Mick Shots: Losing Reasons

Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. And some of the luster has come off that game after what happened on Sunday in Jacksonville. Welcome to Mick Shots, Bill Jones, Everson Walls and the star of the show who will explain everything, Mickey Spagnola. He will make us all feel better. I was going to say, for what, what do you think the odds of Cowboys winning out and the Eagles losing out? That that game the most watched game, and yeah, they

feel history. I don't think that's going to be the case. Well, you know what, it still will be watched. Oh no, there's going to be a lot of people hoping that Philadelphia just pounced. Now Boys who have already been put one and a half point favorites in the game. About that figure, Yeah, but what were the odds of the Minnesota Vikings coming from thirty three points down to beat

the Indianapolis Colts. What were the odds of a New England Patriot players throwing a football across the field of the final play of the game during former Patriot Chandler Jones returning it for a touchdown? Mickey, there's still a chance or are the Chiefs having to go into overtime against the Texans? But the Chiefs suck? Yeah, jeez, I'm sure they were twenty point favorites, right, you know what?

And I understand all that. I understand clinching the playoffs, but it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you did all you did in that game at on the road against Jacksonville, against a good Jacksonville team, by the way, and then you lose on a tip ball interception return for a touchdown in overtime. It's just I tell you what I And here here was my reaction to the pick six when I realized the guy

was going to score. And it's not good radio, But if everybody's watching us, my mouth was left wide open, like are you kidding me? You know they always tease about the cowboys doing cowboy things. This is a cowboy thing, you know, you almost And as a fan, you know, you can frust any two after decades and you get like, okay, how can we You know the catch wasn't to catch right right? Uh? You know, we're ready to come back against the Packers, and here comes Aaron Rodgers with the

pier with to cook. Just you know it's right there in your hand. I'm gonna go back to the thirteen thirteen and three. Yeah, giants, You know these are kind of things that you know, they just kind of stack up against you, and yeah, this is one of them. Classic because at first I couldn't see what happened. I couldn't see what happened, and I'm like, dude, don't tell me you did another dumb move like that. You know, I just I just knew Dak just just get just I just knew he had a brain for it. Catch

the ball, just catch it. That's how. That's how great moments are made and lost. Right right right there, you're gonna catch the night, you know, is this gonna be the beginning of a ninety eight yard drive? Like we had against the Texans or is it just gonna be another flame out? Do you want to go dive right into that plague right off the bat? Here we can, yes, Like, what are you thinking at the outset of that play?

It's third and three roughly at midfield and we're at forty seven whatever your line there, they're roughly middle of the field, all right, So it's third and three. So what what were you thinking as pre snap? What were you thinking? What were you looking at? Thinking that if I was going to be aggressive? Uh, I would run the ball twice, I'd go for it on fourth down.

If I didn't make it, Like if I ran for two yards, then I'd go for it on fourth down, Okay, and then they would make it and everyone everyone'll be all over a coach spagnol y r not. But I would know you would have no no, But what what were you seeing? What were you I probably would have played the safe and and if we well, I would have gone for I would have passed on throw it down the way we did everything that they called, I

would have done that. I would not have gone for it on fourth down only because you know, so as you as they lined up were you paying close enough attention to figure out, Okay, where are they going with the football as they lined up on that play, Well, they wanted to go to CD Lamb right, yes, okay, and he was smothered okay from that side. You know what I was looking at. I was looking at where's

thirty seven? Where's thirty seven on the Jacksonville defense, And that's Trey Herndon because they were eating his lunch all day. It was just like it's just like when Jacksonville had the ball and they were saying, where's number one? Okay, let's throw it at number one, okay, And so I was looking. I was hoping that CD, he was thirty seven, was lined up in the slot on the right side of the offense, and I was hoping that CD was

he had CD, but he didn't. He had Noah Brown instead, and so then they run the shallow crossing route with Noah Brown and so but if you look at the replay, you're sitting so why is ray Sean Jenkins, the safety sitting there on the other side of the field and

there's no body in his erie. He's in his own coverage underneath like that, he was in the perfect position to help thirty seven on the shallow cross coming across, and so and so and so he was in the in the perfect position to catch a tip pass and run it in for a touchdown. Okay, they didn't draw it up that way. It just so happened that he

was in that spot. But he was there to help on that shallow cross in some way, right, yes, okay, And so I'm thinking, I got I know nothing, and I knew that it would that would be a great guy to attack his number thirty seven, So that Jacksonville's defensive coordinator might called what has to be sitting there, going, they're gonna go try to go at thirty seven, you know, and so at any catches, and it's smart to run. That's a safe play to run that little shallow cross.

