Mick Shots: Victory Friday

WBC podcast studio. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola, as we turned returned to the days of Super Bowl winning teams with back to back twelve win seasons. Mickey, how's that spinning it? Positive? Twelve and fourth seasons? At twelve and four? That's right, even though there's another game, another one can go for thirteen here next week against Washington. And you guys need to be good because I met a whole bunch of Cowboy fans yesterday that listen to

mix Shots, realers, So don't let them die. And you got in win. I think I by time I got home, it was we landed right or a little bit after it mean to stump you at this question. I ain't got a lot of sleep there, probably got home at three o'clock. All right, so you're rested, rested and ready got my four hours sleep? There you go, all right? And here we are in need. Here we are as we wrap up what happened on Thursday night and look ahead to a New Year's weekend. Just one more game

now left in this season? And where is this Cowboys team now as we sit here twelve and four at the new year. Well, they are guaranteed the fifth seed and the NFC playoff, nothing less than that. I think they're probably guaranteed unless something really weird happens. They're playing the division champ of the NFC South, Tampa Bay or Carolina, and that should be decided or New Orleans or New Orleans.

That's a long shot. And Tampa Bay and Carolina play this Sunday, so we'll see how that New Orleans plays Philadelphia and Cowboys fans want a Saints win in Philly. So the Cowboys by by winning, that's yeah. The Cowboys by winning at least put the pressure on the Eagles that they have to win one more game. We don't want to make it too easy for him. Yeah, them

coasting out. They thought they had a Quak's thirteen and one until the Cowboys showed up right right, uh and so, and now they got to make a decision when they put Jalen Hurts back on the field practicing. He is practicing. According to the head coach. If you believe the head coach, he looked good in practice yesterday, after the okie doke

that his legs look good in practice. Yeah, after the okie doke that Tennessee pulled, pulling the starting quarterback the day of the game and saying, Okay, we're gonna go with this guy that just showed up nine days ago. Yeah, and he played much better than the guy I think, and I think he won the backup job. He's gonna play. He's gonna play in their Week eighteen playoff game against Jacksonville. That right way, he'll start that game. Man. That's that's crazy.

It's gonna be good. It's gonna be fun for them. I had fun last night watching the game. I really did. I had circled this game on the schedule as a problem game. I did too, until they lost five straight right right right? That this is a team. If I if you guys would call the three teams that I always bring up when I talk about in tests before, the two Pittsburgh Steelers, the Ravens, and the Titans. You know, they have that that persona well, they just they don't

have that now. The just don't have that. And the Ravens themselves are having problems as well. The Cowboys. Uh, it seems to be the most resilient team in the NFL right now, and like you said, a lot of it because of their own making, you know, being resilient enough to come back from your own mistakes that you cause for no reason. That Nate just talking to about the interceptions it happenstance interception versus your own and we're having too many of our own on top of those

happenstance interceptions. And I know it's a drop pass, but it was a drop pass and then tipped on top of it. Wait, I can keep missed it three times? Yeah, I mean, but you know, and and the throw went to coverage. What was his excuse for that? None? Bad decision?

Just bad you know. He gets on the role. And even with what you see coming from that, the mistakes and all that, you still have to Marvel and how he comes back and just the touchdown pat the second one to show dude, come on, man, come on man, that's that's and you know what that's That wasn't I shouldn't say it was improvised, but Schultz told me that during the week they had plaque practice that play uh several times and the ball never came to him. It

went to CD. That's where the ball was supposed to go. But because of the way they played it and the corner stayed with CD. That left the safety with Dalton Schultz, the safeties five eleven, two hundred Scholtz sixty five, two fifty five. Who do you think is gonna jump ball? And it was That was a moment. As a defensive back, you have a dilemma. Okay, is he gonna throw it kind of like back shoulder like he did? It was semi back shoulder, but he gave it was kind of

