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the Los Angeles Rams. And now what a week we have in front of us. But let's talk about Sunday. That's more like it, right, Mickey, Absolutely, It's like where you've been, guys. Can we just you know, just dive into that and just talk about that like the whole break, you know, through the break. I mean, this is this is fun. This is fun. I got out this month,

felt like Christmas morning. Have feeling good, not depressed. The weather outside cannot depress me today today, even if it's freezing, Yes, brizzly Gray, Well, Jerry say after the game, just what the doctor ordered? Yes, absolutely for him too, because I think he said did he I think on the quote sheet was they outplayed my expectations for this game, because you know, not that he doesn't have faith in this team, but I think the Chicago loss was just a gut

punch for everybody. I just don't think we realized. And you guys, really y'all brought it to my attention last week, having that rest, you know, that's kind of what I was so naive to that. I think you brought it up, Bob, about the three games and what was it twelve and then if you look over the course of the whole nineteen o four nineteen, we were talking about how unremarkable they looked. The body language wasn't there, and when as soon as you guys said that, it just kind of

clicked in my head. I don't know if that was the reason, but it seems like they just needed a break, you know, I mean an extended break, not just the week. They needed that ten days. And what I saw it was it wasn't it wasn't Philly. You know, it wasn't that Philly game when they came out of the first

three game losing streak. But it was a different team, a more energetic team, and they played with excitement, they played with confidence because what we saw before during the three game stretch was just a lot of guys out there that looked unsure of themselves. This was not that game. This was not that even after the drop by Cooper, which was a big drop to me that but I could have taking us back down that same road, down

the same rabbit hole, and it did not. You know, we still came back and hey, we talked about it. Offensive line, baby, that old line took over this team really the way they should and this is the team that we'll accustomed to from last year, even two years ago. You know, nobody would admit it publicly when I asked round about just getting refreshed, like this was a reboot, like you were worn out after that New England thing, and I kind of got the wink, but no one

would use it as an excuse. But I think it was real. Now we'll find out next week. Can you do this now two weeks in a row? Did this another ten days? Right? Yeah? Or maybe just having played indoors and not in BS weather like they did in New England and able to come back and just kind of get themselves together, and not just physically probably, but mentally too. I mean, I know they say they don't

hear the noise, but they hear the noise. Right. Your coach is under fire, the offensive quadinat or doesn't know what he's doing anymore. No one can make tackles. You know, you miss nineteen tackles. I don't know who comes up with that stat, but that's the one that's thrown around. And then in this game you're punishing people with tackles.

So what's the What happened? How did the switch turn right? Well, maybe maybe there was something to that, because that's the team we thought we knew coming out of training camp. My college coach was one of the greatest coaches ever, and he got this quote from another great coach, Fatigue makes cowards of us. All. So, when you're tired, whether it's mentally or physically, you're going to have problems reacting. You're gonna have problems with your confidence, You're gonna have

to a problem following through with plays. And that's what's going on with the Cowboys. All of a sudden, you got written well written, couldn't catch a cold. You down his pants in New England. He couldn't reach for anything. All of a sudden, he's snagging like he's Gronkowski or somebody or or something. We're showing the highlight right now if you're watching. And you said it, Everson, during the week, they needed some kind of splash play, something to spark

this team. And Wit said that was the first time in sixteen years he has spiked a football, and it was so awkward and he was so awk like, whoa, whoa, that thing's going to hurt him sound, But he, you know, he that to me was venting all this team's frustration. And he said it after the game. Mickey, you just said it too. Three games in eleven days and nothing goes your way, and they just needed something to get him out of it. You're facing third and ten and

here we go again. We're gonna have to kick a field goal in the red zone with the new kicker. We just fired our old kicker, and basically Wit said screw this, you know, and made a heck of a play and that kind of got things got things going. Everson, to your point, I just went back quickly and reviewed, you know, because everyone talked about the Cowboys playing on

