The Cowboys' Strange New Way to End a Season
The MMQB NFL Podcast
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3.9 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Five of the six Wild-Card games are in the books, and Conor and Gary are diving into what went down. Which included Dak Prescott. A second too late. A discussion of the buffonish inefficiency of the Cowboys’ final play selection, as well as the performance of one team that wasn’t prepared, and another that seemed uninterested in closing them out.
Then, the Bucs outclass the Eagles in a bitter end for Philly’s season, as Tom Brady continues to be often unstoppable and incredibly boring to watch. In the AFC, the Chiefs and Steelers square off in a game that never should have been played, but the football gods make up for it by sending Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen to play head-to-head next weekend. Plus, a trip back to Saturday night and how the Bills put together a flawless game against the Patriots, and the absurd goodness of Joe Burrow and the future of the Carr-Bisaccia Raiders.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and we're going to the MMQB NFL podcast I'm here to Gramling. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Conoror. |
| 0:09.4 | And we are five-sixth of the way through Wild Card weekend and Connor we are going to start |
| 0:17.0 | this one at the end of the Cowboys 49ers game which was mind-blowing in all the wrong ways. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah what just an exhausting display of stupidity it was um I mean neither team seemed remotely interested in advancing to the next round. |
| 0:37.0 | It was like, what was the, was it like China and Taiwan playing badminton or China and Korea? |
| 0:44.6 | Do you know what I'm talking about? |
| 0:45.8 | It was like the badminton match? |
| 0:47.2 | I have no idea what you're talking about. |
| 0:48.8 | You don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of Olympic badminton history? |
| 0:51.9 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:53.0 | Both teams were trying to lose the badminton match |
| 0:55.7 | because in their round-robin play |
| 0:58.1 | they would have gotten to play like New Zealand who was terror, |
| 1:01.0 | like a country that is obviously bad at badminton, like New |
| 1:04.2 | Zealand, what do they know about badminton? But so one of those teams was like gonna play |
| 1:09.3 | New Zealand and so they would just like serve the shuttlecock and then they would the other team would just stare at it and watch it just like hit the ground and it was amazing. It went on forever and people booed and they said it was like the ultimate disgrace to bad men and this was not that bad but it was |
| 1:26.2 | With Jimmy Garopolo just continuously serving the ball up to Dallas and then Mike McCarthy running the strangest follow-up to a fake |
| 1:34.9 | punt I've ever seen in my life. It was just the entire thing was was amazing. |
| 1:39.6 | Okay let me start here because I want to make sure that I'm not losing it. |
| 1:46.0 | Wouldn't you rather run two plays from the 40 than one play from the 25 to the end zone? |
| 1:53.0 | Mike McCarthy's logic was, and he actually said this, |
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