Talkin' Cowboys: A Critical December

Great Everson Walls. Mickey Spagnola. It is December, and despite two straight losses in the past week, your Dallas Cowboys have a one game lead in the NFC East, four games to play exactly. Ever, since you're not gonna affect by having just fairly they blew that one. They didn't. They didn't just get beat. They lost. How about that with a late play by Taco Charlton as well, Mick to help those Dolphins out. Taco helped out a little bit, and the Dolphins helped themselves, like us, Yeah, I'm gonna

get my hand in there. He did more for us not being on the team than he did while he played for us. That's a many way to put it. It's amazing. Yeah, wake up call for him. So breaking news. It might be cold in Chicago. Ah, man, that's a surprise, is that the report you got just now? Yeah? Yeah, everybody was worried about winds blowing hard. It's gonna be the wind's gonna come off the lake that direction. Yeah,

that's that's that's a change. Although I think from what I saw, this is gonna be a balmy December evening. It's gonna low of thirty one. Really, yeah, break on that ten percent chance of per dipicipation ten to I think I saw eight to ten mile an hour win gonna be out there with short sleeves on, you know, because the fans they really get into that, you know, as much as they looked miserable when they come to games like that, the Patriots fans, you know, the cold

weather fans, they looked forward to the miserable weather. I remember Dennis Thurman telling me about when he was playing at usc and every time they went up to Washington and it would start to rain and the fans would just go crazy, and that was that was there. That was the thirteenth Man. You know, the weather itself, not the twelfth Man, was that was the fans and the thirteenth Man was was a mother nature and they loved it. They loved it. I tell you a neat scenario. It

was like a christening for the Bearers. In eighty five when they won the NFC title game there, I was covering the game there and as the game was getting ready to finish, and it was over, and the fans are cheering, and all of a sudden, they just start snowing and snowing hard, and the cheering that louder and louder and louder. It's like you just got christened, right, you are NFC champs for the first time. I would imagine the players are down there, were just in the

worst conditions ever. They hate, they hate, their fans love it. And then conversely, a year or two later, they were playing the forty nine ers at home in a NFC title game, and everybody's like, oh, the forty nine ers, they're coming in here from the West Coast. They are not going to be able to deal with this weather. This is Bears weather, right, they kick Bears clocks out of there. Weather had nothing to do with it, right.

They were just a better team at that point, so weather weather, and it's they can kind of mimic the weather a little bit today. That's why they're practicing outside on a Monday. That's a Thursday, right, that's right. Hey, I'm getting confused, and you confuse me with them. Jason always confuses you to just come to practice, and they tell me to come to practice. Okay, I don't. And it's a grass field too, by the ways. Wow, So that's why. That's another reason why they wanted to play

paint paint. Remember the pa is good. I remember my front yard was in green in December. I can tell you that, all right. So we have not convened since Wednesday of last week, since we made predictions for Cowboys bills. It feels like this game man not Well, who's the closest. I might have been the farthest. I think I had thirty one seventeen. Well, I told you would not be that high. I tried to tell you that, You're right.

They held him to fifteen points. Buffalo did. And so that's two losses to two more winning teams in a five day stretch. And now your Dallas Cowboys are six and six with four games to play, and I think we could talk about Buffalo, and I think we're kind of past that. I think we could probably get in to the Bears more tomorrow with or without BILLI siff he's here tomorrow. But mainly it's just kind of where this team is at right now. What's the state of mind.

Is the confidence still there with four games left that they can get this thing done. I think we find out the confidence level on Thursday, because I'm sure this was a blow to the heart that you went out there and at home and you know, and Buffalo comes in here and dominate you. And it was no if fans or butts and for as I was saying, there's no one play or one circumstance that turned that game around. Like so many of their other losses, they just got beat.

