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got one thing to present right off the top. Why can't anybody play any defense anymore? My high school team gave up fifty seven points on Friday night, My college team gave up thirty seven, but it felt like seventy seven on Saturday night. And my NFL team, I think the Cleveland Browns, well, they could still be scoring if they wanted to be scoring. Here we are for another week of this. Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Mickey Spagnola inside the WBC Mortgage studios Where the sun came

up this morning, right, Mickey, I think it did. Yes, it didn't come up for the Cowboys. They all guarantee you that, especially a defense that gives up forty nine points. You know what, I've decided this is probably the most absurd season in the most absurd year I've lived. That and I think that kind of sums up what took place at at and T Stadium on Sunday. You have an offense that you know, scores as many points as the Cowboys did and nearly scored four games five hundred

and sixty six yards. Your quarterback throws for five hold two and you get beat. You get beat, and boy, that got problems on this defense. And I think that's probably an understatement. You know what I was hoping. Guys, Let's let's make sure that we don't fall into this thing of like the weather man. You know, we predict something and you get mad at us if you know, if it's raining or if things go bad. I want

to make sure the fans know we're not the weatherman. Okay, if we predict something it doesn't happen, don't blame us, all right. I don't want to get any letters saying that I'm it's with the reason that the Cowboys are losing. We are not the weatherman. We are just guys sitting up here trying to pull for the Dallas Cowboys, just like anybody else. So please don't let us fall into

that category. See Everson, here's the deal. We're right. They just didn't play well enough to make us right, that's all. The right, man, they didn't just didn't believe us, that's all. They didn't believe us. We believe in them. They don't believe in themselves. That's it's it's it's the old gambling adage when somebody loses a bet. It's like, no, I had the bet right. They just blew the game for me. Yeah, the outcome just came out wrong. Yeah that's all it. Yeah, absolutely, Well,

what did you guys? I just told you what I thought. What do you guys think? You know? Let me say this, guys. I you know I'm always the optimistic guy, even more optimistic than Bill sometimes when it comes to the Cowboys. Like I said, I never picked them to lose. I don't care. Even if I was on the if I was picking games for that one and fifteen team that I was a part of, I probably low. You know, I probably still picked the Cowboys for every game. I

just can't not pick them. My optimism just comes from being a Cowboy fans growing up. We all know about the comebacks that we've been a part of. I don't care if I just quarterback, and I don't care if Rombo coincid Carter. It doesn't matter. We always had hope of comebacks when everything seemed down. I was probably that nineteen eighty five team. We brought it up, I think a couple of weeks ago in regards to getting blown out twice in nineteen eighty five, forty four nothing by

the Chicago Bears at home. Then we went up to Cincinnati. They put a fifty spot on us. I think we had seventeen. They had fifty plus on us. Yet we still came back. What happens, Bags, tell me what happened in nineteen eighty five. I love to hear you spout poetic subas poetics. Somehow somewhere they won the NFC East and got into the playoffs after getting spanked that bad

in two games. Executive games. Maybe we can qualify it since the Bears were so good that here they did win the Super Bowl, right, so it's not like you you lost to the Cleveland Browns. Hey stop it. We're

trying to be positive. Positive here, come on, but no, I mean, that's the kind of thing that just keeps me always thinking that there's a light at the end of the tunnel tunnel, and that light is not a training So I Am going to always be that way, and somehow, you know me, as angry as we are about the game and as disappointed as we are, I

still see that light. Well, let me let me go here right from the start, because we talked about this on Thursday and Friday, and Everson had some idea of what they needed to do defensively, because we pointed out that Cleveland there was no surprise they were going to run the ball. Bill told you they used to fullback. I told you they used two tight ends. They were going to run the ball. And the Cowboys had not played a team yet that wanted to primarily run the football.

