Talkin' Cowboys: Reasons For Optimism?

But we're also going to look back more at Sunday night against the Minnesota Vikings. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola and Rob Phillips. Brian out today again and well, yes it's it's a chili outside, but it's not near as bad as what it was yesterday, even though the temperature is probably lowered today than yesterday. It's that wind chill factor that was it was horrible yesterday. And it's as cold in here in the SWBC Mortgage studios as it is outside. Kind of ice boxy in here, kind of

ice boxy. Yeah, let's warm it up, all right. We got some cowboys we got just the team to talk about to warm things up, and we'll open up the phone lines on this Tuesday. You can give us a call at eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. Get things off your chest as well. Watching Monday Night football last night, I did great game. That's two straight nights. We've had great games, yes, Sunday Night

and then Monday Night. So you said you saw the rate the TV ratings for the Sunday night games, yep, and they were through the roof as expected or the year or anything like that. It was the most watched in DFW for a Cowboys game. I'm going to say that off the top of my head, and I'm not tracked this, but when you get numbers in the mid thirties around I think it peaked at like a thirty five rating. Wow, that is that's up there, and so a lot of interest and it was an entertaining game.

Cowboy fans didn't like the results of that entertaining game, but there's a lot of people tuned in. Are we losing the fact that they played a good game and lost to a good team. Are we losing a little bit of that yeah? Or are we focused on the fact too, maybe not too much, that they've played good teams and haven't had any really any success against really good teams this year. I mean, Jerry was very positive and optimistic on his fan hit this morning, and you know,

Sean said it on the fan afterwards. I'm kind of expecting a little bit matter Jerry after losing that game, and obviously the questions about the play calling at the end. But that was a back and fourth game, and I think Jerry Jason brought it up. Nine possessions each. Both teams had opportunities, and it came down to a couple of plays. I know, when you lose, it's all right, whose fault it is and all that. It's a good game, good game between two good teams. They's two teams that

scored on five of their first eight possessions of that game. Yeah, and one team got a touchdown, one more touchdown than the other team did, and then the other team got a field goal instead of that touchdown. Now there's the difference in the game. He surprised that Jerry was a little more optimistic than he expected. I told the guys when I went on after him that it was like a sword fight this morning. They would throw a sword

up here and Jerry would block it. They come up with a sword over here, and Jerry came with a backhand with his sword. So give us some highlights. Well, I just think they thought he was going to be mad. And that's what they were about everything, right and again. And I've told these guys this, don't preface your question with the fans want to know, or people want to know. What's what you want to know? So just ask the question.

He doesn't mind it. He he actually embellishes when you ask him, or not embellishes, but likes a tough question because he will have you an answer and he'll diffuse it if he disagrees with you. It's like he said, he goes, yeah, let's go. He goes, you don't you want to bring pisson vinegar, let's go. We'll do it. You know, I gotta love it, you know. And and he had a good answer for everything. It wasn't like

he was being Pollyanna or anything. He he just had good answers to all the questions about you know, okay, you call a play, and and uh, and if it doesn't work, so why didn't it work? Did it not work? Because it was the wrong play or did something happen within the execution of the play that caused it to happen? And I think you know, we both looked at the third and two play, Yeah, because Mickey fans want to

know what happened on the third and twa. Yeah, I mean you know, And I'm not sure you know they called it an RPO. I don't think it was an RP. Oh. I think it was a read option. I think it was too because he would he if he had thrown a pass. Connor Williams was five yards downfield because so they were blocking for a run and his only other option was to not hand off and go the other way, as you don'tice when you tweeted me or text me last night. But I still think ninety nine would have

stuffed him. Did Neil Hunter? Yeah? And actually on both a second and two and third and two they were very similar right where zone reads where that I think had the option not hanned out off his eek and And so I'm trying to remember in my own mind, which did Collins had Hunter on the third and two? Did Hunt? Hunter went left? Hunter was on Dak's right right left, and he penetrated He got he got in Connetrationum,

but it looked like Collins. Collins had him sealed. It looked like to me he would have had to cut inside, right.