And took pick up three yards. And it's not a bad pass because he threw it. Yeah, he threw it. He threw a perfect pass, perfect his interception and he didn't know what he was interception, but still it was the perfect pass. It is what it is. But but I think you do credit Jacksonville for having for being in position to make the play defensively that I don't credit that the problem. I can't give him credit for following him and he catches the ball six inches off

the ground. That now that I give him credit for just heads up alertness to watch the ball and the ability the quickness to take it. Otherwise it just fell into his label. And what also got lost in the shovel uh twenty three? How do you say it? Oluicon? He blocked Dak in the back. Dak was the last one to be able to make the tackle and he blocked him right in the back into the sideline. But

what yard line was that on? That was right as he tried to was he was the last one he was gonna clear, So Dak probably no, No, it was farther up field because he he threw the pass from the forty fifty two yard return the forty yard line. They were roughly in field goal, right, it should have been fifteen yard fifteen yards to push him back to their own fifty Yeah. I mean so there's a lot

of yeah, and that's when you lose games. Like games we know, there's all these little things and then everybody thinks that, uh, one instance would work, the game would work out just the way it did anyway, like the the everybody was disputing the third down call uh in in regulation when Dak was trying again hit CD and he said they basically smothered him and his I guess his next option was to go deep to Noah Brown, who kind of could have cut that ball track it better.

He's still backing up the balls back there, don't why are you backing up? You gotta go up and get it. He's waiting for it here. It's almost like he called it late, right, you know. And the guy was kind of screwing around with him a little bit. But that's how you play ball. If I'm a dB, yeah, I'm gonna screw around with you a little no worse than that call in the ends on last night at the end or no call, I should say, I don't know

how this goes now. I guess look like basketball. Yeah, you know, we don't call things at the end of the game. If that's the gay, it's cool. I'm killing somebody. I'm taking up crowball out there with the game. They knowing that revise they have played at the park basketball when you're trying to play the seventeen and they got sixteen and you just file everybody. That's what that's what they're doing. That's how basketball became the way it is

now it regards to the last seconds. But again that led to the second guess, and why did they throw the ball there? I got a second guess. That's bad and suck the last time. That's what you do mean they didn't have a time out, the game would have played out the way it did. But it does mean that they would not have a time out that would

help them on that drive. But they ended up with an extra time out because of the review on the catch that you guys didn't see on TV, but because I went back and looked at it on the big screen at the at the stadium. They showed every look the guy had as an iPad. They didn't do that

on television. And there was one look from behind where you could see between the guy's lay ball is laying on from the side angle, not not this angle, but it was like from the side angle to where either he had a baby, either he had a delivery, or the ball came out. And even if they had ruled it a catch, the review stopped the clock. That catch

was in the field of play. And I know they say they run tense or they started the clock right away, right, which Jacksonville didn't realise, and it ran ten seconds off before they snapped it. But think about what would have happened if that was a catch. By time they get up, get back to the line of scrimmage, placed the ball, more time would have run off the clock. But well,

we know how much time it would have been. More than fourteen seconds, because that's what happened to the Cowboys against the Nighters running from though yeah, well we know it's at least seconds because that's what it was against the right from the side where it came in, picked the ball up and placed it. But still they would have they would have had to either use their time out there or they would have had to down the ball. Right,

But having settled, they would it. Having said all that, you don't have to give up a nineteen yard pass on the next play, right, Well, the next play was the play to the tight end where he scrambled out of bounds, which they and then the next one, yeah, which and I think they showed this on TV, right, Donovan Wilson blitzing, yeah, and he's got his hands up in the air and somehow the ball went right through. How did that happen. All he had to do is do this. If his release is not as quick as

it was, then he would have touched it, right. But that's a quick release by that young man. So all those little things end up adding up, and you get beat forty thirty four in overtime, you get beat scoring thirty four. And that's my thing. We can talk all the craft we want about mistakes made here, and then I give you thirty four points for this great defense that we have. That's all I can say. You got thirty four points. Man, You can't work with thirty four points.