They played teams at three wide. They were in their nickel defense. That nickel defense wasn't going to work against Cleveland if they went two tight ends, or if they went a fullback and basically two wide receivers and a tailback and run the football and they could not make the necessary adjustment defensively to get the right personnel on the field. Now, they tried and you know, Everson gave you some ideas of moving the safety up into the box,

playing single safety high. They tried that sometimes. But what they tried to do because they didn't have a legitimate strong side linebacker, is they would stand up one of their defensive ends the four man front, and then they would stand up either Alden Smith or sometimes Dorence Armstrong

as the strong side linebacker. Well, that didn't work. Those guys are defensive linemen, they're not linebacker, and they got taken advantage of because number one, they couldn't hold down the fort in the middle of that defense, and two they weren't holding down the edge on the outside and allowed Cleveland to run for a Cowboys opponent franchise high three hundred and seven yards and that was with Chubb

having to leave the game early hurly. If he had stayed healthy, they might have run for four hundred yards. So to me, it was somewhat schematic. It was somewhat the talent they have, and it highlighted the fact that they sorely miss Layton Vanderish and Sean Lee being on the field at the same time. You know what else it shows me, guys, I don't care what your personnel is. We've seen it in all types of sports, how you lose someone or you might be short at a particular position.

That we still are able to gain plan because our coaches, you know, they were able to see something, They were able to find something through weeks and weeks of preparation, you know, days and days, hours and hours. Okay, this is what we can do. This is going to be the lesser of the evil. We may not be able to dominate these guys, we may not even be able to control them, but we'll come up with something that's

going to be the lesser of the evil. Tour we can hang on enough to give this team a chance to win. I have not. I didn't see any any adjustment. I didn't see any scheme that was gonna give us a chance to stop them. It's like your Bill's high school team. I mean, they're just resigned to the fact that they're going to give up points. That is not the way a professional team, especially a team with this

kind of talent, should be thinking. Early on, we were earlier before the season started, we were all over Will McClay and talking about the people that he brought in. I still believe that the people he brought in can make plays, because we've seen them make plays with other teams. So the fact that they're not making them with this one, either they're not buying into the game plan or someone's not relaying the message correctly, because right now no one

knows what they're doing. And once you get into not knowing what you're doing, frustration sets in and then you see that forgive about the term piss poor effort defensively, especially on that Beckham end a round play that was whether the Cowboys defensively had just succumbed to their own incompetence. They just gave up. They didn't even think about trying to stop anybody because they were worried about how frustrated

they were. That's when you lose that team concept. I saw that fully and it I'll culminated on that plate that end around to Beckham where there's so much to get to here, and you know, one of the things, just since you brought up how this team was put together in the offseason with Will McClay. It was put together with the idea that Layton, vander esh and Sean Lee would be there and with the idea that Gerald McCoy would be upfront in that defensive line as well.

That's no excuses. Injuries happen in this league. But that was a game yesterday when you're going up against a team who is intent on running the football. That Shawn Lee would have had twenty tackles in that game. And he gets the twenty tackles because he can read and react, he can get around the big lineman. He's done enough film study and he has enough athletic ability to where he can get around to the spot that he needs to be in to avoid the big offensive lineman to

make a tackle. You know, And I don't you know Joe Thomas. I thought, you know, in his career, Joe Thomas has been a backup player and he and I think he's shown signs of really playing well, you know in uh In when he's had the opportunity here this this season as a starter. But but he doesn't have the same kind of experience that a Sean Lee has,

even with a Layton Vanderish. You know, he is, he obviously has the athletic ability, but I haven't I haven't seen yet in his career him have those games where he can just snuff out a team like Sean Lee has in the past. Now, I know everyone will say he Shan Lee can't stay on the field, But the point is, if you go look at Hitch the way Sean Lee plays linebacker, that is the way you play

linebacker in this league. The other part of it is when and Mickey you talked about Vague basically went to an Oklahoma fifty two defense where they had five defense of lineman up on the line of scrimmage to try to stop the run. But those ends are either Alden Smith and DeMarcus Lawrence, who's not a three four outside linebacker. I mean they went to they had three defensive linemen. I mean you look at their snap counts and it shows with Tristan Hill, don Terry Poe and who am

