Why I was wrong about the Dallas Cowboys: Beware “the things you don’t know you don’t know”
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The Dallas Cowboys are having a terrible year. One play from last Monday night’s loss to the Cincinnati Bengals seemed to sum up their season: A Cowboys player deflected a Bengals punt late in the game. So, of course, one of their players touched and fumbled the ball. The Bengals recovered it, then scored a touchdown to win the game. The Dallas media and football social media have been scathing and unrelenting. Today we discuss what we can learn from situations with “unknown unknowns” and how the Baconian fallacy applies to our relationship with Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Thursday, December the 12th, 2024 edition of the Daily |
| 0:08.5 | Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article |
| 0:14.0 | written by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. I'm taking a risk today by beginning this daily article with a story many of you won't care about |
| 0:25.7 | and hoping you'll stay with me anyway. |
| 0:28.4 | I never imagined I would write about this topic either. |
| 0:31.5 | In fact, that's my point, as I'll explain shortly. |
| 0:35.1 | The Dallas Cowboys are having a terrible year. Their fans, like me, |
| 0:39.6 | can't wait for it to be over. One play from last Monday night's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 0:45.2 | seemed to sum up their season. A Cowboys player deflected a Bengals punt late in the game. |
| 0:51.9 | Per the rules, once the blocked punt crossed the line of scrimmage, |
| 0:56.6 | if the cowboys left it alone, it would be theirs. They could then drive for a game-winning score. |
| 1:03.0 | However, if one of the cowboy players touched the ball and fumbled it, the bingles could recover it. |
| 1:09.8 | So, of course, one of the Cowboys touched and fumbled the |
| 1:13.8 | ball. The Bengals recovered it, then scored a touchdown to win the game. Cowboys fans were furious. How could |
| 1:21.9 | the player be so dumb? How could the coaches fail to teach him such a basic football rule? |
| 1:33.3 | The Dallas media and football social media have been scathing and unrelenting. Then I read an article in which a Cowboys coach explained that the player, |
| 1:38.3 | who was executing his assigned block with his back to the play, |
| 1:42.3 | had no way of knowing that the punt had been blocked. |
| 1:46.0 | He could not tell if it was a fumble or just a bad punt. When he saw the ball, he reacted, |
| 1:52.5 | as he had been trained to do, a fact that the player later confirmed. While his fumble was an |
| 1:58.2 | obvious miscue, his attempt to feel the ball was not. |
| 2:02.6 | I was wrong about him, but I didn't know that I was wrong. |
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