Mick Shots: Playoff Week

Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. As we are now less than a week away from the Super wild Card playoff matchup in Tampa against the Buccaneers. That's what the NFL's call it, super wild cardot. Bill was just being hyperbolot. Oh. No, Roger Gennell is being high uperbolic about what is the difference it's super? I don't because they've added another another wildcard team. What I don't know why it's super? Now,

what's the difference. Maybe it's not. It's not like there's another round of games, but you're still you still could have teams playing. They added two more games. I think that's why, and that's why we have That's why it's super. That's why we have the Monday right, the Monday game, correct, because we added teams. It wasn't super Before we added these other teams, we didn't play on Monday. Yeah. We used only be four games, right, true, you could play

two on Saturday, two on Sunday. Now we got Monday. So get to go to Tampa Bay on Monday, oh in that night? Yeah, that's right, aolutely, and then turn around on a short week and play Philadelphia or San Francisco. That's what happens when you're wild. You're assured. You're assured of playing on Sunday the second during the divisional playoff round, right, yeah, right, yeah, you're not playing on Saturday that you would hope? Yeah, So would you rather have if you're the Cowboys in

the second round, we're looking past him. Forget to forget Brady now, we don't need those guys, and don't concern us with three point favorites. Right, Well, here's what you prefer. You prefer that Seattle beat San Francisco and the Giants beat Minnesota. Yeah, and then and then you would be playing get home home game. That's right, You get a home game the Giants because by the way, it's been

pointed out that Cowboys can't win on grass. Yeah, so I wouldn't mind going to Minnesota, which I was going to ask you, Yeah, what's the playing on grass because both teams, as Jerry said, have to play on grass. Yes. The best thing about me and playing on grass is it slows down the white receivers. But does it slow down the other team's wide receivers too? Yeah it does, but yours and there with me, I need it because I was slow period. So it gave me time to think.

When you've got them guys slow you down, it's it's slowed. I was always slow. When you're accustomed to slowness, and then you know it helps me. You're the same slow on grass, but it gives me a chance to decipher what the receivers are doing because they're running slower in grass then not nearly as quick. You put a quick guy, you put up tywy Hill in Texas Stadium, Yeah, at old school Texas Stadium, that's one thing. But if you put them on in San Francisco at Candlestick, Yeah, but

that's read that. The problem for you is that we always played in sand well, the San Francisco it's depending on how they treat the grass there. That's true, that's true. I just never I just never believe that stuff because if it slows a fast guy down, it should slow a slow guy down, a fast guys accustomed to going quickly. Okay, So what about a pass rush. This is what Jason Garrett was bragging up the other day, is that he thinks it affects the Cowboys pass rush playing on grass.

They can't get off as fast as on turf. If you look at it, So if you're going up against an offensive lineman, then not slow him down. It does slow him down. But if you look at what Michael Parsons does, you look at the speed rushes that he always uses. Okay, you gotta know that he can't make the same moves on turf. It's not as effective on turf as it is on grass. It is on turf.

It's just the way it is because in many cases, the offensive lineman is a stationary object and he's just got to run around them, and so he can't run around,

can't run as fast. It's fact. That is fact. That's physical. Okay, that's pass I just want to know for as the dB is not a stationary object yet they still have to maneuver around a defensive back, and you can do that much quicker with a quick footed guy as opposed to a guy who's accustomed to be a slow foot Four of their five games have been lost on grass, So that's merrit. Yeah. Four the five games that we lost like the four and I don't think I sacked

toldal was all that that good either? Yeah, but the four games were against they were all they were all other than green Bay. It was all playoff teams. Right. Still, they could look at green Bay at that time making the playoff move and who did they Who did they beat on grass? Tennessee. The other thing is they had the greatest receiver coming out in the draft in years, and Christian Watson the Packers dead right, and he showed

it on and he was faster. Yeah, he seemed to be a matter of fact, after that game, nothing slowed him down even this last game. Now, when you when you're talking great does one thing. We all have to worry about maneuverability, not slipping and things of that nature, more so on glass, But when it comes to the speed aspect, it does make a difference. It didn't slow down hinds that I assume they got grass and buffalo. I don't even know what grass and buffalo. Yeah, the