I mean, come on. So two of the Cowboys losses, well, thirty four and thirty one against the Packers when they got beating overtime? Was that right? Thirty one against the Packers? Tight is the final? Or was it twenty eight? I think it's thirty one twenty eight? Okay, yeah, I was thinking. I was thinking of Vegas slash thirty six thirty three. But yeah, and on top of that, you ended up giving up five hundred and three yards five hundred and three. That's where you lost the game. You know, you can

pick all these little spots all you want. You're right, God, lee. To me, the most of it's up. Once again, what we say, it's not about stats, it's not about numbers when it's about moments. And to me, that moment of I just, I just I don't want to I can't see passing the ball when you're letting the clock run out. You want, you want to use the time. I cannot see us throwing the ball when they lined up in the three wides or whatever they had, you just don't let that ball get in the air. If you do,

you do some type of bootleg. If it's not there, then you slide down. It takes more time off the clock. I don't know about more than a deep pass. But they went intending a deep pass, but you still take more time. You gotta make them use that time out, make them use it. You gotta make them use it. I don't know in the situation. It's third and ten.

It's not third and three, thank you. And so so what are the what are the odds of converting third and ten that I mean, we rely on analytics so much, Well, what do the analytics say on common sense? Analytics? A lot is a lot of common sense. And to me, I don't need numbers to tell me that, you know that just was it went back to our pattern. And I was talking with my boy Nate from Frisco, and we were talking about, you've got to run the ball

as well as you began running the ball. Maybe he cannot go away from what got you where you are right now. Maybe he was playing scared to his defense. I believe that too, he wanted to end the game there also, he was scared to give them the I believe that, man. You know what else happened on that special teams weren't very good? Nope, they were not. They let that guy return the ball. What did he get

to the thirty yard line? Twenty nine? To your point here and the kickoffs here, here's your here's here's your here's your point. As we see that the game is getting closer and closer, we always make jokes about people's spinker getting tight, tighter and tighter. Okay, that's real stuff. It's not it's that's real stuff. Okay, I've been there. I'm sure you guys have had moments to where you're like, I can't do anything right right now because I'm not

I am I am not showing poise. Good teams the nineties, the nineties teams. I don't want to go back to my Giants days of it. The nineties Cowboys had poise. When things start to go wrong, there was going to be one or several players they're gonna lock that down. Okay, guys, I would attitude right now. I'm gonna show you first of all, by my play, we're gonna stop all of this. Everybody get on the same page. When you have a game like this, we all want to take our turn

to see who can screw up the most. And that's what happens when you have no poise on this team. Someone's got to stop the league. And then you had no one doing it at all. And to that point is when it gets You're up twenty seven to ten with five minutes left in the third quarter. They score on a fifty nine yard pass to make it twenty seven seventeen with three fifty seven left. You get the football back and you return it only to the fifteen yard line. No get sacked on the first play. It's

second and eighteen from your own seven yard line. And then you throw an interception. No poise. No poise that's coming from the quarterback all the way. Then that's when the snowball gets roll and you can't let that happen. You had to be in the stadium to understand it, because when it those people were asleep, and the Cowboys had a lot of fans. It's the college environ. Seven seventeen, and all of a sudden, everybody woke up, right, and then you end up getting the kickoff. Uh, and all

he gets is to the fifteen fifteen sixteen. They actually gave him the sixteen yard line fifteen yards. He ran it back fifteen Uh, and he got to the sixteen. I don't know if they kicked short on purpose and thought they'd count cover it, but there was nowhere for turping the run the block. The blockers were backing up, Yes, the wall was backing up into him. They went moving forward at all. It's like they were surprised that he actually brought it out so once the game was backing