He looked like, yeah, no, there was a guy. I thought there was a gap between Hunter and whoever the inside got the tackle was No, there was, But then there was an Anthony Barr was standing about a yard and a half beyond the first down where the first down line would be, and so it was going to be a one on one can get to that line and beat Anthony Barr there, and so there was It was not a given that he was going to get the first down, and in fact, I think on both

of those plays it was not a given. But especially Okay, so now you're looking at Okay, let's say he didn't get to the first first down line. He was going to get within a yard of the first down line, which changes the complexion of fourth down, and got a fourth and five. Yeah, you got fourth in less than a yard, right. So But but here's the other thing.

And I know there's a lot of criticism about Jason Garrett as far as hell he's handling those questions about that, and I think I don't know if he alluded to an RPO on it or if he may have said RPO. I don't think he said RPO. Zeke was the one that said, Okay, yeah, that's right. It was Zeke who said it's an RPO. All right. Here's my thinking on that. In any press conference setting, do fans really want their head coach to tell the world what they had designed

on a play? Okay, the GiB was to Zeke, we can look at the tape and kind of surmise that it kind of looks like his own read there. But do you want your head coach to be transparent and tell other teams in the league all the options that you had on that play, what we're thinking when we get down in that situation next time. So Garrett gets criticized for his press conferences and being robotic in everything, Why would you want your head coach to tell other

teams in the league what you're doing? Because they want to know exactly, and the media wants to know. It's our job in the media to ask the questions. It's the coach's job not to answer the questions, in my opinion, and there's other ways to find out, right, there's other ways to find out. It's just like the punt you know with Tavon Austin. Oh, you go back and look at that. Yeah, we froze it twelve times yesterday after launch.

I made him come over and look at a lot of green grass, a lot of green grass in front of Tavon and and and Jason said there was not good communication to him on what they would have liked him to do. Now, mickey's your your impression from watching him afterwards or just through the play that he felt like he was fair catching it regardless. Yeah, because because when he got to the sideline, he was standing there next to Antoine Woods, and he was smiling, almost laughing.

I swear to god there looking at it. If you're watching alone, he was waving for a fair catch before the ball hit the guy's foot. Okay, I exaggerate, but that that left side man, look at this, if anybody's watching this right now, left side, there's one guy that would have gotten his way. And there was two blockers there and I don't know where the punter is. The punter was probably behind. The Vikings did not have their gunners,

and because they were, they were protecting against a block. Yeah. Yeah, they didn't, and they didn't try an all out block. The Cowboys didn't. They had guys back there to cover the play. And I understand what the time left on the clock, and I was around twenty five seconds whatever it was. I understand. You do not want your punt returner running sideways east west and wasting time. And Jason

said it in his press conference yesterday. You want him going north south, and I and he I think he thought it was conveyed to the punt returner to go north south and get as much as you can. There was an opportunity to go north south, and in this case it was west east. Yeah that's true. Yeah, yeah, Actually it was east to west. Or he was west, he would have been running never by it. But anyway, he I mean, he could have got to at least I mean if it what if it took eight seconds

the east, yes, so does it. Yeah. Look, I'm trying to replay. They're going towards that end of the stadium where the sun shines through. I thought they weren't going the other way. No, no, no, no, that's right because it was on this Cowboys all right, I was right. Now you continue where were you going? Keep going? Keep going on focus. But well you could talk to Mickey.

It's like, even if it took even if it took eight seconds to get where he was gonna go, you would have still had time for two plays from no less than thirty yard lines a play that you like more so, right, and if you ran the play to make up to make that yard and you're gonna use up about eight seconds too. I mean, it's gonna be faster if you're gonna run north south, it's gonna be faster to field the punt and run than it is to run a play and get that yardage. Yeah, that's

tough man watching that one back. But that's why, that's why what, that's why you don't bet on games. Okay, that was a prime example why you don't bet on games. Right, there's a lot of prime examples. Yeah, even last night. Yeah about the Monday night we were talking about coaching decisions. Okay, about the forty nine ers. They get the ball back Seattle has in overtime, Yeah, they get the ball back in Seattle has no timeouts left. Okay, it was less

than two minutes left in the game. You're at your I remember what yard line. Let's say they're at the twenty five thirty yard line whatever, and they run three pass plays, three incompletions and give the ball right back to Seattle. You in that situation, you're tied up, the other team has no timeouts left. Your number one priority is make sure you get out of this game with at least a tie. You're not going to give Russell