Thanksgiving Day. And the real advantage the Cowboys had back in the day playing on Thanksgiving Day was the game they played after Thanksgiving Day, which they got the long weekend ten days until the next game. And from nineteen sixty eight through nineteen eighty four, over a seventeen year period, that Cowboys were fifteen and oh the week after Thanksgiving, had fifteen Thanksgiving Day games from sixty eight to eighty four and were unbeaten during that time. Wow, and they

weren't unbeaten on Thanksgiving Day itself. That yeah, Yeah, that was amazing. Yeah, it was you know what, both the street. Remember that game at Cincinnati. Oh goodness, they the ten days after Thanksgiving. It was like fifty one to something. Remember the Remember the big the big white fullback. What was his name, Killer Brew? Yes, I was gonna say Harmon. That's the baseball player the way I just remember the

big offensive lineman Montoya that's name. Yeah, I remember in my face, twenty yards down here and a little bit of running back your size Brooks is right behind him, right, And that was the worst feeling in the world. I felt like Jalen Smith. That's why I know the feeling. The big lineman in your face. You can't do anything with those guys in your face. Man. You know. Before the game on the pregame show, they asked me, what what does it take to get this team some confidence?

I said, they gotta make a play. You gotta make some big plays and Witton's play you guys just talked about. It was third and ten. They're getting ready to kick another field goal, right, and it was like, oh, here they go again. You had the drop. Now it's gonna you drove with the field goal kicker kick the open he kick right. That was a great stuff, which, by the way, started this way started this game. Is there a better example of Murphy's law than the first two

things that happened? Right? We was like, go again, they can't even get the point and taught us rush unbelievable and then he was like, we want to kick and then you kick it out about unbelievable. But they made the play, you know, and it was somewhat of a spectacular play. Then you got the play from Tavon Austin and I had looked over the first I think I mentioned it last week. Over the first ten games, they had forty seven big pass plays twenty yards or more

in the last three games they had ten. Well, in this game total, they had seven big plays of twenty yards or more, runs, pass, whatever, and all of a sudden it came back. It disappeared from what they were doing almost five or six a game. Then it went down to you know, two or three a game. So they made plays and you get confidence. Yeah, I don't care if your pilot or if you're you're Zeke Elliott.

You can see second effort in almost every run, you know, instead of going down with the arm tackle like oh man, I was almost you know, now, all of a sudden, we were like breaking through, you know, every every running play. Now we're breaking through. We're we're not stumbling now you know where, we're gaining our balance and we're continuing on. Yeah. I guess that's a metaphor for the rest of this

season really, because that's the way they played. Even even Zeke when he was getting hit for what looked like a one or two yard game sudden it was five right now, given surging forward, he ran possessed and Pollard you can forget about this. Oh he's not a between the tackles running because he broke a bunch of tackles to your point, Jerry said after the game, one of the questions he was asked, he used the word physical

five or six times, and that was their identity. On Sunday with the run game and then the run defense, Antoine Woods coming back had a huge impact in the middle of the defensive line. N Lee, Oh my god, he looked like a warrior out there, just bloodied up. Great shot. I take that shot and I signed all the graphs on that thing forever. That was typical of how he came back to me. That was a redeeming game for him. You know, he's been a little bit

vilified since Thanksgiving. I mean, guys catching, tightening, is catching one hand to pass on him. He's back there looking loss. Van Duesh goes down. He's missing tackles. Sean Lee's missing tackles. This was the game. This was the game. This was Sean Lee from I don't think he played this well. I don't think he's played this well, meaning just like recognition, as far as playmaking and impacting the game, it's gotta

be about three years. I mean, because he's two years since he had an interception, and the interception reminded me of him. Early in his career when he picked Peyton Manning undercutting those plays recognition, that's what we talked about out. Yes, you know sometimes you can't be a dummy. I mean, you know they're setting you up with the short route underneath so you can jump that, they're gonna hit it behind. You can't get around that. That's just basic offensive football

against the zone. Not only did Sean Lee figure out, I saw some dude back there with braids diving forward as well. So you got both of your middle linebackers