up too. So so once that kickoff to Once that kickoff took place, and I'm thinking, okay, you got to calm these people down. And they tried to throw the ball and he gets sacked for eight yards, right, and then they tried to throw it in and he's gonna get sacked again, right, and he's getting tugged from behind when he throws it and it goes way up in the air, interception. And I was sitting there going, well,

of course, game off. Of course they caught a break because there was a penalty that pushed him back to the thirty nine yard line. But on the first play it goes for thirty yards down of the nine yard line. No poise, I'm still going. Kelvin Joseph was still in the game, and it was a touchdown to Marvin Jones, and all of a sudden, it's twenty seven, twenty three left, and then it's a three and out and then Jacksonville scores again. Hey, and all of a sudden, we got

we all got stuck. Calvin Joseph is no longer in the game. Man giving up too. He did not come back here on right, came in basically just taking his helmet because I did not see him touch the field again. They didn't, and I didn't realize it. So I gotta, uh, oh, we gotta go to break. I'll pull back. Oh we got much more. Yeah, hould back the curtain. When all right, we're pulling back the curtain when Mick Shots continues themorrow. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award

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Mickey pulls back the curtain. So at seven twenty seven in the morning on Sunday, I get a phone call and the lady that coordinates and produces the Compass Radio broadcast, the national radio deal that the does the Cowboy games, says Danny White, who's the analyst for the broadcast. His flight got canceled in Dallas. Can you step in and be the analysts on the radio broadcast? Oh wow? And I was like, whoa, yeah, yeah. Uh So anyway I did the broadcast. I didn't know that. Well you wouldn't

You wouldn't have seen it. It's so what happens. Wait, it's not broadcast anywhere, well anywhere on the network. And so not only not only his flight got canceled, he got rescheduled and uh he finally got there like early in the second quarter. But on that flight also that got canceled was Skip Pete, the Cowboys running backs coach. His mom passed away last week and the funeral was Saturday, so he went back to California for the funeral. Figured

he could fly in game day get to Jacksonville. He was on that flight too, so he got to the game late. So anyway, I was doing the broadcast. Did they let you stay on the broadcast when Danny got we had a three man booth. I was all ready to hand my headset to to the quarterback, right, and uh uh these Cowboys were playing much better when you

were in the booth. Yes, by yourself solution. Hey, Nathan Frisco says, yeah, you guys go into towns that don't have Cowboy Yeah, right, Okay, anyway, I got to I got to do that, so and I and I don't remember why I wanted to bring that up, but when you're doing the odds, when you're doing when you're doing the game like that on radio. See, usually I've got the game uh on my on my laptop and I could watch it off my home TV, right, and I can replay things. But you can't do that when you're

on the radio. Right. And the screen we had was really hard to see. Uh See, That's why I have these notebooks. One of these days, I'm going to get a call on a Sunday morning, were going to be scheduled to do the Cowboy game, and Nancey is gonna have laryngitis, and I'm gonna get a phone call suddenly I suddenly spent it would be in some closets somewhere, like I spent the morning then getting more prepared than just thinking I got it all in my head. And as the game goes, I can look it up because

you're on radio. Can't look it up, right, you got to know it. And by the way, Kevin that does the broadcast, he's Kevin right. He's really good, really good. You know, Kevin Burkhart started and him on the sideline when we were talking to him, and but but that was where basically he got his start, right with doing

NFL brought Kevin does the Suns. He's the play by play guy for the Sun. So that's why he had a game that night, and he shows up at about two or three in the morning because of his travel snowf Wow. But he's really good. He sees things. I always think the play by play guy doesn't see everything right.

