Mick Shots: Week 2 Review

Mortgage studios there at the Star in Frisco. That's where Mickey Spagnola has just arrived for the show and Everson Walls in his customary spot with the picture of Everson behind him in his home office. I made my home office as well. As we put the wraps on Atlanta and look forward to Seattle as Seahawk Week is about to officially begin on Wednesday, and Mickey, you'll arrived just in time for your own show. I'm proud of you.

Had a lot of stuff to do, you know, I got one more than one master, and we needed to do a couple of TV things, and I cut it a little close, but I guess I can get to my lunch that's sitting over there. A little later, much later, forty five minutes, I got a bank. It we do have breaks, though you certainly didn't. Don't try doing the breaks might be something in your teeth when we come back you don't want to do. Spare us all, please, Mickey. All right, there was so much to get to yesterday

forty five minutes couldn't contain us. And so there's carry over today. And first off, Mickey, got any breaking news out there at the Star in Frisco, anything on your

mind to get kick things off? Well, um, you know, it sounded like it was encouraging what Jerry Jones had to say this morning about Tyrn Smith, the potential availability for the game on Sunday, that certainly would help the cause instead of having to sign to start two undrafted offensive tackles the way they did this past Sunday and somehow some way got away with it to score forty points with Terrence Steele and Brandon Knight starting at at at the tackle positions. So I think from a I

don't know if that's news or not. And I guess the other news we found out last night that what Greg Zurline did for the on side kick is called a watermelon kick, A great name. I love that. I love that. John Fossile John fossils playing the name because you lay the ball down on the ground like a watermelon. Uh, and if you if you kind of push a watermelon, it usually spins side the side like that. So they named it the watermelon kick. I like that. I love

I love watermelon. That is good that elamed they talk about, Uh, the fact that the entire kickoff team had zero idea that they could pick up the ball if they could pick up that watermelon before it went ten yards? Did they even address that fact? Did you say Atlanta or the Cowboys? No? Did Atlanta talk about they did? And did anyone Atlanta? Dan Quinn said that they they absolutely knew that they could do that. That was not a

coaching error. I think everybody probably got cold that got cold feet that they didn't want to be the one to jump on the ball and not recover it. But I'm thinking you could have just had three guys jump on it and recover the ball before it got to ten yards. Well, the way they played, just the way that everything came down, especially in that last drive. When you look at it, it was just chaos all the

way around, even from the the official standpoint. You remember the gallop played of course we did you know where what they say, one butt cheek equals two feet right? At first, at first it was called incomplete. The referee was emphatic, he was waving it off out of bounds.

And then of course the penalty came, and after that they changed the call on the reception on the incomplete to a completed call, which off a little bit of confusion but also gave the Cowboys options in regards to how they wanted to treat the penalty versus the reception. So I'm trying to figure out who came over and talked the referee out of uh calling that an incomplete to a completed pass. Did you did you do any

research on that spact? Well, they huddled up, so um, I guess they got together, but it got reviewed, right, didn't he challenge it? Right? Right? But initially you would not they initially we would have had to challenge correct because they had called it out. Initially, it called it incomplete. And say to me, I thought that was a little bit of unnecessary confusion in a very frantic two minutes. But Mickey, you were at the game, right, yes, yeah, so you you saw the officials huddle up for those

of us watching on television. I don't think they showed the officials huddling up prior to the referee making the call and the announcement of the call. But yeah, the back judge obviously he ruled it incomplete, and I just assumed that they must be huddling up for them to

change it. In the side judge or whoever felt like he had a better view of it, and after they huddle, and then that put the onus on Atlanta to challenge the call, and so the Falcons then challenged it, and on review you couldn't I mean, it didn't matter either way. If if they would have ruled it incomplete, I believe the review would not have changed the call because it

was too close to call. There wasn't enough evidence there, and so as it was, since the call on the field was that it was a good catch, there wasn't enough evidence on the video on the review, but it was. It was a good mood by Atlanta to challenge it because you don't know for sure what kind of what you're going to get on the replay. But that was

