been told by two different people that they felt like he would have a good chance to play after spraining his knee. He said, this one wasn't as bad as what he did, and I think we forgot this. He did that in the season opener and then missed like two or three games, as I off the top
of my head, So yeah, he was. He was pretty confident that he would be ready to go, and he didn't want to hear any of this stuff about, you know, everybody thinking about the loss from last year to San Francisco. He said, we have enough motivation of our on our own to not have to bring something else up. And he pointed out that maybe for a week he kind of seethed over that loss and then he got over it. Okay, here's a note on Jyron curse and how close the
knee injury. You're very close. In fact, you are right on against Tampa Bay in the season opener on forty second defensive snap of the game. He injured his knee against Tampa Bay in the playoff season opener on the forty second defensive snap of the game for him, he injured his knee. Not only was against Tampa Bay, it was also on the forty second defensive snap at a game impossible. Yes, and in fact he did miss the next three games against Cincinnati, the Giants in Washington U Cowboys.
Cowboys cannot afford him to miss the next three games. Yeah, are you are you reading from that same uh? Are you reading from that same thing? Remember whether they were making touchdowns on every interception? No, that was that's a pro football reference. Is this is from my big black Dallas Cowboys season uh notebook that I keep. I chart all the snaps for players all season long here and that's why it sounds kind of it sounds kind of made up. Nope, it's right here, forty seconds snap of
the game. But that is Big Curse needs to be ready to play and playing a full load on Sunday against San Francisco, wouldn't you agree, Mickey? Yes, they sure could use him, especially since I guess I didn't relyze this going through all this red inc release here that against Seattle they were trailing seventeen sixteen at halftime. They ended up with five hundred yards total offense. Five hundred so the offense better function because they're gonna get theirs.
Now you've got to make sure you're getting yours. That's the way I'm gonna look at this one. Hey, can I can? I know I have an issue. I have an issue in regards to the narrative that's out there all of a sudden, it's really flipped in regard to the Cowboys offense and how it's amazing they are all of a sudden. I mean, it's really been flipped on his head, right, And you know when I look at the game, of course, damn good game. Dad did well.
Kellen Moore, Man, I didn't get to talk about it yesterday, but just an excellent job. Clearly they were holding out against Washington. I think we can all come to grip with that they were holding out, but this particular game they let it all out. They knew exactly what's going on, they anticipated everything. Well, there are times take away the interceptions, but there are times when Dad has done a lot
of this stuff before, right. I mean, of course, this was an excellent game, but it's not leaps and bounds guy. You know, he's kind of been that guy once again. Mistakes here and there, he's kind of been that guy ever since he's been back. I mean, I don't know that. Is that just me thinking that, Well, here's what's happening when you look at the points per game and things of that day. Yeah, And here's what's happened is everybody has all season long concentrated on the interceptions and as
Mike McCarthy said, I concentrate on the productivity. And his productivity in these games have been amazing when you figured that in that nine game stretch they averaged thirty six points a game, right, thirty six. So has he had a couple bad games, yes, But here's his quarterback ratings
since he came back from the injury. One thirteen point two, one fourteen point five in the loss to Green Bay, it was seventy eight point six, the win over Minnesota one thirty nine point three, then ninety one, one hundred seventy against Houston when the entire team struggled, then one oh seven one twenty four, and that was against Philadelphia eighty five point six, and then Washington unfortunately it was
forty five point eight. So if you look at his efficiency in those uh, what is that eleven games, five, ten, twelve games. Yeah, he's been pretty damn good. You want me to do brought Purty now, yeah, brought Purty eighty eight point eight one, thirty four point zero one, seventeen point zero one, fourteen point six, ninety five point four one, forty one point two in the playoff game one thirty one point five. So efficient. And here's what I forgot
about them, the forty nine ers. They started the season off one one and two and three and four, and then they won now eleven straight games, eleven And how many points are they scoring since Brock Purty started playing. They have played because he did not start the first game, he came in off the bench because Garoppolo got hurt, and they scored thirty three and he came in early in that game. He threw thirty seven passes, so it
was basically a start. It doesn't count as a win on his record as a starting quarterback, but it was they scored. They have scored over thirty points in every game but one against Seattle since he started playing. So we're talking six regular season games in one postseason games, so six out of seven games they've got thirty or more points. It's is very similar to the nine game stretch that Dak had, and you throw in the playoff game for Dak where he was averaging thirty six a game,
and now you got another one. Well, even before he started in there with Garoppolo, I see a thirty seven or thirty one and a thirty eight until they got to that New Orleans game when it was thirteen to nothing. Was that the one Garoppolo got hurt in? No, No, he got hurt in the Miami game again, h and okay, Party came off the bench and let him to win. Yeah. So so maybe it does predict your scorer off your
gas tank fill up, I think so. But no. But but to me, guys, it just seems to me that in order for Dad to get any type of credit, and this offense period Kellen Moore included, Uh, they damned have to be perfect. It just seems to be the near the fear. And that's the way they were against Tampa. They were damn near perfect against Tampa. Right, what did what did Seattle? Did they finish with a winning record?
