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going pretty well right now. Getting a little ahead, e s. I got my tickets, Yeah, there go, you might have got your ticket off. That's right. I'll just say this. I got three words for you. What a game Sunday. Absolutely. I sat there and it finished, and I was going, Okay, the Cowboys overcame themselves. They overcame the Patriots, they overcame Bill Belichick, and they overcame the officiating. Wow, that's how good. They asked, how good they are? We wouldn't allow ourselves

to beat ourselves. I like that spade. I mean they were trying to beat themselves right, time after time after time. Twelve penalties, one hundred and fifteen yards, third and one fourth and one can't make it fourth in one, two turnovers in the end zone and get a pick six and then give up a seventy's gracious, and they still won. They ain't needed overtime, right is a field? God make a field? Who I think about it? It was one

after another after another. In overtime they finally score their thirty points right again, And for Symmetry's sake, the last time they won in New England was overtime herschell Walker, so why not go overtime again? Thirty four years ago herschell Walker on a sixty yard touchdown run in overtime

to the house. And I'll continue to say it when with this offense, you can erase a lot of mistakes, because they put up five hundred and sixty seven yards five sixty seven, the most forty five passing both the most that Belichick has ever given up as a head coach. You took my notes there, Sorry lead, you buried my lead. Sorry, sorry, I got carried away. Now keep it going, keep it you know. And going into the game, we were wondering, why, oh this is Belichick, and oh we got a young

offensive coordinator. What's he gonna do? He just offense to because he didn't run it down their throat. They threw it down their throats. Unbelievable. Rand enough though, had enough success, just enough because he was trying to take away the run that they knew that coming in though they knew that that's what Belichick does and um, and so they had a game plan for it. Five hundred how many yards sixty seven? Five hundred and sixty seven yards worth?

A game plan for it? That's unreal. And they were up and down the field, but they kept shooting themselves in the foot. Well, you're getting enough holding calls. You're gonna make up for that lost yardage. There are good little yards. Yeah, A couple of those I don't know. That's why we got that. You go, you got a hat here had out He's the white hat. So I tell you who needs to bring out. Connor Williams needs to bring a hat. If I'm not mistaken that and

I'm visualizing this. So they're getting all these holding calls, We're not accustomed to it, right, Uh so Belichick's gonna get his. You know, you always think that that the referees are kind of always cow tower with the Belichick. You remember when the guy was off sides, he lined up off side in the Super Bowl, Right, No one ever makes that call, but they called it I think against the Rams, right yeah, and the close game and that was crucial. Just silly things like that seems to

happen with Belichick. So when I when I looked at this game you had, you had so many penalties that I think Conni Williams got frustrated and I could just imagine him saying something, must act must accustomed out because I got three he got three right in in one quarter? Am I right? He got three holding calls in one quarter and that and uh so you could image yeah, well no, that result was the result was a result of it, right, but that was another Now that holding

call was a holding call. That particular call was. I think something must have happened before that, you know too where because Connor actually reached back and grabbed the guy. You could on the replay, and it was a holding because that the one he had two guys and he was trying to take both of them. Yeah, that was

the last one. Yeah, yeah, that was the one, And I think something must have happened before that because Connor is probably like, hey, yeah, sobe you know what's going on, you know, and Connor Williams gets usuppossible, like that's hilarious, mild Mann. I thought I thought Tyrann Smith was gonna get one. God, he's dominating the guy and they call holding.

It's like, give me a break, I give you the hands to the face, although it was to the neck by the one where they almost took his neck off, right, Hey, don't be so short, right, And then and then you get into at any you know, the darn third and goal. He's half his bodies in the end zone. What do they look at? Okay, because they couldn't see that one either way, all right, so we're gonna get into that right now. Yeah, because I want to go I didn't

see it. I didn't see it. I didn't Well, you saw my I said, okay, and CBS eleven Bill Jones on Twitter, I went ahead, I'm watching it from home. That's one of the beauty views you get, the overhead shot, because I saw it when it happened. They had very quickly, and I know a lot of fans saw it too,