The other team was better. Man. I still got hot sauce in my mouth. Man, I got this hot sauce taste in my mouth and it was killing me. I mean, we have gone up against many defenses that have figured out a way to contain Cole Beasley. We could not contain Cole Beasley. Six catches, one ten, Yeah, yes, sir, I mean that's just that's a ball that's balling and a touchdown. That's balling. He comes in here. We know

he's coming in here. Did we just say we're going to you beat our man, and you know, if you can beat our man, then you can have it. You know, we had no scheme to take him out of the game, especially on third downs when we know he's key to the team and he's key to the situation. I mean, I get it. You want to have a little bit of pride and say maybe whoever Jordan Lewis or whoever would be guarding him, you would say, hey, you know, can you handle this? And then I'm gonna put that

on you. That's great too, That's great certain situations. That's great certain times when we have to bring all the guys and we have to bring the pressure. Okay, this is the challenge right now, Jordan Lewis to shut down Cole Beasley. But in the scheme of things, you should have something to be able to take him and eliminate him from the game. We've seen it happen by other

teams when he was with us. So I just don't understand how he can be not contained or at least because you got to know where he is, you got to know how hot he has been, at least in the last four games. He started off kind of slow and then all of a sudden, I think fourth games the season, he caught a touchdown and now he's been on fire and we all know that. So I just don't understand why something wasn't considered to take him out of the game. I mean, these weren't It was no

rocket science out there. We knew where he was going. Alan was looking at him sometimes he eyeballed him the entire play, and yet here we are seems like we are very surprised at his effectiveness. I don't understand that, say. I think it goes back to I think I said this last week about self evaluation. You should be able to self evaluate yourself. Do I have somebody that and cover him consistently one on one? The answer should have

been no, And because no one everybody, no one does. Yeah, and everybody gives me grief about Jordan Lewis this and Jordan Lewis that. But they left him man the man on Beasley and this wasn't practice out here, right, you know, he he couldn't cover him, and so you know, maybe they do, miss Anthony Brown, but he needed help. And I don't him out of the matter. I don't think it mattered who you put on him, because he hadn't

been stopped by anyone. I'm talking about veteran defensive backs, more senior than ours, and he's he's been hot, he's still been hot. He hasn't cooled off at all. So for you to assume that you've got that guy, I mean, I love Jordan Lewis. We talk about Jordan at times. Guy's a great kid. But that's just not fair. It's just not fair. Number One, you talk about in practice, you know, you do seven or seven one on one, and I remember the Bees would always say, oh, well

you will never have that much time. You know, the rush would have gotten to him by that time. Well, our rush didn't get there. And there were times when, you know, to George's disadvantage, Alan was running around back there for a while and Geordie's trying to keep up with Cole. And that's just not the position you want to be in. To me, you just take him, you take him out and make them go somewhere else. It's the whole Belichick plan that I've always talked about it.

I'm gonna make you do something different. Then show me what you got. So I'm gonna take Cole Beasley out. That's the first thing we're gonna do in these key situations. And we know it's every third down. It's not rocket science. We knew exactly what they were going to do it, and I guess we just said, hey, if you can hit this in the mouth, we'll take it. And you touched on another thing that I don't think was consistently good enough, and I know they ended up with four sacks.

The pressure on Alan just wasn't there on a consistent basis. He was way too comfortable in the pocket. Uh one, He looked like that back there a couple of times. Yeah, yeah, just just didn't even have to pat his feet. He just like flat footed, flat footed and just waiting. And then his ability to run. They knew that was going to happen, and they didn't take that away either. Put the spy. Did we have a spy? Well, you know a lot of times I didn't notice they went dime

and they brought but they brought in another safety. It wasn't another corner, was another safety, and I don't know if that affected what was going on. Well, if you bring another safety, then that's the guy you want to spot, right, Yeah, it was. I believe that Josh Jones got to play a little bit more than the normal in that game. So I don't recall I don't recall anybody just hanging back.

I do not recall anybody eyeball on the quarterback making sure he was contained, and because if they did, then he must have got distracted running off the place and throwing all over the plae Devin Singletary, they're young running back, made plays with his feet as a runner and a receiver.