Wilson an opportunity with more. With a minute twenty left in the game, they gave the ball back to Seattle. They held the ball for like twenty seconds because they threw three incompletions and they gave him time to make a game winning drive. You have to run a running play and milk the clock down under a minute, and then you start trying to win the game, right, which I heard people giving Gary Patterson grief for how he ended them. We just regulation game with thirty six seconds left. Okay,

Now we've switched to college football. Now DCU and Baylor overtime was there for those of you following a log at home somewhere, it was there. It was their argument, though, that they had the ball in their own twenty five with thirty six seconds left in a tie game, and they didn't try to go down and score, and he said, well, no, we're gonna go in the overtime. So it's just the opposite of what you said. But it was thirty six seconds,

so anyway, you can't win. No, here's where I'm going face if if it doesn't work, it's a wrong decision. Even if the you know, the logic says you're doing the right thing. But if it doesn't work on third and two and second and two, it's the wrong decision. No one wants to go back to the previous possession when they passed the ball twice at the six yard line and it didn't work. Was that wrong? They ran the ball too many times. They're they're prisoners of their

identity because they got to run the football. They threw the ball almost fifty times in the game. You're gonna throw sixty, that's what fans wanted. But you know, I do agree with the notion that you cannot You can't put your quarterback in that situation over and over and over again. You're not guaranteed to hit him Maari Cooper for a big game. Every time you drop back, and especially with a team that likes to blitz, you have to do something to keep them a little bit off balance.

Now we can get into do they need to run as much on first down as they have because they didn't have success doing it for the most part. But you know what on that drive, seventy yards to the six yard line. Yeah, four times the first four plays of that drive. The first four first downs of that drive, they ran the ball, but they still went seventy yards. So what's the difference if you run on first down

or second down. I'm sure there's some analytic dude out there it's gonna tell me that, you know, it's better to do it on second down than first down. But they went seventy yards running each one of those first downs, and they really didn't get anywhere, but they ran it because they had to make them recognize the fact that we are still going to run it and that's still

Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah, and it didn't work. And like I said yesterday, if it had worked and they had scored and they had won the game, we would have been talking about how resilient this team is. And the defense got a stop, got two stops late in the game, and they found a way to beat a tough team they didn't so we're harping on basically all the negative. And I get it. There's there are trends that they have they have to stop, they have to get off to faster starts. They've got to be able to stop

the run against good running teams. I get it, um, But there was some good that came out of that game. Now you have put yourself in somewhat of a hole when you look at San Francisco and Seattle. You got to win your division and that's that's number one. Because there's teams ahead of you now in this conference and it is a difficult stretch stretch coming up for sure.

And I'll tell you that that perception is still out there because I did a I did a pregame interview with tune In Radio that's very good app And one of the questions they asked me, if Minnesota stops the Cowboys running game, can beat them throwing the ball, and I said, if they devote enough people to stop the Cowboys running game, DAC will absolutely beat them with the receivers that Cowboys had. And see that that's a positive

to take away, and that's four yards passing. He should have been because what have we heard throughout his time off and on here, it's like, well if they'll they'll dare the Cowboys to throw and can dat take advantage. They can do that, and you've shown it for nine games now. Yeah. Yeah, and we've and we're also seeing Randall Cobb. I think he said after the game, that's the best he's felt as a Dallas Cowboy. Just felt like he was in the zone. I know he's had

he had a back thing earlier. Those are positives at least offensively going forward, but you got to get Zeke going. I mean, when when you don't run them. I think David Moore had a stat there's four times in his career he's rushed under fifty yards and they've lost every game. Well, you know, they had Zeke going the last couple of games, and so I think it's more an aberration. I mean,

I think Mickey may have talked about it yesterday. You just know, from week to week in this league, you know he can get he can go for twenty carries for forty seven yards one week, and then he'll turn around next week and go for one hundred and forty seven yards on twenty carries against Detroit in Minnesota. Whoever they're playing next week, they're liable to give up one hundred and fifty yards rushing to a team. I mean, it just a lot of it has to do with

how your game plan week to week. I mean, if these two teams played again next week, Zeke probably will not get forty seven yards on twenty kerries. He'll probably be over one hundred yards rushing against the same team. It's just it's the way it is in this league. Week to week, it's different and you make adjustments. And that was one of the things Jerry pointed out this morning about, well, we learned about some of our running schemes and some of the plays we tried to run

or how we block it. Now we go back and fix that stuff. So yeah, it's instructive. It's not like you just got to jump out the window. I understand they lost, and I understand everybody's it's a tough loss. Sites Yeah, it is. It is, but you can't throw in the towel. It's too early, get seven games left. It did remind me, sorry, Bill, It reminded me though, of the Saints game, where you know, you got to give credit to them their front four or their front seven.

