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week two out of three, ain't bad. Bill Jones called away on duty at CBS eleven, So it will be Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola on this Tuesday on Mick Shots on Dallas Cowboys dot Com from the SWBC studio here at the Star where the start. This place is starting to bustle like Christmas is on the way, or so hopefully playoffs is on the way. That's what I'm hoping playoffs. Don't know it. Hey man, I need to get paid more money. If Bill's gonna keep leaving this

hanging like this, you gotta get extra. We got to get a full time. No man, I'm doing over time. That's right. Well, we are here for forty five minutes on this Tuesday as the Cowboys get back to work. By the way, uh, we already were in the locker room. Um, well, you find out in the well, I saw that Malik Jefferson was back in the locker room. Okay, I would imagine he's getting ready to be placed on the practice squad once again. Yeah. He said he'd just been hanging

for this month, and you know, just hanging. Kind of told him not to go and he said he worked out. He went back to his high school to work out a little bit, but glad to be back. It was funny because his locker used to be if the locker room, well, I can't explain it anyway, it was down on the other side. Now he's on the other side, on the up part of it. And I said, they gave your locker away that soon. Well they have it like there's some hidden hidden lockers in there. Yeah, but they didn't

have to go back there with the practice squad guys. Oh, so that's what my picture is up there with the practice squad. With the practice you gotta go around the corner, yeah, way up there. Yeah, or that's where the guys in the when they have ninety guys. Yeah, that's where they put them the overflow section. That's probably the guys that didn't get drafted, right, that's what Yeah, But anyway he will be back. And uh, I think you're talking about

the stadium. Oh, he's not talking about the locker. Locker doesn't have pictures above. Oh you're right, yeah, you're right stadium at the stadium because I took that to him. I took that tour with the group yea, and they were trying to find thank you Christopher, and I was trying. I was confused for a second. I didn't think there was any pictures back the pictures on top of the lockers. Yeah, they got like my my rookie picture at the stadium. So where all the rookies are all the yeah, undrafted

corner guys. Yeah, all right, Well, good we got that cleared up, ran into Layton vander esh and good news. Then he was quite relieved himself, by the way, because he's he was like, oh no, you know, and then uh he said, yeah, it's just sore now. But you know, he's hoping a week or so he should be back. You know, I complained about about him a little bit, you know, because I wanted to be more aggressive, which

and he was. Through three or four games, he's been really aggressive, right, but we still definitely need him his body. We need, we need bodies, we need depth, and if he's out, then man, we're putting a lot of people in some unfamiliar situations. Right And you know, especially with Damon Clark, even though he had nine tackles, he's still a young man, a half a year rookie, right, young man.

So I would think that Luke Gifford, they might have to start getting him a little bit more prepared to play. Uh that well, but see what guys like that? Then you put him on the defense, and now somebody's got to take a spot on special team. He's young, Why can't do both? Well, because we did it, they want to overload, which, by the way, t Y Hilton basically everybody's like, okay, is this the week? And he goes, well, it could have been the last week, but uh, it

was pretty funny. He was talking about, you know, I'm ready dota do? I guess And I didn't realize this, but I guess. His nickname and with the Colts was the ghost because he would disappear on the defense right right right, And and so he was talking and somebody said, well what do you bring? He goes, one minute, I'm here. In the next minute, you won't see me. Yeah one second. Yeah,

so he sounded ready. Um, and you know he said he was ready, and he understood the ramp up part, like they're a little worried to put you out there. And uh, I mean for him, it's been months a year, right, so yeah, I can get that ramp up January to right. But it's not like he's you know, and coming back from a yeah right. Yeah, So I thought that was uh yeah, so he it sounds like they'll probably get

him good to go and again. You know, but when you do that, that's bringing in another wide receiver that's not going to play special teams. And as we talked about yesterday, they struggled a little on their coverage units, punt return, kickoff return. They because they were getting yard. That was the beginning of the end of that game. Yeah. Absolutely so. Uh So anyway, Um, from a locker room standpoint,

