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that's going to become a Monday traditions. That's older school than you guys. Yes it is. Yes, it was way back at least I was alive. And how about that? It is a victory Monday. As we sing our way into the show today, Hey man, ten day video of what is going on here? Whose videos? Best? Best? Watching that video? Man? Are you doing watching that video? Stuff? I'm not supposed to be watching here in this studio. Hey, for a change, it wasn't me. I'm sitting there going

where's that coming from? You know what that was? That was Charlotte radio. You know, my favorite pastime and listen to on a victory Monday, my favorite pastime. Where were they talking about? Go and go? Listen list into the opposition on a non victory Monday for the Carolina Panthers. Oh, they are complaining about some miscalls. I'm fumbolded. Should be

that that would have changed the entire game? Did you know that if the if the Carolina Panthers had gotten that call, it would have changed the complexion of the entire game. And the other thing was holding calls not being called against Cowboys office. But they were okay with that personal file for the guy tackling him after he caught a pass, what was he supposed to do? Just like stand there and go, okay, now please come down and take a step and now I'll tackle you. Give

me a break. Oh. I love bringing that up because it gets bicky going. You're mix shots are we can go back to the two point conversion too, By the way, and how about we give it up to who is your pick to click? My pick to click was jay n Okay. I'm thinking that the win of the pick to click contest is sitting across the table from us. Ever since, I might give him. That's almost I might give him to him. I might give him. I'm talking one Randy Gregory two sacks, but your premise though, four

quarterback hits. I'll get to it. And he had to go up against cam Irving, yes that he didn't have to go up again. Yes, he got to got to go and I should say cam Irving had to go up against Randy. And I think there was a whold call in there and a face mask too, by the way, it should have been on the same play. Yeah, right, really that's when you think about it. But one of those sacks, he was looping around another part of the offense, Yes he was. He looped and I think Goldston actually

created the space. He moved some other guys out of the way when he looped. But he had a really nice day and the sacks of the season. And you know who I was. I was kicking myself for not picking this guy because I thought about it and then I didn't. Zeke, Yes, who would you pick? Uh? CD? Oh okay, yeah, we caught the first pass of the game, didn't Hetty. I'm pretty sure CD and Dak are going to have some conversations in the future. I'm killing this

dude that I am killing him every day. He's like took the Tony Hill of his day, I am open all the time. That's what Danny White and Roger Starbeck had to go through Tony Hill coming back to the huddle. Roger Roger, I'm open, That's all he kept saying. So I'm sure CD has been been preaching that to Dak

as well. But when you look at what the Cowboys were able to do against this Carolina defense, it was a no brainer if you look at the makeup of the Carolina defense, that the Cowboys were going to be able to run the football against that team, even though they are number one in almost every category. In every category, do you realize Zeke with his one hundred and forty three yard performance came two yards short of what Carolina gave up in three games. Wow? I mean you could.

You could see it. And their other claim to fame was nobody had gained more than twenty five yards washing against US, and Zeke has had a forty seven yard run almost doubled that little stat. I mean, it was it was what we expect from this team when we're at our best, and the way we're playing, the fashion in which we are doing it in the trenches. That's what I like about I don't care how well that at the offense, whatever, defensively, how many interceptions, it doesn't matter.

It's happening in the trenches right down. There were games of being won and lost. And the amazing thing was in that first half when they sort of struggled, some m sid struggled, they scored fourteen points, whatever you want to call it. They were getting pressure with blitzes, and then suddenly the second half they did something to adjust and those blitzes either weren't getting there or because they were running so well, they didn't want to keep blitzing.