I for getting in there? And Antoine Woods and then they would rotate Tyrone Crawford in. They basically was three four with that fourth they had, whether it be Everson Griffin, Alden Smith, DeMarcus Lawrence, Dorence Armstrong as those outside guys, and they couldn't well, those guys aren't three four outside linebackers. I mean DeMarcus Ware was Anthony Spencer was if you go back and look at how Anthony Spencer played as a three four outside linebacker, I mean, and he played

his rear end off every snap of his career. That's what you got to have to be able to stop the run in this And so from that standpoint, if you're going to try to play a three four, they don't have it's a they don't have the people to run a three four it. So that's where the scheme fit doesn't work with the personnel they have. And the other thing to accentuate that is if you're gonna play that way, then you gotta have a linebacker to be able to cover the tight ends. They're tight ends. Caught

nine passes for seventy one yards and a touchdown. They were uncovered the almost the entire game. And Bill, you're right. They tried a four man rine with a guy standing up to be the strong side linebacker. They tried three four with Crawford Woods and don Terry Poe in the middle. None of that work. They don't have the personnel, they don't have the body types to play that defense, and

they need to quit forcing it. As far as I'm concerned. Now, they may think differently, and who knows, they may come up against another team where that's gonna work. But Bill Callahan, the former Cowboys offensive line coached offensive coordinator, had their number in the running game, and as we know, he's missed the running guru, and he gave him a lesson. When you talk about the production of the Browns tight ends,

you know when we did I picked a click. Of course, I picked Sheltz for one of my for my guy, and it was sued it did. I assumed that with us running the ball and with them concentrating on the run so much, and eventually that middle is gonna open up because those linebacks are gonna be sucked in on Zeke, Sheltz could get behind them in the zone. That's what I was assuming was gonna happen for us. I did not know that that would be what was gonna happen

for them. That's the kind of thing that kind of you know it. You're looking for Beckham, you're looking for Landry, and you're looking for them to do their thing, which they did. But you didn't think of having a steady diet of the tight ends. And I guess we should be accustomed to that because really we haven't covered the tight end since last year. As far as our defensive scheme is concerned. You know, when you talk about this defense now, you look at the concerns that we all

had in Mike Nolan. I didn't know much about Mike Nolan, but as we looked back through it, what I saw was aggression. I saw aggression in all of the calls that he made. And I always assumed that Mike Nolan was not effective wherever he went because he just didn't have the talent. So what I'm thinking with Will McClay coming in signing this talent, and yes, like you said, Bill, a lot of them got hurt. We had a lot of changes that were unexpected. But at the same time,

we have a big bitch over there, okay. And we also, what I thought, had a coach that would be able to adapt, defensive coach that would be the adapt to the issues that we have. We had a rush defense problem. Before he got here. I assumed that he was going to remedy that. It doesn't seem like he has a clue on how to do it, especially with the injuries, unexpected injuries that his face throughout this off season. And once again Bill everyone's got the injuries, everyone's got these

unexpected things happened, especially with this pandemic. We have to be somehow able to come through with that with no excuses, if nothing else, just be able to give a bit of support to one of the best offenses in the NFL right now, Just give us just a smidgen of help, and you just be surprised at how we could turn three losses maybe into just one loss or just two losses. You know, the wet we gotta take a break here.

But you know the other part of that, as far as the this goes to back to Bill Kellahan, to the tight ends for Cleveland did a good job in the run game blocking two where even though Jalen Smith or Joe Thomas just all right. First off, the Cowboys did a poor job set in the edge a lot of times defensively. But then also those tight ends did a good job of blocking the Cowboy linebackers who couldn't get out to the outside. You can go back and look through the tape and see a lot of that

going on in this game. So anyway, I mean, as it was, and by the way, as you were talking, ever since I went back and looked up as this was happening. I was thinking, this reminds me of Cincinnati a nineteen eighty five and the final score in that game was fifty to twenty four, and I looked it up. It was thirty six to three early in the third quarter, and this, okay, the Cowboys gave up three hundred seven

yards rushing to Cleveland. Well in that game, the Cowboys against Cincinnati gave up five hundred eighty three total yards in that game, which is a mouthful in nineteen eighty five. And that was with two tall Randy and the guys. That was the that was the doomsday defense, and it was doomsday for us day. Yesterday was doomsday. Let's see

where it is. Where is okay? Rushing offense for Cincinnati that day, they had two hundred and eighty four yards rushing, so they were they were coming close to three oh seven. So that's when I had, That's when I had. Montoya was was in my face thirty yards down the field and I couldn't even see Brooks behind him. I'm trying to keep myself alive and see the running back behind him, and Brooks was just running all over the place. And yeah, that you know here Cowboys. Hey, and you know who