You got to concentrate on the ball. And there were a couple instants he saw something that I was getting ready to say, and I had to go, you're right, Kevi, because he saw the block or the miss block or the mis tackle. He's really good. And by the way, and and Burkhart does a great job too, and Greg Olsen does a really good job on Fox. Yeah. I mean I was watching the game yesterday. I was going, I'm in fact, I think I may have Kevin Burkhardt's

number somewhere. I was going to text him during the game. And what a good job I thought they were done in particularly Olsen. Yeah, yeah, So anyway, I just thought i'd throw that out there, listen to it somewhere. Is it archives somewhere? I don't know if they could send me. He's hoping though. That's why I said when the interception happened, I didn't want to go, yeah, is there I want to hear your reaction. It wasn't. There was no reaction.

I just left my mouth open, like, hey, this is this entire could be a rant because you gotta you gotta let you gotta let the play by guy play guy. You know, probably I didn't want to be like Dale Hansen. Oh no, that was fun stuff though, No, oh no, So anyway, go on, we got we do okay, I know what I know what? So then last night I must have spent hours trying to figure out why the Cowboys needed Washington to lose I always trying to figure the same thing. What difference was it? Did it make

whether the Giants were Washington. There's gotta be something deep in the tiebreaker because of the tie. I have a Scott initially, Scott of gold Mix just text me back when I text him, and he goes, oh, well, the uh Washington can't get to ten wins, And it was like, oh, yes they can, right went out and and so the

tie in there kind of confused. Right, Well, if you guys can see, this is the explanation he got from the NFL guy that does this stuff, because it was a media like when the game was over, I was on NFL Jesus and I clicked the standings and the X was already there, like within a minute, and I'm going, well,

how did they figure that out? I understood why the Cowboys couldn't The Cowboys would win a tiebreaker with Detroit head they could win it with Seattle because they would have they already have clinched a better NFC record, But why did it matter that Washington was multiple tie situation? That's what it ended up being. That if the Cowboys tied a game and they ended up tying Washington, like both teams finished ten six and one, then it threw it into a three way tie with maybe the Giants.

No Detroit came into that occasion. If Deroyd also tied it again, Yes, yes, that's what it came down to. And they figured that's why they need computers for this if all three if all three teams tied, then the Cowboys might be in trouble. But because the Giants won, then they would have a tiebreaker. And if the situation was that the Giants, Lions, and Cowboys all tied at ten six and one, Cowboys had the tiebreaker in that situation because they would they beat the Giants twice and

they beat the Lions. I had the tiebreaker, but we don't have to happen because the tie was a possibility, and I never even considered that. I was just going crazy, like, well they went out. I'm glad to hear that explanation because I went on the air last night thinking, well, they're saying this is they've clinched, but I have no idea how this They figured this thing. Yeah, yeah, and of course they know that all in advance, so that's why they put that check mark up immediately. But um,

pretty cool. Though, I mean, so I don't understand up a game, but I mean, we're in the playoffs, guys. Well, here's the other thing about that is, I mean, what are the odds the Eagle. I mean, the Eagles are going to lose a game. But and Eagles have Cowboys, Saints, Giants left, so they would have to lose all three of those games. Of course, the Cowboys have Eagles, Titans,

and Washington left. So here here was his scenario. If if Washington had won, Philly wins the East, Minnesota wins the North, San Francisco wins the West, any team wins the South. The Giants losses loses to Washington last night, but wins the remaining games to finish ten to six and one. Okay, Dallas loses the remaining games to finish ten and seven. Washington beats the Giants, loses their ties next two games to beat Dallas in the final game

to finish nine six and two. Detroit wins remaining three games to finish ted and seven. I know you want tired head. What Scott started reading me this, I said, we don't need to hear all that. Just come down and joined us, right. But it comes down like two. They had to figure may won two ties back in the day. I bet yeah, when they didn't play the game. Just two ties in the seasons never happened. It was gonna happen if the referees made a call last night.