a lie. It was a lie, but it wasn't. It wasn't a lib towards the corner of the end zone, right, It was a lib towards the back of the end zone. Yeah, So therefore the dB has to adjust his approach to the ball. Last minute he's thinking he's hauling. He's hauling trying to get to the corner of the end zone. But then as he looks up, it doesn't go corn of the end zone. He has to step, he has to jump up vertically, And of course that's probably why he messed up his knee. Did the six inches helped too,

for you know, no doubt? Right? Yeah? So but yeah, so, you know, even even McArthur when he was talking about the interception, I think he said, the first one was, you know, a drop past. The second one was a bad DESI dropping intelligence. Yeah. I went back to look at it and I wanted to see if maybe Schultz kind of didn't cut his route right, that's the way he threw it. That maybe he was well and it was a little bit behind him and he was never open. He just wasn't open. So you can't because I was

trailing too close. There was a dump off pass available to Zeke. I think it was. He probably wouldn't have gotten the first down, but you wouldn't have thrown by inption. Yeah, and it wasn't just a guy who was trailing him. He was a ballhawk. Kevin Byer. I was just looking up how many interceptions does he have in his career? Twenty seven interceptions? He really? Yep? Uh? In fact, now I'm looking up to last night. You know, his second year in the league by it at eight picks. That

was in twenty seventeen. He's got twenty seven now in his career. Four this year, five last year. So I mean that's that was one guy who did play for Tennessee, who's a regular and a former Pro bowler, two time Pro bowler who did play for Tennessee. And last night's game see and then the other thing that happened, even though they their linebackers were out, defensive end was out,

defensive tackle was out, the Cowboys struggled to run the football. Now, these guys are number two against the run, and I understand they had guys missing, but they decided we're playing a five man front, yes basically, and almost every down and it's like, you want to run the ball, okay, come on, and we're gonna have seven guys in the box. Especially when you went two tight ends, three tight ends, they put eight nine guys in the box. Right, It's like, no,

you're not gonna run. And the Cowboys ended up what averaging two point seven yards a carry, and even when they ran for the touchdown, it was first in goal at the six and it was a four yard run, a one yard run, and a half yard run with a long reach by Zeke to score the touchdown. His ninth straight game with a touchdown by the way, So yeah, it was it was tough sledding in there, and so yeah,

now you got to throw the ball. And last year we would have had an issue with that because what they talked about was being able to play the run, really playing like a two man behind that and that always gave that problems. And this year that does not

seem to be working. Whether it's Philadelphia or Tennessee. He's able to decipher things much better this year, much quicker and really take advantage of any situation that he recognized, and a little more patient because some of those routes he's thrown the CD he needed time for those routes to develop. Offensive line, Yeah, we're just we have a that travels. We talk about defense traveling. That offensive line

is traveling. Well, we can't run the ball, then we have the protection to keep that comfortable in the pocket. And you're right, there are times when he's back there. He's got full comfortable seconds. Yeah, to see what's going on, that's alluxury. And speaking of speaking of offensive line, tell us what's going on with the offensive line with Tyler Bias going down? Last night? They traveled to the right.

So uh and and McCarthy said that, you know, they bring um, what's his name, brock Hoffman Hoffman, Right, he gets elevated off the practice squad as kind of the backup center guard. But obviously they didn't want to put him in the game. I know he hasn't played yet, right, So the plan was McCarthy said, when I asked him, is you know it was always Connor mcgovernin moves from left guard to center, Tyler smooth Smith the move from left tackle to left guard, and Jason Peters comes in

at left tackle. And you know, they had a couple plays that they struggled with. There was one that they didn't everybody took a guy, but no one took the guy coming through the gap right, and I think it ended up in that sack. But other than that, I mean they kind of hung in there. Now we got to see what they do going forward. That was the emergency plan. And by the way, brock Hoffman is out of elevations. Now, that was his third elevation from the

practice squad. You only get three, and they did that earlier in the year with Dakota Shepley the Chicago Green Bay in Minnesota game, they used his three elevations. Anybody else, you know, Aviante Collins, who's not a center, has had two elevations, right, and he has I think he might have some center okay experience a TCU. But anyway, so after the game, I was told that, you know, Beatish is in a walking boot, and he didn't really want