Just controlling things, and that has been a trend. When they've lost this season, they haven't been the better team at the point of attack. And this offensive line has got to, you know, find that consistency against better fronts. You know, well, think about it this way. So you had Connor Williams out there playing with a knee that's being scope today. You had Zach Martin out there with an elbow that he's going to end up on the

probably injury report this week. Those guys are playing through things. I guarantee a Tyrant Smith is still playing through that ankle. It wasn't ankle, wasn't it. And and Lale Collins with his knee, So I'm not giving him. And those guys are tough as hell and they're fighting through it. Yeah, absolutely, and so but they've found something I felt like the last couple games, especially in the running game. And so you know, that's that's disappointing that sometimes you go up

against some guys that are really good. You gotta give him credit. That's why I said the Saints have one of the best fronts in the league. And they proved it sense right, Yes, yes, they proved it since But but that's your identity. You know those guys that's the heartbeat of your team. And they pass blocked fine, somehow he only got sacked once. All the blitzes they sent and he only got sacked once. And how many times he's been has he been sacked this year? So that's

eleven eleven times? How many times was he sacked last year? Fifty six? Quite an improvement, That's that's kind of That's what I'm saying, is we're losing we're losing sight of some of the positive that they're going on with this team. But if you want to look at this particular game, Vikings won the battle up front and there's no question about it, both sides of the ball. Right. Mickey started this edition of Talking Cowboys asking about the TV ratings.

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and so it is somewhere on Twitter. Oh, I'm sure it is. Okay, what exactly is this? You know how he would always mess with me and pick me up off the ground. I'd always tell him, Look, it's one of my favorite things in life to see, I said, I said, Charles, you can hit me, you can slug me, just do not pick me up off the ground. Right,

that's an open invitation. Don't make me feel like a child. Charles. So, he was promoting some sort of reading program in D I S D. And we had him on the show in the Little room back there, and it was like Douglas said, you know what, let's why don't you just pick him? Pick him up? So he kind of carried me like a child. So this so it was here at the Star, No, I said it was back at the Ring at the Ranch. We're talking back twenty fifteen, probably, Okay,

I'm just doing a search. I'd just searched Spagnola and Charles Hayley to see if it will come out here. I can't find it right now. It's pretty funny though, And so Christmas at the Star, the Christmas tree lightness, it say when the Christmas tree lighting is going to occur. It just says Christmas at the Stars starting twenty second. So that is the Friday before the Patriots game, right, yes, big watching party the day of the Patriots game, which

is a three twenty five kickoff outdoors, I believe. So that was our read yesterday, the watch party. In fact, I probably have it right here. Yes, the Sunday November twenty fourth, in Tostito's Championship Plaza at the Star. You know, I think we're gonna put up our Christmas tree early this year that weekend. I should do that too. And the reason why is because Thanksgiving comes late twenty eight

that's too late. My wife has given me orders that the weekend before the weekend of the Patriots game is the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the jones Estake. Well, so would you like to go and put mine up? Two? Since I'll be out of time. Actually, we're getting a new tree this year, so we have to go buy one first. All so, I take it it's not a fresh tree. Okay, let's go to Josh in Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Yeah,

how's it going guys? Great? All right, So, um, this is actually not a like frustration call because actually I was actually really encouraged by last the last game, you know, um to say that we needed to put it in daksense. It's just a testament of how far or how much season improved from day one from his rookie year to this year exact. Yeah, I'm pretty two years ago we probably would be like, oh, we need to put it

in Deep's hands, but Dak's doing really good. In fact, I'm actually was encouraged by the play calling too as well. I mean, Jason had a point where I listened to his press conference, you know, like we needed to run the ball on the first downs and stuff, so that way we can keep the defense honest, you know. And so that's why, um, partially why attack was successful in throwing the ball. I mean, he's I mean not to

say that he's not talented. He's really talented to as well. So, uh, if anybody was not encouraged by this football game, you know, UM, I don't know what what to say to them. And even the defense, and uh, you know there was I think Layton was still seemed pretty hurt the way how he how he tackled and stuff like that. So I think he was pretty hurt there. So I don't think too too bad of our of our defense. But I wanted to ask questions about Connor, Connor Williams and uh

sue Philo. So I know that he's Connor's hurt, but uh, I believe Connor's more of a better pass blockers than Suet Philo, and Suet Filo is a better run blockers than Connor. I don't know, Mickey, if you can expand on that and I'll hang up the call. But um, I was way encouraged by by this game, and we need to pay Dak Prescott Annamar Cooper hopefully by them this year. But thanks guys, You guys are doing a great job, all right, Thanks very much. Josh from Jacksonville.

