Mick Shots: Run Down

It is a cold, rainy, depressing Monday for the Dallas Cowboys after thirty one twenty eight lost to the Green Bay Packers at once again, strange things happen at lambeau Field when this team goes there to play. We allowed it to happen. We were strange and not only did the Cowboys let one get away, we lost Bill Jones also man in the interim with Bill's Bill's uh, he's being looked at by the trainers. The trainers got him. Yeah. You know, when you're a professional broadcaster, you can't have

anything wrong with your voice. I put him on the publist or something. But you might have had the tweet of the day yesterday after the game when Bill said he was sick and you tweeted out what did I say? Um? You tweeted out said, damn, I've heard of a game making you sick. But and I just left it. And that game made a lot of people sick that follow the Dallas Cowboys. And so we'll carry on here, uh in the SWBC podcast studio with myself and Everson the

best we can. And I would imagine at some point, U Nate, if the weather does and hold him up, we'll poke his head in. We can't get rid of him. And now we don't. Yeah, yeah, now where's Nate? Right? But anyway, we got so much to talk about, so let's start here. Just give me your general observation of this loss. That boy they let one get away. You know, what I saw was what happens when you have a quarterback that is not in tune with his wide receivers

and how delicate a passing game can be. We talked about it with Rodgers, how he has you know, we don't know where to blame the quarterback or the receivers. With Aaron Rodgers, they talked about the fact that Watson's dropping all these passes and that's the reason that the Aaron Rodgers is having this kind of year that these have. And then all of a sudden, it bleeds over into so many other things it can. It's like a domino effect. You start off with the problem there and it just

bleeds his way all the way down. Coupled with the fact that what we talked about last week our inability to stop the run. You can have the greatest quarterback in the world. You and your wide receiver can mess up as many times as they want to, but you've got a defense that's going to right the ship. That's how teams win games, that's how championships are one one one player or one fast of the game takes up

for the other or uplifts the other team. And right now we've got we're juggling on who we're gonna do, who we're gonna depend on, what what? What's fast of our game? Are we going to play too? Are we going to play to our defense, Are we going to play to our running game? Are we going to play to our play action passes? We've got to figure out

which one's gonna work. Because you look at all of those games yesterday, and I watched almost all of them, there is no perfect remedy for any team at this point. You saw Buffalo blow it you saw Minnesota try to blow it, but they couldn't do it. Buffalo kept giving it back to him. I was so bad they took it off the air. It was crazy. So when you start talking about how dynamic these games were, first of all, it was very exciting, of course for the Cowboys, very frustrating.

But what you also saw was, man, this is just this is the NFL, you know. And when this all said, I don't care what you look like right now. I said it last week week before that this season is going to have so many twists interns that it's gonna make your head spin. Well, and there's a lot of

heads spinning all over the league, especially here. And I think Everson hit the nail right on the head that if you couldnot play the run any better than what they've been playing here for the last couple of games, three four games, it compromises everything help you try to do. And we talked about it, and okay, maybe the Bears was one of those things. You know, they had a

quarterback that ran the ball ourself. And then do you come in against the Packers team having lost five straight, having a three and six record, they're hanging on by tooth and nail right and and and I thought the the key thing, and one of the coaches said this before the game to me, that we just got a start fast, put them away and don't let them hang around and think, oh, we can do this. And sure

enough they did it. But the big thing the Packers ran for two hundred and seven yards two hundred seven yards and seeing what happens is that their their secondary got compromised right away when they lost Anthony Brown to a concussion on the fifty eight yard touchdown pass that Rogers through the of all people, Watson, the same guy. I believe that was the last word we said when we left here on Friday, is that Watson couldn't catch.

We debated why the Cowboys or any other team didn't draft him higher, and it was because he dropped the ball, and he had a couple drops early in the game, right, and then that happens, and it you know, and it was a perfect pass, nice catch by Watson, and Anthony Brown basically was like, well, I'm just gonna tackle him, and then he couldn't tackle and ends up with a concussion. He actually was in the middle of making a play, stripping him up the ball and trying to tackle him, right,

