Arizona Cardinals @ Dallas Cowboys, Week 1 1998 Part II

fox nfl sunday is brought to you by volkswagen on the road of life there are passengers and there are drivers by gateway let's talk about your gateway buy pizza hut home of america's favorite pan pizza and by the u.s navy navy let the journey begin [Music] tim ryan with bill moz and ronnie lott here at texas stadium andre wadsworth have been getting a fair amount of time here in his first game no training camp off the plane into uniform signed last night and he was just sucking air there during the timeout it is over a hundred degrees it has been all day aikman from the shotgun on third down takes off running there's a flag down field and he goes out of bounds unscathed at the 10. there was a flag downfield early in the play 17-yard run by aikman who's done about everything you could ask today he's passed for a touchdown he's run for two he's taken off running two or three times in the game the penalty downfield against the cardinals yeah you know the thing about troy aikman that is everybody said on the defense we can go as far as number eight if number eight can get the job done leading this new chan galey offensive number eight can do all the things that he's done in the past and he's showing that today i mean the one thing that you got to say that his heart right now is out there he is doing everything that he possibly can he's running with the football he's making the great throw his arm is alive he's doing a lot a lot of things bill a lot of responsibilities too he has the responsibility now of calling the play protection up in the line of scrimmage he's in full control of audible he didn't get the play in fast enough did you see before he was pointing to his head saying his ears saying come on come on come on didn't get the plane charge in quick enough it was disappointed but the one thing he is doing he says i like having the chess game in my hands i like to be the one matching brains with a defensive [Music] coordinator 21-10 dallas lead the penalty against jb brown after the 17-yard gain by aikman has the cowboys first and goal at the five-yard line of arizona who has rushed now five times for 40 yards including a couple of touchdowns [Applause] we've got some tired cardinals out there in this heat this defense has been on the field a lot emmitt smith is tripped up behind the line of scrimmage loss on the play maybe two patrick sapp got in there to make the hit well you know you talk about the defense and you know there's 11 minutes left to go in the game virtually and they've already been on the field 61 plays look there you have it so arizona defense is out there 61 plays so you're looking at possibly 75 to 80 plays ronnie for the course of a game and as you know anytime you're in a game that long on defense it takes it out of you let alone in a game with this heat lodgeworth comes back in along with swinger lead pass is cut is it in the end zone sure touchdown how about that fresh move right there what was that whoa whoa whoa he's been waiting he's been practicing on that you're saying whoa i'm saying al [Laughter] he's been practicing on that for all off season and finally the first game he gets to do it that's his first career td first career td billy davis he might have been practicing longer than all summer you've been practicing that for three years free agent out of the university of pittsburgh cunningham for the point after davis becoming the start of this year [Applause] you're gonna see the little drop back pass here watch it's a fade pattern to the top and he has nice separation well thrown and right there when you look at that play as a defensive back you'll see billy davis right now now the defensive back has to play through the body or he's got to find the ball what he does there he doesn't look back to the receiver you take your eyes off the receiver you got to get back you got to find a receiver then you got to play through him if you don't play through him you will not be able to make this play and right there troy aikman sweet pass sweet throw in a sweet split split spike at the same time that was pretty good now you know he's from my alma mater and you know university of pittsburgh put out some fine football players tim ryan as has yours as notre dame i know a big win yesterday but we condone touchdowns billy but i can't condone the hairdo man i can't that's not a pit hairdo that no that's not a pit hair do it and but i do have to say this troy said hey you got to love the kid yeah he came in with his hair dyed red one morning and we said billy don't worry about it i still will throw the ball to you fun-loving guy with some talent earned his starting spot this year alongside michael irvin go and blast another one deep in the end zone metcalf no chance to bring it out again [Applause] so they'll start from their 20-yard line and now down 28-10 well tonight after an all-new world's funniest it's an all-new holding the baby then i can't miss simpsons and the smash hit that 70 show followed by the x-files all tonight at 7 6 central on fox yeah bill that's that 70s show that was a 70s move wasn't it the split you know i wouldn't yeah i forgot i did have that fro back then first down at the 20-yard line for the cardinals they go to the shotgun jake plummer got to make miracles happen here 10 45 to go pumps once then again finds a man that's sanders frank sanders for the first down 32-yard line i think what arizona is going to do at this time it gives them a chance to try to use their no-huddle offense it gives them a chance to work on some of the things that they need to work on down the road