Were they nine and eight? Something that I want to say, I was just looking to see during this nine eight, during the nine and nine now, because they lost these these winning streaks. New Orleans losing record, Miami I think had a winning record, Tampa Bay losing record, Seattle winning record. Washington finished five hundred thanks to the Cowboys, Vegas and Arizona losing records. So their their streak down there stretch.
You know, they were playing teams darn Wright should beat and you know, and that's and if you look at the Cowboys, if they had beaten those two teams that they had what fourteen and seven was at seventeen point lead and lost both games in overtime, they're the number one seed. So I think the narrative, what you know Everson brought up is the fact that it had they not had those two hiccups, they would have been talked
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times too. I want to say, maybe three or four times. Let's see here real quickly, he ended up running seven times for twenty four yards with a brilliant call for a one yard touchdown. By the way. That's exactly right, all right, uh, and we'll reconnect with Everson here shortly. I've got one for h Nate in Frisco. Okay, okay. I think we talked about the offensive line yesterday, the hat that Avante Collins had follow the we go what was it? Follow the offensive line or something to that effect.
So I saw a little panel that I'm not going to have a lot of respect for. ESPN put out their top ten rookies, right, okay, And of course they're all cornerbacks, wide receivers, running backs, and I believe there was one offensive lineman, Tyler Linderbaum. Then they had ten, just missus. Tyler Smith was not among any of those.
And I heard Troy Aikman say during the game after Tyler Smith had to change from left guard back to left tackle mid stream and I'm paraphrasing, but he said this guy should be on some sort of All Rookie team or Rookie of the Year for what he's been through. And these guys had no idea who Tyler Smith is.
I guarantee you because I think about where the Cowboys would be if this kid was not playing at what twenty one years old at the level he's playing at right now, at two different positions, and had trained all summer at guard, and what ten days before the season opener, they go, no, you're the starting left tackle, not the right tackle, the left tackle, and then all of a sudden it's like, well, we need you to look at playing guard, and so they move them into guard and
then it's like okay, but you know what, However, many snaps into the game, you know, you go back to left tackle and played well. And they are going to need this offensive line to play well against that San Francisco front to be able to score the amount of points they're going to need to score if they want
to win this game. And you look at the position of flexibility that Tyler Smith has and what that's done for the Cowboys even here in the last three games, because it was in the Tennessee game where Beadish goes down with the injury and so he moves inside after sixty two snaps at left tackle, final eighteen snaps of that game at guard. Plays guard in the season finale
against Washington, first thirty three snaps at left guard. In the playoff game against Tampa, Jason Peters goes down and he slides back out to left tackle for thirty six
snaps in that game. And now you're going up against the top defense in the league and the top sack artist in the league and Nick Bosa who at eighteen and a half sacks this year, and it's going to be on the rookie at left tackle and the future Hall of Famer coming back from his injury, Tyrn Smith at right tackle to take care of that pass rush. And they like to use their linebackers too to pressure. Probably one of the reasons Fred Warner has made the
Pro Bowl team. So, yeah, he's going to play a big part in this game if he can hold up his end of the bargain, you know. And it was Everson Walls yesterday who was very quick to point out the performance of the Cowboys offensive line, and that went over Tampa Bay Everson and he's there in picture only, picture only, all right. We thought we had ever since we had him bring him on in, right, But I mean that's huge for that offensive line to continue to play like they did the other night. And now, I
mean you can't afford to lose anybody on that offensive line. Yeah, from a depth standpoint, right because now the because it doesn't look like Peter's going to get back in time, so Josh balls your backup offensive tackle. He's the last man standing other than maybe Avante Collins, who has played in the league, but I think they look at him more as an inside guy just in case happens there. So yeah, it's it's it's thin, but these guys have to play and have a game like they did this