And so I've been there before. Once you're in that position, it doesn't matter what the hell you do. You a beat, You're right, Okay, you're a beat. And and so what happens is you're already down, Nate Newton, thanks for stepping in. We appreciate it. Uh, they're already down, Jordan Lewis. So you got a rookie starting in the slot, durn Bland, and then you lose Brown and now you're forced to bring in Kelvin Joseph. And I'll guarantee you when Aaron Rodgers saw that, his eyes lit up and going, I

know where I'm going with the ball. And so now you you you would like to load up against the run, right, But the Cowboys, you know, they went single safety high and now you've leaven all these guys in single coverage. Well, we were supposed to be good enough to cover them. Well. Unfortunately, when you don't have one of your starting guys in there,

you're probably gonna have some problems. And that's whether you play man those zones right, and so not being able to run the football or stop the run, I should say it just it causes so many different decisions, probably including in overtime. Right you're you're you're saying, Okay, I can't settle for a field goal here because we're not doing a very good job of stopping them. And they shouldn't have settled for a field goal because he would have never got it there from fifty And we'll talk

about that. I'll tell you, Nate, thanks for stopping, and I'll let you have after asking him to join it. I'll let you have a word here or two. Oh no, no, no, no, no, it can't tinue to talk. No, I want to hear from you. I want you here because I wanted to hear what you were thinking, because we are at our wits end. Over here, man, go ahead, So no, I

want to nobody's kicker. Okay. So, if if you were watching the game, the win wasn't that strong, but there was wind, and you saw what happened when Mason craws Be tried kicking that direction. That was the ugliest looking field goal I ever seen. The other thing that was going on. It was cold and the balls were hard, like real hard. You saw when they cut away to mar trying to warm up his But the wind shifted

just a little bit. And if you watched and I don't know if it was mar or the conditions, but if you watched the kickoffs, all of a sudden, the guy that hits a touchback every kick, now the ball was landing at the goal line, while the ball was landing at the five, and then it landed at the ten, and I think one of them ended up at around the thirteen yard line, and he couldn't get the ball to the end zone. So there was no way he's making a fifteen. I don't I have no confidence in

the world that he could have got it there. And then on top of that, in that two play sequence, when it third and three and you already had in your mind this is four down territory, Well do you run the ball twice? I mean, if it's the second guess, I understand the second guess. So but it all the second going for it was, you know, facilitated by we can't kick a field goal because they're going to come down and score a touchdown the way they're moving the ball,

because we can't stop the run. And it's got to get fixed. Because what do you think Minnesota's thinking right now? They ran for one hundred and forty seven yards against a Buffalo defense that was supposed to be good, including Cook for one hundred and seventeen eighty one yard touchdown run.

He's licking his chops right now. So I think that had a lot to do with all the other things that happened in this game, including including the Cowboys' ability to overcome those early interceptions to take a fourteen point lead, you know, heading into the fourth quarter. Man, here they are with a loss that should have never happened. Nate Newton, how you guys doing. We're doing good? Good, Daniel. I got two three shows today, three, Yeah, I got this

one here everybody. No, No, I'm just I'm just that guy that had just come in because he won't stop talking that, yeah, I won't stop talking. And uh, you know, sometimes I like to on a day like this, I like to hear everybody's show, you know. You know, you guys, I listen to y'all every day, and I just like to hear everybody's show and see what we're saying that

you know, and that basically everybody's saying the same. But I want to apologize to coach McCarthy, I really do, because what you're saying, and it's so correct about the kicker, and I was like, wow, I was coach emotional and going forward, but he uh, the kicker. I realized, I'm like, wow, he's not getting him an end zone to day, he's not look at this field, go and look how he's warming up his foot. So, uh, I apologize to you, Coach mccarthur, because I was like, man, what you emotional?

You know we're gonna win this? Yeah, and uh and so. But other than that, that's my last. Uh, that's my last apology, and he's the only one that's getting it the rest of him. No, sir, no sir, I'm I'm this is what bothers me. This is what bothers me is. Two weeks ago, you ran a wrong route and it then't cost us. Two weeks later, you run a wrong route and we could have been up by twenty one

even more probably if guys understand every point counts. We ex players and a guy that's been over thirty forty years of reporting football among other sports, if we know, I listened to every show and to a man and a woman that does these podcasts, say, if they ever get it right, Aaron Rodgers can kill you. We My thing is this. On my show, we got a guy that says I'm waiting for the playoffs. No, sir, you