to talk about it. Uh, it's his right foot and he's lucky because the way he got rolled up on when they showed the replay, I mean they got both knees from behind. Right. It's a high ankle sprain, but they didn't think it was of the serious nature that a high ankle sprain can be where it's least four weeks, yeah, a lesser higher. I mean it's high, but it's not

as serious as normal. So you know, the thought was, well, there's thirteen gay days maybe between games if they played the following Sunday, because it could be Saturday by the way, Uh, and then you know, and then it's another's week until you play a playoff game, So he could, you know, have almost two weeks to recover. So they're gonna well, we'll see whether that Washington game is gonna matter or not.

It depends on the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, right, because then you can just say, well, there's no sense rushing him back, just getting ready for the playoffs. But again, if you're gonna have to adjust for the playoffs, you better put those guys out there how you want to play the playoffs at least for a half, Right, And I don't know if you say, well, okay, if this is the way it's got to go with McGovern at center, do I take Tyrn Smith put him back at left tackle? Right?

Is it easier for Peters to play right tackle or rotate with Josh Ball on the right side. And I think that's the decision. They'll have to make that left tackle position pretty important though, right, So that's one thing that I think they would have to consider. Tylan looks good, Yeah, it looks real good. There was a couple pass blocks that Jason Peters struggled with. I don't know, you want

him to play seventy snaps. I don't know if you have a choice, well well and so yeah and so well then you but he's never played right tackle right as fa until that that yeah, that drive, Yeah, that's rush, that's right, until this year he played it fore yards by golly, yeah, that's right, which is a different So it's a different dynamic in that decision. Yeah, as opposed to what it was whether you're choosing with Tyler Smith to play left tackle. Now he slides in and so

now it's okay, I think that's a no player. You gotta put time and back and left. If that's what we're dealing with, you have to put time back and left where he's the man. Right To say comfortable is an understatement, And maybe maybe the decision depends on how long they think Beyondish is out. Is it just one game or if it's two games and you got to go in the playoffs, you better situated how you want to play in the playoffs, right, So that's one of

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History on May eleventh. Get your tickets at zeatgeek dot com ze zeke Geek And if you didn't hear the first line, it says, this is how we country. Country Music's Party of the Year is coming to Fort Center at the Star in Frisco. No k Post reading. I like the country reading. They're kind of changing it. K Post can go second. I guess yeah, I like that. That was a good and uh, Natan Frisco is in the studio now with us here in the s WBC podcast studio. But my understanding is Nate is just going

to listen. Although he's got a headset on. He got a microphone in front of him. He's never turned down a microphone. Huh, even if he's tired, I'd sell you what. I have one story I called Mickey the day of the game. He just read that country thing. He's a head Nate. I don't miss Mississippi as much as I thought because he's some country folks that I didn't know how to take that. I did not know how to

take that. Let's let's turn that around. I said, Nate, there's a lot of country folks walking around this place. And he goes, and he goes, yeah, that makes Mississippi look good. Yeah, about like fifty five to five. How we'll get We'll get to fifty six to five here. How was your trip to the Grand ol Opry Wednesday night? Yeah? I don't think that happened. Okay. I just walked down

Broadway on Thursday, like late morning, early afternoon. Place was packed and packed with cowboy fans too, by the way, that's not surprising. And and you know what, it gave me a new uh meeting to when people are on those singing shows and they ask them, what where have you appeared, and they say, well in Nashville. I sing in Nashville. So I'm thinking they're like concerts all over them. Yeah. No, they're just in these clubs and they're singing and the

windows are open. When you walk down the street and you hear everybody's singing, I'm going, that's what these people were talking about on American I. Yeah, I I I in Nashville. Yeah, all right, I can see that. Okay. Um, yes, you want to get to our picks to click and how successful. We were or were not want this one down? What you got going on? I don't have anything going on because you totally missed it. I did I met? You know I didn't totally miss the score. Yeah, yeah,

you totally missed the score. You know, if you take away if you turned two two interceptions and a fumble into touchdowns, then you're getting close to fifty six from twenty seven. But if those turned into touchdowns, there's forty eight. You might have got to forty. Okay, my, if you missed it my because of the gas my gas tank I filled up earlier this week and my guests price it was fifty six dollars and five cents. So my predicted score on the game was fifty six to five.