We talked about that during the week. And then offensively, you mentioned the pressure on or not enough pressure on Josh Allen Dak gets sacked four times, gets hit seven times, and had two more turnovers, and the Cowboys lose the turnover battle once again. And that's been the story pretty much in all of their losses. I think they're minus four for the season now in turnover margin, and when you're not getting the takeaways on defense, it puts a lot of pressure on only minus four I think, So

that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good you're not getting because you're not getting anything, that's I am shocked. Yeah, I thought they'd be like eight ten say, And that was another another deal that came out of that game. And I don't know if other teams are going to copy it, but they decided after that first series or that first part of the game when the Cowboys were driving, it's like, Okay, Dak's not beating us, we're blitzing. We're

coming after a lot of blitzing. One that's been coming. That's been happening since the Jets and lately too, Yeah, since Greg Williams. That has been happening. And that's the smart way to go. That's the only way to go when you have a team as exciting as this. We have an offense with all that talent, and you see Dak sitting back there like we said, like some kind of statue you. I don't know if he's card board, if he's real. That's how still he is most of

the time. So you were like, we gotta change this nagative as well. Now when I don't let the receivers run free through the zones, we're gonna get up in their faces. You don't need an all pro defensive back to shut down an all pro wide receiving. All you just need to do is get on his nerves, just ruin his timing between he and the quarterback. And that's what they're doing. Everything right now is going to be uncomfortable. I'm not going to allow you to have these beautiful

play action passes and things of that nature. We're bringing it no matter what. And Dak's been hanging in there. He has, but he just might as well get ready to see it. Weekend coming. There was a bunch of double blitzers. They were coming, like on the screen paths that he tried to throw that get intercepted. They were coming from his right, two guys and they're coming untouched, and they had a could play great design, was a great screen to the left, Yes, and the defensive tackle

intercepts the ball. How many times have you seen you gotta throw that thing right in the dirt, Yes, you know, and just get get rid of it. Just don't even give him an opportunity. How many times did you see something in that game and you go, gosh, I don't know if I ever saw that before. But the guy with an interception right, the Cowboys try a field goal,

it gets partially deflected. At the end of the half, their guy tries to field goal it hits the upright and bounces in and then you got Alan recovering a quarterback sneak fumble. Yeah that the ball just lays there and he picks it up like he dropped a loaf of bread. I gotta say, I was so upset that you got these big guys, man, and you know, we want to I want to vilify him so badly because they're big, you know, the big guys. And the ball is right on the stomach. Man. You know it was

right by his nose. Come on, he's right there. When's the last time you've been that close to the ball except for doing before the snap count right right? I was so upset about that. I could not We are a Murphy's Law team at this point, you know that, right, Yes, everything that can't in this game we talked about that. Yeah, I mean, how many times have you seen the cornerback you fumble usually dive on it, right, No, he picks it up and dives himself first down. No one saw it.

But I still go back to the interception in New England. Everybody's dropping the ball. Give him comes with a one handed off of Coop's leg. Somehow it stayed up and he catches a I don't know what kind of interception. That was one of the more underrated, amazing interceptions I've ever seen, because you really couldn't see what happened on that play. It just I think it was Coop's leg stopped it from going down as he's trying to to

knock it down his fuehand. Just little things like that to where you go, Wow, if you just think of not just the Murphy's Law that we we're dealing with, we're also dealing with our own incompetence. That's my question for you. That is it just unlucky bounces or we're talking about lack of execution on top of it. That's that's that helps. That helps, the lack of execution helps.

But I'm just talking about the times when we have made the first down or made a touchdown and we shot ourselves in the foot with a big play or a big call against us. And uh, if you were to just add all of those up with the Murphy's law situations that we're talking about this team here. Ron Springs used to watch The flint Stones and he always talked about the the bad luck slept Rock. Remember that character, slept Rock yes, sir, that's what this team is. We're

full of slept rocks. Everybody's just Murphy's Law happening all over the place, bad luck happening at every turn. When it raises his head, well about losing your starting left guard. And then two plays, Letters once again gives up a sack. Wasn't two, there was one, it was it was two. It was two because they had a completion. And then the next play came in sack fumble and they recover. So next man up, huh, that's not that's always worry about next man up there. Well, it's gonna have a