a huge play of the game. But the Cowboys any huge call, as it turns out, for them to get together and in the Cowboy fans opinion, get the call right right, Yeah, absolutely, because if you think about it, they started the play started at the forty three and it ended up at the five, so that that that's a huge, uh play in the game. Uh. And then the Cowboys Uh did have the choice though, uh because there was a holding call, defensive holding call, which would

have only been five yards in the first down. So uh, yeah, I would have taken to what thirty seven thirty eight yard completion. But they did have a conflict. There was four of them all together before they made the decision to say, yeah it was complete. Well, and you know, it made it, It made it. Uh. What made it even more frantic was they had just called called the

penalty on cdee Lamb for the crackback blocks exactly. It got everybody was kind of flipping out, you know, in the stadium as well as in our respective homes because of course, things were extremely intense. We were looking at having to do two scores at that time, and uh it's almost as if, you know, the referees were trying to take the game away from us. So you had two I still call them controversial calls right there. Uh,

doing an extremely important part of the ball game. Yeah, because you think about it, the completion the Noah Brown was down to the fifteen yard line. Uh. And and then uh not only did you get penalty, you know, you lost that completion, but then you got you got the penalty on them in force two and it backed them up all the way to the forty three. Uh So yeah, that was a significant a little sequence there on calls. But you know what I've noticed watching all

these games over the h first two weeks. The officials need preseason, by the way. Oh man, there's a lot of problems. There's been a lot of problems. Man, it has been horrible. Let's let's call it. They have had some of the most well not just what they what they have called, though there are the calls that they did not make that almost makes as big a difference. Uh. This has been uh, extremely unusual for the referees to where I'm surprised that that story has not been written

more often spags that title. I have not seen that title in any stories in any publication. But the referees at this point, I would be giving them maybe a C plus. In all of the games that I've seen and the mistakes that have been made and the calls have been this a c plus at best. And you know, they have a hard enough time calling interference one way or the other. Now it's even worse because some of

the calls they're making are so tickie tack. It's almost like, Okay, let's hurry up, let's call that right, instead of kind of seeing the thing through. And now that you can't challenge the interference anymore, boy, it makes it doubly hard to take some of these calls. So, yeah, they needed preseason.

And here's the other thing. And you guys correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I saw where some of the officials opted out, like the guys that normally would be doing these jobs decided that they didn't want to do it this year, in this pandemic season. And so now you've got a lot of new guys, and there seems to be a lot of new head referees out there that the names don't seem to be recognizable

that we're used to seeing as well. The other the other thing that's happened is even over the last couple of years, there's been some veteran officials who ever retired as well, unrelated to COVID this year, and so there's some new new blood out there. And let me ask you something, Bill, and I really spags as well. Do the referee still go around to each training camp site and talk about the new rules coming into play and

what they're going to emphasize with each team. I remember that was a very unusual meeting between the teams and the reps, especially if you're like the Saints who were really cheated out of that Rams game a couple of

years ago. You know, when you see the referees in training camp, you know, the guys involved, the coaches, the quarterbacks, the receivers, dbs, whatever, they're going to have their notes ready for those group of referees and they're going to take them to ask in regards to the calls that they made last year at their team and how they're going to change or you know, adjust for the following season.

That's a yearly thing comes up every training camp. I was wondering if they did that this year with the referees visiting every campsite. Everson, Yes, they do. They do do that every year, and I guarantee you the year after the Saints and that controversial call that sent the Rams to the Super Bowl. I guarantee you that the crew that worked that game did not go to the Saints training camp to advise them on the rules the following year. I guarantee you that that would have been

a very strategic move by the UNFL. That crew is not going the next training camp to talk to these Saints players about the rules. And I assumed, Mickey that this year they did that via a virtual clinic. They did they did not do it in person. Absolutely that whatever the officials needed to tell the players in a team meeting, they did that virtually. That they did not travel.