See I rather you know, he just picks the Cowboys to win win by one. Hey, I was the closest guys, No, I was, No, I got I got thirty one thirteen, twenty seven, thirteen fourteen point spreads talking about thirty one, thirty sixteen, thirty one sixteen, and I had a fifteen point spread and they won by fourteen. You missed both scores. I got the spread right. Ever since got the thirteen

what is he talking about nobody has ever looked at that. Yeah, now I can't pick my tight ends because of course the tight end was the main one that just coughed up. The tight end scored two touchdowns in the game, right there. All right, I'll take that. I'll take that on Dallas Cowboys. I can. We have a thing called pod picks, obviously is a rest pe game. One person pick. They were correct. Score actually brought us did exactly twenty seven thirteen. That's correct.

They don't put mine on there, dude, they do, Oh they do. If I would have known that, I am the closest I had no idea. If you could go Bill Jones' score fifty six to five, that's right. Yeah, that's pretty bad. That looks that makes you look like an amateur. Really, do truth hurts? Or he worse than that? I'm start uh having William put Bill's gas bill, that's right. Just instead of fifty six to five, put fifty six dollars five six? All right, So who wins? I know

who is your pick? To click? Clark Deman Clark, Nope me. He had a tackle for loss on the last play the game. That's got anchow. I got two touchdowns. I got touchdown. No, that wasn't his guy. I know he was confused on who it was. Guy. He wind up with that guy. That's the last guy, the last guy that comes to make the tackle. Oh he got beat. Yeah, there's no way they got little linebacker covering the wide receiver. Diggs got off of his guy and went to somebody

else to help out. And then he guess wrong wrong. Again. He's been lately. He's been guessing like Dax been gas. Now, I could have for given him if he had got that pick six nice claned off his hands. That's that's that's an instinctive read right there, because you know that they're not going to be going towards the sidelines. You know they're gonna try and throw it. Yeah he saw that was good stuff. It was coming. Yeah. Um, but again, you know, the injuries still kind of effect um this

defense when you don't have Vanderish in there. I mean, at one point they were trying to give bar and Clark a break. They had Luke Gifford and Dabill Cox out there. I saw that Jabil Cox played fourteen STAPs. That's the most he's had in his career in a single game. I forgot he was active, tell you truth. And then the cornerback position they're still I mean, it looks like they're going with Nashan right, you know. I mean he had some moments out there, but then he

got the pick. He had forty seven snaps, his most in his career, so I thought he played well, especially for his inexperience. Yeah, you know what happened on the deep one when they showed the replay, Donovan Wilson was back and for some reason he bit up. I don't know what he was biting up on because he didn't come to cover anybody, and then he had no help deep and Hooker was way on the other side of the field. He couldn't get there in time to help

him out. That's about how they play, right, That's about how to Kyle Boys play. Yeah, the coaches put him in position, and if they they've been told if you see something you're sure about it jumping in. And as we get closer to playoff football, we can't do that, right. We have to cover our friends back, our brothers back, and we have to be sure and if Nation and