that that wasn't Jeff. That was not Jeff. Now you had two middle linebackers about what fifteen years d you know, making plays on about recognizing what's going on and delivering svil out of that, delivering some thumps too, both of them like physical stone setting type of tackles early and then a couple behind the line of scrimmage with Woods and Tank Lawrence and all of a sudden, now that's you got back. You got your identity back there. Somebody

talked about DNA getting your DNA back. I think Jason mentioned it in the locker room post game, And that's that's one of them for the dfense. The physicality the intensity it was. It was what you saw against Philadelphia. And I remember them saying after the game in Philadelphia, we had to out physical them up front, and that's what they did. And that just happened to be the

last time this is the complimentary football. That's probably the other game you can really point to that they did that, you know, And remember, Sean Lee didn't practice all week. He actually that was the plan, and I found out late Friday afternoon that that was the plan, and they felt pretty good that he was going to play. That's not practicing this week either, so maybe and it was pointing. I think Ben Bloom pointed out to me that while he didn't practice, he did all the walkthroughs. He said,

so if you practice, I don't know. He gave me a number of how many snaps you might get during practice, maybe forty or so fifty something like that, he said, But he did everything in the walkthrough, which goes over a hundred. He's gonna be the most prepared player off the field, so you don't have to worry about, you know. And the good thing was they got a lead and he didn't have to play half the fourth quarter. I

think I looked up he had forty um forty three snaps. Yeah, they took him in jail and out, so and most of the guys came out except for the secondary. So yeah, just don't go sit down. But I really enjoyed the fact that the roof was closed and the sound, you know, the doors were open. Now they talked about that like it's a big deal. You're the second person to tell me that, But that's because they blew their doors on. It was okay because you're the second person to team

me up there. So I just I just thought that the crowd themselves the first drive actually surprised me, did it. I told you what they were gonna do. Man, they're gonna come out, they're gonna support. This is different from Texas Stadium, and we talked about that, Yeah, this is not that Texas Stadium. They get the cues when that, when that roof is closed. They gave Golf plenty of problems on This is more of a blue collar crowd Texas.

I just thought everybody was fed up and the first thing that went wrong they were just gonna turn on them. But they started right from doing this and they're they're making noise and there weren't a ton of Rams Jerseys in the crowd either. I was. I was pleasantly surprised that. You know, it is Los Angeles, You know it is Los Angeles. Time to build a fan base, and whatever fan base they had in Saint Louis turned down. They

don't care about it. The boy they're now Cowboys, fans say, And it was so loud that Walt Anderson couldn't hear Dak Prescott say defer. He finally said, let's get into that and more. And we're gonna hear from Jason garrett Is in the postgame locker room when we come back here on Talking Cowboys's a proud spot of the Dallas Cowboys helping fans see more and do more with our best vision solutions. Our lens technologies reveal a world more

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Garrett after the game in the Cowboys locker room. Hey, listen off. Just just a hell of a job, guys, that's a hell of a job. It started on Monday when it came in the way we've practiced all week long. Your mindsetting, your mentality to come to work, to wake in a one day season. That's what we did all week long. And then we made it a one game season. Okay, we know what was gonna be all about. You guys got your mind right, your spirit right, and your body

right to play the way we played. Okay, we talked about recapturing the DNA of our team, about team team without display. Today. You guys know where we are though, you guys know where all We're right back at it. So we talked about it all week long. This one's done now it's tomorrow. Tomorrow's a one day season. Yes, a big time job. So there you go. One game season yesterday and this Monday, a one game season as well, What are you going to accomplish, Mickey in this one

game season today? Make sure that you go over this game real quickly and make sure you correct whatever mistakes you might have made. Uh, get the kicker out there to a happy lock of room. Yeah, God, where they captured that? That's about about so music was put in the music bet that. I'm sure there was other music being great feeling. Man still captured the great feeling. But you know what it didn't I mean by time I got in there after Jason Garrett finished, I mean, most