Yeah right, Yes, that's what they were saying. If the referees and made a call in the last night in the Washington Giants game, and they could have both tied within three weeks, I had such tired head. I was like, okay, Scott, I'm just gonna okay. But they had to figure ties in there, all right, So wins and losses. So I under mathematically the Cowboys are not locked in to the number five spot, but they are virtually locked in number

or five in the playoffs right now. And that's what that's what was so tragic about that loss yesterday is now, as a Cowboys fan, just the last three games of the season, it was going to be very intriguing when the Cowboys beat the Eagles on Christmas Eve, and because the Eagles would only have to lose one more game, either against New Orleans, which by the way, is in the hunt for the AFC South or the NFC South somehow, or the Giants, and as far as the wild Card,

the Cowboys have such a lead on the everyone else in the wild card race to get that top wild card seating at number five that it's virtually I mean, you look at the last three games and they almost are preseason games to getting ready for the playoffs, because the Cowboys are virtually locked in at number five because other teams are gonna lose games, so they would end up playing Tampa Bay. And so it looks like the or whoever whoever wins the NFC sou yeah, which could

be any one of four teams right now. Yeah, anyway, if anybody was confused as I was last night, that's what the difference was, factoring in ties. Unbelievable. All right, when we come back here on mix shots, we need the latest if we have anything new on Layton vander ash and where the Cowboys stand as far as injuries go, and we continue in a moment. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a Pepsi's zero sugar? Great job, honey,

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tomorrow and Wednesday. Right all right, Here is the latest on Layton vander Esh and it's been reported by most of the Beat writers. I'll read from Todd Archer's Twitter. Per multiple sources, Layton Vandersch's injury is unrelated to the neck issue that required surgery in twenty nineteen and more to do with a pinched nerve in his trapezius in

his shoulder. Timeline to return not clear at the moment, but good news in that it's not related to a disc seeing the first thing when they announced that he was out, they said neck injury. So that's what it manifested as a neck and but you got them. That's why when we talked about this, how you know you got your knee messed up, but then you know you also mess up your hamstring because you know by but he's he's recovered from the vertebrae fusion. Uh well, yeah,

I don't mean that. I just mean the muscles there be connected to that. Yeah, they are also affected when you have an injury. But that was a that was a disc problem. That wasn't anything muscular, so he must have hit it wrong. But that's I mean, that's your leading tackler. But guess who ended up being the leading tackler in the game. Who damon Clark had tackles. He was all over the place. Yes, he had to be right, he had no choice. He's like, hey, guys, somebody gonna

make a play here. The defensive line wasn't hold enough. Yeah, somebody's gonna make a play. Am I the only guy here? Luke Fortner? Who? Luke Fortner? O my guy? The center for Jacksonville. I love that guy. I got a man crush on him. I got. I had a man crush on him leading up to the draft. And he's out of Kentucky and he has the a lot of Travis Frederick about him. You know, he's one of those guys like twenty four years old coming out of college with two fries and you know, and so he can set

all the protections and everything. But what sold me on him was watching him against Georgia and against that big Jordan Davis, the monster nose tackle and he would hold his own and he could anchor and and he's having a terrific rookie season for them. So if you look at the tackles, the top eight guys were all linebackers in DB's ninth. Tied ninth with Carlo was Watkins with three tackles. And then Michael Parsons had two tackles. He

was next Galamore two, Foller one. I thought your man Foller was going to win the game because he was chasing down Lawrence on that third down play from the backside. Oh the former Jaguars going to strike, and he didn't quite get there. They didn't get credited with a quarterback pressure. And he should have on the one play I don't remember when it was in the game he was actually he actually almost got blocked into Lawrence making him leave the pocket. Might have been on the touchdown pass. So

here's what's troubling. That's one sack in two games. And what about Doren's Armstrong. Now I only had four quarterback hits. It's it. I think it's he had it well, he met And that's where I was going to go. And I'm sorry. I was going to talk injuries because they're starting to get diminishing. Y're no kidding. Armstrong was limited all last week with an ankle uh and he hurt

his knee. I don't and again I don't know if they showed it on TV, but when he was laying there, he kept you know, how your your heels on the ground and he kept trying to do like this with his knee. So we'll see where that one is. But again, he is your starting right defensive end. He played fourteen s apps. Now he was going to be limited because of the ankle, but then he did that, So fourteen

snaps in the game. Vander Esh had five, and then your backup left cornerback played thirty seven before they took him out and Nashan Wright ended up playing nineteen. And he's okay because he was rocked a little bit, right, Yeah? Is he okay? Yeah? I don't think we got an injury, okay, Dizzy? Oh yeah, okay, So your left corner out, you're and Deron Bland played pretty well except I think for one play Lewis is out, Hankins is out. For the rest, your back up at left corner didn't play very well.