you know, jay Ryn cursed. You know, he knows he's probably gonna have to have shoulder surgery, but he's playing through it. Um. Sounded like Tyrant Smith got through the game physically, okay. Uh And I would imagine no more ramp up for him. Oh it's too late for that now, right, fifty four snaps is gonna have to be right, uh, And they seem quite happy with how he played. Uh. And as I uh, you know, and Jay Ryan was trying to explain, it's like, okay, this run defense. He goes,

he said, we have to be more aware. He goes, agnew really hurt us on the end the rounds And he goes, you know, we're an aggressive defense and we

got to keep our eyes on what's going on. And as they say that, I'm sure it's been been repeated, but when you get down on the field, you have to adhere to it, right, I mean, because I'm sure they talked about this before every game, especially since we've been doing well except for this last game, right, holding down uh, not just the points, but you're holding down particular tendencies that you have, and that tendency continues now with us. And I'm sure they talked about it coming

into that Jacksonville game. So for them not to listen, for them not to carry that out, that's the problems. Fact, that's something that it was our downfall last year and here we are, we're coming on that same trend. And I'm not trying to be no high perple. Here, this is for real, this is similar. This is a deja vu moment. See, and they did a good job like four games in a row. But then they got a team that had the ability to expose their aggressiveness and

repeatedly did it too. And usually you get maybe one end around, they must have got three or four. You can't you can't be when they say you're exposed, then that means you can't do any better than that, because we knew this was coming. Anytime someone has speed and they have a good quarterback, someone that can expose not just our lack of comtainment, but also the ability to cross us up on play action, and we have not, we have not consistently made those things our advance to

our advantage. So let me ask you, because they're gonna have to get ready for both quarterbacks on Saturday, right, right, Menshew, how difficult is that when they're such different style of quarterbacks to get ready for the guy that's going to run and the guy that's basically going to be in the pocket. Well, at that, if I I would look at it like this, I don't care what Menshew can do. He's not Jalen hurts right, and That's the way I would look at it. The way we would go into

a game. Usually when we have backups like that, then we just exposed them defensively. That's whether I was with the Cowboys or with the Giants. Yeah, we a guy like Menshew, he just wouldn't be a threat to us at all. I don't care how good the team is or whatever his backup situation is. I don't recall us losing to a Uh. To me, I was compared to Hurts. He's an unqualified backup compared to Hurts, right, and he could he started he has I know what you're saying, Yeah,

but he doesn't have you right. He's a guy that, you know, I wouldn't call him. I wouldn't call him Sunshine. I wouldn't call him Lawrence. He's not going to be that he should. He's a guy that if we have to play and I guess it's going to happen, uh, then we could. It's a load off. I don't say you relax, right, But that's one thing you don't have to worry about is his ability to run the ball as consistently as Jalen Hurts when it comes to the past. I'm not worried about either one of them if we

do our job. I'm worried about Jalen Hurts because he is more diverse menshoe. I don't see him being that diverse. So Sirianni said, he wouldn't like say no, he's out and everybody's saying it looks like he's out. All he would say yesterday, would is it's not something long term, right, So we'll see where that goes. But you know, this is this is what happens with running quarterbacks, right, And I didn't realize fell in love with it. So he got hurt in the third quarter on a three yard run.

They were he had seventeen runs in the game. Too many runs, right, Yes, And that's why I always say, yeah, it's nice to have a quarterback that can run. But at some point they're gonna get hurt. And it's not like you're as big as a Josh Allen, right, who also has to be careful. But you you gout, Jalen Hurd. These guys land on you like they did. You know, I don't care how strong you are. What is he two fifteen? Maybe? I mean, I mean he's he's solid.

