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December 10, 2024 12 mins
Jerry Jones visited with 105.3 The Fan today to discuss the Cowboys' loss to the Bengals on Monday Night Football. Hear his comments on the punt block that ultimately led to the Cincy winning the game.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I would say this, I understand what you're talking about
and your feelings and all the other kind of stuff,
but let me also say this, boy, you can no, No,
I'm not discounting what you're saying at all. I get
what you're saying about your on the wall of the dialogue.
There are many Cowboy fans who are not in denial.

(00:21):
They're very angry about Jerry Jones. I'm very unhappy about
Jerry Jones and that sort of thing, just like you.
But they're not. They're not in denial about that, but
they they're not abandoning their fandom. Is you are trending
toward doing you know, they're not. They're not abandoning their fandom. Uh,

(00:42):
some are just.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Think about it.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I started saying, I know that my own son has
done it. I know some other people have said I'm
done with them, or at least and I think I've
heard you make this kind of comment. You're done with
them until Jerry Jones is not in control anymore.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
And oh it was more like until Mike McCarthy's is
gone or they hire a head coach. I have faith,
and I'll tell you what, Craig, if what happened last night.
If it happened last year or the year before, I
would have my phone have been blowing up with texts
from people just you know, trolling the Cowboys. But because

(01:20):
the Cowboys are in are just so downtrodden, I think,
in a single text from anyone like making fun of me,
like hey, nice, nice job in the pump block, nobody
cares because the Cowboys are just that bad. If it
was a year ago, and of course the Cowboys at
a winning record, steven A would still be talking about
it right now at two thirty Central time. Yeah, but
because of their their record and their five wins, you know,

(01:41):
it's just kind of like, you know, it's just beating
a dead horse. I'm fair.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, again, I agree with all of that. It does
not mean, however, that you can't continue to be a fan.
There is a term for this. It's called long suffering.
I was same with suffering. Yeah, suffering. I don't want
to suffer. Okay, then.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Who wants to suffer?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Then fandom is not for you, you know, fans. It is
our lot in life as sports fans to suffer because
nobody's team wins every single year. Nobody's team does. Alabama
fans are finding that out the hard way of these
past couple of years, especially this year. Nobody's team wins

(02:24):
every year. And I've said like and I repeated it.
I'd said it long before in the past, and I
echo it again. When the Dodgers won the World Series
this year, and I was so thrilled as a fan,
I said, every fan. I even said it on Facebook,
every fan of a pro sports team anyway, or your
favorite team that you just give your heart and soul to.

(02:45):
Every fan deserves to see their team win a championship
at least once in their lifetime, whether it's a pro
football team or basketball or baseball. You've already experienced it
with the Rain. You were so young when the long
Wrens won the National Championships. He probably didn't enjoy it.

(03:06):
I remember it, but yeah I didn't. I wouldn't have
enjoyed it as I would a championship this year, right exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
But in order to enjoy that, to get the full
fulfillment of it, you have to walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, my friend, you have to
deal with you have to walk through the misery of
being a sports fan. If you are truly tied to
that team. That's all I'm saying. You don't have to.

(03:35):
I'm just saying that it's it makes being a fan
more worthwhile if you have suffered with him. The problem
is for you and for a lot of Cowboy fans,
is that you've suffered too long.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
And I get that. And what makes the suffering worse
is that we have an owner like Jerry Jones.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, which brings us to some sound
Jerry Jones. So let's let's hear from Jay and again,
this is what he does every Tuesday, goes on one
O five three of the fan the Convery station there
in Dallas Fort Worth, and he gets on there with

(04:12):
r J and Sean the rest of the crew. And
so they asked him a lot of different questions. So
here's here's one here, how about his overall view of
the loss to the Cincinnati Bengals last night?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Still very disappointed, just feel like we finished up the game,
but at this juncture, But sure disappointed to these players overall.
I thought they gave an outstanding effort. We had a
lot of people get in there and contribute that we
frankly hadn't expected to be playing with at this time

(04:51):
to this degree, and so in that side it was
a plus. It's just a real this pointing to for
everyone concerned. I know the play feel the sad way
to lose a ball game, like the way we lost
that game after giving ourself that shot to win him.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, all right, that's one thing. So then they asked
him about the punt block and the block that comes,
and then the money warrior touching the ball and they
get a little light ball and Bengals recovered. It's just
bad all the way around.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yes, let me let me say this, or they kicked
the ball, Yes, let me let me say this, or
they kicked cabal. Let's say they get a good punt.
It had been booming them all night long. He'd had
good yardage on his punts. We've got to go down