Vander Esh played five snaps and then on offense they actually pushed it out of necessity because they started Tyrn Smith. We've gone what almost forty minutes thirty five minutes he starts the game. But their idea was they were going to do a rotation with Peters and maybe play him thirty thirty five snaps well, Tyrn Smith ended up playing fifty four snaps because Peters was struggling past block and they said, you know what, we got to go with

him because they had I think Naton Frisco forecasting. Yes, yes he did. He was not and words and so and and a couple of times when they went when they went three tight ends, they used Josh Ball as the third tight end, by the way, not Peters, by the way. I think they missed Jake Ferguson in the run game yesterday, Yes, because there was a couple runs there. Oh,

I wrote it down. Schultz just blew the block on the outside and it was on that running play that they ended up losing three yards maybe on that was huge Zeke. Yeah, that overtime, Yeah, it was. That was in No, that was at the interregulation which end which ended in the third and ten. Decision to throw it deep right, and uh that's what that's what killed that possession right there. Now you're facing second and thirteen, you

give it to Pollard. He got the three back. Now you're facing third and ten, right, he missed he missed the block because they credited to uh, the safety coming in probably was Jenkins. He did everything else never heard he had like eighteen tackles in the game. Well, he had eighteen tackles as soon as he had that pick, because they just said on the broadcast that he had eighteen tackles in the game and then he had to pick six. And he also had the interception earlier in

the game. I said, well, you can just award the NFC Defensive Player of the League right now. Yeah, and and so. But the reason he made the tackle is they didn't block Schultz missed his block, and so it kind of got everythingsilay safety. So if they ain't safety's making a bunch of tap, that means we're getting up and down the field. Also, yeah, we're making him make all the tackles, but that means that we're on the other side of their line of scrimmage. Well, they had

almost four hundred yards offense. Point. I'm sorry that it comes down to that. It comes down to that they're gonna be games where yes, they're gonna make plays. Damn it. These guys they get they get paid. Also, Lawrence is pretty good. And what did I tell you last week? He's a baller and he's a winner. He is You just you just know that of him, just like you you fell up the center. Everyone knows about Sunshine. Everyone knows that eventually he's gonna be that guy. We can't

let him come out of his bag on us. DeMarcus Lawrence told me after the game, he said, they've got a really good quarterback that's gonna be a really great quarterback, damn. And you can just see it, right, And so once again poise. Yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence knows he's gonna be great, but don't let it be great. See when you set the end, had you set the edge and he he saved their offensive line. How many sacks they almost had, right, or how many quarterbacks quarterback hits they almost had? And

he escaped. I didn't realize he was that elusion, No I knew that. But he got outside the pocket and he was getting outside, not outside outside, kind of in the middle. Yes, you know they didn't keep them contained. H And that helps your pet. That's why nothing that's nothing new. This is how he plays. They went at six games with giving up no sacks and now it's back to back games with one sack. Parsons the only one to get a sack against them in the last

and this team is trending at the right time before them. Yes, okay, and we could see it before our game. And that's why this game always be thinking. Tennessee's kind of squirming right now. Yes, they know, and they got to play them the last game and if they lose one more see Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Jacksonville turns around this week. How about their schedule? This is this is great. This is what you would want as an NFL player. Okay, you played the Cowboys at home. Now you go play the Jets

on Thursday. And so then they get Christmas weekend off and they're on this role right now. They're they're They've won four of their last six games. They beat the Jets to be five out of seven. Then they go Christmas for three days and they don't come back next week, and they got two games to close out the season with a great chance to win their host a playoff. They have one of the one of the best offensive minds in their their head coach as well good game planner,

Yes he is. Oh and by the way, I did run into Dave Campo in the press. I bet he was. I was sitting there where I was sitting there. It was before the game and I heard I heard the voice. I heard the voice right, and I said, oh, Campo's here right, and he was behind where the roses. I wouldn't talk to him, got to give him a good, good hug. And then afterwards I saw him when I was going down on the elevator and he said, see, I told you guys, this team's just got something special going.