Right is going to be this guy. And my question to you guys, and maybe to everything is I've seen teams going to get on a roll and win with a bunch of turnovers on defense. Can can we sustain this? Is this sustainable? It's nineteen eighty one going into San Francisco. You know, eventually if we're that blessed, you know, and I remember going into same friend. We had always been known for giving up the plays, but getting our plays, getting the sacks come a lot like this team. But

and then we finally get the championship. The defense finally started playing well. But then now the offense is struggling because this is playoffs, right, you know what I'm saying, going against the hell of a defense, and now you end up you thought you right at the wrong but in the end you still give it up on a big play. When it's all said and done, you can't, like you said, it's dangerous going to the playoffs with status quote. You know, you have to somehow step up

and make some adjustments. The only thing that made me feel good about yesterday was everything was set up for us to lose. You know, last year, to me, we would have lost this game, and I don't care who would have been playing. I think we would have collapsed offensively, defensively, they would have picked on us in every injured position in the secondary that we had to deal with, and we didn't. We came out of it unfamiliar field. You're on grass, Yes, dude? Was it human out there? Were

you there? Was? It? Was it human? While it was raining, it was They looked. They looked up. They looked like Emma Smith back in Florida running for all those all those plays back in the day. His jersey was wet and torn, and you could just tell the humidity was in the air. It looked like they were exhausted. No out there. I wrote that in my column. I said they looked like an exhausted team that played three games in twelve days. Yes, and no excuse, but that's kind

of the way it looks. Well, No, they didn't. They didn't. They didn't need any excuses. That's what I like about the game. They came through all those problems that you could have leaned back on and they still won the game. And this is the second time they've went three games or twelve days, right, Yes, they they At first, I couldn't get it when coach McCarthy was trying to tell us that earlier in the week. It's a grind. It's and I couldn't get it, but I get it now.

I mean, even though conditions are different, players get a chance to rest, it's still just the nature of the beast of the physicalness of the game. And uh, and not practicing, yeah, I mean, short week travel. It was all set up. I mean they practiced, but it wasn't football. You know Allen iverson practice. Yeah, yeah, and and and and if you think about it, the defense, they gave up some big plays. Um, I had figured out at halftime. Um, Tennessee at halftime after my bill, I got it. I

got it. Just hang with me. This is part of the appeal of the show. Looking for whatever he's about to say that hits at seven. I want to be accurate. Right at halftime, Tennessee had one hundred and fifty two yards. They had one hundred two on three plays, so they were getting hit with big plays. And then in the third quarter, if you take away one possession, it's a

twenty seven six game and everybody's happy, right. They converted three third and sixes on that possession and a fourth down conversion, and the last third and six was for the touchdown that we talked about. So you make one play somewhere and there, it's a different score, and everybody's happy with twenty seven six, right, So so is this stretch And this is not an excuse because Tennessee played the same schedule this stretch of three games in well

days as opposed to Thanksgiving. Is it tougher as players to go Sunday and then play Saturday and then Thursday, or Saturday to Sunday and then Thursday, that the middle game being on Saturday. Does it make a difference. The thing that that gish is most coaches try to keep you on on scanting schedule, and so that's getting that's getting disrupted. You got a lot of injuries that have been that have occurred, so now you got to try

to fix those injuries in a short week. And yeah, it could be hectic, man, because even though the coaches said we're gonna try to run plays that relate to other plays, you still want to put a wrinkle in on a wrinkle there, and it could throw off the young guys. This and Mickey told me this other day. I didn't this team is young. This is a very young team and they've come through this man, and Josey

maccarthur's just done a super job. You know, I think of bringing his team through this man because this is the only coach I know in America has to defend winning coach. I got to walk up and say, Okay, it wasn't pretty. What did we do wrong? We got twelve wins. We got twelve wins, but oh what was me? Yeah? And so from a mindset of a player, right now, you just got through that stretch, which is a second time in a month's time that you've played three games

in twelve days. And now it's New Year's weekend, you get the long weekend, You got one game left and then the postseason, regardless of whether things fall your way and you win the division whatever. You know that, Okay, at least you're playing next Sunday or Saturday or Sunday in Washington and there's the playoffs. How does that help you? From a mental standpoint? Get ready? Now that okay, you you're through this December November December crunch time, and now

focus on the playoffs. Well, this is the end of the season, I mean, this is it. So the grind itself could have caught up with you. You know, you're pastor grind. Now you're past the ground and you got you You have a reprieve coming up as well, with your number of days that you have before you play the Commanders. That's what I like about it. They kind