Talking about Jalen hurts. Yeah, but these guys come on, these guys twice his size, chasing them down, and I'd guess they're going to punish you. That's what I think that's going to ask you, because when you get a guy like that that frustrates you. Well, you saw it, right, if you saw land Yeah, that's like, okay, this is what they tell you not to do for quarterbacks. That's how they landed on him as a runner, right, he

was a runner. You're not in the pocket protection and so they fall they keep falling in love with that, which I get it because let me, he's amazing. Yeah, I mean I've been bragging on him even when he wasn't as good as he is right now he has matured and everything. But he's still a quarterback and he should not be considered a running back. I'm surprised as subjecting him to that much when you have a decent running back in the backfield. So I saw another one, uh,

and this would be just as a quarterback. He's been hit the third most times, one hundred and eighty four times. The only two that have been hit more justin fields. Oh what does he do right? Right? And Daniel Jones another guy that kind of likes to run out of the pocket. Yeah, so you got to be careful. I mean, Baltimore learned it right with Lamar Jackson. Thought he was invincible.

Nice to have him running the ball and it didn't even look like a serious hit, right, But the accumulation of those that pounding that you take, you know, it's got to add up and hurt you a little bit. And in that game, not only did he run seventeen times, he also got hit thirteen times any on thirty seven passes. Yes, that's that's a pretty high ratio. Right, so we'll see if they have to, you know, kind of pay for playing with that toy. That's why they like to throw

one time. He is so good when the timing is there right, when he can sit back, play action, boom set and just throw with not being impeded by any other way in any other way, Um, that's when he's good. But as soon as you make him pull it down, he's look threat to run, which could be which could also be bad if you're not alert. But I think that's the best thing for him against him, is to

make sure that he does not throw one time. Throw it off a little bit make him do something different, right, sort of sort of have to improvise, which is how he had his first interception in Chicago, which is a horrible past. He threw it into coverage three guys around there, and hey, he's human like anybody else. You're gonna have

to make him do something different. And here was his stats against the Bearers other than those thirteen hits, twenty two or thirty seven, passing for three hundred and fifteen yards, three rushing touchdowns, two interceptions, and thus you had a twenty five twenty game. It was close too. Yeah, and his defense was able one thing, and no knock on ours. It is what it is that Eagles defense, along with the forty nine ers, they saved their quarterback and offense

over and over again. It was twenty twenty a long time in the game. Yeah, yeah, and so think about that, and and Philly, it's not like they can sit here and go, well, okay, will wait on him to get healthy. We were thirteen and one, but they still need a win to clinch the East and the number one seed, which I would imagine that's still important to Yeah, it is, it is. And here's the thing. If we just keep

taking care of business. I'm not holding out for them losing all three of their games, right, but you have to do your job, right. I have to do what I have to do. You what about those stories of all the baseball teams that win second place all season? But they kept creeping up and creeping up, and the team up up that was up top they had to fall to Two things have to happen. You gotta stay consistent, and they have to be inconsistent if you're If they're

inconsistent and you're inconsistent, who gives a damn. Yeah, we have to do our job. We still have to win our games. I don't give a damn what's going on in Philly. We have to win our games. And when you when you lift your head up, you see where you are otherwise keeping those down, keeping those down. And the funny thing is is, uh, this is probably the best thing for this team if history means anything. This year, the Cowboys versus teams that are five hundred or better

are six and one against. Three losses are all against teams with using record. I don't even know what to do with that. I don't even know what do I go, Hey, that's good. Wow, you know, and I know, you know, no one's happy with that loss. But over the last two months they're six and two, which is not bad. Right over the last eight games. Uh So you know, and I pointed it out last week, it's like, it's

hard to win four straight. It's hard to win five straight, right, And as I wrote on Friday, to do what the Cowboys think they need to do was run the table on the last four games. That would have meant they had to win eighth straight, which is really hard even if you're really good. But we're struggling. We're struggling, well, struggling defensively. Yeah, we are struggling. And that's got to improve.