reason they're the next man up. It's gonna be. It's gonna be Xaviers to a Philo once again at left guard, with Connor Williams set for surgery on his acl a torn a cl to your point, Everson, before we go to break that, there's a drive in the third quarter that just to me, it sums up when they've had

problems this year. This summed it all up. They get to the Bill's twenty five yard line first down and Dak gets sacked for minus seven false start on Connor Williams, and then they're during third and nineteen and they wind up kicking a field goal that has missed. I was gonna say, yeah, we did not make it. It was wide right, red maher oh for two On the day Mickey mentioned the one that got deflected. It seemed like it might have been a low kick on top of it.

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Don't miss your opportunity to get tickets before they sell out. Tickets on sale now at speak dot com. That was not smooth enough, man. You know I didn't have a smooth man. You got get bragging up. Yeah, exactly exactly. Jalen Hurts, Welcome back, to talking Cowboys inside the SWBC Mortgage studio. Cowboys back to practice. They practiced on Sunday, which Everson was like a Wednesday schedule, and now second

of three full practices this week comes down today. They're outside getting set for the Chicago Bears Thursday night football. Bears trying to get a big win, stay in the wildcard race. Cowboys trying to keep pace with their one game division lead. And we covered some of the game from last Thursday. Since we weren't with you guys for a few days, I got to talk about Jerry Jones and his comments after the game, very emphatic, not making

a coaching change. Sticking with Jason Garrett looking for one of his quotes, he said, quote, this is not the time for me. I'm looking ahead at another ball game, and I'm looking ahead at winning four or five straight and helping write a story that they'll talk about. How it looked like you were down and out and you got it back. Jerry full of optimism and preaching unity with this football team with four games left. What did

you guys make of his comments? I mean, that was the that was more the story than the game itself. It shouldn't have been. It's a no brainer. I mean, who's gonna give you the coach right now? You just don't do that. You're still in the first place. That's not gonna happen now. But trust me, his eyes on the prize for later on in January. If something doesn't go down by then, of course he knows what he's gonna do. He's not gonna tell us. But no, I

don't know why such a story. It's just the fact that this is this is truly not the time to do it. You know, this is not one of those uh, vengeance firings. You know, if you just really hated somebody, maybe if he was the late great Buddy Ryan, you know, yeah, you fire him now because he was just crazy. But you don't do somebody like Jason like that, or this organization.

They just don't practice like that. This is not one of those things, and it doesn't help any thing, right, I mean, he said, our best bet is to go forward as is. Changing just the head coach wasn't gonna change anything. Um, you know that would that I think that would that would be just the opposite, right, Yeah, it would be devastating for the team. I'm trying to think of a time I said this on the fan this morning, like when in the NFL have you seen

a first place coach get fired mid season? Like that first place is first place? Has that happened? I mean, you know, you see it in other sports. You see um regardless of record. NHL, they'll change out a manager, the Premier League soccer, they'll sack a guy and bring in somebody mid season. In the NFL, when you do it, it signals to me, it's It usually signals either your season's over or there's or there's panic and you wave

the white flag. They've they've ridden with Jason Garrett for how many years, and they're going to see this thing through. I mean, I never thought Mick that this was a consideration during the Obviously he's in the last year of his contract and we'll see what happens. But everybody misinterpreted what he said the day before Thanksgiving when when he did his car wash interviews for the halftime show, and everybody interviewed him, and I think on NFL Network he

said something to fuck well something. The effect was we gotta win, and we gotta win now. And I think everybody assumed that he meant tomorrow, and if he didn't, you're out. Because I got I got email from people in the business that should know better, and they're going, well, what do we do tomorrow if they lose in Jason gets fired on Friday and I was like what, and they go, well, Jerry said it, like oh, that's not what he said, or at least not what he meant

to me. That's when the tail starts wagging the dog. Right the story is bigger than everything else. And you know, you guys, you know, I like you guys. Okay, sometimes you know, thanks, thanks and uh, but sometimes you know, we just get it's so hyped, you know, we just get so we almost like a dog after a bone, you know, the narrative almost starts to take it. It becomes a narrative, you know, the story becomes a naive and it's nothing true comes out of anything, and if