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see the locker rooms. And Mickey, you are not able to do that on game days, right, No, I'm not. I'm not allowed on those sidelines, even if I'm masked up, and you know the rest of us. I did a very good job in the press prox of keeping my mask on. The people in the stands not so much. And I suggested in my in my column today that instead of pull on their masks down, they should have pulled them up over their eyes so they didn't have to watch that. That's funny. I like that, you know,

what I want. You know. You know, at one point I made that comment. I was watching the game here at home with my wife, and we were talking about Mike McCarthy and and about that time, they showed a shot of McCarthy on the sideline and it looked like he had his mask up so high. I said, I said, I told my wife, he's about to pull that mask up over his face so he didn't have to watch this stuff. Well, it's so interesting now because of course this is such a seamless transition we want. We didn't

want a seamless transition, Okay. I didn't want Mike McCarthy to make me feel like Jason Garrett is still here. Okay, we wanted to feel different about this season. So of course all the people are talking about, hey, bring back Jason Jarrett. Got Jason hanging out of a train like a like a happy dog out of a car, laughing at us with our incompetence. If it wasn't for the fact that they're so incompetence in New York as well, I think he would be. But I was thinking, okay,

defensively is the issue? Uh, what about bringing back Chris Rashard? Anybody anybody, Ron Marinelli, everybody was ready to get rid of Yeah, anybody, anybody, anybody. I want to bring back Jeff Heath. Oh, yes, bring it back Heath. Please? Where's Heath right now? We heard I got a note even last week on periscope, but they were saying that about Jeff Heath. You know. But seriously, though, Jim Tumsila, the defensive line coach, is one of the most respected defensive

line coaches in the National Football League. H you know, it's it's just a question of of figuring out how they can how they can fix this thing in a hurry, and truthfully, with the Giants coming in here this week, that's going to help fix the problem. Okay, But long term, they've got to look at themselves and they have to figure out It's just like what Mike McCarthy said in one of his opening meetings with the media back in late January or February, when he's talked about getting players

that fit a scheme, He's not. He doesn't. He's not looking for players in regards to the draft or free agent acquisition. He's not looking for players to fit a particular scheme. We can have a scheme fit the players, and so that as we are now a quarter of the way through this season is what these coaches have to figure out is what works best for the players that you have on hand here, you know, I get. I think also the difference what we're dealing with, guys

is in the beginning of the season. Last year, we were like the widget of Oz. You know, we didn't know what was behind the curtain. We didn't realize how incompetitive we really were starting off three and old. We don't have that problem this time. We know exactly how bad we are. We know how bad we are early on. So the only saving grace for that is maybe we can make the adjustment before it's too late and we aren't fooling ourselves about how good we are or how

bad we are. You know, I get the feeling. Defensively, it just feels like they're playing catch. They're not attacking. They're playing catch. They're they're they're letting them come to them, and they're not creating any problems for the opposing offense. I mean, Baker Mayfield, he threw for one hundred and sixty five yards, right, he didn't have to throw for more. But I'm thinking if a quarterback throws for one sixty five. I should be able to win that game and not

give up forty nine points. The other thing that keeps coming up is, well, we get off to these slow starts. It's like slow starts. You were up fourteen to seven, it was fourteen to seven at the end of the first quarter. There wasn't a slow start. But then here comes the turnovers. You got an undrafted rookie starting at right tackle who struggled last week supposedly because he was sick, up against Miles Garrett, and you leave him out there

on an island. So what happens predictably, right, Garrett comes in and gets a stripped sack and they recover a fumble that's not and Dad continues to fall on his sword like that's my problem. No, they left that poor kid out there by himself, and until it happened twice. Then they made the move to Brandon Knight. Things somewhat settled down. But if you notice, they had Zeke going

over there and chipping a heck of a lot. They had a tight end Blake Bell over there a heck of a lot to make sure that and continue to happen. So you turn the ball over there, it ends up a touchdown the other way. Then the next time you get the ball, Zeke's running really well, right, and where this thing happens, and I don't know if he thought he was down, but he was down on the guy's helmet. He had but had not hit the ground. And the guy comes in over the top and knocks the ball out.