pass game protecting Dak the way they did. All Right. Anything else that you'd like to get to, either from the locker room today or from the press conference yesterday with Mike McCarthy as well as Bones Fossile. Yeah, Mike McCarthy pointed out that in these playoff games, one of his big points is you can't win without big plays, and that's playoff football. And if you look at this pass game, the Cowboys had six plays of twenty yards or more, and I will check myself to make sure
that my memory is good. And Tampa Bay had two plays of twenty yards or more and both of those were towards the end of the game, after the Cowboys had built up that big lead. And not only six plays of twenty yards or more, they had four more of eighteen yards. So they hit some big plays. And his point is, you've got to have big plays. And I think that's one of the things San Francisco does pretty well with their big plays in games. And so these defenses are going to be tested in this game,
no matter how well they've played previously. Okay, in just a moment, I believe we got Everson back. We're gonna make sure on that. But I want what I want to get to with Everson here in just a moment. What I want to get into with you, Everson, when we come back here in just a moment, is the Cowboys secondary and what the forty nine ers present offensively that's different from Tampa Bay. That might put a little
more stress on the cornerback position for the Cowboys. That's when shots continues in just a moment, we paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a Pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey, Oh look at that. That's not the end, no way. Now it's time for the encore. You know what You're right? Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough. Pepsi
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Visit Star District dot com for more information. It was a great place to watch the game on Monday night in fact, of course, there are a lot of pregame show. I was not out here, but I did see on Dallas Cowboys dot com the pregame show with Kyle and Nate and Isaiah Berry Church and there were a lot of people there, a lot of You wouldn't believe the number of people that were at at and T Stadium. That's where I was at the watch party, and I I did some hits for not only CBS eleven but
for Cowboys TV on the pregame show. The outdoor venue at Miller Like Plaza, and it was packed. Gates opened at five thirty courses seven fifteen kickoff. I got away just before seven o'clock and the line of traffic that it looked like the Cowboys were playing a game there. There were so many people lined up to get into the parking lot and the parking lot was filling up very quickly. And so that was a great place to
watch the game. And by the way, speaking of how many people watched the game on Monday night, Cowboys versus Buccaneers was the most watched NFL playoff game since nineteen ninety nine, with a total of thirty point six million viewers. Wow million go and they wonder why they called US America's team and you and you wonder why they had a Monday night playoff game which now will go for twenty years. Oh yeah, right, yep, this is a stay people after that. That's right. And uh so, thirty point
six million viewers watch Dallas versus Brady. So how many people will watch on Sunday when Dallas faces a quarterback who beat Brady thirty five to seven a few weeks ago. Brock Purty, that's funny going from from the greatest of all time to mister irrelevant the last pick in the draft. That's right, all right. Ever, since you know I kind of have before you go on Bill that mister irrelevant term, I have to say, you know, uh, I guess I'm
always fighting for my place in line. I think you know, free agents are probably more right when it comes to the draft. Okay, undrafted free agents. You can't get more irrelevant than that. So I take umbradge with that term being attributed to him having such a hard road to hope you understand that's exactly right, exactly right. In fact, the name should never have been mister irrelevant. It should
have been mister relevant. From the get go, because you are relevant going into training camp, because you're a draft pick right over an undrafted player. You are officially you are officially a draft pick. They've invested something in you. Yeah, that's right. They had a check for you. They had a check and it was bigger than the check that I got. So yeah, you mean the last pick in the twelfth round in eighty one got more than you did.