And you sit there and you know, Dack through four touchdown passes, right, and he did it in the press conference afterwards he goes, yeah, he goes, I only threw for one hundred and eighty eight yards. Well most of them touchdown passes. You know what. It was interesting because at the end of the first half, Carolina had the momentum got you got the momentum back, and the Cowboys are having problems handling that blitz. Yes, and so what did the Cowboys do offensively coming out on their first

possession of the third quarter. Zeke for eleven, Zeke for five, Zeke for five, and now you're at the thirty five yard line. And this was after Carolina had missed the field goals, so they took over and basically at midfield Cowboys forty four yard line. So Zeke had three carries for twenty one yards and then as soon as former Carolina panther Greg Olsen so aptly put it on the broadcast, that's when Dak dropped one in the bucket to Amari Cooper and for the touchdown. Some guy they just acquired

Henderson just for this task, just for this task. And um, that's how you handle a blitz. Yeo, absolutely, And well it comes from play calling. Though you gotta read the room spat right, you know, you can't just say, Okay, we have to get this guy numbers, we have to get this guy involved. This is what's working. Let's go back to it because they can't stop us. And but you, when you have the luxury of our offensive line, that strategy is easily implemented. But when you when you don't

have that luxury, it's a whole different story. They knew that when we came out, they can't handle it. And here's what they did on those runs. Bill. They went two tight ends on the first play, three tight ends on the second play, three tight ends including Connor McGovern on that third play, and then and then then they go and then they go three wide. It's like, okay, what you're gonna do? And the protection was so good. He was looking left, saw that that was so good.

And then he came off and then then he did a little touch and he even went back a couple of more steps and then he threw the ball and he did throw was amazing. You can be exactly accurate as you want. He looked him off. I mean he looked him off for like a full second. Yeah, and he had time to do this right, And and there goes mister hamstring right, one hamstring lipping down the field runs right by Henderson right, and and he did. You

know they do that drill. They used to do it in the training camp where they would stand about thirty yards away and put a big, what twenty gallon fifty gallon trash can in the end and they tried to jump. That's that's exactly, yeah, that's why they do that all. That's what he did. They're just they're and even at the end of practice, they'll do stuff like that. And it's and it's not. They're not doing it for fun. I mean, I just find a competition as they're doing

it in training camp. But there's a there's a method to the matter. It's like James Shack Harris, some grambling and Los Angeles ram said, put it in the right front pocket. Just put it right in their front pocket. You don't have to reach for it. It's gonna be right there for you. And when we start picking click picks to click, we better start picking Trayvon digs everything. I guess we should. This guy's gonna not only make you popular, he's gonna make you money. I've been getting

so many a lot. I'm waiting on the paid calls, but I'm doing a lot of interview requests. When you get that call for the Hall of Fame, yes, you may have to think because he got you back on the radar, and now everybody knows what you did right, what you did forty years ago that no one else did, by the way, and they didn't even know about it. No, no, you guys witnessed it. We were there, but nobody really these days, they just don't know about it. I talked

about the time span between mail and myself. You know, when I was doing that, Mail's name was coming up, same same with Night kept coming up. But Mail was only he had been in the league ten years prior to that, maybe even later he had closed up. Maybe seven. We graduated nineteen seventy, he retired to seventy seven. Maybe I was in high school. Dig's dad might not have even been born. I was playing in nineteen eighty one. Let's just think about that. So the gap is extremely wide.

So this is this is funny. So we do the reception for a Star Sports Tours on Saturday. We take questions. Nobody asked him what it was like to intercept eleven passes his rookie year. But they wanted to talk about the catch, right, he said, can you run through it? He wanted to have a play by play, moment by moment recollections like I'm not doing that, bro, we don't have enough time for that commentary. And I think it was actually thirteen interceptions here. Yeah, that game game for records,

they just count the regular Sea too. In that game. In that game, no one, no one talks about that. That's your comeback. He's getting better and better. The next time someone asked you about the catch. You say, I can't remember the catch, but I do remember the two picks in the fumber. You know how many times I've said that you took the words right. You know, we think of like you took the words right out of my mouth. I've already said that. Well, I'll tell you

what this guy. You know, the first one was one another one of those diving cut underneath um. And the second one was they've been doing this with him when they get a lead. They've been backing him off the line of scrimmage and into zone like he's ten yards deep. And that's all he did was stand there and he