of the guys were gone. It wasn't like there was a big celebrate. Did you go in right away? It didn't look like a huge celebration going on or no, I mean even the but here was the key. The offensive linemen were talking. I saw Tyrn Smith do an interview. Tyrann Smith doesn't do interview with like twenty people around him, right, Yeah, And he actually spoke like sentences, not just a couple of words. He's very shy. I mean, he just would

rather not do it, and he was into it. So I thought that was a good, good sign all right. As far as the way this game started, the coin tosser, guys, somebody break this. Everson was at the game. The game, so you did not hear what the audio that was played during the first half on the Fox broadcast, which got the attention of the NFL officials back in New

York that maybe a mistake had been made here. When I heard it, and the first thing I heard Daxy is uh, he said, yeah, Cowboys win the toss your choice, And he goes, yeah, we want to kick it that way. And I'm the hairs went up on the back of my neck. I'm going, no, you don't want to you can't say that. And then he and then he came back and and and there was a lot of commotions and he goes, yeah, yeah, defer, and we're gonna kick it that yeah. And for some reason, wald Anderson had

never heard her. He heard the first thing, and I think he got flustered and and and then it was like, oh my god, that was so funny talking about it after the guy that was a great He said, we thought we'd get the adversity out of the way right away. Before we got he said, I said a little bit at everything. I love that, I said. They asked, what do you say? I said, well, I said a little

bit of everything. And then and then afterwards de Marcus Lawrence confused the whole thing because he goes, that was on me. He goes, I was the one in the background going kick it, kick it. We want to play defense, right, And he was saying that because you see it on the video. I think defense. Defense. Yeah, defense. And then and then you can see like there was some confusion and Jason like was talking to one of the officials.

I don't think it was Anderson, but it was the other the other guy there, and they were going back and forth and he called dak over like, hey, what did you say? Right? And and so they're kind of explaining it to him. Is that and that's your Yeah, he liked him a lot. He lives around here. He can hear man tell them what you want to say,

not the first time? And so how about this? So this thing is going back and forth on TV now during the game because uh, Fox came back and they played the audio and shimed in and say, well he did say defer. Now is it what he said first? Or how are we going to do this right? And then when they came back at halftime, Yeah, that's why I got Aaron Andrews. Aaron Andrews said, well, I talked to Jason Garrett and he didn't know we had audio of it. And then when he talked she talked to

Sean McVeigh. He thought they were getting the ball when they came out of the locker room. He was convinced they were getting the ball, and it was important at the end of the first half. You'd like to know who's getting the ball to start the second half strategy. And so it was kind of up in the air until they went to the pool report there with Al Riveron in New York. Thank god for Rule fifteen for replay,

Section three, Article nine. According to Al Rivern, it says that we can get involved replay can as far as game administration issues. He also said, if you look at what happened, and you see that the Cowboys actually say three different things, and then we hear at the end where they say quote defer. So we go ahead and look at it, and they pulled up the audio. Thank goodness for instant replay on coin toss well, and thank

thank god. Among the things that Deck said, he did slip in the word defer, which that's that's where a common sense comes into play, right where you say defer, and that's that's what they meant when you talk about kickoff. That's the assumption that you know you you want the ball to start the second half. So they were accurate. Yeah they got it right, went around. Yeah, yeah, right, Okay, I guarantee you that will not have an issue according

Toss going forward. Well, we should have our stuff together right as we go out, correct, I mean the magic word. It sounded like they might have changed their mind, like out there, unbeknownst to Jason said yeah, we're gonna play defense. We'll show them we're gonna stop. So it's just like the first time we've ever heard of audio replay. Wow, for me, it is. I mean that's what it was. If y'all ever watched the game where you weren't sure who was getting the ball to start the second half.