because I got a lot of responses on Twitter. They're jumping out of there off their couches like I did when I saw the overhead shot, which shows Dak clearly in the end zone, across the goal line, and um, you know, unless they thought that the ball was between his ankles where the which is where they are familiar, but where but there's there's numb pyre that is looking right down at Dak. I mean when you unstacked the

pile at the goal. Okay, I understand the officials. Technically, they have to be able to see the football cross the goal line, and on a quarterback sneak like that, there's too many bodies in there and he cannot see them. So the only way you can determine whether he got across the goal line or not is you unstacked the pile, which is what they did. And there's no way that Dak has the ability once there are twelve three hundred pound men on top of him to be able to

crawl forward wherever he is. That's where he was, where he was, and the other thing, and Jim Nance brought it up on the broadcast just as an aside, Well, maybe his knee right touch before, but you can go back and look at No, you go back and look at it. His knee did not hit the ground as he started his surge forward, So his knee didn't hit the ground until he reached this forward progress, which was clearly across the goal line when you look at the

overhead shot. I mean, I don't know how much more video evidence you need. And and the fact of the matter is they clearly I mean they took if in the review they they just took a passing glance at it. They did not They needed to stop it and take a look at it and get that whole overhead shot. That should be standard operating procedure on any plunge up the middle at the goal time. We've got the technology, We've got the eye in the sky right above the

goal line. So there's you've got the perfect view of it from up there. You have to stop it and take a look at it. And the problem is the worst part was is they you they can't see from where they're at on the goal line, right, And so they waited till they unstacked everything, and then they saw where he was and it was like, okay, we're gonna markt six inches from the goal line. How did you see that? Right? How did you see did you come

to that conclusion? And if you look at that the screen shot that I tweeted out, which has about six thousand retweets, now, it's the it's a perfect shot overhead and he is not only at the goal line, his torso is beyond the goal line. Sounds. I mean, it's unbelievable that you you don't review that A and and and for the officials on the field, when you unstacked

the pile and you see that, why did you wait? Yeah, because you're waiting, nobody can anything una And then the only evidence they have on the field is after they unstack and they see Dak across the goal line. Here's the other part of it is I was sitting there going why aren't the Cowboys arguing it more? Well, you can't argue when you don't get the call. Because of the timing rules in the NFL, you don't have time

to argue the call. You have to go on to the next play and get ready to run the next quarterbacks the which of course ended in disaster. They tried, they tried, everybody tried to beat them, and they couldn't do it. That's how good they are. Oh man, it was aggravating. Well, it's just but it doesn't make sense, right, But we wouldn't have had the great game we had if no. Let's just be thankful for that guy. That's right,

some stuff, you know. I put this game in as far as regular season games and Cowboys history, I put this one in the top five. Oh it was. I mean the number one all time was Rogers come back in his last regular season game in nineteen seventy nine, Tony Hill to come back from two touchdowns down basically in the last couple of minutes. As far as regular season games go. Saying a lot of regular season games,

I'm not disagreeing. I know that's because we've had some, yeah, crazy regular season games, but this one might have taken the cake, especially because where it was. And not only did they feed all the stuff I said, they defeated the haunting history of losing to not only Belichick but the Patriots, not having beaten them since ninety six, not having won there since eighty seven. Yeah, the storylines that go with it, and not even even in the first half,

the first quarter of the game. I mean, Romo made the comment, this is crazy how much stuff is happening, and it's like nothing's getting to Tom With Belichick. I'm telling you that things get real quirky and kouki when he comes around, especially if you're going to be in Boston. You know, the referees are always kind of intimidated by him, I think, and they always feel like they have to make sure that he's happy, Like before I pull a lag, before I pull the flag, Is it okay, coach? All right,

we're good, kind of like Jordan rules. Yeah. Yeah, And then it just went dwarp speed once Trey Vine got the interception, and then they come back good and it's seventy five yard or it'd bee. It was just crazy, all right. So uh, figuring that my opinion, I don't know what their calls are I saw, I saw one safety high man to man. That's what we saw, right, yes, and pressure and pressure. Casey had come from the other side, disguising they had the umbrella look is what we call it.