saw it, right. He just played his eyes. He just played his eyes and stood there and see that's what That's what when Belichick saw me that time when we met, it's almost like he was like, Okay, I have in mind what I can do with this guy. That's what they're doing with Dix. You just put them in position to make the plays. Not just that he can catch it. He's got the instincts to know where to anticipate the ball might go. And that's that's what you have to

look at. I got the brad guys. I was tweeting the whole time. I didn't. I didn't tweet until he got the first one and I put four four four because he got four for four four and four games, and then he gets no. I was, I was ahead of it. Okay. Right after that, I said, relaxed, cowboy fans, he's not done yet. That's what I said. He's not done yet, and bam, that's when he made that amazing play. So if you have five picks in four games, I figured out he's on like a twenty one piacea. Now

it's like it's unimaginable, but that's the pace. If he gets that, then they're gonna forget all about me. As he goes on, they're gonna be like, wow, okay, we can't reference ever since anymore. He's in a whole nother strategy saying for this show, it's gonna be seven gets eleven. They're going to Heaven, super Bowl Heaven. That's right, he's on the way right here. Seven gets eleven equals super

Bowl Heaven right there. And you know the other thing, somebody said, well, when when you think they're gonna quit throwing his way? I said, if they keep putting him on the top, receiver. They're gotta throw at their top receiver, right, They're not gonna Just let's look at what else is doing. Can you see my brother Brown getting off over the other side. Yes, it just you mentioned that. It's just it's just it's in fact. Yea. He once baby steps.

Guys baby steps because not only is he anticipating better, you know, it's not just on the one that he jumped, it's like every route he seems to be okay. He seems to grasp what kind of anticipation you can use at a certain time, and his instinct seems to be kicking in, not just on passes. Uh. They had a running back on tight end came out, Yeah, and he comes out in his man It was like practice. You know,

you kept the leverage. He comes in there, he puts his head in front of the blocker, shoulder into his legs, and he brought him down easily. How is that? What is that guy been tied first first in in tackles in the game, and he had other than the one he dropped. He had two more passes broken up, so he had three pass breakups. That's why he fussed backs. I don't fuss because he's not good. I fuss because I know he can do better. Right, that's the point.

Don't allow him to bail out. This guy can play, man, he's got all the tools. You've been on this side the whole time. I've been the one that's on this case, So he can you come around on him. He's finally coming around. He's finally coming around, you know. And and uh he's been tackling well all see. Yes, you know, going back to the Tampa Bay game, so you know. But um, it's just that there's so much to like about what you're seeing right now with this team, and

a lot of it goes back to the unselfishness. I mean it's like, uh, you can go from position group to position group, and uh, you know, Zeke really seemed to enjoy that Pollard was having success for a couple of weeks, and now Zeke has his success this week, and who knows what happens next week. And in other positions, uh,

you know, whether it's on offense or defense. Uh, there's and and it's not just I think that you can say that that's a product of winning, but I think the winning is a product that you know, I think it's the reverse winning doesn't just come automatically. Well think about it. How many times have you seen somebody throw four touchdown passes and each touchdown pass went to somebody different? Right, everybody caught one? Yeah? And Dak said it after the game,

he said, you know, it's like incentive the guys. When you get your opportunity, you better score because if you don't, somebody else is going to get it after you. Right, You're just setting it up for somebody else. And the more we score, the more opportunities that will be for others. Right. Yeah, even Jarwin got in the in the business, right, and that was sweet. That was a sweet white call, right, Um?