I mean, I haven't watched as much football over the years now. That was first I missed it. But if I would have been in tune, I'm sure that would have been extremely confused about this, just as you are now. Yeah still can I mean it took Fox too. It was close to the end of the first quarter before they came back with the audio replay of what he actually said. And I'm going, oh, this is going to be an interest in Dallas man Riley with the Cowboys. And it was over only over the course of halftime

before it was resolved in New York. Yeah, you know, because Mike Pereira said this, this, this should get fixed, but no one came out and said it's fixed until halftime. And by the way, Mike Pereira also said that Walt Anderson did not handle it, Yeah, the way he should have on the field. I mean just ask so you are you deferring? Is that what you're saying? If I want to kick that great defense, he says that, then you're kicking off twice. Yeah. Absolutely, Just think about what

a disaster that would have been. I mean, they're up twenty one seven and a half, but the Rams get it again twenty eight. Was it interception? That's right? Okay, well, regardless to go on. But Jason Garrett, it was You're early on the shoulders of the head, no question about it. He can't even he can't even get his quarterback out there to say they call him the Jamis Winston of coaching. He was just all kind of goofy stuff going on. But how about the apparently the Saturday night speech, uh

got this team going. The team speak from the head coach and my players talked about that. It's not a sort of baseball team analogy where you have to pick each other up and complimentary football game goes along. Something local. Is what Jason said on the fan today. It wasn't about the Yankees or the Yeah. They asked, yeah, and he mentioned it was more high school high school. That's what he meant. Yeah, it wasn't one of those Joe Biden talks to where you know it was it was

it was you know, got but it wasn't. Yeah, he wouldn't say he wasn't going into it. Yeah, they couldn't pull it out of him. Okay, So anyway, so yeah, that's how the game started. Yeah about that, I'm so confused. And then the kickoff goes out about I see, first of all, let's let's not go there. We have a freaking kicker, all right. I was very impressed with that. I was cold, right, I was very impressed with that guy. I mean, if I down the middle, there was no

there was no fa bam. True every time, even on the extra points, and that was one of his He missed one in New England. Yeah, a week or so ago, his only game. We were talking before the game, he's got to be the most nervous person in the stadium. You know, everybody's eyes are on you. Yeah, yeah, thank guy. There was an extra point, and I don't know, maybe that's even more pressure these days. Who first kick is

an extra point? Would you rather have that or would you have rather had him having hit to hit the fifty yard the first get the extra I see, those are the things if we don't if we don't do that, if we don't do well in the red zone, right, wentn' done? Make the catch? He's kicking. He's kicking, just sure. And do you realize that he the two he made from forty two yards That was more forty to forty nine yard field goals than they had all season? Wow, they

only had one. I think Brett was five and for five. That's why he's not here, honestly, because it's those money kicks. You know, has an NFL record and they got cut yeah sixty plus, you know what. But but for Bath had that's first time I think we mentioned his name for bath kicker, kicker, the kicker he probably is. Well, we were sure how long he's gonna be here? Okay, he only used their days when they screw up, right,

it's like the deep snapper. And he said, the good thing about this whole deal is is he's been in this situation so many times because when he's been signed by other teams, it's always mid season, taken over for somebody that failed. And he goes, so, I kind of used to come in here and getting ready and controlled environment. Yeah, controlled environment really, and he said, and I said, so, how did things go? You know, the kicker, I mean,

the holder, the snapper. He goes, Oh, those guys are great. And he goes there they were perfect. He goes, you know, and I just just put it down and lean it this way. And that's all I asked, nothing else. And it was kind of the Jason's story to the press conference earlier in the week when they had the tryouts in ninety three and they brought in like four kickers, and Jason said, the first three guys were like, I gotta have the ball this way and kind of cocked

to the side and backed a little. Eddie says and then Eddie Murray stepped up and he said, oh, he said, how do you like it? Edie said, just put it down down right. I mean, that's what I used to hear about extra points. It didn't matter if the lay flat on, I got to make an extra point, right. Drew Pierson told me any passed to him is a great pass. Any passed to him is a great Mentalidy,