As Jay Ryan Curse said, if you had told me the offense was going to score thirty four points, we win that game, right, And he goes and we should have won. And and so they they understand that, you know where they're at. And um, you know, when when we come back here, we're going to talk about the cornerback position on things they might have to do their

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Tuesday is not an off day. It's a workday for the Dallas Cowboys for a couple of weeks, isn't it. And then it gets shorter because well they get Saturday to Thursday. Okay, so that helps, and you're not going Sunday to Thursday, but it's still not Sunday Sunday, right exactly.

So a lot of talk yesterday about the cornerback position. Obviously, the Cowboys took Kelvin Joseph out of the game in the fourth quarter he had given up two touchdown passes, came in with no Shon Wright who played the rest of that and the way Dan Quinn explained it yesterday that they were going to have and Jerry Jones emphasized that they were going to have competition for that corner. So if that somewhat of saying we're not benching one guy because how much competition can you have, I mean,

you know what everybody can do. You know what he's trying to say, right, he's trying to say, well, somebody please step up besides boss man fat right, that's what he's trying to say. We gave him a shot, more than one shot, and he's been a bit inconsistent, much better, much more inconsistent than he is consistent. It's just the way it is. You know, if you have the ability to do better, then you put somebody else out there.

But let's be real, there are a lot of cornerbacks in this league that give it up every week and they still have starting jobs. Some of them might even get a pay raise, so you know we're holding them to high standers here. Of course. Uh, this guy was highly talented, you know, came with confidence, a lot of talent, a lot of talent. You gotta know how to cover, you gotta know. And so the play where you got beat, I gotta beat on that play more than one stop

and go. Yeah, come on, man, we trying to make a plaint, but he really ye ain't trust me. I gotta beat so bad by Brian Cephalo, Miami Dolphins, Sunday Night, nineteen eighty one. I mean, I gotta be so badly. I clapped my hands in disgust as I'm chasing him. Okay, I have seen that moved before. You know, when you're when you're kind of feeling yourself, then you think you can do that. So I'll give any cornerback some grace,

but you gotta make your play right. He didn't do well the last game, a game before last, but he still made some plays to overcome what he had not done, and so he still has to overcome that by okay, let me shake it off and let me make a play that's going to be significant in this ball game that he did not do. He continued to fail and fail and fail. Now the other one on the goal lines a tough route to cover. Yeah, it is when you're man and all the guy's got to do is

fake in and go back the other way. That's why the aggression has to be there. When you start beating, getting beat like that, then you become soft, right, And if you're gonna be aggressive, then you become aggressive in a stupid manner. Trust me, been there not talking this about Joseph, talking about myself. Any other cornerback. If you're gonna get up and be aggressive I talked about yesterday,

you gotta have patience. You gotta her poise. When you cover somebody, you can't just try to You can't outthink yourself, Okay, you have to be instinctive. And any other time that he comes up against a guy that's lined up tight, the guy was lined up tight. I mean, I mean real type, but he was. It was he was definitely in set to where you know that he's he could go across, yes, he could go outside, yes, but whatever

you do, don't wait. He waited, he didn't get up and aggression taking the use of his five yards and wear him out because you, yes, you have nothing to lose at that point. That's the smart way to go. Playing off. You give him the ability to do what he wants. If you're jamming him right there, then he and the quarterback have to be on a different page. It probably will turn into a a fade as opposed to be the route that they had the out route, and then you might have a better chance. So you

can help depict what's going on at that time. When you line up off of somebody right there, he can do whatever the hell he wants and you can't give him that or do what they did in the Giants Washington game and jump on the guy's back and strangle his neck. You don't we getting that work out better?

And didn't work out better for when we against CDE Lamb because the worst thing would have happened, get flagged and two yards you might get two more yards, yeah, because it's half the distance, right, So yeah, I mean, you know there are times when I said, like I said, game players sometimes have to go out the window. There are times when you just have to play rough man football. You know, I could call it a lot of different things, but you got to be a dog off in there sometimes, right,

and he is that guy. Don't let that take away your aggressiveness. So here's the other thing that they did a couple times when there was two tight ends and only two receivers. I saw they moved to Ron Bland to the left side instead of him in the slot. Now, how difficult is that for a corner to do both in one game? It is not difficult at all. I mean, that's that's that's what veterans do. Bro. No, he's not a veteran rookie. He's a rookie. But sometimes ignorance is blissed.