And who else? Uh? So it was said, said again, that's two and that's one in each game over the last two when you can seamlessly replace somebody like a Michael Gallop Yeah right, you got squat, Yeah you got and then you had Schultz and Cooper were the other ones, and five different players. This is what we expected from this offense though, right, I mean I thought they were thirty point a game team for sure, just looking at

what they had done last year. You know, after so DA's got ten touchdown passes at this point, last year or after five games last year he had nine, so he's kind of picked up where he left off. But the yard it was it was nine interception or ten touchdown passes two interception last year was nine and four or five. And they were always on the first drive and the yards were more because they were always behind,

so they had to throw. They never had the luxury of doing what they did with Zeke in this game. They ran for two hundred and forty five yards. Last year he was racking up yards like Sam Darnold was racking up yards, and yesterday they were behind about three touchdown exactly right the week before and and that, and again, I'm sure there's still going to be thirty first in past defense and there's some okay follow yards, but we're going to get to this. Hopefully they learned a lesson

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course I did. I'm on time for everything. Nowadays we talk to practice. Two questions too long not to make it. I ran out of there. So a couple of appearances on Saturday, I had four appearances on what started office four. I was gonna be the grand marshal for Berkner's homecoming parade. Well excuse me, but you know me, I hate getting up early, something up or seven o'clock ready to go, and I'm like, yeah, I'm not getting any calls to anybody.

So my sister in law just happens to be the president of the Richardson the school board, and uh she was gonna be in it. So my wife calls it and says, uh, so what times the parade and she goes, oh, they canceled it, and I'm up dressed, ready to walk out the door. It was gonna rain, but no one called me. So I'm dressed, ready to go. So I just got all, you know, one man everything. Next thing, you know, I got three more deals. Man. I had a great time this weekend, a great time. It ended

up well, started off well, this great, great weekend. So were you able to watch Missouri? I watched the first half. That's all I needed to watch. And I got a text from somebody talking about how crappy Missouri, and I basically I sent him a screen shot. I just saw the score. What was the scorer when I forty two to three halftime? It was No, it wasn't half time because they kicked a field goal before it halfed. They were six for six on scoring touchdowns in possessions in

the first half. Wow, and gave up four hundred and some yards in a half. So at halftime I fired the defensive coordinator, and then after the game, the calumnist from the Saint Louis Post Dispatch fired the defensive coordinator, and by Monday they fired the defensive line coach. It's like, okay, they just get rid of the whole staff, the coordinator. You give up six hundred and eighty three yards in a game. It ain't the defensive line coaches for problems

on the offensive side is Duley? Still, there is a different drink drink a Witz is the offensive coordinator. The head coach is the okay coordinator. Okay, yeah, drink a Witz, drink Witz, drink Witz. Yeah, okay, won't hear from them any I'll tell you what I guarantee. A coach drink was drinking. He wasn't. Half. Now. The scary thing is they got to play North Texas State on Saturday. It's North Texas Northeas. Okay, sorry, he's back there with me,

Joe Green. That's right. You'll see Duley this weekend. By the way, where is he He's a wide receiver coach for the Giants? Oh is he? Okay, he's with the Giants. And Grambling had a comeback against Alabama A and him this weekend. And I bet you were on the edge of your seat on Saturday Day. Wasn't that easy? Yeah? Had a three touchdown lead in the second half, and yeah,

well so did the Cowboys. And then like and then like that's a great segue because I thought I was seeing a sequel to what I've watched on Saturday Now the coach on Saturday decided to kick off up thirteen. He decides to kick off to a kick returner who returned one for a touchdown the week before. Where the minute left in the game. And sure enough, this is after being penalized fifteen yards and so there's even more field to cover, and sure enough he took it to

the house. And now it's a six point game. All right. Now get to what you wanted to talk about in this segment regarding the Cowboys. Yes, do not think a twenty point lead going into the fourth quarter is a safe lead. You do not relax and you not let your guard down. Especially, don't sit the guys that are guarding your goal line, like Trayvon Diggs. What rand On Gregory, I don't I don't understand that they took all of a sudden the backup defensive liners in there. What are

you doing? I tweeted this myself. No dB comes out of the game ever unless you're hurt. Now, okay, Now, they said he had tightness in his back. That was the second thing they said. The first thing. First thing, give me a break, game manager, Yeah, give me a break. That doesn't happen with defensive backs, right, never come out of the game. If you got two interceptions, you're going in for three. So darned well better being a tight back. Yeah, but it wasn't like having He looked like he was fine.