don't have to wait to the playoffs. What team have we beat with a healthy, good quarterback in a running game in the last five years. I'll talk about a healthy quarterback that's good in a running game. We have not addressed as fellas. Michael Parson said last night on his show, Well the post came. I'm sorry, hey, if we just staying our gaps with squitch trying to rush

the passer. But Michael, you're the leader. You're got to do what you say, get in your gap, stop the run, and demand that everybody else does because if we if we know Quinn Quinn is saying a thousand fellas, we gotta get in our gaps. We gotta address this when the team comes out and go look at the film

and hooks first or left. He hooked number ninety two first, then they went over there hooked number ninety and they did it three or four times in a row until we finally stopped at one time, and then they went up the middle. I said to my so, the way this look fellas, we find to go about one hundred and fifty yards. I was off by fifty seven. Gave no, you're you're exactly right, And it's not like they were.

It was sneaky. They came out with two tight ends and said we're running the ball now, they're gonna have to make an adjustment. I understand the gap and stuff, but when they're in two tight ends, three safeties on the field may not do it. You might need three linebackers. You don't have it, well, I think I think, well with Bar, I know he was out. We don't with Bar there. You have Barr Parsons in Vanderish. You don't

have three linebackers. Well, you gotta get you gotta get bigger, because the skinny safety is not helping you in the I don't care how dynamic he is, scaler, skinny safety compared to the offensive lineman coming out there bowling over Mick. I'm gonna say it one more time. We don't have three lines. Well, they better get the moan Clark on the field then and get him ready to go. But

tell you something, Boss, tell you something, Mick. We better address down lineman and understand this ain't got nothing to do with the coach. This got something to do with do you want to stop the run? Are you going to give it your all in all to stop the run? Even with Michael Parsons that linebacker, he's getting caught up because I said this at the beginning of the year. I said this during the year. You gotta let him play linebacker, not just because you can move him around.

You don't want him to lose his instincts. He was getting caught into weird spots. He was as a rookie. He was coming and he was learning. But you put him at that defensive vent out of necessity, you you can learn, you can lose a liberty skill set moving around like that. And he was kind of in no no land. So you got to make up your mind. Is he good enough at this point to play both

or is he the defensive in now? Or is he going to let him play enough linebacker so you can keep his skills since starts seeing things, yeah, seeing him And they sprung one run and it was a significant point in the game where they they took they let

the the right defensive land and right tackle. They pushed them to the outside right and then here comes the running back and I'm looking at I'm going, well, Parson's gonna fill the hole, and oh no, Big seventy one was not touched their center and he comes and now what's persons two fifty to three fifty? Who wins? That

kicked him out? And then on top of it, and I thought they were supposed to be calling this, the wide receiver in the slot cracked back on the slot corner who was coming in to make the tackle, and he shoved him from behind. And that's when Jones went for like seventeen or eighteen yards on a on a significant play. I'm gonna tell you something. You're gonna You're gonna get plays like that that are being missed by the refs. They're gonna see it all what what we

have to do. And I promise you, if you don't do it during the regular season, it's not gonna turn on doing or you're not gonna get to the play. I'm gonna you know, I've been preaching on every show that I've been on. Y'all know we four games behind Philadelphia, well three if they win tonight, well they beat them. I get you, yeah, but you gotta play them. I know you don't if you lose two more games. You might as well. You're you're in third place in a division.

It's hard to explain, but we had the same problem going into the bye, the same problem coming out of the buy our wide receivers that either has too It's two options here. This is what I call it Jimmy Johnson option, the Coach Landry option, and he was his own offensive coordinator, Coach Landry. We're either not gonna throw that route anymore. We're gonna make sure that this player don't run that route. You're not gonna stop running the route because it helps you keep your offense wide open.

A excuse me? What what for? The in slept seem should never ever run that route again unless you rep it thirty times. In practice, he should never run that route again. It's the simplest rule of wide red. Not get cut off. You cannot cannot cut you. You gotta go off face. Yeah, I got highlight wheels doing that. You can't let them cut you off. You can't cut behind the guy. You can't. There's no top the balls. I'm already here. I'm already here. Yeah, I can't change

it now. And if I do, the worst things happened because we're proving that in the past. If I double clutch, I'm in trouble. Yeah, okay, and super stuff starts happening. Anybody fumble the ball, get injured again. So and the shame of it is he had a career day catching the ball eleven catches for one hundred and fifty yards. He teach the show to be the to receiver that he wanted him to be. He gotta be disciplined, gotta