yeah mark tressman is going to get these guys moving he's going to try to control the game he doesn't need to get a big play but move the change right now move the chains you know the one thing i didn't see utilize as much as i thought i would today is i thought i'd see a lot more out of the short stuff with the tight end and more to the flat with centers lumber intended for metcalf and he couldn't hold on as he was smacked by stoutmayer the safety 24. yeah bill i agree with you i thought the centers uh with the numbers that he's had a guy that is a football player like dave campbell he says i would like to have him on my team you know i would like to have him running the football he's he's one of the toughest guys on the field and for him not to have the ball in his hand i think it's a crime especially in this west coast well you know in 1995 and 96 both years he had over 100 receptions as a fullback and he's just not getting the ball today and ten plumber and that's complete that center's right there they gave it to him that time and he has swarmed under look at him battle oh he'll fight you to the end now the ball is going to be at his most forward movement but you know larry centers could have gone down but he's going to keep fighting even if he goes five yards back with four down cowboys on him he only got about a yard after all that effort well now they're going to give him a little better forward progress let's call it a little better than a two-yard pickup third and eight you see the numbers there and then last year they dropped down in receptions those are all receptions and they dropped that and when you have him as a weapon in the backfield ronnie you couldn't attest to it i mean the fullbacks you played with in san francisco yeah and the thing about those full-backs they all they caught the ball they they would throw the ball to him look like movement along the front of the arizona offensive line james dexter or chris gidney one of the other or both out the right side before the snap falls start on the offense number 75 five yards third down now they got the left side they probably could have called about three guys there lomas just maybe started it yeah we talked about rob moore being the jerry rice well centers can be the tom raphael and i think that you got to get the ball in his hands and you got to utilize his skills and they need mcwilliams to be the brent jones third and 13 27 from arizona can't find an open man look down thompson he's going for metcalf the flag is down metcalf has the ball to dallas territory at the 37th two flags down one downfield one back at the line of scrimmage yeah i think we had alignment go down beyond yeah downfield when he saw jake start scrambling they took off downfield to block and that may nullify if there's a pass interference down here illegal man downfield that's the call and pass interference yep that's going to nullify pass interference now is going to be nullified against george tate here's tig 31. right in here he matches up on metcalf and his metcalf starts downfield when he sees jake he gets his hands down field on the offense number 67 and illegal contact on the defense number 21. those palace offset replay third down well it was george take 31. it wasn't deion sanders and on offense oligomel and downfield there's chris dishman you know your quarterback starts scrambling around and comes out of the pocket you know it's hard to know where he's at a scrambling quarterback when he's behind you you never know where he's at and actually for an offensive lineman it makes protection hard so if he sees jake start scrambling then you want to get out in front of him and help block somebody he passed the ball and it was illegal man downfield so third down repeated for morale a little behind him he couldn't hold on he takes a hit from kevin mathis so the arizona offense just been outmatched by the dallas defense today overall in this football game dave campo has done an outstanding job today of changing things up and given different variations of zone and man coverage to confuse plumber just enough and and the confusion you can see in his throws because everything isn't crisp and everything isn't right where it's supposed to be and you can't win football games going over nine on third downs bill you cannot win games that way that's what arizona is that's their eighth punt sanders takes it at the 20-yard line with a fair catch and so the cowboys in the driver's seat 8 30 to go they have the ball and the lead 28 to 10. [Music] you're running yeah but you know what i like is that chan galey who talked to us said ronnie bill tim look guys if we win this game yeah so what we're i got a game plan i know where i want to go i know that this offense needs more reps we're not running this offense efficiently enough and and to me it made a statement here's a guy that's thinking down the road he's looking down the road he talked to us about landry and how landry kept his composure i mean he talked about dan reeves he mentioned some of the great coaches and great players of the cowboys and i think that's what he's trying to do right now he's just trying to make sure that he's consistent and persistent well i i think the biggest change for the cowboys isn't necessarily the offense you know the guys are here and you're gonna make some changes and wrinkles and i saw some creative things but i think the biggest change really is that the cowboys now have direction with chan gailey they have direction and i think that's what they were lacking the prior years all right let me say the prior two and a half years well the players all reflect that