He was standing on the side. He actually kind of looked like he had when he walked, did he. Yeah, well looked a little bit because otherwise you just that just doesn't happen. If you're defensive back. You never come out of the game. It's just the way it is. You stay in and you feed. You know, you got two picks and you don't want three. Yeah, they didn't take you out in that game against Washington. No, we kept coming there. We didn't replace anybody. We didn't come

in with back up dime defensive backs. We stayed in there and feasted. So the other issue with that, and then it if indeed when and we're going to take their word for it, they said they had back tightness, Well, then once you've sat out for a little bit, probably tighter, and yeah, now you're going to go back in the game, and now you've got a real chance of activating the injury. Then yeah, I mean they're they're in there the fourth quarter.

Randy Gregory's not out there. You know, Kamara, you know you know what homecoming, you know, university had not. I always stayed said, um, all right, you know why the cow I think the Cowboys had a false sense of security? Why is that because of the coaching decision that innocence decided this game? All right, what you got, Matt rule? M hm. Why in the world, Oh, I know what you're gonna say. Do you spend two timeouts in the third quarter and your third time out before there's twelve

minutes left in this football game? I have I mean, I'm just shaking my head, going what are you doing? He decided basically to end the game, although they did come back and make it a one score game eight point deficit, but he decided in the third quarter that the game is on the line, we have to do it.

I mean, if you're gonna come into a game with a mindset that we're going to go for it on fourth downs as a rule, so to speak, in this game, then why do you have to call a time out to decide whether you're gonna punt or go for it on fourth down? You cannot waste a time out like that. And then they had another the next time out, the playclock was down to nothing, and so then they spend

their second time out. Right, But in essence, in difference, a difference from college is in the NFL, these timeouts are so precious. Clock management is so precious. And when you spend your three timeouts before the twelve minute mark of the fourth quarter, you have now turned a sixty

minute game literally into a fifty eight minute game. This game is over at the two minute warning if the Cowboys get a first down, and they finally got it, and right, I'm very play call whatever, But you literally have turned it into a fifty eight minute game, and you figuratively have turned it more into a fifty five minute game because the Cowboys no in that fourth quarter, You've got no timeouts left. So what am I gonna do.

I'm gonna just run the football, run the football, And every time I get the ball, I am taking at least two minutes. Even if I don't get a first down, I'm taking two minutes off the clock. And if I do get a first down, I'm taking four minutes off the clock. And I think that may have given the Cowboys coaching staff a false sense of security that this game was over. Did that get on Charlotte radio that

did not know? I did not hear it, because you should have been when he called that was just ridiculous. When he called time out on that fourth and one, they were at the thirty four. Uh, they're trailing at that time, twenty six fourteen, and there was no stop in the Cowboys right uh, five fifty left and I'm going, well, he's gonna go for it. He's not punting here. You can't punt here. The Cowboys have just come out and scored and scored, and what makes you think you're gonna

stop him? You can't. You can't punt or kick a field goal. And they already had missed what the fifty four yarder and at the thirty four that would have been fifty two yards. You got you gotta score touchdowns. You kicked field goods. This is the lesson the Cowboys. I hope they've learned. You kicked field goals. You're getting closer to losing. That's your that's your right there telling him there. I've heard you say that. Not kick a

field goal there. You know you're just further behind because they're gonna score a touchdown, And they did by the way, so you said you tweeted whatever about the interception said during the game. So so I tweeted something about you about the timehouse, and then a second time out, I tweeted something about that, and then Cedric Wilson scores a touchdowns. It's a twenty point game. I said, Well, matt Rue might as well use his third time out right now,

because this game's over. I said, Panthers need to be hitting for the bus. That's that's right, Yeah, time to get on the bus. But Brad on the radio basically said he basically killed all his challenges the rest of the game too, because without any timeout, that's great. If it was a close game at the end, you need to challenge. You didn't have it because you don't have any timeouts. I mean, he couldn't panic and that, and that was a crew. You needed to challenge both sides, right, guys,