guy that returned to kick two kickoffs Buffalo. I mean they have grasses and used to Oh they got turf. I think they have turf. Okay, yeah, I figured they had your grass because they're in the North and you gotta play. Everything's got to be on grass. So when it has to be out doors, doggy, everything has to be outdoors in the North, not necessarily the new stadium and not use a put a roof on it. Okay, get your two feet of snow. Okay. I have a lot of questions, so that was my first that's your

first question. Yeah, all right. Can I ask you a question. Did you listen to Jerry on the radio this morning? I did? Okay, would you like to explore his thoughts or is there something else you would like to forward? What thought would you like to I just grass? You know what his answer to grass was? What he said, My point is they have to play on grass too, And I said, thank you very much. He's been he's been listening to mix shots. Although he said, you know,

he respects Jason and he knows Jason's pretty smart. But he said, my point is they have to play on grass, and once again that that still has married of course, so each has to make the adjustment. I'm just saying from a dB standpoint, Yeah, you slew those wide receivers down. It makes you think a little bit. But maybe the first step, well, where they can close the gap on your fast So yeah, the first two or three steps

that makes a big difference. Okay, if a DB's back there, I'm lined up off right, I'm about eight yards off, seven yards off, and on turf they can close that gap extremely quickly. On grass they just can't. So when Bob Hayes set the world record, was he got turf or grass? He was on sinder in borrow shoes on the inside lane. Right, Okay, so we can build that up. It's even more spectacular than what it was. All right. So that was in Tokyo, wasn't it. I think, what's

your next question? Well, did you tell me what what you got out of Jerry? Yeah? Uh. They asked him about Mike McCarthy's status. Wonder you'd get to that if the playoff game would impact it one way or another, and he said no, And there was a pregnant pause. They didn't know what to say next. You expect him to answer his answers to go wronger than one word. And after the paulic the fact that he gave pause and then he said, I don't even want to know, he goes that's it. I don't need to go into

all the pluses and minuses. I've got a lot more to evaluate Mike McCarthy than a playoff game. And that was that I like his optimism, but I have to I have to think that I like that, I beg the different. Can I just say that, yeah, it won't be it won't be a I don't. I think it's a more comfortable conversation if we go further, very uncomfortable conversation if we're out at the end of Monday night.

So when's the last time he got rid of a coach coming off a season twelve winning two straight twelve wins seasons, Yes, Mickey, because Barry Switzer was six and ten, Jimmy left on his own, Tom Landry was coming off with three and thirteen season. Chan Gailey eight and eight a competitive Yeah, Chan Gailey eight and eight. H Wade Phillips one in seven, Bill parcels left on his own.

Jason Garrett eight and eight last season, is that right? Remember? Yeah, it was eight and eight, So there's no precedent for saying, well, we lost the playoff game, you're out, other than chan Gailey at eight and eight in losing two straight. The only thing I can compare this too is when when Tom was coaching before I got there in eighty lost to Philly Championship, got there in eighty one, lost to San Francisco Championship. Eighty two, lost to the Skins. Yeah,

that was your guy's fault. Yeah, of course, that's championship in the vow. So Tom, I'm instead of firing coaches, are making you know, just continuing on the same path. Right. He said, we have to make a move to make us that much better because we're being stagnant at the championship. And of course the standard at that time were Super Bowls for the Cowboys, right right. We made moves, but it made us voice. Yeah, it didn't make us better. So I got beat again in eighty three. In the

first run. We didn't even go. We didn't even make it. We made it to no more championships, Tom Legend, Sure, just the playoffs. Yeah, just the playoffs. Didn't make it in eighty four and got beat in the first run, right, we but we barely won the NFC East by a miracle after I be getting blown out to Cincinnati and the Bear, not just losing, no, blowing out forty something to nothing whatever that compared to this. Yeah, I just thought about that. So and what did we do? We

came back and won the East. Anyway, That was his That was his answer, um, And I think my point is, be careful how the moves you make from here, depending on whether you win or lose. Yes, be careful because if you bring in a new coach, right, chances are he's not going to say, Okay, I'm picking up where we left off. Yeah, it's gonna change things. It's gonna change a lot, right, And sometimes change takes a while to change things. So you gotta be careful on that one,