of get to rest going into the playoffs. So you kind of look at it like, you know, timing is everything, you know with the thing now that you got to w on Thursday, it's like, all right, we got an advantage over everybody else now right now, I can't I can't tell you how good that win felt because everything was set up for you to lose. Everything was set up for you to start having Domino's fall as opposed to setting them up the Marcus Lawrence was pretty good

about the perception. M I was standing and when he said this, he said, once you all see a game like Minnesota, you instantly think that's how every game's supposed to be. He said. I wish, he said, but it's not. You have to be able to fight through adversity. I think it comes with the territ And then somebody said about, well it's a win, but cowboys get criticized. He goes, I think it comes with the territory of being a Dallas Cowboy. In all honesty, you all questioned every day thing,

but he was right. He was right. You know, he has a way of putting things. And he had a hell of a game. He had five tackles, um, he had a quarterbacks hit, forced fumble, and two passes defended at the line of scrimmage. So that was a Pro Bowl performance. That's my guy. Right. We talked about it last week. Yeah, well this week, this week you you you, this is where we were learning a lot about the Cowboys.

These next three days they're off. Right. We should be able to call every guy on his cell phone and said, hey, man, where you at? Just catching my up? Man, I'm laying, I'm at home, I'm sleeping. I'm over head to the training room, right, Because that is the only, uh solution. No, that is the only solution you have. If any guy I'm talking about paying significant snaps for the Dallas Cowboys, it's out doing anything, hanging out at the Cowboys care. Na, Na,

that was a different breed of guy. Was different. You gotta understand how let me go through that real quick. See, I took the protest, coach, I took the process as a coach. I don't care how many games we play. You're gonna be in your pads. I don't care how many games we played. I'm gonna be our drink. I'm saying, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be consistent. You know, if you're gonna be consistent, coach, I'm gonna be consistent. All right, we wrap up mix shots and just a moment we

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figured out the fumbled snap like what happened there? I was thinking, look like he pulled away to pull away to SA's the way it looked like because when I it seemed as if once he finally even did he even touch the ball, ried to touch it seemed like he was all with it. He was backing up. I didn't know if the ball was wet because it had rained. It really rained that first quarter. Pok. Well you guys, I don't know if you could see it on TV, but it was coming down. Um, yeah that was a

that was a weird one. Um. That was on DAK. I have a shot of it. Yeah, it looked pretty Yeah, I was why is he moving out so fast? Why that's just didn't make any sense, and once again still able to overcome those mistakes. So it's weird. Yeah, that's why I'm I don't know why I'm so happy about that game and you in that first half they had those big plays. I pointed out thirty nine, thirty three and thirty and the worst they did was give up

field goals. So looked like on that snap that Dak was pulling out and he was gonna he was pivoting and he was gonna roll left, and he was he knew he had to get there in a hurry even and I think I've ever seen him fumple a snap. Yeah, do you recall that might have been one of those that he was gonna go left and throw it the CD who was in motion on the run, and they ran one like that the other way too. By the did I tell y'all I don't miss the Miry Cooper anymore?

Did I say? No? You haven't said that, not missed the Mary Cooper in a long time, say about at least six weeks? Because the CD? Because the CD you miss O b J. I'm no, because of t y y Man. They increased his snaps from twelve to twenty two, and I would imagine that goes up another ten and he's where, Yes, he's where he needs to be when