I don't know if he relaxed or what. But do you get a fumble there, a weird one, and what happens? They go and score and then the other turnover we talked about it already where Amari Cooper didn't run his route correctly. He's at the four yard line. They're gonna score, and they're gonna be down by what three again if they get another two point conversion, which, by the way I looked it up, they had three two point conversions

in that fourth quarter. The season record for converting two points two point conversions and club history is three for the season. They did it in one quarter, right, and so who knows they're gonna go back in school. They're down forty one to fourteen, and the next thing we know, in the fourth quarter, it's a three point game. It's a three point game. There were no more miracle water watermelon kicks, right, but still they had they had a

race that deficit. Think about that, a twenty seven point deficit, and they erased it and there were still three minutes and something to go. So that's got to be the frustrating thing that your offense. And right now they're sitting and I what unless something weird happens tonight. In those two games, they're turnover differentials minus seven minus seven after

four games. That's incredible, and some of them are weird turnovers, but it's doing them in offensively because without those turnovers, they might have six hundred total yards because no one can stop them. They just stopped themselves. I gotta say, guys that with that play action pass you were talking about spags, Yeah, you have to double clutch that. You have to double clutch that. That was the whole point.

You want to make a guy bite because the play action and we're gonna try and hit the man deep. If I'm not mistaken, that was going to be a deep pass down the sideline. Yeah, and I don't know if the guy was open or not. But when you have a play action, the quarterback must have protection. It's just no doubt about it. And you've got to hold a little bit longer because you're trying to let the play action play developed down the field, so you must

hold onto the ball a little bit longer. Otherwise you're just looking at the hot rounds and it's just you talked about Zeke's fumble. The weirdness with this that is our m going all the way back to last year. There's always something just you know, just a street turn. It's just stupid. They'll just see stupid things happening that

really always lead to our demise. We could have told a weird story in almost every big loss last year and now going up into this year, and my last thing I'm gonna say on this, I think this is really it sounds funny, but I think we should really start thinking about it. Whenever we're down, we are unstoppable. When we go with pace, we do right. We go with pace and no one can stop us. How about revisiting nineteen ninety and just turn into the Buffalo Bills.

Let's just go no huddle as our game plan period. Let's just line up, call plays at the line and make it work. Because when you keep your pedal down on any defense. I don't care how good or bad they are, They're gonna continue to feel that pressure over and over again, the way the Buffalo Bills were doing with Jim Kelly, Andre Reid, James Lofton, Thurman Thomas. To me, that seems to be our only alternative if we're gonna keep going down this defensive rabbit hole, because at this point,

our offense is the best we have. We've got some good special teams plays going as well, but I think offensively we just need to keep the pedal down the entire game. It's happened before. It's not anything that's unusual, it's it's we've seen it work. They made it all the way to the super Bowl, they just and they almost won. So as far as I'm concerned, our offense is that's our only saving grace for this team is to just go straight up offense and just look for

defense to pitch in whenever they think they can. And that's the way the Buffalo Bills did it, and every soon. Let me ask you this, does this Cowboys team have a Bruce Smith or Cornelius? I know you were going here, William, I knew you were going there. Sir, there's the answer is. The answer is no. But we are one in three guys, and we can't keep waiting like we did last year and be all optimistic and rosy color and go, hey, we're gonna pull out of it. Look at the way

offense is playing. Oh, we've just got a couple of weird plays. To take out those weird plays, people get no, No, I'm not waiting. I'm not waiting. We need to make a move. We need to make a move, and right now we need to go with our strength, our strength as offense and special teams, and let's just let the defense pitch in whenever they feel like it. Half games more I try. That's right. What were they saying in Philly last night last year? What were they saying in

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that's why why we call it mix shots. So the Cowboys have already given up in four games six hundred and ninety yards rushing, right they are on pace to give up two thousand and seven hundred and sixty yards rushing. The franchise record for opponents against the Cowboys is two thousand, six hundred and thirty six in the year of two thousand that they finished five and eleven. So their pace right now is like one hundred and forty some yards ahead.