John to pay Randall Cobb too. By the way, Josh Garrett from Jacksonville, I think his assessment was pretty good on Suefilo. Yeah, Sue Philo and Connor Williams. And I think what people need to remember is Sue Filo took over for him when he had his right knee scope last year, and then when he came back, he was the backup. He went in for Zach Martin when Zach, I guess it was his knee right, he missed the start and he had to take over for him in

a game. And then when people try to say, well, yeah, Sue of Filo is better, Connor Williams started both playoff games and played well in those playoff games, So that tells you what they think the difference is between those two guys. And I thought Connor Williams was playing much better this year than he had well. But I do think Suaphilo helped them and was productive when he was

in there. He got banged up to last year. If you remember, yes, he did had an ankle and it seemed to limit it his mobility as they as they move forward, he does have some power that he can bring to the offensive line. I'm not disagreeing with you, Mick, but I think there's a reason why. You know, we got questions in the off season about well you got you got a surplus of depth, should that you trade a guy like Sue of Philo. This is why you don't do that, because you know I think he can

step in and give him something. No, I think he can, but I think he's a little slow on pass blocking. And I had a question from someone yesterday, why wouldn't you have Why is Sue Philo a better option starting at guard than Joe Looney? Oh? Because he's better and he's bigger. I think Joe's a nice backup center. Doesn't or that's what I told him. Is that power to play or the other part of it? Even if their ability is equal, you still if it is equal, then

Sue Philo is your backup guard and you don't. And what if something happened to Frederick you want him to He want see Sue Filo to get all the first team reps at left guard and not have Looney Band playing left guard and then you then you got to make two switch exactly. Travis goes down. Yeah, you don't want to do that, all right, Chris from Connecticut, You're next up here on Talking Cowboys. Hello Chris, Hey, everybody,

thanks so much for taking a call. Sure, fifty years now as a Cowboy fan, and man, it doesn't get any easier, you know what, And if you make it another fifty years, it won't be any easier either. There you go. Hey, I have a couple of observations to make, and I'm just hope, I'm hoping that maybe you can correct me if I'm wrong. But I thought this was interesting. I thought about this. Uh you know that last played

to Zeke. That's the empty backfield play, last game, last last play of that series at the end there, And that's the one that I have the most problem with. If you look back the last for critical you know, playoff games and situations like that. You go back to the Green Bay playoff game where where you know they're they're driving for a potential touchdown, end up kicking that field goal on third and two or three, they go

empty backfield. They take Zeke off the field. In that one, the ball gets batted down, he has to rush the pass. They did the same thing against the Ram last year. Late in the third or fourth quarter, they're at the fifty yard line, they go for it. On fourth they go empty backfield, same results, same things. Fourth down against the Jets, empty backfield, the ball, you know, he's got to rush the pass, and then we go empty backfield against Minnesota. It's just like, do you think that there's

a little trend there or what. So you're talking on the fourth and five past to Zeke, Yeah, I mean, why are we always going empty backfield in that situation? I don't get it, because you're trying to make sure that if they blitz, you know where the blitz is coming from. Well the downside as you have no one there to protect dak right. Well, his protection was fine, wasn't it. I Mean he did get a little pressure from his left and he had to throw over Tyrant Smith,

but he didn't stay with the play long enough. I think when he goes back and looks at it, man, did he have Randall cope Cob Cob had a step yep, yep. Hindsight. Yeah, But that's why they go empty in those situations because they if they're figuring okay, they know we're passing U. If we play in tight, then they're gonna blitz and it makes it a little more difficult to figure out where the blitz is coming from. I appreciate that insight. And do you have time for one more question? Sure?