Dak needs him. He's always going to run the right route slot on that slant for the first down, I mean Ale and the one that he caught and ran with it was a short pass and he got twenty yards right, And he almost had that deep one because he did the same thing. He kind of like kept his arms in in the last minute and he needed one more step. Uh, and he would have because you know what, when I when I recognized when he was in that cornerback was off ten yards right and the

safety was stopping over the top. It's like, no, not on us, right, And uh, he's fast, but it's kind of hard to make up ten yards right. But yeah, he what a find, right, I mean, the the what, the what? The thought process we're throwing the ball deep? Yeah, we actually threw consciously throwing the ball dep and look what happens when you throw the ball deep? Yeah, I mean, come on, what they are You might get the PI and we ended up getting nothing. Two of them they

got deep passes. PI was it two? Yeah? It was two right, it was two one deep. I know, I thought it's two of them were deep. But what it did is it just shows that, you know, most defensive backs are not ready for that, So don't let them off the hook by always building them out with short routes. We need to threaten them deeply. And that's what happened. Yeah, Gallup had had one of them, right, the guy mugged him.

It was really funny because when they showed the replay in the stadium, everybody started booing, I'm going, oh my gosh. I thought c d lost track of the ball on his deep yes, And I didn't think he made I thought he made an unnecessary move. Was their son? If he were the key? Just asking you were there, tell us maybe the rain drop? All right, let me ask you this. Five fifty one left of the game, after the nation right interception, Cowboys are up twenty seven to thirteen.

You want him to run all three plays? Zeke ran for nothing, which which was typical all night, and then incomplete the CD incomplete uh punt and four fifty five left? Who you ran fifty five seconds off the clock on that possession? Why why are you throwing it there? I'm just asking you are who we who maybe thought you were, maybe they thought it was it was too easy. We are who we thought you were. That's that's you are, who were you work. That's what I can say. Like

you said, it's just in his DNA. He can't help himself. You know, you have great receivers, you know, and you know you got t Y Hilton, and you know once a quarter you're gonna take a shot, once twice a game. Keller more gonna take a shot. And how much At that time, I think he was trying to put a drive together to take the time off the cloud. That was supposed to be his deliberate plays to take time off the cloud. But if you're not completing the past,

then of course it's counterproductive. And I don't think they were going to tempt there. On the previous drive, they went tempo, taking over nine forty five left, which was the field goal drive. They got right him up twenty seven thirteen, which, by the way, this guy's money. That was the forty five yards. I mean that was basically to seal the game, right, and he just right down the middle. I love the Scott he's amazing. We got the best, and I wonder if okay, it's the opponent

factoring into this. Okay, we can we can just go ahead and throw it here. And because this game's in hand, you don't they I don't want to go because they won. I don't want to be that guy. But you don't. You don't ever be counterproductive with your team as a coach, especially as a quarterback in your defensive leader. You don't do things that you know. Yeah, you just don't. And and we we do that a couple of games and

we've learned to accept it. Uh so yeah, yeah, so but this, this is what I think the Cowboys is. I mean, even if when we get into the playoffs, we can go to TOWNPA, we can go to wherever we're going to Carolina, and it's gonna be a time where you said, wow, you know you didn't have to

do that. Yeah, we didn't have to do that. But uh, it's because that I knew a play you was Brando, because the first thing I said, looking at the game, I said, wow, Nick Sable would have pulled Kiff into the size and looking at it, that's why you're going that way. You missed it right, you know what I'm saying. You can't stay here with that. Well, but that's they're trying. Who we are, but they're trying to close the game.

They averaged two point seven yards to carry. So if you ran the ball, okay, fine, you're giving it back. Because it's been in the last couple of months of the season there they have been running in the ball. I mean yes, I know, especially second half of games where they would have a twelve play touchdown drive and there's nine runs on that touchdown. Well, the next time they got but they weren't having the success running the

ball against Tennessee. Yeah, he was trying to get a drive, going to take time off, right, Yeah, and they just keep the ball. Yes, because the next drive when they came with like three minutes left, three and chamo, it was third and eight. I don't call, I don't call who. He passed it too. He did a smity. He did a smoke screen to see d which is basically a run, right, and it's a safe pass. Gonna stop, But that's not gonna stop the plot. Why would need to seal this win?