it does, it's always exaggerated. So you know, to me, it's like the election, you know what I mean, everybody just relax, you know, don't don't you know, misinformation and fake news and things of that nature. That's what we're dealing with right now. And like you said, we're still

in first place and thank you, Philadelphia. The guy that used to be kind of the executive assistant up there for the head coaches, Bruce Mays would always tell me perception becomes reality, and he was right, because whatever everybody's perception is, you talk yourself into oh, this is the truth. You know and you and you, it's the perception is very evil disease out there. I'm pretty sure I just saw Bruce this weekend. Real. I did, Yes, I did. We had a good kind of say Okay, he was funny,

he's still funny, still still preach, he's still preach. Yeah, I've seen Bruce. That's good. I was shocked. I was shot. I'm no lie. I just happened to visit the suite. They was. Yeah, that's sorry. I forgot. But he would have been here for year. One year, right, one year, that's right. Yeah, if you want to call that a year. Yea. Here's another quote from Jerry after the game. He said, quote, We're not sitting out here without our starting quarterback. We're

not sitting out here without our starting running backs. We've got our line in shape. Of course, Connor Williams now injured out for the season. We've got receivers that have gotten better and I think we've got really a chance to play better on defense. So Jerry, he still believes in the talent level of this team. How do you guys, what do you guys feel about that? Well, let's look at this. The biggest loss we had, what was the differential Packers ten points eleven? Yeah, and it was more

than that. We we've because of our talent. Really because of our talent. That's the only reason we've been in some of these games, and most we should have won because of our talent, and it was because of some particular situation Murphy's law, bad coaching decision, one person coming in and making a mistake. Because of it, We've we've found a way to lose these particular games when we had a chance to win them. So how do you

want to look at this pessimistically? Optimistically? You know? Are we that that one bounce away from being the team that we thought we'd be turning those tough games, tough losses into tough wins. Are we really are we that team? You know? Are we? Are we looking forward to that team coming up and maybe these next three or four games, that's the team that's gonna show they're gonna get the bounces,

they're gonna make the heads up decisions. You know, the coaches are gonna make the right calls in our eyes that that results in the win. Yeah, that's that's what we're looking forward to. That's the optimism that you can look forward to. If you're pessimistic, then you're looking forward to everything that we've seen to this point with no changes. Because this was the first time they got beat beat, right. The other ones are what you were talking about, the

other five losses. This one they just got beat I mean that was no, that was no two minutes, no two minute drill. They could have made a difference. You should have a field goal instead of going for no crucial point, no crucial points. No, no, there wasn't. Just one play. And then yesterday reinforced my theory on that Jets Gamely they're terrible and you lost to them. No, they're not terrible. I mean they what they won three games?

Three games? They won three games, six six games. Yes, you're talking about that game in twenty years on't yes, I might be two uh yeah. Or that fumble against the Rams in the regular season that year that yeah, seventeen, Ryan Switzer. Yes, you're still that one. Um so, so you've mentioned something that I think needs to be addressed, and you mentioned the defense. I understand sometimes what goes on with this offense, but the defense has just not

stood up and played. If you think about the two previous games before New England they had given up what fifty fifty five points and then they give up another twenty six, They're they're not playing to the level of what we thought was the talent on that defense right now. I mean that's three games and who knows what New England would have done if it was a dry field. I don't know, you know, I don't know what has happened to our run defense. But what they'll do, they'll

hang their hat. I believe you talked about it last week. What number seven defense or something like that against Yeah, I'm not sure. We've got good numbers, rankings, The rankings look good. So if you're gonna go in, it's like a job with you if you're going to go in and say, oh, okay, I deserve this, I deserve that. Oh, we'll take a look at this. I'm you know, we were number nine against the rush, number nine total defense. That just says what you did. It doesn't tell you

about the things that you didn't do. Number one, you don't get turnovers, okay. Number two, you don't control the pace of any game. You don't. You're not the fire okay that ignites this team. It's catch. It's like they're playing off of the offense. If the offense does well, we'll do well. If the offense doesn't do well, we