I'm sure the referees were extremely happy. I'm sure the referee were extremely happy that they did not meet with the players face to face this particular season, because that gives them a break. You have players waiting on these referees, especially dbs like myself, always upset about PI calls that

affected maybe a person's career, definitely the game itself. So I'm sure that they were all feeling pretty safe while they were doing their zoom calls and WebEx calls and not having to meet up with face to face with coaches and upset players who've been really they've been holding on to those grievances for about six months, so some of that that uh, frustration pent up frustration for about six months before they could talk to these referees, and

I know the refs like not this year, thank goodness. Yeah, no. One thing. They also instituted to cut down on the travel for the officials that they tried to get them to do games in their area, their region where they live. As a matter of fact, the field judge for this game was former Cowboys defensive back Nate Jones. He was able to he was he was one of the officials. Yeah, Nate,

Nate went to Uh that's cool. He started off, you know, in the lower ranks of college and kind of moved up and did the training thing one preseason with the NFL doing preseason games. He was kind of in that training program and I believe it was last year was his first year to actually officiate games, and he was the field judge in this game here on Sunday. Nice you know, Mickey, you talked about Tyrn Smith and the

encouraging in news. It appears as this week begins that maybe he'll be able to play against Seattle, but you know, Mike McCarthy was asked about the two tackles, Brandon Knight at left tackle and Terrence Steele at right tackle at this prescotference yesterday, and he said, they did good. You know, just evidence that the Cowboys throw had forty eight pass plays in that game against Atlanta and Dak Prescott only

got sacked one time. Who would have thought that would be the case, And of course that was very early in the game that one sack occurred. Who would think that that would be the case, that this team would put up forty points and the quarterback we get sacked only one time with two tackles who are starting, making for both of them their second career starts, and both of them were college pre agents, one in their second year in the leg and the other a rookie. How

about that? I think that was the most unbelievable part of this game, maybe next to the comeback, but the

comeback couldn't have had taken place without those guys doing something. Now, they weren't perfect, and you know, they certainly were attacking those guys, and really the one sack that did occur was that I believe it was the series that when Dak fumbled the ball right he got hit, yes, And they blitzed off off of Terrence Steele's side and he picked up one guy and Zeke tried to get the other, and I don't think either of were successful in blocking,

and that's when they came through and caused the fumble. So they really never hit Dak and I think I don't remember if they put him on the ground or the ball came out when he hit him. But after that, you know, it kind of got better. So maybe they're onto something with these two guys. The more they play, maybe they improve. And by the way, they were getting help because there was a tight end over on Darren

Steel's side tight quite often. Yeah, and Blake Bill got thirty three snaps in the game, the second tight end for the Cowboys. The other thing, in fairness to Atlanta Tach McKinley, who, along with Dante Fowler, their top two edge rushers. Tach McKinley only played fifteen snaps in the game and so he got hurt early and so that helped the cause as well. And when you pass forward to Seattle this week, they've lost Bruce Irvan for the season. Now.

He was one of the multitude of players in the league. Guitur acls over the weekend and so he's out for the year. They also lost one of their defensive backs as well for the season, and so the Seattle is hurting as well, just like the Cowboys out. And I know you got to go to break a real quick bill. So when we come back, I got a bone to pick with some folks. Held on, I have some bragging to do myself. Uh the if I'm not mistaken, the last words by Mickey Spagnola was good luck getting thirty

eight points without Tyran Smith at the tackle position. I picked thirty eight thirty one. Okay, if you can talk about Greg the leg, I can talk about my guy, all right. My guy still came in, did a great job. And I don't did we scored thirty eight points. We scored forty points. So take that smash with your spash with your little smart ass mouth. Hey, but you know what I also I also proticted a one point victory too, by the way, with Greg Zoro ain't hitting the winning kick. Hey,

you got your love, I'm trying to get mine. Man. You got your love yesterday and no for again, I broke out the sooner schooner and I Bill, thank you very What a brilliant show. What a brilliant cast that we have here, will so intelligent? All right, we continue with more mix shots in the moment. Pay they're cowboys fans with Type Cleaners at Home pickup and Delivery, Cleaning