be this. And you know what, it's starting to frustrate the quarterback because he's been covering for those routes, not just his but some others. He always covers that. It's like, well, our communication, I see it one way. No, he saw it the right, pa, I was on the so all the right and and did you see on the sideline when he was upset and Olsen was like, yeah, see Dak's saying that was me, that was I go No, No, he was not saying that was me. He was saying, we got to do it right. Olson was on it

though he knew what happened on both plays from the beginning. Yeah, as soon as the first interception was thrown, and that's when CD was over there, fussing with with Scholtz. He's like, he was like this, like you gotta get out the way, well too, you gotta go sharp and I gotta go one of them, one of them got somebody. No, no, no, he's the way Olson explained it. Yeah, no, no, he's right. I then had too clear out right right with an aggressive route right, you can't he was he got hung up.

I don't know what he was hung up on. And so CDs hung up behind him. So Dad's like traffic. I don't know if Dak said he got knocked off his route um and and got but they shouldn't have two guys within three y The tight end. The tight end talked about what the tight end did wrong. Yeah, Olsen is a tight end. He talked about what the tight end because if he clears out, if he clears out there and safety's got to go with him, not sit there, not sit there. He did gotta make a

decision at all. Yeah, he's gotta make a decision, right. Who's made They made it sa, they made it Safety a superstar because he didn't have to make a decision. He just fell on Larry Brown. That was it Brown okay for real and so the second one, that's what we first talked about. That's that's the really as simple as ever. I don't know why why receivers do that. He's not the only one that does it. What week is this? Oh no, it was week ten and we're

still talking about basic fundamentals in the passing game. So a guy asked me last night, He said, Troy, what what Mike and Troy would have said? I said, well, first of all, you're talking about a guy that's in his third year and ceedee lamb and my correct, you're talking about a quarterback that's in his seventh year. What they would what? Mike would have ran up to Troy

and said, the safety just beat me. We we collided because Mike would have been getting in front of this guy, right, the safety would have been coming down and they're to both in fighting, which man, he just got a better grip on it than I did, because Mike would have been trying to rip him, no doubt, been fighting with him, and he just out muscled him. That's would have been the conversation. He wouldn't have been the come resation of what did you see? The safety was back? I came cross,

he got a jump. His anticipation was good. It wouldn't be no. I mean it's and who fought harder for CD for the last eight weeks than Nate knew. I believe it right here. Some guys are number ones born and some guys have to be created. And I thought CD could be created. But you have through protect your quarterback at all times. It's nowhere in the world he can bring that back. If he does, he bring it back,

there's somebody can be sitting over here. We got a disaster, which is what happened on the fourth and three calls. Nobody was open and he brought it back and tried to get out and he gets tackled. And the fundamental of this show is we need to take a break right now, mix shots back in the moment. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award for valor in combat. More than forty million individuals have served in the armed forces since the Civil War. Fewer than four

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And we're back on Mick Shots. Everson Walls, Nate Newton, Mickey Spagnola trying to digest a thirty one twenty eight Cowboys loss to the Packers in overtime, which that game should have never got to overtime. So you want to know why McCarthy was so upset? Put your points and he never does that. I've never seen him do that about very very very upset with the penalties overtime, and it's like it escalated with each very right, very very kay. And then it was that it was later what it

was brought up again? It was big play penalty, big play penalty, big play penalty. And I felt his frustration. So here's what he was upset about. First, all the when's the last time you've seen a wide receiver called for offsides? I saw it before they snapped the ball, and he he initially was like, way passed, way passed, and he looked over. Did you see that? This is crazy?

One foot right? But he looked over and I went and talked to him, and he said, she told me to move back, and I did, but it was just like that, and he almost got called for a false start, right, but he did move back. So now it was inches right, there's the flag. I'm not right, I knew it and and it it negated a nine yard lets a nine yard Let's just basically it won't take long. How do you not know how to line up? Nate? How do you not know how to line up? And I'm sorry,

but who is the guy? It was? Jaalen Tolburn. Okay, he don't know how to line up rookie, Well, I don't care. I know in high school you know how to line up. If you were in peewee league, I know how to line up without being offside. It's just you know these things here anyway, that's that's but you know what, there was another play. I saw it and I thought I thought it was that play, and I saw where they were lined up. They were they were all like a yard behind the line of scrimmage to