And he's right, they're just kind of making play the moments, right, the moments. That's you can have all the yards, all that we can talk about the moments. And he didn't have a Jaguars Sure, okay, all right. It's just a former NFL head coach hanging out in a press box whatever. It reminded me of. This was thirty years ago. The Cowboys are playing Tampa Bay and remember Abe Gibron who Abe gibber Bears head coach whatever. Well, apparently in his retirement he used to hang out at the Tampa Bay

press box. They would just have him a spot. I guess he lived in the Tampa area or whatever. So there was a on the seating chart, there was a seat for Abe Gibberd there Jerry or the Channel eight reporter, he says Abe Gibro I thought he was dead. Abe Gibbert is right there. It was just a random one of Campell's greatest moments. The Cowboys were at Minnesota, uh, and Minnesota came back to send the game into overtime. So for some reason, wherever he was sitting, I think

it was Minnesota, maybe it was something else. You could hear the coaches box through the ventilation duck into the press box, right, and so they're going out for the snap and Campbell goes, oh my aching dotta dot it goes, please win the toss. Shit was so damn funny it happened. It happened that the Giants too, which is the same line that he used on Hard Knocks, right, yeah, yeah, you know what he used, right. Uh. And then and then I think it was a Giants game, the same

thing happened. And Turner calling the place right, and Troy gets to the line of scrimmage, he gets the snap. He just takes one snap and Turner starts screaming, throw the effing ball, throw it, throw it. And I mean Troy stopped back it's his back foot and throws it to the open guy. But norf saw it immediately at the snap, right, and he's yelled at him to throw the ball right. That's why they were good. Yeah, yeah, he was the best, all right. And we closed with

this final word from Nate in Frisco. It's already been a better day to day, wouldn't you say? We got good news on Layton Vanderesh right clenched the playoff spot. Yeah. Nate Infrisco closes with this, just win, that's right, okay, and all you gotta do just win. Wow. The Eagles figured that out with their five point blasting of the Bears. Right, figured that out, and over time over the Texans and uh yeah, and the Colts figured it out the wrong way. Yeah.

I don't think Jeff is gonna be returning, you know what, you don't think that was his last that I was black Saturday for Jeff Saturday. We I was watching I was watching Saturday. I was watching the game and the plane was just took off and I think it was thirty three nothing at that time. It might have been thirty three seven, right, And it was like doc on it and I couldn't get it to the WiFi in

the plane. Well, they gave us the wrong code wasn't working, and babe, Babe goes, Babe, don't say it, don't say it. Babe goes, yeah, babe goes. Oh, he goes, we're gonna miss the greatest comeback ever in the NFL. And I said, yeah, sure right, And sure enough, it was like the networks knew something because as soon as they fell behind to a certain point, they made a point to play it up. No team has ever come back from this deficit. Yeah,

and you're like, okay, thanks, they've got one point. It was the Frank Wright come back the Bills against the Houston Oilers, which was thirty years ago, the thirty year anniversary that's coming up. That was. But the point is it a regular season or playoffs? So that was a thirty two point come back every Yeah, but that's right. But how about the other connection with Matt Ryan to come back in the Super Bow? Yeah, and he's the

quarterback for this Sidy Matt. Yeah. All right, we got a lot to talk about, and we're moving quickly because it's a Saturday game, right, that's right. Tomorrow's Wednesday, Yes, okay, all right, so it's back to practice tomorrow, right. I bet he gives him a day off another day. Don't you think it's open locker roomer eleven tomorrow, open locker room. Well, so he's pushing it. I'm music on anytime, that's right, right,

They will have a walk through. We can talk about tomorrow though, all right, and we'll talk at you tomorrow. You're on mixshets, Yes, we okawboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.