Why not? I guess the other thing is, I'm just scratching my head as as to why a week. One week they look great against the run in the screen, you know, they look great against New Orleans, and then you have this show up and what do you what do you think is going on? Is it? Is it a lack of discipline by you know, filling the gaps? Is that I just it kind of blows my mind that they can place, they can look so amazing one week and then just look completely confused an act right.

Maybe it was because they were playing the NFL's leading rusher. He's a special player, but Kimara is too, and you bring up a good point there. They kind of kept Kimara relatively in check in that game. I thought Jason Garrett brought up a good point in that you know they are an aggressive up the field defense and you have to be able to harness that and not let that be used against you. And I think Minnesota did that.

I think they used their aggressiveness against them on some of those screens, but especially the screens, especially especially early, those two early in the game that got him a couple of stopped in the run. They I mean, they were just getting gashed. I don't know, you know, there were holes there and then they you give that guy ahead of steam and now he's running over your linebackers.

In the second half, first half they did twenty seven yards. Yeah, right, and then he goes for seventy and then Madison went for or whatever, he went for two fifty two not only eight carries. Yeah, that's a problem. And that's how you hold to hold the ball for twelve minutes in the third quarter. Two? Yeah, because when did they have one possession in the third one in one possession? It was a quality possession, but it was it was only one. All right? You want the TV ratings now or after

the breaks? All right? TV ratings? Berry Horn on Twitter about the same time that Mickey asked me about the TV ratings. As these numbers Minnesota Saint Paul outscored DFW. The vikings won the TV ratings two thirty nine point three to thirty five point four, so the cow So DFW had a thirty five point four rating. Minneapolis St.

Paul thirty nine point three. The number three market nationally was Old Reliable San Antonio at twenty five point four, followed by Austin at twenty four, Houston eighteen point six. I wonder how that ranks with any Texans game down there. Up next was Memphis at eighteen point two, where they must have been thrilled by Tony Pollard's one carry from Berry Hard. So they didn't he didn't have the national rating, does not have the national But did you see the

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I am looking for the national numbers on the Sunday Night football and the final numbers are near a season high according to this article, I've reading an average, so i'll kay allow just read it. The final numbers are in for last night's white knuckler between the ultimately victorious Minnesota Ikes of the Dallas Cowboys. That they look good.

Indeed when it comes to the map, scoring an average of twenty three million viewers last night's Sunday Night game, which Sunday Night Sunday Night game is the one hundred time over the past ten years. Add it is topped twenty million, So it was good. I don't know what that tells you. What was that Sunday night or Monday night? It was Sunday night. Okay. This article was written yesterday.

I'm sorry, got you? Yeah? Okay, So now I did see something where actually it was a shade under twenty three million viewers and the three twenty five kickoff the Panthers who they play let me find it here green Bay. Green Bay actually had twenty three point one nine six million viewers and the Vikings Cowboys had twenty two point nine eight eight. Now the difference there. There's more to watch on a Sunday night than there is on a

Sunday afternoon, right, yeah, there's not much NFL is. I mean, it is unbelievable how much the NFL is king in TV ratings. I mean, you look at anything across the board and it's just a smidgin of what an NFL game gets. It ain't. It ain't dropping much as No, it isn't. It's how many people watch The Office? This every week? The Office is no longer on so none, it's in syndication. Yeah, well, how many people watch that? I told Mickey about The Office yesterday, so now he's

on it. Oh okay, but I told him it was great. You ever watched Friends? Very rarely? And I guarantee I never watched one all the way through? Why, Like, if you're just surfing and you see it, and I'll say, I love Friends, Okay, I don't watch much TV. I don't either, but I started watching Friends and it's going away from Netflix. Oh no, it's bad. Yeah, it's bad news. Are you are a Friends guy? I wasn't actually Okay, well,

so much for that to find a different audience. You just watched it to see Jennifer Aniston, right, and uh, I want to talk about the fourth and five. Easy segue there, all right? The fourth and five past to Zeke? Yes, what do you think of it? Like? I thought he had better options if he had stayed on the plata, had better options. Yes, okay, what do you think of it? I thought Cobb had had a step on his man working inside. And did Dak look to Witten first? Was

that his first? So the right? Collinsworth tried to say that he looked for a mari and they doubled Marie high and low. But I did never see look to the right. Here we go, Here we go. We're watching it here now. And Kendricks is a great coverage linebacker too. I mean that that's a heck of a play to the sideline. Back it up there and take it all the way back to the snap Kyle Yeoman's if you can. And let's see if how much he looks right? He glanced over Boom, but he never waited to see what

the route developed. Now, now about Zeke, that's a tough play for I think for a running back to make I mean it's not just a little flare pass out there. I mean that ball is fired for an out route for a running back to make that play. If it didn't get tipped, I think he had it. Yeah maybe all right, let me ask you this, what about his route? Did you look at his route? Probably didn't go deep enough like he well he was, I mean he was a yard and a half beyond the sticks. Yeah, and