even though I'm guaranteeing you. The national perspective out there is if Mike McCarthy doesn't win, he's out as the Cowboys, right right, Well, everybody likes to say something but bombastic things about the Cowboys, but that's what's going to take place. That would love the media would actually those those critical sports talk TV shows or whatever, they would love for that to happen because they give him something to talk about. Right, It's not about what's the right thing to do, it's

just being able to talk about it. He had a he had another one. It was like a profound philosophical quote. They asked him if the adversity of losing to Washington playing the way they did will help them in this coming game, like, you know, make you mad and you're going to try harder and all that stuff. Actually, where your head is on the right cam by the tone? Is that a wake up call? He said, I know that success, successes are the prospect of being smart and

got all the answers. Success is every bit the undermining flaw that failure is. And to have that and to have had some meaning failure to think that's what you are is also a fraud. Both are frauds. So he was basically saying success and failure it doesn't translate into going forward and making you a better team. They're frauds. And the answer they had for that one is we're going to put that on a T shirt. I gotta I gotta decide for that one. Yeah, I did too.

I was like, okay, wait a minute, I was. I was on stationary bike and I'm going think, okay, wait wait, I want to write that down, and then I came back to basically listen to it. He was positive about the injuries, as was McCarthy, basically um pointing out that he felt like Layton was ready to go, that dron Bland could practice on Wednesday. Hankins and whom I forget about late be honest. Also, uh that and I've had people tell me that his workout yesterday was really good. Yeah,

and to me, that's that and vander ash and Bland. Um, you know, I know they need Hankins, but those three guys, I think that's critical to this game. And I saw where Tampa Bay, although I don't know why I'm going to bring this up because it was the same thing, and the opener having problems at center of their starting center wasn't the starter at the beginning, right because somebody

else had gotten hurt Ryan Jenson. Jensen, well he's the starting center now, Hanzy, and uh he came out of the game because of an ankle, not because they started resting guys. And so they were going to move their left guard or one of the guards over to center. Uh, nick Leverett, and then they were going to have to move somebody else into left guard. Luke Getticky was their second round draft pick. He started against the Cowboys in the opener, and he was the starter at left guard

the first half of the season. He got hurt and missed about seven games right and actually was has been the backup and because they were resting guys, he was. He started in their last game against Atlanta on Sunday. But he so Nick Leverett, who is a undrafted guy out of Rice in the twenty twenty draft, became the starter at left guard at mid season actually about what would it be five games ago, but they moved him to center right, and so he has a background as

a center. And then John Melchin Melkin replaced Leverett at guard. Okay, so they've got but you know, we made a big deal of that about the opener. It didn't mean deadly right. They were k beating the Cowboys nineteen to three. But from an injury standpoint for the Cowboys, Uh, you know Bland with the chess injury. When you hear chess, what do you think of that? Or that, yeah, that too,

now you do. Yeah, although you know, what would be a very good story for someone to do is to explain what the teams go through to have the preparation

Buffalo had in place before the game. And I think I knew this, but I got reminded of it that before every game, for one hour, the entire medical staff, not just the Cowboys trainers and doctors, the spotters that are up in the booth, the other doctors that are there with the e MT people, They have a meeting for sixty minutes before every game to go through their protocol, to go through the plan in place where they would

go if something like that happened. And I was told that they already have a police escort planned that if something happened at at and T Stadium, they can get to Baylor downtown in fifteen minutes with a police escort. So that stuff, And then in the summer they have a seminar where they all have to go through and they go through the whole plan of what has to happen and what type of doctors you have to have there. See, we know they got orthopedic doctors, they've got back specialists,

next spine specialists. But they also have for a better word, air specialists. If you're having trouble breathing, they have a specialist for that. They got all these specialists there that we don't know, and it's it's it's pretty detailed. So just I thought i'd throw. I think it's not just a personnel, but it's the equipment. Yeah, and the most important right to have that. And again I think we talked about this. The most important thing was for him

to get breathing again before. They didn't want to waste time going into the e MT ambulance. They needed to get him breathing when he was on the face. And it sounds like unless he has underlying conditions that you know, he should be fine, and then he would have to make a decision if he wants to play again. Decision Yeah, yeah, right, Um, So anyway, I just thought i'd throw that. That wasn't part of Jerry's no, but you were you you went,

you were talking about darn Bland, yes, right at the time. Yeah, And so chess to me is a peck usually is the injury, and that's serious. But I think they felt good at after the game and McCarthy thought he would be able to practice on Wednesday. So that's significant to me if he can play, because now you've only got to fill one spot. If Bland stays in the slot on the nickel, then you got to find a left corner.