Of the all time worst season the Cowboys have had against the run, and when it comes to points, they are on pace to give up five hundred and eighty four points five hundred and eighty four. The franchise record for most points given up in a season is four thirty six. And guess what year that happened? In twenty ten when they went six and ten and lost their head coach at the halfway point. Started that year one and seven. Yeah, the head coach didn't make it to

this matter of fact, no Phillips. In twenty ten it was Waite Phillips, but in two thousand it was two thousand or old one two thousand, Dave Campbell's first year. And get this, so in four games, four straight games, they've given up one hundred and forty six. In that twenty ten season they had forced the last four of those first games, they gave up one hundred and forty five. And the worst four game stretch I could find. Now it's my research, and I kind of went through page

by page and looked for big scores. I found out that the most points they'd give it up in any four game stretch at any point in the season was one hundred and fifty and it was game six through nine in nineteen sixty. I'm so glad there wasn't the eighties. I was just waiting to hear one of my years. I'm so glad because I've been through them. When you think about that's one thing you about being on the podcast, you know everything is out there. Your past just comes

back to haunt you. Remember the Walter Payton days when we had to go up against him, and even though we were kicking their butts, Walter Payton just had a field day on us. I remember Bob Brunik never could find him no matter where he went. And this is a flex defense that's designed to beat Jim Brown, so you could just imagine how good Walter Payton had to be. Also, I never forget how many yards Eric Dickerson averaged on us.

So we had to go up against Eric Dickerson not only in the playoffs, but also in the regular season. I believe he averaged over two hundred yards against the famed flex defense and doomsday defense. So yeah, been through it. I know exactly what they're going through. But one thing that we were always able to do make the adjustments. That's what we always did. We made the adjustments. So that's what I'm waiting on this coaching staff to do.

You know, sure this thing up, realize what the problem is, and don't be known for repeating the same mistake over and over again. That's one thing we were good at back in the eighties. Okay, one moment early in the game, Mike McCarthy was a genius. Cowboys faced fourth and two at the Cleveland twenty yard line and he decides to

go for it. Fourth and two from the twenty yard line in a tie game, seven to seven, with two just over two minutes to play in the first quarter, and he went for it, and he was a genius for it, because Dak Press got through a fastball that somehow got between two defenders and Amari Cooper in the end zone for a Touchdow, are you surprised that they went for it? And that's right, want to play by Dak.

I didn't notice that. I thought it was interesting that I think there was a time out right before there was a timeout. Cowboys called time out right before it, and McCarthy talked with Fossil on the sideline, and I was wondering at the time if whatever Hash mark they were on or whatever. Something was going on zer Line and one of the reasons, but obviously there was nothing going on with zer Line. He was fine kicking the

rest of the day. They just decided to go for it, and Dak came through it with a huge I mean that was I'd like to have the radar gun speed on that fastball. I think. I think even Cooper was surprised that he walked in the ends on with that one. The cameraman missed it. Everyone missed it except for Dak and Coop. That was good stuff. Yeah, the two dbs missed it too, right, It looked like it was going to get it stutiful. He had a couple of passes like that where it looked like they were going to

get intercepted. They got tipped. He had one to Shultz like that too. I thought it was a sure touchdown, and I think it might have been. Zendejo came flying through and broke up the paths. There was a little beyond Zendejoe's reach. Yeah, yeah, DA needs to be DA needs to be careful in games like this, and there will be others like this to where you know, sometimes

he was just on automattic pilot. And let's face it, these guys as much as he was threading the needle on a lot of these pass says there should have been at least two that could have been intercepted. Was one that ended the game? Yeah, well he could have. I would say there were three passes throughout the course of the game, especially in the second half, where I thought they should have intercepted them. And so he needs to be a little careful because I know the pressures