I'm pretty sure they did. Yeah. I don't know who that was, but I'm sure it was more than fifteen hundred dollars. All right, I'm gonna look up who that was. But in the meantime, Everson, I want you to tell me against this Niners team and what they do offensively, the weapon they have on offense compared to Tampa Bay, what kind of stresses that put on the cornerback situation
with the Cowboys. Because the Cowboys and also with Curses injury and we're gonna hope that Curse is able to come back at full strength, but they use Curse in a big role in that game, even against Chris Godwin, their slot receiver, and then mcquam who came in and played a big role as well in the slot now, what about the cornerback situation this week going up against this team. What you have with San Francisco are a number of receivers that are very skillful after they cast
the ball. You know, when they cast the ball, it is not over a matter of fact, your problems are just beginning. We talk about Debo and how well he is. I am sure between he and I U if I say the name, yes, you got it, number eleven playing wide receiver. On the other side, I believe he had his first thousand yards season this year and he actually gained more yards receiving than Debo. You have got also
talking about Curse. I don't even know if curse can help here, but you've got one of the toughest, grittiest, craziest tight ends I think I've ever seen in the NFL. This guy Kittle is strong and he's elusive. He is growk whatever four point or whatever because he has the ability to break tackles. He runs excellent routes, especially for a tight end. And I have seen us, even with Jay ran out there have some problems with good route running tight ends, and of course everyone is so that's
always Purdy's outlet. Just like Dak Prescott just like any other quarterback that's heading up a high powered offense. And it's gonna be an issue in regards to how much we want to go man to man. Okay, how much we want to blitz as well, because if you're stuck with these guys one on one once they kissed the ball, you have got to bring them down. A broken tackle leading to a long play touchdown that can be disheartening in an environment that the forty nines are playing in. Well,
let me give you a little backup on that. Au finished with one thousand and fifteen yards receiving, he averaged thirteen yards and catch had eight touchdowns, but Kittle Kittle led the team in touchdowns with eleven. And one of the things Mike McCarthy pointed out yesterday in his press
conference was going to be the important of tackling. Tackling will be very important in this game because of their ability to run after the catch and even tackling when you're trying to deal with McCaffrey, you know he's late to the game there, and he still had six touchdowns along of thirty eight. So again he said, tackling will
be at a premium in this game. Okay, mister irrelevant from Everson's draft in nineteen eighty one, thank you producer Supreme Phil Nelson, a tied end from the University of Delaware, a blue hen was drafted by the Raiders with the three hundred and thirty second pick of that draft, and he was cut in training camp, so he truly was here. Oh my goodness. So there's another the Lord I was a blessed man. There's another number for you to chew on.
Three hundred and thirty two people were drafted and you were so so Everson. That means that you, Everson, you were the three hundred and thirty third pick of the nineteen eighty one draft by the Dallas Cowboys, and I ended up pretting being pretty relevant. Yes, I appreciate if you don't say so yourself. All right, speaking of relevance, Mickey, as you jot down notes from whatever Everson saying during this show, because you're going to write a column on it, right,
absolutely all right? What else you got on your notepad there? And we don't have time to get into this today, but one thing I want to get into in the next couple of days is Tony Pollard versus Christian McCaffrey, and how important both of those players are in this game. I've got some interesting numbers to throw at you, which I'll save for tomorrow. But uh, you know, the Niners starting off with the three and four record this season, what kind of turned their season around was a little
trade that they made to pick up Christian McCaffrey. I think, yeah, oh absolutely. I mean if you just watched this last game, watching them on the field, Uh yeah, he he's amazing. He's amazing how he squirts through holes, he sees things awfully, awfully. Well, are you talking about McCaffrey Pollard. McCaffrey but Pollard too,
that's thot. Yeah, I think you're exactly right. It's both the fact that they just need a little crease and they can jump through it, and and and even Pollard he's hard to tackle once he gets going, So yeah, um that one. Do you think it's more powerful? I think Pollard. I think Pollard might have a little more explosion as opposed to shifting this that McCaffrey has. Maybe you think m hmm, yeah, I don't know. I can't see McCaffrey with power. I don't see him with power.
I see him with more elusiveness. Well, I saw him moving the pile a couple of times. Could be? Could be? So I was trying to look. The Cowboys have played San Francisco in at least four NFC title games, well three in the nineties, right, consecutive, that's right, one game, the ones in seventy and seventy one. Those weren't title games where they were just like first or second round.