If you're playing two tight ends, Bland can play on the outside right, and then you have to decide on the nickel. Am I better putting somebody outside Bland inside or leaving Bland outside and putting somebody else in the nickel? And McKenzie Alexander did that and then he strained and I keep saying a groin. I haven't checked on it.

And he had some leg injury why he didn't play last week In hockey they call that a lower body in yeah, which I should have just covered myself with that, right, So there's a chance he would be ready this week. And I think they liked it him in the slot and then Bland outside, And then how quickly can Rhodes be ready to go? And I mean he he was on the loss, Yeah, but he was, and he hadn't played that much. I think he only played in a couple of games. I thought I read um, but he

was sort of the backup guy. And then what happened is they had uh hide, their safety was out, and then Hamlin got hurt. He's out and they needed safety help. And they signed Jared Maiden out of thank You, out of Saxy High School and and so they signed him off a practice squad onto their fifty three man roster because they needed safety help. So they were looking where, well, how do we make that spot, and Rhodes was, well,

they need it because was out. They were down in numbers, and so they needed a safety I guess they didn't think Rhodes could play so unlike ever since Wall, well not just myself. You got all old cornerbacks out there, Yeah, looking for a safety position. I'm just surprised they didn't just insert him into that. I'm sure he could do it. Oh boy, we just went a little bit over, did Yes, we did. Sorry, my bad always all right? We continue

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of stuff going on. No I knew they did, but they expanded it right. Yeah, the food trucks are out there, have a little little plaza. Yeah yeah, So that's the place to go to get ready for the game on Monday, your wild Card watch party. Not only you're ready for the game, but you watch the game there. You know. I was at a TCU watching party, was just going to ask that Shoalmeyer Arena on the TCU campus, and those fans were so fired up for the start of

that game. I didn't stick around once the game started I don't know how long they stayed because I don't think so far. Yes, which, by the way, did you see the downside of so Far, the way it's built. Yes, it started raining and the wind was blowing and the water was coming into the stadium. There was it was raining sideways night right. Yeah, they had nothing, but it's not that open high but it's open air around comfort. And one of the issues that they had because of

that is the concourse area. It was wet and they were having people slip and fall and they were taking people out on stretchers. No way, Yes they were. People were suffering injuries, but they didn't realize it was slippery. Yeah, yeah, that's weird. You know. Uh, I was talking with people the rains. They were just falling out because the score. Now they were they brought up on the broadcast it says insult to injury. It was only happening on the

TCUs side. It looked like an umbrella was over the end. Yeah, that's what that's what it is. Yeah, it's a canopy. It's like a big canopy, big canopy. That's cheap. No, I think it's a pretty expensive candidate. But still it was a great building. A facility like like AT and T that can actually support its door. They have the other part of that, it's an ongoing um debate. No, I was gonna say something that had to do with cheapness.

You don't have to pay for air conditioning too when you when you have an open air facility like that. Jerry did not consult him on that. Well, didn't they have? Didn't they have? I don't think was it? It wasn't. The preseason game when the Cowboys were they had a problem with tornado warnings and they were delaying maybe the start of the game because they were worried about the wind coming. And well they had a was that a

lightning warning? That's what it was. Lightning in the area and everybody and they had to delay like a Monday night or Sunday night football start because of it. Yeah, because they were worried the lightning was going to sneak under your cheap roof. And I'm worried about the wind coming onto the cheap roof. I mean, if the wind catches it, the whole stadium never ring in Southern Another thing they had a problem with with the Cowboys game.