He should not care about where he is. There are times when you can motion over. You have two times, two tight ends, two wide receivers on each side. If you motion that wide receiver over to the other side, he's gonna be in the slot somewhere. You're gonna follow him. Right, that's he ends up. When they snapped the ball, he's gonna be in the slot. He'll be moving to me. It's the same thing. You cover a slot on regular downs. That's a regular down slot coverage. You can cover it

any other time. Now, once again, easier for dbs than it is for lineman. Right, But I've always thought cornerbacks can cover either side or slot. It's more difficult, but not from a mental standpoint, from a physical standpoint. And they had moved you into the slot. I was old then with the Giants. Yes, I was old then, and I shut down man. I was I was twenty nine thirty years old. I'm shutting down slotmer So I know these guys who are quicker than I was, faster than

I was, much more athletic than I was. I know they can do this. So the mentality aspect of it, that shouldn't even be an issue. Okay, it's the physicality because now you can't read where he might go because the alignment doesn't depict anything because he's in the slot. So would you be hesitant to move Bland to the outside and have somebody played in the slot. I would rather you get someone who was accustomed to doing it

to continue to do it. If that's Bland, then he needs to continue to do it because he's doing a damn good job. Because Nashan writes not exactly built to play in the slot at six to four. Oh head, Now, I didn't know it's that tall. Yeah, wow, that's that's a good looking kid, yea. But yeah, you want to keep him like the Richard Sherman's. In fact, they had two guys over six y four sixty three with Richard Sherman and the other cornerback. I can't remember where he

was in Seattle. So yeah, keep them on the outside where they can be physical against these wide receivers. So he's one guy that they could that's another alternative. And really he played nineteen snaps in the game. In the fourth quarter. He was aggressive and that was the most significant snaps I think he's had the cornerback position. They got Trayvon Mullen, who has played in the league. He's bounced around, but he's on the fifty three man roster.

And then there's also Sheffield, who I think was a slot guy most of his career, but he's on the practice squad, So you would have to make an elevation there. And now let's just be real when you have If you're not comfortable as a coach with who you have, then we go to safer defenses. That was my next question. You could go to say you can at certain calls to simplify everything you want to put pressure on him

and say, okay, go at it. How can you have that slotly man the man, or if you feel like we can play a cover four I think they do that a lot these days. You can go to cover two. They're all kind of safe, but still you can keep your aggression. It's a safe call mentally, but physically you can keep your aggression. And if if Quincy Quinn wants to do that, then that's also another way to go. So with the Philadelphia receivers, would you put digs on one of them and then double the other give the

other guy help. It's been working like that so far. Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't remember Diggs giving up a bunch of passes in the in the game. I wonder which one they would choose, because they got three pretty good ones. They really do. I really think a guy like bland is really looking forward to a game like this because he's been going up against some good wide receivers in the slot. He's coming in. He's making a big name

for himself. I see that to continue. He's just as quick and physical as any of these Philly wide receivers. I don't think he's afraid of though, he's too young to be afraid. Scott what four three interception? Come on? Man? I mean we hadn't had that thing around here, you know, in regards to a guy coming off the four. Yeah, yeah, he's not a startup. Well you know all year long, right, you know that's something that I remember Tom Landy said

they were asking it. He wouldn't even start me. I had five, I was leading the league and interceptions on the bench, and finally like, well maybe if we played more, he'll get boy, this is shocking the genius of time. So he finally put me in and then things continued. I think plays the same way. That's kind of the vander Esh thing, right, if you're gonna play me more, I might get more tackles. Right, So he's got four picks,