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see the locker rooms, and so much more. In fact, I've got some friends, Mickey and Everson that they this weekend they always have a youth football day at the stadium, and I think they said that this weekend is youth Football Day where a lot of the youth leagues around the area are at the stadium playing games and stuff. High school football games off there this week In fact,

John Kittness, you know he's the head coach. John Kittna is the head coach at Burlison High School and they're playing a game at at and T Stadium to kick off the weekend on Thursday night against their arch rivals from Burlison Centennial Kittna's son Jalen is one of the top recruits in the country. He plays quarterback for him. So it's just a great feeling, Doctor Fauci, Mickey that we are getting back in Yeah, not only the Cowboys playing there, but we got other people playing games there.

They probably have to double sterilize the field afterwards, right, so it's ready for the next home games. That's probably true. All right, Wow, I mentioned earlier over the weekend, and well let's let's go back to Monday night, Mickey, you probably were torn between two games. The Stars game which they lost to Tampa Bay in the Stanley Cup Final, is even at one apiece. But how about the Raiders

last night? They fall behind the Saints, who play very well in the first quarter, and then Drew Brees looks nothing like Drew Brees the next three quarters of the game, and John Gruon's Raiders debut Allegian Stadium in Las Vegas with a win, and they made it known early on there would be no fans in the stands all season in Vegas. But the Raiders at two and oh and they played the Patriots this week, So in this day and age, unlike when we probably all grew up, you

can have two TVs going at the same time. Okay, so I had guarantee you had both games going at the same time. And I did keep a good eye on that game, and certainly after the hockey game was over to watch the ending of the football game, and boy, I was really impressed with what the Raiders did. You know the Saints, I think they thought they can do this without Michael Thomas. Well they couldn't. And their offense

did struggle. Uh you know, even though they whether they end up with twenty four points, uh, they that that there was a late touchdown there, they were stuck on seventeen for the majority of that game. So yeah, I would that stadium would have looked pretty cool with people in it. But you know what, the thing that struck me as all the seats in the place, and I don't think they were covered up. The seats were all black, So they were trying to recreate their image from Oakland.

How strange was it seton Jason Wentton in a Raiders uniform. Wow, Now that was with that was strange. You know, he even felt like he was uncomfortable in his own scan out there. I didn't he just looked, you know, he looked even smaller to me. I don't know, maybe it was the black jerseys, but that was that just didn't seem like the women that I recall. I mean, good luck to him. I think he's landed in a great spot.

He failed up hill at this point, which is a great thing for any player who's at the end of his career. But when you start talking about Drew Brees and really any player that's up there in age, you're really not gonna get going. You're not gonna really get into your rhythm. I would say at least until the

sixth game, especially coming from a quarterback position. I know when I was as I got older, my body and my timing really couldn't get down the way I wanted it between my my brain and my feet until like halfway during the season. As I got older, that's when I felt like I hit my stride. So you have to be patient with some of your older players. I

was talking about at age thirty two. These guys are pushing forty two between Brady and Breese and guys of that age, So I think if they're able to last to the five, fifth or sixth game of the season, I think you'll start to see some improvements in Breeze his passing game, but at this point he looks old, and I'm sure he's feeling really old. You know, you look around the league, and there were so many injuries this week, and I think the count was seven acls

torn on Sunday. Two defensive lineman for the Niners, Solomon Thomas and Nick Bosa, se Quon Barkley. And as far as the Cowboys are concerns, and of course the Cowboys will be playing the Niners this year, I mentioned the Seahawks injuries, se Quon Barkley out for the year ACL as well, and the Giants come here in a few weeks. Wow, You'll wonder and whether an ACL qualifies as a type injury that not having the off season and training camp.