kind of thinking in conversations with them he's impressed them in training camp even though here's a team that went on five in the preseason he didn't even mention that in fact he was reluctant to comment on what he thought of his team when i asked him that question he just didn't really want to think about that now he said i got to see them in action after all we haven't been in action he didn't count the preseason he was getting his team ready to play today he said we can we can give you a better impression after our first game a little farther down the road and i think that's what he means by that is look i'm not worried about today i'm worried about how we're going to look week 9 week 10. and he knows that this team needs to come a long way from where they were in training camp first down at the 20-yard line cowboys this is daryl johnston [Music] you know one of the things that he said in his new offense he said the offense this is what we want to do we want to move the downs you know right away i thought he's talking about first down markers yeah i said no i want to move the downs and the downs are the down linemen in his running game philosophy he wants to move the big people he said let the linebackers and safety let them run all over the place do whatever the heck they want we want to get movement on the big guys down second and five hits to smith and they moved a few guys up front but they got a good defensive play from simeon rice that time ranging out untouched to pull down emmett smith and you move the big guys i mean nate newton's been moving big guys for years watch him right here on mark smith here's the reach block and he gets the push watch the push that's push that's a win that's pushing off the line of scrimmage and creating that angle but what you need from there is you need not only nate newton to do that but on that plate dave lafleur he cannot do that you know he's got the same thing about him everybody talks about him what a great blocker he is i mean i i i don't see that great blocker in him and i haven't seen it swinger and wadsworth in on third and five on the arizona front nice play in dias williams he wasn't fooled on that screenplay yeah that's right williams i mean that's why he's a pro bowl player he was able to read that play he was able to get right in there and and that's what you like you like to see that and i think he might have twisted his ankle on his plate but you see ania's right here he's looking back on the inside he sees a little motion he knows hey there might be something going reads the quarterback you get up in there and you grab that leg and you hold on that's sniffing it out yeah see something funny in that motion then you see the offensive tackle way out there where he's not supposed to be i i used to like to snip things out bill irvin has been giving him fits all day long and williams gets up slowly just here about to start the next play he somehow hurt his ankle or foot on the last play the tackle he made on urban and they cannot afford to lose him tommy knight got injured early on now aeneas williams who is the the leader of that group uh i mean here's a guy that has done an excellent job teaching these guys he sat down with pat tillman he's he's worked with tommy bennett he's worked with knight uh they can't afford to lose this guy because he's really the the leader in the in the and really the soul of this uh defense that brings up fourth down cardinals will have the ball offensively again 6 33 to go regulation time toby going standing at his seven yard line back deep at the 35 is eric metcalf another good kick from going and backing up mid cap trying to make something happen he gets out at about the 32 yard line and the cardinals will start there 50-yard punt from going a four-yard return from metcalf cowboys lead 28-10 [Music] we just got talked and started saying to one another how much you know we appreciate and enjoyed one another over the past eight nine years that we've been together the things we've accomplished uh the friendship that has grown out of the things that we've accomplished on the football field and and the friendship that we have off football fella it's just been a blessing and they hope to draw on that to bounce back from a 6-10 season and the veterans today off to a great start for the dallas cowboys plumber the young quarterback getting a real baptism here starting a new season not to larry centers and he has a first down for arizona remember jake plummer started only nine games last year and he had such an incredible string with a not very talented team that high optimism continues for him despite this shaky start today emmitt smith can take the rest of the afternoon off and probably troy aikman 5 57 remains plumber trying to get loose got just over the line of scrimmage tripped up by darren woodson [Music] you know for mark tressman and the arizona offense i i think he's got to go back and look and see what he has i think he has to go back and say maybe we wanted too much too soon ronnie you know he talked to us about putting everything in at once he says i put the whole book lumber in pressure from hennings and he's short trying to get it to frank sanders yeah and and i have to agree with you there i think they do have to go back and i think what happens though is that you come into a game like this you're excited i think jake got excited i think that if you look at his play today i know that especially that one played down there in the end zone where he had a chance to throw that ball and make a touchdown there i i'm almost positive that jake plummer as well as mark tressman they're going to