Hey man, you want you got your third straight hundred yard game here he got two yards against hundred. Temp Tempo works, but see, tempo works both ways. You walk out of the huddle, you look at the clock and you snap it with two or three seconds left. Temple works both ways. And that's all Bill is saying. Yeah, you know we could have got a minute and fifty five or two minutes because we have been walking out of the huddle. I mean, yeah, I knew we weren't

gonna run the ball. If you just knew it, you knew it. I mean I was glad. I was like, I was wondering why we didn't throw more shorter pass because they couldn't cover CD the you know, they couldn't cover t Y and I tight end. I was like, wow, why we ain't dinking and talking? Because the boy you saw zeke man, I'm gonna get out of this, he believe one time he looked. I saw that too. He was the one run he had though, and he didn't even get hit. He just said, I'm not getting hit.

You never seen tired, man. He looked tired. That was I just, well, it goes back to what we talked about, the exhaustion. I just looked like a tired team at times. And once again looked tired, but still came through to play. Probably a little mentally tired too. Yeah right, and still won the game. Yeah, and yes we're playing against back all that still won the game. Bill, you played football

in your days up to my sophomore year in high school? Yeah, did you ever get did you ever get ridicule for winning? I'm serious just thinking that for the one four weeks. Coach McCarthy been like he'd been dreading to come to the mic. I mean I didn't end. Yeah, so win was every I was telling the telling the story yesterday. I said when I was fourth grade, Okay, first year I played organized football Irvan y m c A. We won the championship. We had a quarterback named Neil Turner

who was All American. Okay, he won the championship game at Irving School Stadium forty two to seven. Next year I played for the Army. I was the starting quarterback. You know, you know how many touchdowns we scored that year? Zero? At the end, at the end of the season, they went and got me glasses, and I'm like, what, no wonder I could no wonder, I couldn't play quarterback. I couldn't see the receiver. It was like a whole new

world opened up to me. I got these glasses, Now, I would have been in all Hall of Fame quarterback all right. They were scared to play me, so I never got exhausted. I would be scared for you to play. My mom was too. Although there was one game we were sophomore year, were undefeated and we had to play thorn Ridge, which was a really good football school, and they had this freshman named Quinn Buckner. We all knew about Quinn buck right, and he didn't play the first

time we met. We played him twice that year. We beat him the first time. The second time. All we could talk about, Oh, this Quinn Buckner's playing in this game. They would put him all over the place. He played safety, linebacker, running back. Yes he was, and uh they were, I was. I was watching this stuff right. And we were punting, No, they were they we were punting to them. He catches the punt, he's coming up field. No one's tackling him. When we got one guy back. The guy back was

my size, right. He didn't even put a move when the guy he just ran over in the flat. And at that point I'm looking him going yeah, I really don't want to get this. Wow. And he was only a freshman. I was gonna say, I was looking at the different I just looked him up. What a second Quinn Buttoner can't be seventy yes, sixty eight years old. He was a freshman around me and my cousin who played against herschel Walker. To a minute, I tackle hershew Walk.

I hit him with everything I had. Y'all slowing down, ye have for a hundred and all? Right? That does it for a Friday edition of Mixed Shots. You got, y'all got big. New Year's Eve plays right un and by the way, oh we got football tomorrow. We could do playoff. I'm watching football. Can't see you the church church? Yeah, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Church Chicken. Okay, okay, on the record, on the record, who's playing? Who's winning

the college bowl games tomorrow? Always Michigan or DCU, Michigan in Ohio State Georgia. As much as I like Michigan running back, I'm going with TCU. I want TCU the wine. I want them to I want you bad. Yeah you haven't. I think they're gonna surprise people. Okay, So we're in agreement, TCUCU fans can get to the game and they're gonna play who in the National Championship Game? Oh, Georgie, come

on with j George. Kill them, kill them George Georgia. Okay, TCU Georgia or in agreement, it's TCU Georgia in the National Championship Game. All right, that doesn't the gas, thanks SAX. Yeah, all right, Happy New Year. Everybody see them Monday. Cowboys are Tuesday. Tuesday, Tuesday, It's Tuesday. Yeah. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.