both sides. Yeah, And he's one particular you want to talk about. Well, some of them mean you didn't. You didn't. You couldn't challenge because they were change of possessions, right, they automatically look at those. But again, it's the same thing if you got a guy up there in the sky that can just buzz down. You screw it up, change it, You'll save five minutes. You don't. They're so obvious. When you're up high, you can see we got a break. But we got a break on that one. We really

got the fumble. Oh the Schultzwe yeah, forward product, forward progress that I've never seen that before. Oh no, I mean I thought it as as it happened. I said, they're calling forward progress on this, and sure enough they did. And because he picked there trying to stop that, is that what it was? Well, I'll tell you usually that's just a fumble. If it was a quarterback tackled like that and pile drived him, that would have been a fifteen yard tunalty, right. It kind of the same principle

as you'll see. You'll play on the sideline where it's ruled in bounds because of forward progress even though they went out of bounds and and the offensive players trying to get out of bounds. And it's kind of the same print to keep the clock going up sideways immediately with the ball came out right, Initially, you couldn't see that immediate the ball and that's the thing the officials could not see that the ball came out immediate list, but you would have seen it on replay, and that's why.

And I guarantee you the Competition Committee is going to look at that that particular play and they probably will change their mind on forward progress of not being able to review of a forward progress call on the field, because I mean that, in essence, is what replay is all about, to be able to see something that you otherwise could not see. Right, and with enough bodies around, you wouldn't be able to see that the ball was dislodged. How did they miss that holding call on the goal line?

I think it was on the score for the Cowboys. I'm trying to remember. I think it was Zeke was running the ball. I think it was on his touchdown. Lineman came through. He was gonna get Zeke right here. Oh God, just grabbed it and he he was reaching out like this. Y'all didn't see that on his one yard touchdown. I think it was on the touchdown run. Oh, I know where you're talking about. Yeah, that was that was just an obvious hold. I mean, there was no

one else there. He's like this, there's no one else there. The hole is right there. He scores. How did I just don't see how they missed it. We got some breaks there. It's a matter of watching a game through metallic blue glasses or Carolina. But here's the thing I told my son, I said, you know, usually we're on the other end of those. Uh, this officially means we are good football teams. Well, it wasn't the only good football teams yet those kind of breaks. It didn't start

off too well with those reviews, by the way. And then you know they needed the chip in the ball too for that one one with Schultz, the two point conversion. If I'm gonna nitpick, Dak has got to get it just further out because this this gave this twice. He put it here, right, That's not always the best place, especially if you already got the DP beat. If you put here, then you're looking at what Green Bay usually does. Rogers puts you right there. They just reach over right

there that they don't even go down. He should have run the route a little deeper. He ran parallel to the line of screen. Well, I mean he would. It would have been okay, but Dak slowed him down by putting it on where he did, as opposed to putting it out out front or maybe even a little closer to the body, which happened on the one that Zeke body had her first sound, same thing and he had the ball thing behind him in the same thing together.

You gotta kind of lead him. And that's nitpicking. You're talking about four touchdown pass. Yeah, all right, we continue with more mix shots than just a moment. At Smoothie King, we are blending goodness to fuel your greatness. Every blend is crafted to help you achieve your health and fitness goals.

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to work. Back back to mick shots. Check out the new Miller Lighthouse, located outside of AT and T Stadium, where the Dallas Cowboys game day traditions are born. Enjoy yard games, Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, performance, beer gardens, and more are game ticket required, though for more information visit att Stadium dot com slash Miller Lighthouse. Oh, they got rid of the last line. They didn't need anymore. You on the b Yeah, but the think about make your tailgate

jealous or something? Okay? What else from when our final seven minutes here? What else do you want to get across about yesterday's game that we have not talked about. We touched a little bit on the last play and the the speed options. Yes, Apollard, great play call there, loved it, and evidently some people must have had some problems with McCarthy's decisions in that game play like play calls. It was the two point. Kevin Sherrington in the Morning

News was critical of him going for two. I said, out loud, you gotta go for two once you had the penalty. Yeah, that got you down. Yet nothing wrong with that, right, there's nothing wrong with that at all. Right, It's like you say, man, sometimes people just being like my people contrary. I mean, it's like, you ran for two hundred and forty three yards, should have ran for one more. And I like the fact that we're trying to stick that dagger in there, you know what I mean.