He came from the other side. The safety came down on on Trayvon side to cover his man. Casey came from the other side to go to the middle of the field. Most safeties they're not gonna be able to catch the numbers. They're not gonna be able to make the numbers from the middle of the field unless it's really really deep pass um. To me, I see a mistake on the approach by the safety. But but that's that's Dick's man. Yeah, that's his man, bid on the bed on the double move right, and I get that

genius move by Belichick. You know, let's go right back at yeah flying there you go, he's flying high man. You saw in the sideline before that, Belichick went over and said something to mac Jones on the sideline. And at the time, I thought, oh, he's just keeping him right his head right, Well, we'll put the bug in his ear, huh. Yeah. And and but now in hindsight, after seeing the play, the first play. It was probably had to do with that we'll get him right here,

right here. Well, but Kaz could have rubbed out the mistake. That's it. I don't know if he overran it or it just he got Maybe he got there too soon. I'm not sure he thought. I think he thought he had to pick. I mean, if you look at him, he's got his hands. Uh, he needn't look like he was surprised that the guy made the interception. Reception is as if he didn't think the receiver was going to make the catch. It's like, oh, the receivers not gonna

make it. No one's gonna make it. I'm just gonna casually come over and boy, that was a huge mistake. But also even tray Hunt, let me come on, you just got but seven, seven, just got seven. That's great. Did they mentioned my name yesterday? I don't think they did. Believe they did yesterday. Yes, Yes, I believe the words were the great Everson Walls. I think that's the word. I mean, I believe it said the great great Yeah, yeah, the future Hall of Fame. Yeah, that's I believe that's

what they said. Yeah. No, I still think Dick should not have stopped running as well. You just don't leave that up to your safety. You actually had a chance if you would have kept up and kept the speed up because the guy's fast as head, right, he could have actually gone up and made the play on the ball. But it seems like he I'm gonna leave it up. No, you don't leave it up to me. I've never left anything up to Michael Downs. We're gonna fight to get

as much as you love Michael right along. It's a different mindset when you're ahead, right, yes, you want to as opposed to the previous play where you're behind and you need to make a play. Let's look at the New Orleans game against with Minnesota, right, remember that. Yep, the safety just didn't know how to approach it. Okay, Well ahead, I don't want the PI so okay, So in my mind, I'm my way to confuse as I approach it. And from there you know, he didn't didn't

do anything. You just left in limbo. Especially when you're in a position where you're up by more than a field goal. They got to score a touchdown to beat you at this point. Oh man, boy, that was such a I remember when Dick took it to the house. I just I was the only one in the room, so I was running out to Yeah, my son just came home with has been celebrating and we're high five and like, wait, what just happened? Oh damn okay, wow, my wife goes no, I can hear in the back.

That's why that reaction right there is why this game ranks right behind the Starbucks Boys Washington game in nineteen seventy nine. Because I was in college at that time and I jumped off my couch. I went running out of my frat house celebrating Roger to Tony. I sprained my ankle out in the yard, and you know what, And I must admit, I got up off my seat and it was like no. And I was in the room upstairs by myself. I was like, no effing way. No one else heard it but me. Right, I was unbelieving.

That's what I really thought. My name was gonna come up again. That's last night Everson Walls. Oh my god, what is he doing? I mean, when you start getting tipped passes, right, it's like things you're living right until the next it's just glue on his hands. I mean, it was like anything that touches his hands, he catching it, He stepped over the receiver and took off to the house. I mean that was some nice running. What does he run afour? What? I don't know. It's been than the

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All right, and we don't have an official forty time on Trayvon because he did not run at the combine, which was the comb it was last year, The combine was before COVID hit and he did not run and didn't never pro day, so there we don't know what he runs. He officially he runs fast enough as as fast as he wants to run all right, where do

you want to go next? Maybe mentioned uh strained calf muscle for Dak Prescott Point, who evidently walked into the postgame interview in shorts because he had a big old boot walking boot on his right, really walking boot though Jordan walking yow. He sounds like he strained his calf on that touchdown pass the final throw of the game came down, he said, he came down a little funny and or he came down awkwardly and he felt a little funny, and so they checked it out. Limped off

the field, hopped off, hoped to the locker room. Did he hop to selebrate? No, he just stood there and let everyone just let everybody just show with their praises on him, he said. He said he wasn't He didn't really feel it until the adrenaline wore off. A couple of them. Well, I don't know if it's forty five seconds later at later or what it was. That's when he at first he didn't feel it and until everybody started jumping on top of it. And maybe he's trying

to hold up all those people. Probably maybe that's why he heard it. But um, but you know what he sounded like in the post game, which you obviously you can hear here on Dallas Cowboys dot com. He sounded in good spirits about it. Just wanted to give us some drama here on the bywayn So MRI at some point today, so maybe later to the s Affternoon because