just make sure. But anyway, the flag flew yeah, um, and uh, you know he said, yeah, I'd never been called for that before. Well because you never lined up the correctly. So I think he got I think he got upset. Felt it was a tickie tack call. But I mean, and the worst part was it had nothing to do with the play. You know. It was a run play to the right. He was to the left, and then the and you got, Nate, you tell me

the holding call on McGovern sixteen yard run. They're down to the twenty nine yard line when they when I looked seeing I and I and I'm and I'm with the reffs. I'm with him. I'm serious, because they make some bang bang. But when I looked at it right down, I thought, it's no, it can't be him, it's another it's another guy. So well holding yeah, I was like, wow, I think that's the one that got McCarthy's headset throw. Yeah, I believe it was. Yeah, that was a sixteen yard run.

It wasn't a run that got me. It was that they made the call. Ye see, the run don't get me, but that. It's like we've been balling like that all day, sir, all of a sudden, yeah, all of a sudden. But I asked McGovern what they told him. He said, I prevented the guy from making a play. And I said, well, you should have told him. That's what I'm supposed to do. I block them. It's just, uh, for every call that they missed, then you go back to tollbird, you know.

So I try to keep the reugh out of it, and I try to look at what we have could have done to prevent a lot of the things that happened to us as a team. And the good teams, Uh realize real quick, Okay, I'm not I'm not gonna let her tight end block me. You know. I'm not doing things I know cannot happen. Yeah, so certain things right now cannot happen. Right and and and that's the way I used to go into it. In these I

can't let it. I let this happen. If I'm in man coverage and you let her do a release on you and you don't get nothing on him, he gone. And Uh, you're talking about the playing over time. No, I'm trying to talk about general. I'm like you out there, bro, there ain't no one behind you, and you don't get the guns. I'm saying to myself, I'm gonna tell you something, nick like coach and y'all still refer to Coach Johnson presiding coach John's tail, folks Son. If you're scared, yeah,

let's go wrong. Thing I love about Jimmy he can talk, but sometimes you can if you're scared. Yo, man, Bro, we don't have time. And and my thing is is, yeah, this is just my pet peeve being a defensive back. You can't beat the capitalists. Every time the Cowboys fall in trouble, Well, they beat Brown, but we're gonna be all right, Like that's the norm to beat Brown. But then we're gonna be okay. He's been nothing better behind him.

Well you saw what happened, right, see Blanton, I mean once Brown went down when he said, no young kid is hurt, I mean the young kid is young. Yeah, I can. I would deal with that. Yeah, like October, my question is why was he out there? Well out of necessity? Yeah, okay, I deal with that. But Fats Minnesota Fat? What his name? Fat? What is the kid named the rapper Jay Fat? Whatever his name? Yeah, that

was ridiculous. Well you that was reduced. You saw as soon as one was in where Aaron Rodgers was going and and at that point, so what they did is they had digs follow Lazard. It was like, let's take him out. Well on the key play in overtime, they lined up three to the to their right, the Cowboys left, and they put Lazard in the slot and he'd be no, he held down. He slipped, slipped and fell on that goofy turf that they have out there that everybody was

slipping on. And he was wide open because the safety was on the other side of the field. And it was like okay, but but before that, I know, and before that, so you tell me the third down play on the past the lamb when the guy hooked his left arm over the top. How does that not get called? And I just hate that we always come down to the no calls because we put ourselves in this desperce exactly because they're not good enough to outplay those things.

Right and one points ahead? Yeah, the other thing. I know, let's look, let's look at the punt. Let's look at the punt. I believe it was a punt. Oh the block in the back or whatever, it was not a blind I know. I mean, these are these are things like, well, man, do you but I mean, did we get the we get to chart? Did we get the challenge that they picked the pick? They didn't pick it up? Because I

would call we started them twelve yardline? You're right, we started on twelve yard line, right, come on after we I think his return was decent or at least he called it up here we ended up No, the return was decent, if I would call, we were close to the thirty plus, and then we end up after the twelve. And this is doing the time that everything was collapsing.