(05:44):
uh and get with them close enough that field goal
to get about thirty forty four yards if you assume
that he gets a good punt off. Our offense had
had it's plus is, but it also been stemning a
couple of times there too. Frankly, when I really reviewed

(06:08):
it after the dust had settled, it was not a
bad call and was executed on the front end of
the punt block very very effectively. And I had revisited
the look on the way the ball hit and it

(06:29):
really kind of bounced up in a way that was
almost unavoidable. The players are coached up, they talk it up,
they are constantly reminded that when a ball is blocked
on special teams, you run from the ball. You don't
ever get near the ball. And of course that ball

(06:50):
hit just right and back up into our player. I
liked to call I'm going to second guess that call.
That call had a lot of logitude. There's organized the
kicking game is organized. Chaos out there, a lot of
moving parts. Everybody's got a lot of different things to

(07:13):
keep in mind. And that was a mistake not to
run from the ball. But you've got to assume that
he saw the ball. You've got to assume he knew
where the ball was, all of those kinds of things.
So unquestionably, it was a play that you'll keep in
your mind forever. Probably that had the player done differently,

(07:37):
then we would have got possession right there and a
good chance would win the ball game. But the second
guessing would come from letting them kick it free and
taking the ball to wink to the field to get
within the field goal range, or whether or not you
should risk all the nuances of trying to block a kick,

(07:57):
getting possession and then making it. And the more you
look at it, the more you see that it was
a well thought out, had well scouted. It was a
really diagram well, I said, out with a special teams
coach at the game and he showed me before the

(08:17):
play diagram. It was very well caught out and they
lined up and the way they tried to block it,
I mean, the way they tried to block us up
to keep us from blocking the kit panned out excellent force.
So from that standpoint, it was a play that we executed.
The ball, of course, didn't bounce our way.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
All right, that's a little that's a little weird, because.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
A little weird.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't think anyone, whether you're a cowboy fan or
a dispassionate analyst or whatever, I don't think anybody anyone
had any issue with him going after the punt and
blocking it. Yes, as special teams because John Fossil, right,
is that right? Yeah? The way they drew it up,

(09:12):
he talked about it, sat down with a Special teams coach,
and we talked about, yes, it was well designed to
go after and get it and block it and all
that other kind of stuff. Great effort on that. Nobody's
disputing that. He made it sound like he was trying
to defend the decision to block the punt. Nobody that
I have heard of, read, or seen has any problem

(09:33):
with them going after the punt. That's not the thing.
The thing is making sure all your guys know the rule,
or even if they know the rule in the case
of a warrior, maybe he just got aggressive because he
thought he could feel it on the hop like a
scoop and score and take off. But you got it.
But is the reward worth the risk at that point

(09:54):
or just let it go out of bounds around the
forty yard line then you have it there. That's the
issue here. It's not the decision to go after the pund.
Everybody's gonna say, yeah, if you can block the pump,
block the punt, just get the hell away, don't touch
it when it comes through. And that's what he didn't
really get into.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
One other thing.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
He was asked if he was satisfied with the team's
attention to detail, because this would fall into that category
of attention to detail, knowing the rule, understanding even if
you can completely understand the rule, understanding the risk versus
reward on this.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yes, yes, it's starting their attention to detail with this team,
specially on special teams. And we've had special teams played
work bots this year. We've had a backfire own this
this year. It's a big point of emphsis. John does
an outstanding job or Special Teams coach is considered one

(10:53):
of the very best who is in a game, and
I would tell you first hand being around his being
around how he prepares these guys. It's unfortunate that the
play didn't the execute and causes to win the game.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, okay, And like you said, whether it's a lack
of execution on that or is it not taking the
better path by just letting it go out of bounds
or just squib to a dead halt, Because if nobody
touches it and it just lays there in play, then
the officials blow it dead. It looked like it was

(11:35):
gonna skid her out of bounds. Eventually, it wouldn't matter
if even if one of the Bengals had picked it up.
As long as you don't it doesn't matter. That's the
issue here, all right. We're gonna hear more from Jerry
next hour and in the four o'clock hour as well,
talking about de Barbie had overshown with the unfortunate injury,

(11:56):
his thoughts on whether they could still make the playoffs,
and other guys as well on this team. So we'll
do all that, but up next, we have Inconceivable for
a Tuesday afternoon here on Sports Radio A.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm thirteen under the Zone.
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