I know the seventy the seventy two game, which was the Tony Fritze behind the back on side kick, which was Captain, the birth of Captain Comeback was a divisional playoff game. It was not a conference championship game, right, and off to look up on the rest of them. If you give me two seconds, I will find that for you. Nineteen seven. But it is interesting they did face the Niners in nineteen seventy, leading to the Cowboys first Super Bowl appearance the loss of Baltimore, and that
was a conference championship game. And then in seventy one they beat the Niners in the conference championship game fourteen to three, and that was the first playoff game ever played at Texas Stadium. By the way, Cowboys started the playoffs in the Divisional playoff round at Minnesota that week and then got the home game against San Francisco for the conference championship game, and of course beat the Dolphins for their first Super Bowl win that year. Yes, did
um diag is his name not Hicks? H My goodness, the running back that played for the forty nine ers. He was a kick return as well on the break or whatever. Let me know if that guy returned to open a kick for a testdown. Which game Vick Washington SAFA yep, Vick Washington. Vick Washington returned to kickoff ninety seven yards for a touchdown in the thirty to twenty eight game and that the Cowboys won at Kendall Stick
Park in nineteen seventy two. That was nice. Yeah, So you know the amazing thing was after playing them so many times in playoffs, after the Cowboys lost to him in that nineteen ninety four season NFC title game, they didn't play him again in a playoff game until last year. That's what happens when you don't go deep in the playoffs for twenty seven straight years or maybe them two Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, I mean the Cowboys were in. So the Cowboys were
not deep, yeah, any anywhere anywhere. Yeah, Well that's why when you've made it to the playoffs, what ten times over twenty seven years, I think it's what the number is something like that. No, I think they were I want to say they were four and eleven after ninety five. Yeah, but you're winning some some playoff games. Yeah yeah, oh you say just ti times in the playoffs yeah, um right, Cowboys though, we're three and oh against the Niners in
the seventies and then and one in the eighties. That's so a three and one record, and then two and one in the nineties. That gets you to five and two and then last year's game five and three all time. Yeah, but the wins were I think I went to the seventy two in in in the uh In, Texas Stadium. I think I was damn. I was like, well, yeah, what it was in that would have been seventy one, seventy one season, but it might have been seventy two
by time they played him. Maybe it might have been jan We won that, right, we won that game, right, It was a fourteen to three win in seventy one, and it was actually January second, uh, nineteen seventy two, and the previous year also they played the Niners in the playoffs. Will back it up here, um, which is nineteen seventy season, and that was a January third Conference championship. Yeah,
it was at San Francisco, so yeah. Uh. Ever, since there was only one of those playoff games, which was the first game, first playoff game ever played at Texas Stadium. So that's what's so great about that the Birds was up there with the Birds. Yeah. Um, but that's that is one of for us old timers, that is the one thing when the Cowboys are playing the Niners and just the memories of all these great playoff matchups going back fifty years. Basically, it's just it's fun to see
those two teams go at it again. And we talked about it going into last year's game, and now we do it out on the West Coast this time. And I'm proud to say I was in that little interview room at Candlestick Park when Jimmy screamed, how about them?
I was too, I was too amazing. Yep. And you're right when you said little that might have been the smallest yeah locker room area ever, you know, our TV director here, Scott herself figured out he was looking around, and you know, we're the last time the people on the staff now that had been at that NFC title game. He counted six of us, really, and Scott and I were two of them. Do I count Jim? Well, you know what, he should have counted you. I think he.
I think he met people that Nate count the people that were at the game. Nate was at the game Monday night. No, oh, you're talking about this, Okay, I got you. I got just playoff game Monday night. I'm going to be in San Francisco. Oh well, we'll just add to that that. So, yeah, so we need to do the number. Jim Mauer was one of them. There we go training. We need to do a picture. Take a picture, Scott and I did, but I don't know if he posted it or not. Yeah, all right, well
we're about out of time on this edition already. Shots. Yep, it's amazing how time flies like this flew by. Okay, so ever since time flies very well, yeah, that's right, that's why he gets why ever sends a relevant career flew by so quickly. So we'll hope for good weather tomorrow because they will practice tomorrow by way, Oh, actually you're gonna decide to practice for this yeah, and Friday, by the way, all right, very good. So they'll get
two really well full practice. They'll do one today. It's just a walkthrough. But they when you say full practice, like pads one pad, you only get one, you only get one, you only allowed one one per week or wait, okay, you can wear one pad, one pad. So let's say so they have this narrative, right, they have this narrative that came through. I mean for them to even ask the question, do the Cowboys have to worry about fatigue?
We're gonna we're gonna can't see all right, we're gonna we're gonna talk fatigue, and we'll talk Pollard versus McCaffrey on the next edition of Mix Shots with you ever said, all right, thanks for joining us for this edition of Mix Shots, Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.