So the we have to like, let me just crap on him some more and throw this flag to where you clearly do I don't know what he was looking at. If you didn't see the block, how can you call it right? Yeah, you saw him from y'all know Watson played for them before the game. Oh yeah, because I wanted to draft him and Bill wanted to draft him, and then we decided that he dropped too many passes and that's why the Cowboys would have passed out. Three

years ago. I didn't know who Jones was the running back. Three years Jones, he comes to Dallas and he leaves Dallas, and I know who he is. I didn't know who this Watson kid was. When they say first round pick in this round, like this dude garbage. Yeah, you don't watch North. We've been We've been North Dakota State North. We've been laughing at him for a while, and now all of a sudden it ain't funny. He comes in

here and have a career day. Yeah, and like you said, Aaron Rodgers made sure that he was going to have a day. Yes, okay, that was the whole point he dropped. Yeah, oh yeah, Aaron, Aaron CUSTOMI and then I get over them and to throw your nut. That was the first question of his press conference. What gave him the confidence to go back to Christian Watson after the early drops. We got a lot of plays designed for him, so I don't think there was any other option. Oh wow, Okay,

well that didn't sound too No, it sounded less. But you know what then, what I'm telling you, every time he connected with his kids, kid looked at him in a well before you may say some yeah, he may say some crazy for him. Yeah he had what did he had three catches at one for three touchdowns? Who has that? He had four overall for one oh seven. If I'm a player, see, I have nothing for the coaches, because you can say what you want about them, you can dog them out or whatever you want. But if

I'm a player, I'm checking me. If I'm if I'm big number ninety seven, if I'm if I'm all these big hogs in the middle, I am checking me. You can't just lay back and say, oh, it's just a system. Yeah, no, man, you gotta check yourself. Man and Nate. That's been going on since last year though. Anytime we had problems, this has been going on since last year. So you know, I've been in the room my rookie year. We wouldn't

even throw the Steves. Yeah, we were just some young undrafted free agents, late round draft picks out there getting toasted. But we still checked ourselves and said, when it's time, we gotta make a play. Yeah, that's what we did. We might have been lasting passing yards, but we were first in interceptions because we weren't going to give it up. You might get us in the end of the beginning, but we're gonna come back and get you in the end. Michael Down's gonna pick itu. Our walls gonna be Ron

Fellows would even come through. We will. We would make him rise to that level of competition. No man, Ron though, Ron Fellows would wow. No, I mean, hey, how did Roy just talk to him? I still love Ron Fellows, but Ron Fellows knows this. We gotta bring him up to that level, and he rose. There were games he wrote, I don't know how many career picks, Ron, but he needed everyone up. We gotta have the rise to read this break Yes, and we will be back mix shots

if I can control these two guys. We paid how much for those lessons? She's the great? Oh yeah, totally. Can you pass me a Pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey. Oh look, at that. That's not the end, No way. Now it's time for the encore. You know what You're right? Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough. Pepsi zero sugar. That's what I like. Nobody protects you from

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Roofing right. If you walk into your house and you say, honey, is raining outside, he's leaking in here? Is she gonna look at you? Thank you? Master the obvious money. They running the ball pretty good, but we gotta break a week to fix it. Come back, we don't fix it. Wow. Should we call a roofing company, Maybe they can block it up. Okay, So what is the reaction after you lose a game like that? Me as a player, Yeah, there's no way in the world. I'm gonna go through

that again. If I'm Bohannah, and if I'm armstrong, if I'm tak it's nowhere in the world because you can't tell me. We've seen this guy all the way from Seattle. You didn't run the ball on him. He thinking. These guys don't figure it out. They are not figuring it out. So now everybody's gonna say, well, do you have a run stopping scheme? His scheme because it stops running. I've seen it. These players got to take it amongst themselves. Hey, fellas,

the average gotta come down. You know, the average gotta come in there. If you can get them guys around what three nine walls three seven, your average gotta come down? Keep it down game, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta give yourself a chance. Now, you don't like I mean, if you know we could give up like one hundred If you give up one hundred and thirty yards a game, that's not bad. That's I'm serious for the defense that

you're But your average you gotta come down. So when you that's from a that's from a player standpoint, from a team standpoint. I remember being back there with Tom Landry, and first of all, you have to know what personnel you're dealing with. If you think you have the personnel to stop the run, truly, then that Tom Langie would make sure that the coaches and players were in the room together, and we're gonna figure this out. Yes, we're going to put such emphasis on it. We're going to