Mike's press conference. I don't think it's still four thirty to day if I remember correctly, and then that's correct and the coordinators are after that, so maybe by then we'll have an update on that. But I thought we um because I went back and looked at it time and time again, the uh the touchdown passed the CD thirty five yards to win it. H just how it

sort of unfolded UM and I it was UM. The way they lined up, and again it was the Patriots playing basically the defense they wanted to play all all game. They wanted to put extra guys on the line of scrimmage to put pressure on DAC and try to man up on all the receivers. When are they going to stop doing that? Somebody's got to learn when they have enough that they have enough, that they have enough defensive

backs to cover all the weapons the Cowboys. You can cover, you can by design, you can cover them, but when it comes to reality, they don't. And that's the thing. You have to realize that not only we have good receivers, we have a number of good receivers and especial good receivers far outweigh you're a good defense. And especially for the Patriots yesterday, they in the first half, some of them came back in the game, but they got hurt.

They had some injury issues, to the point that on the interception by Kyle Dugger in the first half, Justin Bethel made the play in the end zone knocking the ball away and Dugger got it on a deflection. Well, I looked up and Bethel has been you know, he's a special teamer. He's only had eleven snaps on defense the entire season coming into yesterday, and probably so. So. What they did was they came out with two tight

ends to the right. They had both receivers uh CD and Mark Cooper to the left, and so he play fakes basically to Zeke, which held the one safety for a minute, and then he bootlegs does it reverse pivot to his right, which was gonna buy him time right And evidently the idea was Okay, we're gonna throw this little thing to Schultz, right. Well, Cooper goes out to the left and twenty seven I think it was Adrian Phillips goes with him, j Jackson or Jackson and then

and it was Jackson. And then CD comes underneath him and Jalen Mills is playing off right. So he gives Lamb a free release to go, and so one of the safeties goes with Jarwin, one of them goes with Schultz, the other one was gonna blitz and then he said, oh, I better go out with Dak and that left nobody nobody with Lamb coming across right and he ran nine yards and at the nine yard mark, he's doing this.

He's old Mills, never game. It's almost like he said once once CD put his hand up, Mills was almost confirming yes and CD and CD's not going to even hustle after you. CD said, I was shocked that I was that open. And then he goes I was expecting another safety and there was nobody there and he didn't catch him until he gets to the end zone, pushes him down needlessly, and no, he needed to do that, yeah, right, he really needed safe at CD ends up, CD gets

up and ways of course the story behind that. Jalen Mills is from De Soto, Okay, and so you know he's a Dallas kid. And I don't know if he's here in the off season or not. But I mean, my wife was saying, oh, CD shouldn't have toned him, like, oh no, no, it's fine. You know, he's just holding the ball out. I mean, just won the game. And then I told her that this get the defensive back. He's a former Eagle, and then it was from he's from stop right there. Yeah, and she well, and she

even said, oh, so they know each other. Yeah, they know each other. It's just a competitive but it was. It was a great It was a great play call at that spot for what they were anticipating that the Patriots were gonna do defense. Now here's the thing to me, and I don't know if they are they this slip? Are they this intuitive? I'd safe about it. It It seemed like five six straight plays maybe more. Uh, Zeke wasn't in the game. They had pollared in, they had poloed in,

and my son was like, where's where's Zeke? Is he hurt? What's going on? Well? They even cut to him on the sideline. Yeah, okay, I didn't see it. He was going like this on his helmet like for those not watching, Mickey just hit his head set. Yeah, well that was almost like, why am I not in the game something? That's what I took. And so here's the thing. So okay, just as soon as my son says that Zeke comes in the game, right, so here, the Cowboys have have