Remember when we played the Rams and the opener is they had fires out there and they were concerned about the remember that air quality problems and with the dryness around the n LA. No, that's that's that's an ongoing issue. Okay. Then my last question is your face in Georgia, they might as well be in the NFL, and you're gonna try to play a three man defensive front. When I when I saw that, I said, I don't like my pick.

When I saw how big every win three d plus pounds walking on his toes, I'm telling you, how do you telling you? It's a different brand of football in the SEC as opposed to elsewhere and anyway. And it comes down to so if you are building a team to win the Big twelve, you don't need those big defensive linemen like Georgia and Alabama have, Okay, because you're they're throwing the ball all over the lot. You don't. You don't go up against an Alabama or a Georgia

to win your conference championship. That's why Oklahoma and Texas back in two thousand through twenty ten, when they were in championship games, winning championship games, and they would have NFL players in their front seven on defense, Okay, they built their team that way since then with the advent of the spread offense and the success so the SEC, these players do not want to go to a Big twelve school because their path to the NFL is to go play in the SEC. And that's why the SEC

has become an NFL junior league. And you do not recruit defensive tackles in the Big twelve like you would

in the SEC they had. And that's why Oklahoma and Texas, if they want to win a national championship, they need to go to the SEC so that they can recruit those type of players because otherwise they're going to run into as Oklahoma has over the last decade several times they get into that college football playoff and they don't have the personnel to compete against Alabama LA because it because it's happened, it's happened in the last ten years.

Prior to that, prior to the domination of Nick Saban's teams at Alabama, it was spread out where the Big twelve was able to recruit those players too. And but since then it's it's been your path to the NFL as you go to the SEC and so and that's that really started with Sava right right, really success that Alabama had starting in two thousand and seven or whatever. All I know is that year I went to the

SEC title game in Atlanta. Missouri was playing Auburn, and Auburn had a very good running game, and the Missouri defensive coordinator, who didn't last very long after that, played a three man front. And I'm sitting there watching this three hundred and forty pound offensive linemen picking off the Missouri linebackers because there was no start. They ran and Missouri stayed with him. I think it went into the

fourth quarter. It was forty five forty two. They ran for five hundred yards five hundred and I'm yelling, what, you put another guy on the maybe two more guys on the line of scrimmage and force him to throw the ball. I wouldcall from watching that game, I would call days days gone by. You talk in those years when the running back was the guy on the team, and in the Southwest Conference, I just remember every team

had at least three running backs. If Earl would go down, somebody else would come in and just pick Thurman Thomas Oklahoma State. Who's waiting behind him, Barry Sterry Sanders, I mean you just had that. You had that on every Southwest Conference team. A running back would go down or just get some rest because the only game about two hundred yards Billy Siems gaining two hundred yards. Then you put in another guy, but a peacock or somebody like that.

They're waiting in the wings. That used to be every Southwest Conference team, a big twelve team. You don't have that anymore, simply because of the way they changed the game. Well, all I know is they kept saying TCU is having a hard time setting the edge. There was no edge. There was no one there. It's like at some point you kind of change. Well, no, they don't have the

personnel toy. It's a completely different brand of football. If it worked against Michigan, he's thinking, why not, I'm thinking, Michigan, they don't. They don't. They don't have a fourth defensive lineman to put on the field. Basically, I mean, they do have backups, but they're not you know. And then and then you got a three man pass rush against five behemoths, and the twelve you don't get sacks because

they get the ball out so quick. That's right. There's no such thing as play face they actually on defense. I don't know which one it was, but I thought it was the highlight film of Duran Plane just taking his arm and moving the guy out of the way. It's like, get out of my way. And so that's why on offense you can't you can't miss on passes early in the game like Duggan did in that game. You have to score, Okay, I mean, it's just like