Diggs has got three. So is saying you have competition and practice on a short week a euphemism for we're making a change. I think it is. Yeah, I think because you really help. What kind I mean? Do you have enough snaps in practice to have three guys competing

for one and these kind of practices? Yeah? Yeah, I mean if you want to call these these glorified walk throughs, all you have to do is make sure that whoever is coming in, if he can come in the competition that they're putting up against boss Man, if he can come in and just not make mistakes mentally, it's his job. We will we'll find out what you can do in the game. But as long as you know what you're

doing this week, then it's your job. Okay, it's it's it's not here, he's already lost it talking about basket boss Man. It's the whoever's back behind him. It's up to them to just get in play solid, meaning in practice, don't make mistakes, know where you're supposed to be, show me that you're comfortable with all of that. It's your job.

So somebody asked me about the competition, and I'm going, you know, these days in practice, practice is to help your mental part, the recognition, right, more so than Okay, I can go scout team. Right. Nobody's practicing that hard anymore. It's all they just like energy and practice. Everyone's supposed to be where they're supposed to be. You're not gonna make plays during the season in practice. That was what training camp was for. You make plays the game. Now.

That's why they have you know, numbered, padded practices and things of that nature. They got all the rest of the world that they need so that when you go out there and perform, no excuses. So one of the difficult things I would think if you're an inexperienced corner is when they give you those bunch looks to one side, right, And I was talking to Bland about it, and he was saying, well, when they do that, it's my job to uh call out, determine where I'm going and where

they're going. Right, it's predetermined, but he has to continue with it after the ball is snapped, right, so that means everyone's playing. Usually we have a guy on the line. That guy on the line, he predicates what happens with everyone else. If I stay on my man, it's up to YouTube guys. If it's three when they scattered, when they scattered, you guys worry about that and out whatever you do. But I have to determ. I have to depict how we're going to play this. By me staying

on my man. On the line of scrimmage, we cannot be separated because they want you to bump into they want you to bump in each other. So I'm gonna you're supposed to take this guy out in some way, and you you kind of depict how the other guys are going to play. So that's that would be to me one of the difficult things of putting somebody in there that hasn't played as much to not lose sight of what your job is, especially if you don't have

a safety over there to help you. Right, If you don't have the safety over to help you, man, y'all better get this right. Y'all get this right, because the

safety can cover you. But now the office does that, they make the safety come over and now they start working things either from here going to the other side with the crossing routes, or they're gonna work these guys over here, maybe with running back in the tight end, because initially before we saw the replay, when Joseph got beat on the deep route, it was like, I bet

he thought he had safety help. And then when I saw and then what I saw, you can realize, Oh yeah, I knew rather way because it was a day's ope for me because he was driving towards the ball for five yards and the other guys going see. Ron Springs used to tease all the linebackers and just talk about how you know, dbs and linebackers will suckers for a move, right, And that's what he was. He was a sucker for

a move. Ron would always say, all this guy to do is do that and you're gonna you're gonna bite, right, So that's exactly what happened. Can't be anxious, right, all right, And we're anxious to get to our next segment here on mix shots on Dallas Cowboys, ditop. 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, Oh look at that. That's not the end, no way. Now it's time for the Encore. You know what You're right?

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that a high school award? Uh? It didn't say I would imagine it is. I'm thinking it is high school. It has to be right, No, no college the Bob Lily Cowboys, Cowboys Dallas fan vote. I'm reading. You gotta listen. Oh you know why they give it like that? Got it last year. So I know because in the Jason Winton got on a lot the hallway where the Carol Clinic has the rehab thing across the street at the Baylor, Scott and White. Yeah, they've got an explanation. Bob Lily

award they got and they got pictures of Yeah. I should have known that. All right, we continue here on shots on this Tuesday. So we discussed what the Cowboys might do at the cornerback position. We know what they're doing at the right tackle position on offense, that's Tyran Smith. We'll see what happens at the linebacker spot. With Layton vander Esch expected be out at least one game, maybe another, they had to Moan Clark in there, so they brought