him on the ropes. This is an important moment, and you know the Patriots are thinking they're gonna run the ball to Zeke. They just put him in just for this purpose. Now do you think that Kellen Moore knew that the timing you're putting Zeke in the game after not having him in the game for about five six seven players in the row to what Patriots gonna say? They're bringing Zeke in because now they're gonna just try and kick a field goals. Yes, we're just gonna get

yards here because all we need is yards. He thought that was to me, that was the that was the gravy on top of that stage. That's why Kellen Moore calls Zeke deek. He's a decoy perfect. I mean, I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but it just totally fed into the Patriots being so gullible at that point. I mean, they bit hard and once again looking for another safety. No he's not there

because they bit so hard on the philosophy itself. Just an example of how Kellen Moore just coached the pants off the greatest coach of all time. I don't I don't want to spoil the image, but I wrote down the first play from the twenty. He ran for two yards and I said, got up, slowly, got off, so he did something to him and then that's when Pollard came in. And Pollard was in there until until that play, until that play. Yeah, he came in that play. I

promise you the Patriots what they can heavy run. Everyone. Everyone that's front seven's thinking heavy run. That's why that was the perfect call. And it was perfect timing because Romo kept calling for it the time, no more than I mean maybe a couple of times. But they called time out when he when he first said they were going to do it. They were going to do it then. Yeah, And I can't remember if New England called timeout or the Cowboys called I forgot New England called timeout yeah,

and it stopped and they were sad. On the same series or the previous series. I think it was the previous series. So it was in regulation, Yeah, before the tying field goal. I believe it was that. It was that it was before the tying field goal. Okay, yeah, see, I uh where was it timeout? Cowboys call? Well, I've got a timeout that Cowboys. No, I don't think we called it. There was a timeout called at two oh one and then two minute warning. Maybe it was the

possession before that. I don't remember. I just remember when he said it and then and then they didn't get to it. But they came back after the time out and they were lined up the same way that they didn't run. I think they ended up handing the ball. Yes, they did to Pilot, I believe is what happens, and that that was even better for said enough for Zeke because now thinking they're gonna okay, we're gonna do better this. Yeah,

so amazing, dude. One twenty eight and three, the Patriots are successful when when leading with like two minutes to go in the game. I didn't see that's that one twenty eight and and it's something similar to that in front of me when they leaded halftime. I didn't see that and U and one of the losses and they'd just be a couple of losses or maybe three. Now one of them was the Brady game of two weeks ago.

Wo wow. Okay, all right, so maybe their last two home games, that last two home and now they they're owing four. And I just have a question. I mean, we got to talk about which which was the best pass that that through? Which was the best catch of the game. I say both of the same, both the same exactly. I think the pass along that the cornerback was going for the pick six. You know that, yeah, and Dak knew he was going for the pick six. It's a fact. It's a fourth down play, fourth and fourth.

I mean, I mean that we're not talking about any of this stuff if they don't execute that pass. I mean, you talk about coming through under pressure and the game is on the line on this play right here and pass and totally not sitting down during this whole part of the game. I'm not even sitting down. And with that fourth and fourth, I was writing down Dak high to Wilson, but he had yeah the guy. I mean,

come on, man, you talk about being in sync. Yeah, I mean that's kind of clutched moooves that you just almost come to expect that from dad. And that's your that's your fourth receiver, that's your fourth reci but that's his favorite, and Noah Brown came up with a couple of casual right, man, So your fourth I think I figured out the fourth and fifth receivers had six catches, which which once again leads to everything that we're talking about.

That that just lays out, you know, the whole because McCarthy talked about we needed all our perimeter players because we knew how they were going to play the game, and he knew they were gonna say, okay, whatever we're gonna do. Zeke's not running for one hundred yards on us, right, but they still managed one hundred and twenty two. And so now you talking just very pedestrian, thirty twenty six,

thirty one seconds to go, just very pedestrian. Let's just hit h cdo of the middle fil you know, to the point that you and Roma pointed out on the broadcast. But the end of that game, everybody was so gassed. He was talking about the receivers. But if you look at the Patriots defensive line trying to put pressure on back.