They're probably debatable in the medical community that has any effect at all on it. But you wonder about these injuries and the rash of them across the league, even more so than it seems like in normal years, that how much of it can be attributed to not having an offseason, in a training camp, in preseason games. You know, I think I think it attributed to not having played much football. It's not just strength and conditioning, it's getting

your body in situations that are not premeditated. And so you can do all these practices, but you know what your next step is, and you're not tackling and you're

not trying to run away from tackles in practices. But when you don't have a scrimmage, you don't have any preseason games, and I know these guys don't play a lot of snaps in preseason, but you're still playing football, and there was no contact probably in the majority, if not all these training camp practices, and now all of a sudden, you're doing things that your body's not used

to doing. I think it has a lot to do with it, and I think that's one of the reasons why we've even seen more because you're seeing less practice, less football type practice. And I'm not just talking this year. I'm talking the past couple of years with the new rules with the CBA, and then all of a sudden you're saying, Okay, go out and play this game. It

ain't that easy. Well, I think in this particular situation you talk about the CBA, I mean it makes a difference, and you will see some type of an effect without a COVID offseason. But you know, that's why they call it practice, because you need to simulate. And the guys that body hasn't been simulating any type of a pass rush move. When you're talking about a guy like a Bosa, When you're talking about running backs, there's one thing to

do running back drills. But when you're getting in a pile of players and you're trying to go against this defense, your timing And I talked about this a couple of weeks ago on this show. Your timing is something that you live with. That's your bread and butter. That's how you're able to put yourself above the rest because the timing that you have might be better than the timing

of others. Especially you're talking about unique athletes, guys like Abosa, Uh you know who who is accustomed to making his particular signature moves from the outside. Well, he hadn't been doing those signature moves in the offseason at all. He

hadn't been able to simulate it at all. Next thing, you know, not only does he go down the defensive end on the other side, also is gone for the season with the forty nine ers, So there's No, there's no coincidence that Barkley and all of these great players have all of a sudden gone down during the early part of the season. That's why you need preseason. That's why you need a proper training camp. And do we

say that. I'm sure the powers that be in the NFL they knew that this was going to happen, but they had to sacrifice these particular players, whoever they would have been, just so happens, these particular guys, they had to sacrifice them for the sake of getting the season started. No matter how unusual, no matter how ill prepared, they still had to get this season started. And they knew that they were going to have some players, major players

that were gonna be sacrifice, And here we are. You know, Mickey, the reason that they changed the ir rules, the injured list rules this year is because of COVID. And what do you think of the I really like the fact that they've got the three week injured reserve this year and the ability for players to come back and an unlimited number of players to come back this case. It'll be interesting what they do going forward when we get

back to normal. Knock on wood next year. But what do you think of the injured the way they're anlin injured reserved this year? Yeah, I think it's a really good thing. And now the litmus test is going to be can you trust these teams to put guys on IR? Do who are really hurt at not like back in ever since day and stash guys on IR for four weeks because you didn't want to cut them and you

made up an injury. And it got to the point there in the late eighties where they had to send independent doctors to your practice to make sure the guy you put on IR really had an injury, and to make sure that guy wasn't really practicing, but he wasn't on your fifty three man roster. So that'll determine if this continues, because I think it's a good thing three weeks instead of what six to eight. But again, if teams start to take advantage of it like they did

back then, then it's gonna go. All right. You put him on IR, You're you're done for the lengthy period of time. Don't you miss those days of this honesty that was so much fun. I remember that Ever said, I don't remember who the quarterback was, but it was training camp in Thousand Oaks, and there was a quarterback they wanted to keep, but they didn't want to They

didn't want to put him on the main roster. And I specifically remember the story they told him, Okay, on this play, you're going to run a bootleg towards our sideline, towards our camera. And you almost get there, you grabbed your hamstring and start lifting off. So they ran the play and the guy forgot to grab his handstring and it's like, Okay, if he's not smart enough to do that, he can't take step, you know. I I think he grabbed the wrong hamstring. That may have been. Hey, I

have a question. I have one question before we take a break. What's going on with d Lawrence. He's got a What happened in the game. We never talked about it, did we we yesterday? No? We didn't. He ended up with a knee injury. I don't know. It was a sprain. Uh. And it happened early, either right at the end of the first quarter or some point in the second quarter,

and so that was the reason why, Uh. They he turned into like a designated pass rusher in the second half, and he only played like I think it was thirty thirty thirty four thirty seven percent of the snaps twenty eight snaps. He ended up playing, but that was the reason he wasn't getting benched like some people probably tried to figure out. Man, they have been roasting him. I know they have roasting him. He hurt his knee, and you know what, he got off to a really good start.