armed them to make every play. And no, not surprised that he went for it. Bill, because of the lack of defense that we're playing, We're gonna go for it a lot on fourth down. We might as well get accustomed to it. And I have to say I admire the guts to do it because I'm not gonna sit back if I'm McCarthy, I'm not gonna sit back like Jason Garrett did and just wait on guys to make

plays in a traditional manner. I'm gonna force the issue as a head coach, all right, I need to get the cornerbacks take on the touchdown, the Beckham touchdown in second of the days, got it go ahead, SPACs. I'm looking it up. I'm trying to remind myself, I want the cornerback. I want the cornerbacks. Uh, you know a point of view on this one. It's at your SPACs. Yeah, right, Daryl Worley defending Odell Beckham one on one on the touchdown that tied the game at fourteen. Mister cornerback. What

happened there? Well, you know, things just happened. Yeah, it was. It was a great pass by the way, you're talking about the pass from Landry correct, No, no, no, I'm talking about Mayfield play fate and uh it was in four yard passed on the goal line and Daryl Worley's playing off Beckham and it was just a slant middle of the end zone. Now, well, you know at that point, I don't think he even thought he had a chance because he played scared. You know, when you when you're

on the goal line, this feast of famine. You know, I wouldn't even mind the PI in that position. You must get your hands on these guys because everything is a timing route. We have that route as well in our package, and I think we're almost one when we do the play action and we draw the safety in and you put the slat behind them. That's easy work. I have to say, forget that one bill. That's nothing compared to the lack of effort by the entire secondary on the end a round when you take a look

at what happened on that play. To me, okay, schemes are one thing. Being beat is another. I got beat a lot when I played, but it was never because I gave up. And when you think of a running player or passing play, they were looking for Beckham to go out of bounds. The secondary was hoping Beckham went out of bounds on that end a round. And as far as I'm concerned, guys, that right there back in the day, and I know I'm sounding like an old man,

get off my lawn, that kind of crap. But when you give a piss poor effort like that, that would get you, that would get you replaced back in the eighties. And you know, uh, Jimmy Johnson did not play that crap. If you show a lack of effort like that, guys, they had just given up. They were hoping that he went out of bounds, as opposed to forcing him to go out of bounds. And it looked at all you saw was cowboy defenders going out of bounds, Beckham cutting

it back easily and doing what he did. That was just a shame to me. Let me let me point out also on that play as it started and when they I think they were in a cover three because Trayvon Diggs was off the line of scrimmage quite a bit. And when he when Odell got around Alden Smith, who was within what a yard of bringing them down for a fifteen yard loss. What happened was that yard, Well, he was the guy setting. He was the guy setting the edge on the left side, and he shot in.

So now there's no one there right the linebackers got caught up in the muck. And when he turned the corner, Trayvon Diggs took a step back and he tripped on the turf. No I thought he got blocked. He tripped on the turf, fell backwards on his butt, and then he got up and in his anxiety to get to the sideline, if you watch, he flew right by him. He went to make the tackle and he flew right past him, but he tripped. So you had your other guy on the left side, and he's not there because

he fell down, and no one blocked him. And it's like just one thing after another after another. And you know the other I thought, when you brought up the touchdown pass, it looked like that whirl he gave it up the one to the tight end that wasn't his guy,

that Donovan will Wilson. Worly was trying to get Donovan Wilson's attention, and he was close to the line to the clothes and he's to spread out, right, And then they had three guys come out, and Worly had his choice of one right, and he that was supposed to be the safety's guy. You know now Wilson, right, Wilson though Wilson, though I given credit he that was his first extended play in the NFL, and he ended up I think it was second on the team and tackles.

I think that we may see that more now that he'll be the guy at the other safety position. But I thought for the first time extended play, I thought he played pretty well. But again, it was almost like the week before. There's confusion on the line of scribbage and coverage inside the five yard line. All right, we're out of time on this edition of Mixed Shots. Again tomorrow at one already live for more mix shots. Make

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