Lake Jefferson back to the practice squad today. We'll see where that one goes and if they need a special teams type guy that could be him if if they decide to elevate them, Luke Gifford probably has to step in and maybe play some more snaps because Anthony Barr is still kind of working through some stuff, so they can't put him out there for he's the guy that he just I think he's out of position. I just think he's out of position. He's not. He doesn't look

comfortable back there at all. He just looked like he's likeing coverage, yeah, and even what the field for the run, yeah, how to take a blocker on and things of that nature. You can just see that he's surviving off of athletic ability, right, you know, being able to make those tackles we talked about line of scrimmage. I think he needs to be on that end, Like he's a sam that could be you know, three lass you and use him for that,

you know, for a changeup. Why not rush the court? Yeah, that's a million he could be for a change up. This guy's very athletic, and right now those offensive linemen are all in his face and he just seems to be stumbling all over everybody else. When he gets he gets cut off, you know, he's cutting everybody else off when they're going wide on us. You know, there's certain things that we have to see that as coaches, you just gotta make that tough decision like you did with

Boss Man. You make this a tough decision to put a young man in that situation. Man, Look, you're not doing well. It's tough to tell a young man that. Yeah, you know, he's playing as well as he can. He's getting ridiculed, you know, by everybody. So keep making those hard decisions because we gotta win. Yeah, I mean we can't. We can't worry about hurting someone's feelings just because the guy is not playing well. If he's not playing well, he should be the first one to tell you. I

remember Doug Cosby wasn't playing well. He asked Thornton Chandler, his backup tight end, to go in and ask Tom Land, you can't you go in for really? Yes, because he knew that he couldn't handle the call banks. He knew that Thornton Chandler was a better blocker than he was, and it worked out in everyone's favor. You know. The other guy that's kind of catching grief was Noah Brown. Obviously,

further though, you know, didn't catch it. But as McCarthy pointed out, and Jerry went out of his way to point out this morning on his radio segment, he goes, had the best game of his career, and they're crazy. He had six catches and he you know, and he and again he wasn't an easy cat, no doubt, but definitely a cat. You got to make that right, and and and so that that was the you know, and

the same thing with Dak Prescott has an outstanding game. Right, they can say what they want raiding one or seven, right, and then and then all they want to talk about is the two interceptions, which one of them, for sure is not his fault and the other one was okay. The other one. I was looking spags, I didn't see anybody touching. You didn't see the guy from behind behind. I thought he was, yeah, talking on that. Don't make it through all the way. He's right there, but maybe

he couldn't follow through it. He followed through all right, He followed through all the way, all over his head, so you know, he had a little extra on the ball. And see the thing is you gotta call it, like you said, that's not gonna yeah. I mean, so we need to call it like he was. The coaches need to call it like they see it. You know, he needs to There are times when you just need to

just eat it and you just got to do that. Man, you're two, You and Josh Allen, y'all need to chill sometimes and say, you know what, this play needs to just being in completion. I don't have to be great right this play, you know, especially in this situation. We're down here, you know, backed up. That's not the time to do that kind of stuff. And as a leader, he really needs to start understanding that because no matter what he does, he's going to be criticized. Yea, and

I know he don't give a crap about that. Right once again, though, give me the moments, right, give me the moments that I need, those moments, which he eventually he did, right, you gave us. Come on, man, what else you want? And I'm about to do it again? Yeah, and then you know, my dude drops it. And that's his dude. So what's he gonna say? Oh man, you blew it? Yeah? You know, when he was it might have been his second here and they were having trouble.

It might have been the year when they finally decided they needed to bring in a Murray Cooper, right, and he was getting drops and bad routes and he would always blame himself. So he finished his little deal. He was walking off. I walked with him, and he goes, you need something. I go, yeah, I'm looking for the stab wounds. And he goes, what do you mean stab wounds? I said, well, if you keep falling on your own store, you're gonna have. But that's what a good one does, right, right,

that's their job. But he also knows that he's going to come back and be praised as well, right, which is also part of his job is to do well. So on that play, he had already taken an eight yard sack and this is the next one. And I'm sure he was being stubborn like, Okay, we're gonna make this right, Yes, yes, we're gonna make this work. We can't have two sacks, right, And that's what was getting ready to happen, because he got flushed out of the pocket.