TCU played Michigan. It was game when when Oklahoma played Georgia in the semifinal game with Baker Mayfield in twenty sixteen, it was a fifty one, fifty eight score, whatever it was. You have to score half a hundred. Remember you had two defensive scores for TCU about last week, that's right, they had two pick sixes, that's right, playing pinball, and

you had for Michigan last week. You had a touchdown taken away that should have been a touchdown on review, and they fumbled on the next play on the goal line and their first possession of the game, Michigan went forward on fourth down at the one yard line and missed. And so there's twenty eight points right there that went against Michigan that didn't go against Georgia last night. M And the other part of it is it's the attitude that they have on offense. I mean, they could have

kept that score under control. In fact, one of the biggest play you look at sixty five to seven, but one of the biggest plays of the game was made by Stetson Bennett to Brock Bowers. They're tight end, who is a fabulous man? Can I draft him? Yeah? Not, you gotta wait till next year. But I'm given the Heisman Trophy to him next year. Guy there, all right, But they were facing Georgia. It was twenty four to

seven with two minutes left in the first half. Georgia was ahead George's facing third and fifteen and Benet thread of the needle to Bowers for a first down and they scored on that possession and then to make it thirty one seven, and then TCU throws another pick. They score another touchdown before they have if TCU makes that stop on third and fifteen with two minutes left in the game, and it's a twenty four to seven game, and they just run the ball and get to the

house at twenty four to seven. The game never gets away from them like that. But then they even when it's fifty nine to seven with eight minutes left in the game and you're facing fourth and six at your own twenty nine yard line and you go for it, you deserve to give up seventy points. Well that's what's yeah, And also I don't know that's Bennet need to be in the game as long as he was. They took

him out with nine minutes left. Yeah, but they was still fifty points right before, well the fifty nine point, they could have taken him out. Yeah, and had half times they really go wow, if they hadn't taken dugging out, you're gonna take your starter out. We're gonna keep ours. All I gotta say is welcome to the sec. That's right, And you just filled up that segment. Yeah, thank you. Okay, we continue with more mix shots in just a moment. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great?

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all right? Um, I started my study of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers course studied them before the season opener this year, and you have it right, Well, no, it's just you see what what's happened since then, and when I look at their roster and what they've been doing, kind of manipulating things to get to a division title, a coveted division title in that NFC South, winning that and getting their guy. They're gonna have their guys ready to play

on Monday as far they've been trying. As with every team, okay, you're especially any team that's quarterbacked by Tom Brady, it's all about the postseason. And even though their record is only eight and nine, they knew about mid season that well, all we gotta do is be better than Carolina and New Orleans and Atlanta. That's right, and so it was it.

You could see the marathon the of the season there are getting their veteran guys ready at the right time so that they're ready to play Monday night against the Cowboys. And so it's going to be very interesting to see. And they played Brady half the game anyway, at thirty one snaps against Atlanta last week, even even with a makeshift offensive line in front of they played all three quarterbacks.

They getting them ready to gabbered and trash. They just they just that was kind of cool that Brady has played the entire season every snap. Yep, that's kind of cool. Yeah, it wasn't his best season by far, but I think

that says a lot about how he takes care of himself. Yeah, and even takes care of himself in the middle of a play where it doesn't matter, it doesn't I know what you're saying, but even he you know what I mean, times he was sacked this year twenty two, twenty two sacks, and the many times he was sacked last year in seventeen games twenty three, it's basically the same. So I'm wondering if anybody's you know, how the Cowboys win a

game and it gets questioned because should have beat them worse? Yeah, So I understand they finished eight and nine and didn't really play that last game against the Falcons, but I saw where they beat the four and thirteen Cardinals on a field goal in overtime, and they beat and what happened with the Cardinals coach yesterday who got fired canned yesterday? And then they beat the Rams? Did the Rams win

five games? Maybe something like five? They beat them with a touchdown with nine seconds left in the game, And I bet no one's looking back and going, well, you know, we're going to minimize those wins those wins. Or Winds beat New Orleans seventeen to sixteen, and that was that was after New Orleans, that beating them, I think three straight. How'd they do when they went to San Francisco? I think they got clavered. They lost thirty five to seven. Yeah, so,

and he still played every down. But it's Brady, right, yeah, right, yeah, it's Brady. And I noticed that on their depth chart that they released on their website that Fournette was like the backup running back. Well, he's been um, he bothered by an injury. He did, he did, He did play against Atlanta three snaps, his stomach muscles are well, they listened tight. Yeah, I forgot the guy's name. They listed another running back as their as their starter, Um, Rashad White, Yes,