We're not playing safe at all. We are being extremely aggressive, but not overly aggressive. I think that's the call to make. And it's like you said, people have been criticizing damned if you do, damned if you don't. When I said, I said it out loud, I said, well, they got to go for two. And Dave Hellman, sitting next to me, goes, you go, Mick, And I said, yeah, it sounds good until they miss it, right, But then you're gonna tell me I'm an idiot. Well, they and decisions to go

for it on fourth down. They seem to go much better when you have a good team. Yes, yeah, I have a good offensive a good offensive line. That's exactly right. And speaking of the offensive line, Connor McGovern, Yes, I love that. I mean, how can you not love what they're doing with him is lining up as a full bag and he deserves time and they're engaging him in the game. So now when he's got to go in his play guard somebody gets hurt, he's ready to go.

He's he's engaged, and he feels like he's important, you know. He uh and athletically, he's the perfect guy for that lead blocker fullback coming out of the backfield. I mean he moves well for a big guy at three hundred and ten pounder or whatever he is. I went back and looked at his combine numbers and they're almost identical to what Zack Martin's were willing out and uh, you know, he he just moves well. And you want somebody like that. You're not every You can't just take any offense line.

You know it's coming, right, you know we're gonna do the play action right right. You know he's gonna cat that's right, He's gonna catch it, right, Yeah, so he'd better have the tape off of his fingers and be ready to I mean it's just not it's not every offensive lineman that you can use in that role, but he's got the perfect body for it. On Zeke's the one yard touchdown run, he threw the block that kind

of cleared things out. I mean he he was digging people out of there, and that's what you want, that's what you need that guy to do. And there was one other one. He neutralized the guy. It's not like he pancaked him. He just took him up and the guy couldn't go get Zeke going up the middle. And the other thing about him on that is that he has a spatial awareness about him to where okay, maybe depending on what the defense doing, he finds the right

guy to block the block. Yeah, exactly, not just somebody big like the fridge, just blowing up in the middle. Well, you talk about, you know something that we didn't talk about. I always talked about the offense. Our defensive line. I wouldn't say, you know, as I wouldn't say they dominate the way our offensive line does. It's in a different fashion. They well, you down every team I've seen us play against so far. They start off, we're giving up gases.

We're getting gas here, gas there. Next thing, you know, good defense, You're getting interception by digs, you get brown, you got guys knocking plays down. All of a sudden in the second half, that defensive line just seems to gain more and more momentum. And Olsen brought it up yesterday before the second half, just as they were about to go in for the first half. He talked about how the defensive line looks like they're getting closer and closer, and that's what I like about them. As the game

goes on, they are getting closer and closer. And before it's all said and done, you got oh diga Zoo getting getting a sack. You've got the pressure coming from Gregory all day long. I don't care if cam Irvings. They are not. We have had the same emo every game that we played. By the time the fourth quarter comes, people are leaving on stretchers somehow, they're injured in a way, one way or another, and we are gaining steam as

the game winds down. And that's that's a great formula because defense is playing off of the offense, which is won the best in the league. Maybe my my accusation of him getting a veteran day was a good thing last week, right, Yeah, he was pretty fresh if you think about last week. He caused three holding calls too, and we talked about that he didn't have the numbers. Yeah,

but that that didn't show up, but he impacted. And then and then when they kind of got him going there and they couldn't run anymore, it's like, okay, Michael Person, so I don't need you at linebacker, go play left defensive and they started he started coming rushing and you know, he got the one sack, but he was causing havoc there. He was causing havoc at linebacker because they were blitzing him into the A gap and they were, you know, sending five didn't they have I had notes on that.