don't do well. And the key point here is there are times when they play so well doing a ball game, controlling all the situations, last two minutes of the game, third down, all of that, then there's a time when we need to stop. We gotta have this stop guy, Just give me one on this drive. Okay, we got three third downs on this drive. Just just stop us once on one of these third downs, and it changes the entire situation. It gives us a chance to maybe

win a BA game. Will hold them off and when it is time to to keep the uh, the opposing offense off the field out third downs of horble and they let them drive laid keep on driving out third downs of hall and we know what they're gonna do. It's not like it's a surprise. I say third downs of horble. I'm not saying uh Alan was was six for seven on no I mean running the ball. We gave up a first down crucial situations and could not

get off the field. You mentioned takeaways, and that's that's the biggest takeaway for me and Stephen Jones said it on the fan last Friday. It's the elephant in your bone. There's some side four straight games without a takeaways and you know you're you're asking your offense to drive long fields and so that's the part that doesn't get mixed in when they're to your your question. Ever, so they're they're eighth and total defense, they're ninth and scoring defense.

They have done things, some things well this year, but Mickey's right, I mean it's not to their standard. It's not what they expected this season. Um, they're playing without Layton Vanderesh, They've had some injuries. He didn't play in the game, Atoin Woods didn't play in the game. We'll see if those guys can get back this week. But um, it hasn't been nearly the consistent level that they expected. I just remember Troy doing the game when he was so fired up. I think that his game he crabbed

me up. I wish I could have seen his face. I mean, he's read as a tomato, but he was. He was upset, but he was also very h accurate. And this one statement, you know, I love sometimes that down home, you know, country approach. If you're gonna be a big time defense, you gotta make big time plays, period, period. Would you say that's our defense? Not in any stress? Don't even give me that, Like, oh, I don't think, no, no,

you don't know better already. There was there was a point in that New England game, and I don't remember where. If I had my play by play that I keep myself, I wrote down in capital letters and squared it off. I said, they need a play, a play, they need a play, and they just doesn't come, just doesn't come.

I mean they'll do the things like you know, negative yard, that all looks great, but then we also, okay, negative, y are just second and thirteen, and then all of a sudden you give up nine, and now you got third and three. Now you're looking at they get seven, and here we are right back where we started. They they I believe the Bill scored on five of six drives at one point in the game, and one was

a missfield goal. And you know, Zeke hits two carries in the second half, and that's I mean, the game wasn't completely out of reach, but they felt like they needed to pass to get back in the football game. Well, you can see where the momentum was going. Yeah, Zeke had good numbers, you know, average over five yards of carry. I get that, but you gotta have points now. You gotta have points now. And we didn't have a chance for we didn't have any opportunities for a hiccup in

our offensive momentum. That's where they were trying to prevent, even though they did not, But that was the whole goal. And sometimes you just can't do that with Zeke. Now, if you want to do it with Zeke, let's get him out in space. Let's get hi empiled out of space. I think that's something they really need to do more of because I think it really it. It takes the pressure off the wide receivers to just beat their man every play. You know, we've got running backs that are

kicking our linebackers butts. Okay, tight ends and linebackersians and running backs have been killing our linebackers. We need to do the same to them. We've got very athletic running backs and tight ends. We need to use them a whole lot more. All right, let's take our final break. Thought, Okay, I had one seconds. If anything can go wrong, it's gonna go wrong. Did you notice that on the half ending field goal attempt that got deflected Sean mcdermot's running

down the sideline trying to time. Yeah, that he didn't get it. Ye? All right, go ahead, Murphy's law. Huh, there we go. All right, back to wrap it up next on Talk Cowboys. Since eighteen sixty five, Stetson hats are American maid with pride right here in Texas, and Stetson is proud to be on the field with America's team. Want to show your Texas and team pride too? You can by purchasing your own Stetson. You can look just like how the flag guys do on field at every