That's just it. He he passed to Tony Hill is a bad dance where anytime you don't pass to Tony Hill, he was open, was always open, which you guys will get a kick out of this. I was interviewing Danny White before the game. We're doing a story on this forty years since Rogers last game, and I said, I'd like to touch which was against the Rams, yes, playoff game and the regular season regular game was against the Redskins,

which is going to happen again this year. And so I was saying, you know, if I can ask you a couple of questions about that, He goes, well, you're not going to ask me about thirty years since I retire. I said, oh, thanks a lot, I said, Danny, I'll get it in there, Okay, all right, we continue with more talking Cowboys in just a moment. 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

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So the Cowboys made to play for a month. This whole thing's gonna come down to Cowboys Eagles on December twenty second year. Where we are. We probably said that a few weeks ago. I'm sure. Yes, it always turns out to be that way, doesn't it. That's cool put ourselves here. It never should have come down to this, No, right, and even with the Eagles, the way they're playing, the Eagles remind me of the Cowboys without Zeke Elliott. That's how much hustle Carson Wentz has to exhibit. You know,

he's back there just grinding a way. I gotta give him some credit. He's back there. He's got a lot of guys missing it. That's why That's why he's grinding because just no one's there. He's looking downfield, no one's there to see his desperation. I can appreciate it. I really can't, because you know, Philly could, they could have phoned it in a long time ago, and they refuse

to do that. It makes me a little bit nervous to come from behind victories like they makes me a little bit nervous because there their toughness right now pretty much off the charts. That's a great point because because they've got something in their gut to still be at this point and a lot of people were questioning them. I mean a lot of people have questioned the Cowboys,

same with the Eagles. But the people talk about their locker room being a problem and all this stuff, Well, probably not if they're still giving themselves a chance at this point. And we were at the game in two thousand and eight, I think when it was a playoff playing game and forty four to six. I know it's a completely different teams and all that, but that crowd up there is gonna be rocking. Oh yeah, And you're right, it's gonna be a tough environment for Dallas. The Clowds

gonna be rocking. They're gonna be rocking because it's the Dallas Cowboys. The Philadelphia Eagles are gonna You're gonna have guys making plays they never made in their entire lives because they're gonna be so hyped to play against the Cowboys. That's what you have to fight against. So that confidence that you have right now in the locker room has the Dallas Cowboys team. You're gonna have to have all of that, that optimism and everything going in there and say,

you know what, I get it. You guys are tough. I know you're desperate. I know you're you're in a situation that you didn't want to be in. But that's not our problem. We're gonna come in here and take a business. That's that's got to be their attitude. I mean, he's throwing his leading receivers, some guy named Ward junior, Greg Ward Junior, former quarterback, University of Houston. What a play it was, right? What a play? It was a

little fade over the time. I mean, come on, so he had to have the time, he was under dust. He's thrown back on one foot, he floats it up there. This guy's five two, Yeah, he goes up and he's this high. Name is at least my side. Yeah, I met four and he is making a play that he has to make, no excuses when they could have made many of them. So that's why the team they're making me a bit nervous because the hatred that they have for us, that's already there, that can be extremely motivating.

And they ran the ball well, Sanders had one hundred and twenty some yards rushing, and defensively they gave him as many chances. They gave corson wins as many chances as he needed. So does anybody want to take a shot at how do you go from giving up two hundred seventy three yards rushing from twenty two two hundred and fifty one less than you gave up in the playoff game? Got any logical reason why that happened? Well, a little bit of incompetence from the rams that always helps. Uh.

He's almost like what happened to the Cowboys. Defensively, they could not stop the Cowboys offense, so therefore Girly became obsolete. It's what happened to Zeke. They's last couple of games. Yeah, exactly what I mean yeah, what did he end up? He had eleven twenty yards at the outset the Coys touchdown right, but when the game was still in the balance, they weren't getting anything. In the run game, he had two. He had two yards at halftime. I'm telling you, Antoine

woods Man. He stepped up five tackles, one for loss. And you know he had a torn laborman his shoulder in the playoff game last first quarter play played through it clearly wasn't himself, and then they've missed him these last two games. I mean, I think he definitely made an impact for him up front. Hmm. We talk about the problems with the linebackers, I would imagine woods hurt us.