let the rest of our games suffer. The flex offense was all about that, we're going to play the run. Guys, y'all gotta deal with it back in the back, okay, because what what when? What's what's our weakness? When we lose and I'm talking Tom Ladie, not now, when we lose in the running game, that's when we lose the game period. So that's why we were getting back interceptions because they were throwing so much because they could not

run on us. They made sure of that. That's from us team standpoint, not a player standpoint, because yeah, and that's how you play your safeties, right if you got ever you're dealing with whatever run. Tom Ladie was a master at adjustments. He was a master, whether he made it doing that game or the next time I see you. You're not gonna whoop us like you did last time. We're gonna we're gonna you're gonna do something different like Belichick does. You're going to do something different and see

if people gonna understand what you're accustomed to. And that's what people understand. You don't Most coaches don't have a secondary playing if they gat you running, they don't have because you don't have the talent. That's right, we have the talent. I'm gonna tell you something. Man. They ran for nine first downs of their twenty. Almost half of

their first downs came running the football. I'm just telling you the coach would make the adjustment and he would put the players in there that could do it, and Jimmy and Time a lot of light. One spoke louder than the other. Yeah, the move was gonna be made. I mean, if you if you look at what was happening against the run, the one guy you remember playing it well from the guys up front was Lawrence Right.

He had seven tackles. I think he had to go all the way down six or seven players before the next defensive lineman made some place. I mean Bohannan. And he was actually the next one, by the way, Well, I couldn't tell. Yeah, he was in the wash, he wasn't. They found him in the rents about five yards. Now. I'm gonna tell you something. Hitting them with Nate, they're hitting them with momentum. Yes, they're running downhill. And that's

what I'm saying. Your linebackers don't stand a chance because they doubling them big guys off and they're moving in and the linebackers are going around. If you got to run the hump, you already gave up four yards and the first play tim from rome four yards, it was second and six. Next play it was four yards, it

was third and two. Then they got a first. Then they came back again second, second and six, third, third and two they get I mean there was from the start four yards and I said to myself, look at it, Mick, it's right there. And I'm saying to myself, Fellas, this ain't nice. It sounds familiar, familiar, And where do those big runs come. It's always outside to the offensive left, the Cowboys right side. They have not found a defensive end to hold down that edge at the defensive end.

And it's not but it's not just the defensive end. It's the guys that are getting cut off from the pursuit as well, like defensive tackles. Yes, and they did just like Tampa Bay did. They brought these tight ends across and then wam down on you. And see Tank started to figure it out. You know, he's started, he started to figure it out. But by that time until they held him. Yea. And by that time it's rolling. Yeah, it's coming downhill. And I'm telling you, Fellas, it's nothing.

This is nothing new. You said, I've been watching this for five years and I've been going on the same show that I've been going on Saint Fellas. If you want to beat us, get you a decent quarterback who cares about winning, and he don't and he ain't trying to figure out how to get a pass off. I'm telling he told his coach at the end of regulation, man running up ball. He not mean that, can't go to our coaches say that, but he could. He could good, but they did. They ran, and they ran it well,

just challenging him, yea the moment. But see, the thing that gets us is, like you said, ever since, you gotta find players and you gotta tell them you want to play. Stop to run. Next week, that's what Minnesota's gonna do. Two Minnesota, They're gonna two minutes. See, the Bears did what what the Lions should have did, because when the Lions formed that ball on the one, and uh, you know, I told I told everybody in the room. I said, man, I keep running that ball. Dallas ain't stopping.

Damn they ain't stopped me. But Day said, oh no, we're gonna pay. We're gonna bad times. I think the Lions on the top rushing, Yeah, they were and then the next week we played the Backs and the Bears say, we're not gonna subject these kids to this. We're gonna get him beat up. So they kept running it and we all said, even me, saying, well, forty nine runs you're gonna get, you know, so many yards. But what about this team? It's the average per run? Yeah, average

per run, I'm telling you. And we're gonna finish it with this because I thought Dak hit the nail on the head. Towards the end of his press conference he's talking about how we have to be better. We got to give them credit, and then he said they were better tonight in the moments that matters were about talking about all the time that spags all the time, moments want it's about moments fourth and seven, about runts, it's

about well, four buffalo bills. If it's not about moments fourteen for twenty fourteen for twenty and you got to beat fourteen. And with that. We will be back tomorrow on mixing errands only team well too many errands through the Cowboys Yes to turn into error. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club