He had some early pressures. He I think he had a tackle behind the line a scrimmage and then he suffered the injury. So we'll see where that goes this week. Yeah, that'll be big to find out what's going on with Lawrence as the week goes on. He was credited unofficially with five tackles in his twenty eight snaps early in the game on Sunday. All right, we continue with more mix shots in just a moment. Hey, they're cowboys fans with Ty Cleaners at home pickup and delivery, cleaning your

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shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com. All right, last ten or eleven minutes here of mix shots for this Tuesday, and the show is called Mick Shots, And so now it is time for a mix shot. I'm ready to shoot here. Yeah. Absolutely. You know I kept hearing all day yesterday how the Cowboys stole to win. They didn't deserve to win the game. Uh. You know, you can't play football like that and think you're gonna win in the NFL. Well, help me here. Did Atlanta deserve to

win that game? They gave up five hundred and seventy yards on defense. They gave up forty points to a team that was playing without their starting two offensive tackles, without their starting tight end, without their starting linebacker that was very important to to that defense. They lose to Marcus Lawrence uh in the game and only played a little bit, and they allowed Deak Prescott to throw for four hundred and fifty yards. And you're telling me they

deserved to win the game. No, And they got three takeaways and foiled two fake punts and they still didn't score enough points to win the game. So tell me who deserved to win the game. I guess both of them can't lose. But again, the Cowboys scored forty points. So I don't want to hear that mess there. And what I love about the Fags, what I love about the Spags is the fact that the Cowboys also made so many mistakes. Of course, we know what happened in

the beginning of the game. I think it was four bubbles they lost three. How our defense held on I will never ever understand. And when you look at the not just the first quarter, but even the fourth quarter. I think we started the fourth quarter with Cooper dropping a beautiful pass and a beautiful route by him down the field. I guess about twenty the yards Coop felt he heard some footsteps and let's just be real, he dropped that ball. So that's when we're trying to make

the comeback. Then, of course we talk about the block on CD LAMB, we talk about having to overcome the incomplete the incomplete call. So the Cowboys had a lot of excuses to lose this ball game, and I'm like you, Spags, I'm looking at the other way. They did all they could to win on top of all of the mistakes that they made, And to me, that's the different Cowboy team. That's the difference in the Cowboy team last year and

this year. We would have done everything we could to lose this game last year, but what we did was we did everything we could to win it, and to me, amongst all of those mistakes, that was the final I guess outcome for me is being able to see how much they refused to lose this game, which is what they would have done last year. They would have lost

this game the last couple of years. Hey, what do you think was aside from the final second, so the onside kick and so forth, what do you think was the key sequence in the game, the key moment in the game that gave the Cowboys the real chance to win this game. I may be a little too vague with it, but I've got one I'm going to point out,

and then you anything pomp to mind. Yeah, I think it was one hand to catch that was here and that was huge, not just the time that we needed to set it again, inspiration that it gave the entire team. I thought that was something that made people say, Okay, we gotta we're still in this and we're not playing to lose. We are playing to win. No, no dinky little under passes. We went for it and we made

it and it kept our momentum going. So for me, for me, it would have been build the sequence in the fourth quarter that started with the Falcons having the ball at four fifty seven, after the Cowboys cut the margin to thirty nine thirty and didn't get the two point conversion, they were the Falcons. The Cowboys had called

timeout with four thirty nine left. It was second and twelve at the thirty three and this has been a production of Dellas Cowboys dot Com and the devas comes through to that point and I think it was like thirty five. They finally finally registered their first sack. Everson Griffin sacked Ryan on that second down play and they had to face a third and eighteen at the twenty seven, and the Cowboys got a stop. It was one of the only two stops they got after the first two

in the game. They had converted points on eight of ten possessions, but on that possession they stopped them got the ball back at their own twenty five and then that's when they drove down and scored the touchdown to get it to thirty nine seventeen. That sack had a long way show for them to win this game. Should they should they have tried to pass the ball? Should the Falcons have even tried to pass the ball? Doing that?