He understood what was going on the If you're gonna let these offensive linemen come down on our linebackers and burst that bubble and create those gaps, if you're gonna if you're gonna allow that, then you should be the

one to make the tackle. As an interior defensive lineman where if you're getting off, you're letting them get off, then you should be the person that should replace that first level so at the second level won't be a problem an head game, and he did I mean he had like three tackles in the first series line that's dominated. That's one sap type action there. That's saying a lot. It was Donald action. Yeah, it set the tone. And then how many do y'all see any mistackles in the game? Yesterday?

I made one? There was nineteen against the Bears, and it was one in this game. Wow? Rest rest, Yes, Sean Lee felt better. He made all the moves like he always did, this time he finished the plays. Jason Witten was fresh. Yeah, Jason Witten could reach out and his arms could extend. He was warm, he was warm all year. Well, he didn't have a strained ankle. Yeah, remember they missed that. They missed that. I think badly so.

But but the ability to stop the run, And the only kind of logical answer I could get was we learned what we did wrong in the playoff game and we made some schematic changes to what no one would say what it was DeMarcus Lawrence. And I heard this from Rod Marinelli on Friday, and I said something about the run, and I thought he was gonna bite my head off, but he was really nice, and he goes, it's tempo, he goes, they play at that high tempo, and we gotta be in on the line of scrimmage,

hands down, ready to go. We can't be got to be ready to go for them because they might quick snap it, or they'll sit there and mill around and change the play. He goes, but we gotta be ready to go, and DeMarcus Lawrence pointed it out. He said, high tempo. Our tempo had to be as high as theirs. He said that on Friday too, he said, we know what they're going to try to do, right, and we can't get thrown off balance by that. Yeah, because it's

a very tempo too. Sometimes it's true hurry up. Sometimes it's kind of a patient tempo and you just have to be ready for all of it. I started watching and seeing how many times they do it and see what was going on after it hit the clock hit fifteen seconds, and it was like a lot. They changed it a few times, but a few times they hung in there and they didn't change the place. I have to say, I think it's more amazing that we're not

even talking about Aaron Donald. Yeah, I wouldn't talking you know. You know what he had at halftime. He had two assisted tackles. And then I think he had one more solo tackle uh by the end of the game, so he ended up with three total tackles, but two were assisted. So those guards in center must have done some total domination, right, I had total domination on the one touchdown, sue A Feelo caved into the right side and made a huge

hole for Zeke. If I told you guys before the game that the Cowboys top four wide receivers would have four catches for eighty three yards, would you would you tell me that they would have won this game by what? It wasn't that. It wasn't that close and one and one of those catches was fifty nine yards, right, so it's three for what twenty something? Yeah, Which, again, from what you saw from the press box, were they doing something to take away downfield? Were they playing more coverage?

They started off with a lot of they were doubling ye with the safety over the top because everybody was kind of trying to give the corner Ramsey credit. And then they showed the replay and they go, oh, yeah, but look at the safety where he's at. He's like five yards behind, so it wasn't all him. Uh. And then when they showed the other side. Remember the deep ball to Gallop. The free safety rotated over and helped,

like you should have got to help. They don't bring that out there, but he filled it in so you had to drop it in there right over the corner, but before the safety came over. And it didn't work. But they were given help on the outside. And that's when Troy said, they're gonna have to start using the middle of the field, and so they used Witten. And then they started throwing the little and it wasn't like

dump off passes to Zeke. They were like on the run throws to the outside and and that was working. What Zeke had about one hundred and fifty some total yards something like that. He catches for forty three. They got him in the screen game, blake yack Jarwin two catches yards. That's my guy, that's my guy. I'm I love me some Witten. But he is just so explosive and he eats up yards. He eats up yards and he catch the ball. And we've eaten up time here, Cowboys.

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