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gotta watch it all. Right. Back to wrap it up, one more theory, right, Sham brought it up in the press conference yesterday, and it made me think, especially after the way New England played last night and they had a you know, a full week. The Cowboys had three days to get ready, so you've done this before. When you play in the weather like they did at New England, does that take something out of your body more so than just a regular game when it's cold, windy and

wet like that. Well, it didn't last. I mean you can tell that your body feels different, you know, you know it's going through some extreme situations. But once the game's over, now you get your rest, you bounce back, unless you're injured. Now, yeah, unless you had some injury. But otherwise, now the cold doesn't come with you. No, we shed that. I was just wondering that second half of that, and and Brad brought it up the second half against Buffalo. They just looked lethargic, and well, that's

that's all here, that is all here. They realize where they are right now, right in this particular season, and if they're not careful, you have to have somebody with some experience, you know, someone that has a level head to just right the ship. And I'm talking about players. I'm not talking about coaches. There needs to be a group of players that I heard they had the one

little meeting or whatever. I don't know how they went, but someone has to step up, not just one, but some group has to step up and really show this team how it needs to be done and not be afraid to fail. Right now, we're playing scared. We're playing scared because the fans are doing us. Oh we're at home and we're getting We're playing like crap. You know. I think for them, best thing might be is to get the heck out of here. Let's go on the road.

That was always a bad one in fifteen season. Jimmy Johnson, Jamie Jones. Where do we win? Right? The one win we got we got away from home. Micky thought he was gonna cover history. I thought, rude history for him, all right, gonna first oh it sixteen before we get out of here. Yes, kicking situation. Yes, we talked about Maher's two missus. Jason Garrett on the fans said today they're moving forward with him still as their kicker. They

did have three workouts yesterday. What's your guys thoughts on Maha right now? I guess forward must be really brief if they bring it in somebody a god. That was just like eighty nine we saw people running for the old Dashes come to take our jobs. That was crazy right there. I mean they would start, they would come in work out on Monday, start on Sunday, and get released on the next Monday. The revolving door. I gotta say,

I'm this guy. I don't know Van Drush. I'm sorry, I don't know, ma, but I just really feel that his inconsistencies are just compounding. Yeah, he just doesn't seem to you want to hit a streak, you know, you want to feel good field goals, and now after his failures, now all of a sudden, here you come. Someone doesn't get a block, and now he gets one tipped, which possibly he is going straight down the middle. Yeah, so

it doesn't It doesn't do well at all. And I think he carried I was talked to him yesterday and he didn't stay in the moment on that second attempt. I think he carried that miss into that miss and you get another miss. Right, So they bring in three guys Nick Rose Highland Park High School, kicked at Transferred I think, and kicked at Texas, Uh, Tristan Vis Kayano and Austin McGinness the last two guys XFL right. Vis Kayano kicked preseason with Cincinnati and Austin McGinnis was they

got him off. He's with the Renegades right now. The dais run again. Guy. No, that's the Highland Park kids. Nick Rose, and he actually kicked for the Redskins uh, and he actually did decently with him uh that year that he kicked for it. He came in when um, I think it was Hopkins got hurt. Uh. And he last kicked for the San Antonio Commando. He stays right around the corner, so he's close. He's in the neighborhood.

But what they were doing was kicking tires just to see what was out there, because there was no way you were going to make a change and tell the kid come in here. Okay, two days of practice and oh big boy, you're going to Chicago in the win and it's going to be thirty to getting the list together. So now you've got ten days after this game, and if things don't go well the next game, then you

at least did your homework right. But for my understanding, it was kind of windy out there and the kicking wasn't real good. Well, it's gonna be windy out there, so none of them were really impressive. And I was looking at kickoffs and they were struggling. They can't weak. Can they reach them? Don't? No, No, go ahead. I just wanted they could reach the zone. Yeah, they need, they need. They got to get this righted part of it.

As many offs that too, but as many close games as they played, they got to be able to knock these field goals in. All right, we are out of time already. Yes, thanks to Everson, thanks to Mickey, thanks to Kyle producing. The break is next. We'll talk to you guys again on Tuesday. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.