They put him in the AB gap. Ye. At first he started off B gap to end up kind of floating into the AB gap. That was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, And that's why I think he is almost more valuable at linebacker because he can do all the other stuff, but then you can blitz him. Now, he did mess up that one touch down when they threw I forgot who whether they throw to the tight end or he'd left his area. Yea. They motioned Hubbard out to the left and Jalen Smith went with him. But he took

like two steps, that's all he had to do. Two steps there and he vacated the middle of the field. I've got another question for you as we wrap up mix shots. You got a couple of minutes left here. Have you seen the option pitch from Zeke to Pollard any other time? I think that was the first time. I mean not just with Zeke and Pollard obviously, no, but anywhere where the running back pitches to another run before.

I thought they did it anything, it hits you, Mickey specifically thought it did it last year or maybe a year before that. What's the most noteworthy in Cowboys history where they did it before? I take what I'm going to take you back. Was it with new House. I'm going to take you back to throw it. I'm going to take you back to two thousand and three. Okay,

Cowboys and the Carolina Panthers. It's a seventeen seventeen tie and Richie Anderson the fullback with an option pitch to Avion Case on a sixteen yard touchdown run as the Cowboys beat the Carolina Panthers. That's that is the product of listening to Charlotte Radio. Someone on Charlotte Radio said that that play was the same one that beat the Cowboys used to beat the Panthers in two thousand and three.

Sean Payton made that same play call. And so as you were talking, I was just looking it up here, and it was it was a tie game seen and Richie Anderson a fullback with an option and I need to go find the play now with an option pitch to Avion to Avion Cason, and it broke a seventeen seventeen tie. As it says in this Chicago Tribune story that I'm looking at um part Anderson had taken a handoff from Carter on a place seldom scene this side of Pop Warner. So there you go. Well, there's Kellen

Moore probably played Pop Warner. Now his daddy might have put that play in right now. There's a bunch of people they're searching on YouTube right now for that play. And so you will, including the giants. There you go, the little scout that thing out. So we got the giants coming, huh yeah, and not the windless giants. That's a good thing. Yeah, that is, because the more you lose, the closer yard of winning. That's what my philosophy was in eighty nine. It's like, you know, they're going to

get close to wood, you're going to hear soon. That's what we took into our FK stadium. And eight or nine, which they won at New Orleans. It's surprising because it was the Saints return to New Orleans their first game, and uh, and that may say a lot about what Sean Payton has to work with in New Orleans and says a lot about Carolina. That was one of Carolina's wins that you know over the Saints. That was their

signature win before yesterday. And we did point all that stuff out why they were number one in total defense run and they were treated the way they were supposed to be treating. I mean, that's the way you do. And we in this room, we have we don't have doubt, but I don't think we believe in them as much as they believe in themselves. And if that's a great thing. If Carolina had more of an offense than what they had, then the Cowboys would not have scored just thirty six

points in that was it? DJ Moore, He's that's good. Really, I don't know. I'm The point is the Cowboys they scored thirty six and three quarters against Carolina, and if so, if they had had of ye as normal NFL games where you're half hundred all the way to the end, they probably would have hung half a hundred. Because here, here's my deal. I circled all their supers on defense right here, right, all their supers, and the Cowboys knocked them.

There's two, three, there was ten, right. They knocked them all down, one by one, wow, one by wow. Including the fact that this team that had the NFL lead in sacks with fourteen and with quarterback hits with twenty seven, got no sacks, no sacks. We did not talk about the quarterback hits, sacks and one quarterback. Now, they had some pressure in that first half with their blitzes that caused some incompletions. That's the other thing we'll talk about tomorrow.

I love the way the Cowboys return the favor on the Panthers after halftime. That's right with the same philosophy as as far as pressure and we're coming after you exactly, We're gonna put everybody up on that line of scrimmage and you you don't know who's coming, who's coming, and within the game. All right, That does it for Mick Shots. We'll talk at you again tomorrow. Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.