Series facts on second second and twelve. Yeah, and I guess they they figured they better, you know, go for it and try to put this game away, because they were They certainly were. Uh. They they ran the ball on first down and Woods came Xavier Woods came in and dropped Girly for a two yard loss, And so they ended up passing on the next two downs and the Cowboys got the ball back with two fifty seven

left after after the punt. So, yeah, you thought they made yeah, in the super exact mistake they made in the Super Bowl. Yes, they did. That's the same problem that they had and that's why Quinn may not have his job at the end of this year if they don't do better. What do you got billed for me? It was? It was the Julio Jones drop of the touchdown pass and the Russell Gage throw in midway of the third quarter and in the count which if he

catches that ball, Atlanta leads thirty six to seventeen. They get it back up to a nineteen point lead with seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and then the offshoot of that is the second play after the Cowboys get the ball. It was the unbelievable catch by Amari Cooper where he reaches out with one hand and h and for fifty eight yards to set up and the Cowboys turn that into a touchdown after Dak leaves the game for a couple of plays and comes in

and then game on. At that point, it was twenty nine, twenty four, and so I thought that sequence, the Julio Jones dropped, the Lari Cooper catch where the Cowboys all of a sudden are down there in scoring position, was a huge sequence in this game. It was so you didn't think Julio Jones hurt footsteps from Trayvon Diggs trying to catch up from behind. Julio Jones was worried about

that hamstring. Even though his hands worked fine, right, that hamstring was always on his mind and it effected totally the way he played. He showed a lot of courage, but he didn't have as much output as he wanted. I'll put it that way, okay. And they finally we got two minutes left here, or we don't have enough time really to get into it. But the two point conversion decision to go for it down nine and going for two, I think you gotta kick it there, and

I know the analytics may say Gopher two. Then I said, yeah, in my opinion, it's been always been a pet peeve of mine. You're making a one score game at that point. Yeah, And I said it was simple math. Yeah, he called it simple Mathspath. I don't know that math. I don't know that math. You know, I graduated too, so I never saw math come up like that to where you know we're gonna put ourselves in a deeper hole and have to score twice as opposed to go ahead and

securing that score. You know that one extra point and then go for eight, go for two if you get in the opportunity to score again. It's pretty simple. Yeah, that's simple math. I don't know what kind of math he's talking about. And to me, you always want to keep extending the game. Don't create a finality before it's

really over. And I think when you gamble like that early, you're saying, I'm gonna have to recover an on site kick to be able to win this game, right and and and if you look at what happened last year with the new rules on the on side kick, I think only ten percent of the on side kicks were recovered, where Previously it was closer to seventeen to twenty percent, So uh my, exactly, my analytics on those percentages aren't with you that if and I always look it at

it what happens if I fail? Because if I fail, then then here's the circumstances. You don't look at it as well, Yeah, I'm gonna get it. Well no, okay, fine, if you get it, But what happens if you fail? Have you ended the game and that nearly happened had they not recovered that on side kick? And I got, I got, we gotta go. But I got one more point on that is when when you don't make it and you're down nine, let's say the Falcons go down

and kick a field goal. Now they've got a twelve point laid on you, meaning you have to score two touchdowns. But if you were on the clock, but if you kick it and they go down and kick a field goal, now you're still in position to score a touchdown and a field goal in the two point conversion to tying force over time anyway, so you're gonna make sure that next possession doesn't get a sack in it. Right there? You go? All right, we continue with more mix shots tomorrow.

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