And so from there, I'm with you. I'm with him all the way. You gotta make a play, yeah, which is what he did and sometimes would And I don't know if defenses do this, but one way to control the quarterback is to blitz send the next guy and makes a certain side right And they sent it from CD Lamb side of the field, which kind of helps you hurt you to see it throws off all your timing because that's where you're gonna try to go hot.

But if they're and let's face it, the right side was getting a little overwhelmed doing the ball game, and the pressure was always coming from there. And sure enough, at that time it came from that side. That's where Cede Lamb was. So let's think about this. I don't know, everybody works together. We know where the pressure is coming from a lot. We're having some tough time over here all game, am I right? So as a coach, you know that's going to be a problem. Why not put

the play on this side? You know? Why not designed it for this side to where you might have a better and more clear view. Just little things like that, to where coaches and players work together. That doesn't have to tell you that everything's coming from the right side all the time. The pressure, I mean, you could see that, So why not let's let's say, wait, we don't want to try to call while primary is going to be

caught up in all of that. And if you saw how Jacksonville ended up compensating for what Michael Parsons was almost doing. They were putting the running back to his side, not necessarily to chip him every time, but it had to be in his mind. Home keeps in his mind. It's like, Okay, I can't go inside because he's gonna get me. I have to power that tackle. And then the other thing, I noticed they were lighting the tight end, not necessarily tight, but just a little bit to the outside.

So if he went outside, he was going to run into the tight end. So it kind of discouraged him from trying that move because he knew he was going to get hit there or by the running back. Well before we go, who was the best player on the field to you for the Cowboys right now? Just this past game? Defense, offense or are they hire it don't matter. Oh, that's a good question. I know who it is. It's easy question, easy ceedee lamb. Yes, he's been the best player.

And I want to say that because man, I was on his butt earlier this year and I know he ain't listening, but just just for posterity. I have to say that right now, he's the best player on our team. He went got targeted seven times, and I'm not big on targets by the way, but he caught seven passes for one hundred and twenty six yards and averaged eighteen yards a catch. It's such a huge I don't know what play that was. They came out real quick, quick snap,

quick throw. He was ten years down the field, wide open. There was no one around him but other wide receivers you remember, and he took to happen right he took off. I don't know what the defense was, but he takes off through the zone and he must have run about thirty years as you remember that. Yeah, that was that was I think that was part of the comeback when we got our last score, And that was impressive to me that he showed aggressiveness. It wasn't about just getting

in and sliding down. No, he was making moves throughout that secondary that got us down the field in good in good fashion to to h to score on that last drive. I would last offensive drive. So right now, three games to go, he's already got a thousand yard season. Impress. Thousand and eighty seven eighty one catches. Uh. Now the eighty one catches he has, he's tied for ninth in the NFL. UM And if you look at it, the guys ahead of him Jefferson name, Jefferson, Hill, Digs, Eckler,

Kelsey a tight end, Eckler a running back. Uh, some guy Adams in Vegas. Uh and Pittman Indianapolis. Who I believe that was the guy that Cowboys had Digs follow. So he's in pretty fancy company right now. And from a receiving yardage, he's eighth. Uh. There's only one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine guys in the NFL right now. They have a thousand yards of receiving. So I think he's established himself as a number one receiver and his ability. I

am no longer trying to win from Amara Cooper. I'm right, I'm good. I'm all in ceedee lamp. He is. He is doing everything that Cooper would have done. And his run after catch is amazing. Right, that's strong run, not fast, but he's fast, strong strong, right, Yes, And this was a strong show. Bill Jones, we need your back on tomorrow when we continue with mix shots on Dallas Cowboys dot Com everardson walls, Mickey Spagnoli, y'all have a great day.

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