I don't know. Again, this is one thing. It's kind of like um Collins where its people, you know, Yeah, Okay, we don't know what the route was supposed to be. Yeah, exactly if he had made a sharp cut to the sticks, Okay, it looked like he d If he was supposed to think out that, he drifted deeper and it gave an angle to Kendricks to make the play. Uh, if he had made a sharp cut to the sideline, Kendricks might have not had an angle to knock it away. It

might knocking it away. But again that gets back to Zeke. Does it run that route very often? Right? You know? And I'm sure when they when they left for the play, it was like, Okay, our best matchup is Zeke A linebacker. Yeah, and that's fair. And but good things happen when they run screens with Zeke. But that's an entirely different animal than what he was asked to do on that particular play, right, that's right. I love Zeke as a receiver, yeah, and

maybe that's something they need to look at more. I think Garrett was asked about that yesterday. You know, are they involving him enough in that regard? You don't like that? No, I but he was asked that. That's what I was shaking my head for. So well, what's wrong with asking that? Well? No, no, nothing.

But when Cooper's catching eleven passes for one hundred and forty seven yards and Cobb's catching six for one hundred and six and Gallop four for seventy six and jar one just three for thirty five, how many more plays you have to throw Zeke the ball? Another way to get you It's not if it's not a screen, and you're probably not screening when you're that close to the goal line, right, because you're not not. Yeah, that's you're

not spreading enough people out. YEA. I like what you're saying, Rob, that it's another way to employ Zeke you know, so give him a long handoff instead of a short Yeah, that's right, But I get your point. I mean they're they're spreading it around, and that's kind of goes back to, well, you know why runs so much? You did? You did throw almost fifty times in this game, forty six passes, just not late I wonder. I mean, it's just not what it battered the vote. I should I should have

looked this up. But like, what's his career high for attempts? Do you think he's throwing fifty? I don't think he has. He may have in one of these games where they've been behind, and trying to catch that answer for you if you can vamp for a second, Yeah, I think he's hit fifty before because they end up running the ball. What twenty two times? Twenty two runs forty six? I got one minute, I got one to try to find in this media guide what his career I is for attempts.

Brian always says this, and I agree with him. They're they're at their best when he's throwing twenty eight times and they're running at twenty five. Yeah, well, they weren't at their best because they weren't getting anywhere running the ball, but they were gashing them throwing the ball. They were, and you know, and they adapted. Everybody goes, why can't they adapt? They did adapt. They ended up throwing the ball almost fifty times, actually forty seven if we count Cobbs. Yes,

we shan't play. He had fifty four attempts last year against Philadelphia. He was forty two out of fifty four for four hundred fifty five yards at seventy seven point eight percent completion percentage asteris, two interceptions, three touchdown. Was that the overtime game? That was the overtime game? A right, it was, okay, find one in regulation. Now I always have to have an asterisk. Um, he hasn't hit fifty this season? Right? No? Yeah? No? Um? He had forty

five in his rookie and his first start ever. What do you mean the first game twenty five out of forty five this season opener against the Giants in twenty sixteen, and they won, they lost, they lost twenty to nineteen. Yeah, and so I think he's got to have more than forty five. Let's see. Oh, he hit fifty against Denver. Oh that was they were way behind. Usually it's when they couldn't run in that game, right, he had like nine yards or something. Yeah. Yeah, And let's close with

a picture of Mickey. You guys are really looking there. There he is Mickey and Charles Hayley. Mickey on Santa Claus's lap. And that's a great way So November, Cowboys, Christmas at the start. Remember there you go. Make sure someone is going to make sure that Mickey. Whether Mickey does it or not, there will be a picture of Mickey in Santa Claus's lamp somewhere. We'll talk at you tomorrow.

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