They were barely getting off the ball. But to the point on the receivers that Malik Turner goes into the game and then most criticals stage of the game, and they tried throwing to that's right, So let's get the guy in here who can actually run fifty yards down field, let's throw it deep to it. I'm sure they were just dog ass tired, that's what we're talking about. Yeah, when they hit that the third and twenty something that to seed everyone. It looked as if they were confident

and cocky. But I just think, like you said, they were just exhausted. No one had any energy to just kind of be geeked up, like, yeah, we'll get the cow Boys called that time out. Yes, they had to. Which one you're out before the who the field goal? They had to Yeah, they called it. I was figuring they were so tired they probably couldn't get everybody off the field. No, they called the time out, Yeah they did, yeah, yeah, yeah,

So it ended up fourth and one. Yeah, yeah, it was fourth and one, which was amazing that they almost came up with the first down. That's because if he gets it He's not twenty fourth after the fourth and fourth, right, that's after the fourth and fourth of what it's like, Oh, that was pretty underwhelming, but that was amazing also. I mean, and we're looking at these passes that he's throwing in the catches that they're making, and it's almost routine. Now,

the greatness now is almost routine for this offense. So okay, So I would say they're equally the cedric one and the third and twenty five twenty four yards to CD. You got to say both of them are just as important because the game the game ends with either one. Yeah, I mean, you get another chance. But yeah, I mean, yeah, so CD finishes with nine, that's because it was fourth it was fourth down. Yeah, so so it trumps it

because it was fourth down. Now if the yeah, CD finishes with nine catches for one hundred and forty nine yards. Who had both careers had to pick the clip? Who, by the way, did you have them? No? You know who the pick the clip was? You got them? I had Connor williams Kellen Moore. Ah, you did, my man and I had taken you got it, you got need it? It It used a coach about man. That was that was Lamb's second multi touchdown game. He had two uh and zeke. While he only rushed for sixty nine yards,

he had seven catches for fifty. Wow, that gives me over one hundred yards from scrimmage. Sheltz five catches, Cooper five catches, Wilson four, three for Pollard and two for Noah Brown and one for one yard for Joe. Yes, that was a big yard. Cowboys are having a hard enough time get at one yard and so that was rather huge. All right. We continue with more mix shots in just a moment. At Smootie King, we are blending goodness to fuel your greatness. Every blind is crafted to

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Message data rates may apply. Okay, there's so much to talk about with this game, and you'll be able to hear all the talk throughout the day here on all the podcast and we're just kicking it off. But how about we in this last segment talk about special teams and talk about a block punt block two years ago as it was a block punt by Matthews Slater. That was the deciding play and going into this game, in fact, Mike McCarthy told me we got to talk block punts.

It was a priority when we were taping the coaching show last week. We got to talk special teams and it's gonna be a big day for Bones Fossil. And sure enough they got their block punt. Now, they didn't turn it into points because of what we already talked about down on the goal line. But that's a perfectly executed block punt by Luke Gifford. Couldn't be any better. When you you take it off the guy's foot right, you didn't even have to, uh, you know, go chase

the ball down. It landed right underneath him when he fell, so good to Gifford and it looked like, I don't know if they overloaded, but no one touched him. He came through clean, So that was well. It could have

been huge, but they didn't score after it. But yeah, the Cowboys special teams other than the missfield goal that we just talked about, and there was kind of a reason for that, um you know, they they averaged almost twenty four twenty five yards a kickoff return and um, if I remember they didn't do much on well the hell no one punted, right, I think they were three once in the game Cowboys had one and they had two. Yeah,

just move again. The reason that this game was just so body, you know, the black punt last time they were there ended up setting up the basically the winning touchdown, the only touchdown in the game back in the rainstorm in twenty nineteen. So yeah, the Cowboys. A little more symmetry there. Uh. And then the other guy that I think we need to talk about, Uh, Randy Gregory's a beast. I love it. He had he had the two sacks.