I believe that was it. Yes, When you look at the game, belt strange right when you look at them up three a's actually three R A C H A A D. Yeah. Oh yeah. When you look at the game like this, this is gonna be about matchups, that's all. It is. The defense that the Tampa Bay defense is going to try and hold us down as much as possible offensively, and when Tampa Bay comes out, Brady is going to try and attack us from a personnel standpoint. If he thinks he has a matchup, he's gonna go, well,

you know where he's going. You know where he's going. He's going to his right side of the field. That's exactly where he's going. And we have to know that this is gonna be just man on man. And when I said man on man, I don't mean like man on man. I mean you're going to have to beat your man. The scheme to me is secondary when it comes to games like this. You're going to have to be successful against a person in front of you. That's

going to have to happen. Otherwise we're not going to win this game if we don't approach it in that matter. And they will test the Cowboys quote unquote big nickel defense with two tight ends and running the ball and see if they can hold up running the football. And they know they need to keep the Cowboys offense off the field. I understand if circuited this last game, but they know what this offense did all season long, and they're gonna want to keep that offense off the field.

So the Cowboys better buckle up and get ready to worrying about Brady. They're gonna keep trying to run that ball. Brady's gonna trying to hit you with the you know, surprise and don't and when he gets the fifty yard line, you better be ready. It's going down the field. And as Jerry said, you know, everybody's making a big deal

out of the Cowboys never beating Brady. Jerry's point was, we've never beaten the team Brady was playing a problem, and he says, we are playing a team, yes, not that guy, and we have to be ready for what they do. And let's let's be real there, there's gonna be a time in the game if it's crucial enough. So where you are playing bre you, yeah, there's going to be that time that comes. That's where you have to be prepared. That's when you're gonna have to match

man on man. There is no scheme that's going to make he or you better. Is you playing against that guy. Beating that guy, that's what's gonna help win the game for you. You just gotta get to him. And I know it's hard, and I know the ball comes out quick, it's on grass, you better might slow his self. Yeah, I think he's about slow down as he's gonna get right now. And it doesn't stop his release. And when it's fourth and one, it's a quarterback sneak. Okay, yeah,

it ain't Philly, but it's still a quarterback sneak. All right. That's my game preparation, all right. And uh, you know many passes that Tom Brady through this year? They were second in the league in passing offense, thirty second in running offense. Okay, and that's because they never run the ball. How many how how many I don't know how many offensive snaps they had, let's say eleven hundred snaps? All told you many times they threw the ball five hundred,

seven hundred thirty three pass attempts. He set the NFL record with four hundred ninety completions on seven hundred and thirty three pass attempts. Of course, that's a seventeen game season now, but that's the NFL record. So anyway, and how many times did the Cowboys throw the ball? You got the stat sheet right there in front of You're gonna tell you here in a moment when I get to it. They threw the ball five hundred and nineteen times,

more than two hundred more pass attempts. So do the people that cover the Bucks sit there and go, you gotta run the ball. Why aren't I running the ball? I gotta run it. Why are you running it? On first down? They don't run, Tom Man, It's just the way it is. Seven hundred, seven hundred and thirty three pass attempts tied. So that Bucks, including the pass attempts thrown by and throw any trash. Well, I guess Atlanta those guys has ever soon pointed out the only games

they got into with offensive snaps were the Atlantic. They pulled him with just less than five minutes to go in the first half. Is that what it was? Okay? So Gabbert was six out of eight and trash three out of nine, So they're seventeen more pass attempts. So the number of pass attempts was exactly seven hundred and fifty four teenpas. They didn't have any other none. No, that was it. No, No, the off come on in

testament to him. I don't know what's in that arm, but whatever he's shooting up in it, keep doing it well. It's not even the arm, because you know, you gotta have your legs to throw the ball. Right, He's so okay, seven hundred and thirty three pass attempts and twenty two sacks. You're throwing the ball that many times in your only

sacked twenty two times. That well, pretty good percentage, right, Well, because he just gets rid of them, that's right exactly, That's how that's how he's still playing at age forty five. Ricott just get rid of the damn thing. There you go. Well, maybe that's why they're eight nine, right, they don't run the football. We'll stay on Monday night and we will see you again on Wednesday at noon. Go Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.