That's his second two sack game in three games. Uh. He ends up with three tackles, uh, one tackle for a loss, two quarterback hits obviously the sack fumble that the Gholston recovered, and I bet when they look for pressures, he probably got about five. Always has a bunch of pressures and it's like he's just a rabbit dog. And he forced one holding call which was a big call, right Uh. I think was that on the the touchdown passed that they had to come back. He got the

guy got called for holding. Um and and then he spoke out after the game and he basically said, I don't know, but these officials didn't do a very good job. And I'm paraphrasing, and I agree. They could have called They could have called somebody holding him several times. And you know the thing we were talking about last week with um Dan Quinn putting the helmet on, and they were they were practicing getting cut and he was the guy he was playing the Patriots and going down low.

I saw that offensive tackle dive right at his feet down on one play and he kind of pushed him down and jumped over. But they but they knew that was coming, that they were going to do cut blocking on him, and sure enough, there it was. I saw that happen to him. And the thing that that Quinn did then when they started chipping him on the outside, he started standing him up in the middle of the defensive line along with Parsons, and they widened out the

other defensive lineman. Yeah, so it was almost like they had a six man front. But those guys were standing up and they were looping and trying to cut through, so they couldn't chip him because they were starting to chip him on the outside with the running back. You know, when you start thinking about guys like what Dak went through and what Randy Greby went through, you those journeys can be amazing. They could make you or break you. And you think about what Gregy went through. It wasn't

about any injuries. All he had to do was fight himself and that's that's the toughest enemy you can have. So for him to come through that the way he did and to be as solid as he is now as a human being, that's just as important as what he's doing on the football field, because right now he seems to be as stable as possible. And man, I could magness. Sometimes he's sitting up at night wondering where his future was going to be. And now look where he is now. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, And boy, and

he's he's without DeMarcus Lawrence in there. He's almost a lifesaver on the defense. That continues to cause me to go, I don't know, they just I mean, they ended up giving up one hundred and twenty yards rushing um to a team that's not very offensive, and you know, and they gave up so many big plays once again, keep they let they allow them to keep the chains moving, right, so frustrated, all right, yeah, and we'll talk about now, Everson,

you're gonna be on the next couple of days. I'm only one thirty, okay, and we're on at twelve thirty. I believe that's right. Tuesday and Wednesday, right, I think we got robbed. That is heck okay. Um, So we'll talk about it more in the next couple of days. But um, you know, one of the things when you're talking about run defense, so you know, Rubbo talked about a little bit how dan Quinn has changed his philosophy, his defensive philosophy from his Seattle days or Atlantic days.

There's a lot of what the Belichick does with the Patriots that had morphed into dan Quinn's defense. And we talked about a little bit the use of those dbs. I looked at the snap counts this morning. The Cowboys had per snap or in the game five if they ran fifty four snaps on offense and there were five point nine eighth, well, there were three hundred eleven snaps for defensive backs in the game. If you divide that by fifty four snaps per play, five point nine eight

dbs on the field. So basically, the Cowboys a lot of times on average had nearly six defensive backs on the field. And see the difference between this year and last year. These are huge dbs, and that's not even taken to account. Keanuneil, yeah, who's basically a dB plan linebacker.

And that's what I liked. Several times though in the run game he got exposed when they were lining in Parsons up like the strong side linebacker on the line of scrimmage and then it was vander esh and Neil in the middle and they were running right at him. So that's something that they may have to look at.

But even you look at the Patriots tight ends and those are receiving type tied ends with Hunter Henry and John who Smith and so to be able to combat what they're doing offensively and what so many teams in the leaguer do. And you have so many dbs on the field, and you're going to expose yourself in the run game, and you know, and they they were running the ball. I mean, they average six point seven year yards play a play. And to start the game, Parsons

was playing defensive end or playing outside linebacker. He was outside line exactly right when they went with two tight ends, but at least, at least unlike last year, they weren't in nickel. They were actually playing three linebackers on the field at that time. All right, that does it for oh, for us, there's much more still to come, and we will chat at you tomorrow and mix shots at twelve thirty and we'll be all back together probably next Monday

or something like that because it's a bye week. Maybe that's what CD was doing, all right, Yeah, Bil Cowboy. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.