walk away from this game looking and saying we got to be more patient and we got to do the fundamentals we got to stay within ourselves one of nine on third down let's see what plumber can produce here big pressure has to chuck it in a hurry and dave campbell keeps confusing jake plummer that was greg ellis giving him a good run that time he's mixed it up on him defensively tim ronnie i mean dave campbell said i've got to come at him with a variety of things now i want you to watch the zone blitz here they bring the safeties up and then watch kavika pittman he's going to drop back here into coverage that's just disguising what you're actually getting but it's enough to confuse jake fourth down they're going for and his receiver is pulled down no call apparent on the play and complete what guess who was over there kevin smith how can that possibly not be passing or fail i cannot believe bob moore slow to get up and limping a bit he's not complaining he's just limping are they saying the ball was thrown over his head it was uncatchable maybe how can that not be a flag i mean watch rob right here right here and and look at this right here yeah you could i think their feet got tangled up and that may have been accidental yeah i can tell you this though had he been on and had this game not been out of control the referees would have been all over that call and i think they would have made that call there unfortunately because larry sanders as well as jake palm plumber they they gotta believe that they need to get something like that they want those calls bill aikman gives it to emmett smith both of the big guys still in the ball game for dallas that puts him over about a hundred that might put him right at 100. first down about 11-12 yard pickup for emmitt smith hey and you look at the numbers you know you think statistically what do you want to have you know you want your quarterback to play well you want your running back to have 100 yards rushing and you want you want one of your receivers to get up there with their pass numbers yeah but when you look at this player right here he is being patient and and if you look at all the numbers of all three guys bill the one thing that i guess you could say tomorrow for labor day holiday that these guys are going to be they're going to have a good holiday tomorrow they deserve a day off that's for sure 97 yards rushing for emmitt smith and he has it again you know we talked about emmitt smith when he makes his cut ronnie remember he said before he used to make it in the backfield and clarence sheldon told him you got to make it in the line of scrimmage watch he waits actually up until he gets watch where he is he's up in here when he's cut that's buying himself some time and and it's not allowing the defense to respond to what he's doing yeah and you know it was funny because when he first got into this offense the one thing he said he said he's strong i i struggled man i started to doubt myself and the reason i was doubting myself because i felt like i could do everything but i wasn't making any plays he got the first down they gave him only nine on first down emmett smith again crashing off right tackle this time took a pretty good lick with moose leading the way and he has a gain of about six yards on that one jamir miller made the hard tackle on him 26 carries 106 yards for emmitt smith you know you talk about the big three and really you just you got to bring this guy back into it you have to talk about moose too he's every bit a part of the success of any running play there is aries gets a piece of tillman just enough to push him back but hey you know you're talking about a seven yard pick up ronnie and what a remarkable comeback he's made from the neck injury yeah he has made a great comeback from that and you talk to chan and chad says he's not going to get beat up as much because we're going to have him trying to find linebackers instead of just running in there ramming into people tell you what emmett smith's having some fun he just picked up another first down inside right to the 20-yard line they spot the ball and a couple interesting things tim they said remember troy aiken when we sat down and talked to him he said you know it used to be you know we get real excited for the big games green bay san francisco he said now when you're six and ten you have to get excited about every game and when you think about it this game the six and ten cowboys are playing the four and twelve cardinals i mean who would have thought that ever would have transpired with dallas now there's a perfect example of what emmett smith was talking about he waited he waited and it opened up for him and he has another first down he's down to the seven great piece of running by emmitt smith ronnie ronnie i can tell you this if the dallas cowboys came into this game at a crossroad they went through that and they actually they laid a highway right right through that crossroad and they are on it yeah and the reason they're on is that you got to look at the offensive line jerry came in and said look yeah i have to address it but look at the big boy right there jose washington washington i mean i mean that guy right there is gonna be the future troy aikman and the cowboys inside the 10 again with a first down sherman williams williams trying to get wide let's do close to the six yard line we have 154 to go and immediately following football you'll see these programs except on the west coast 7 p.m world's funniest followed by holding the baby on the simpsons followed by that 70s show and then the x-files at 9pm [Applause] 28-10 dallas [Applause] beating up on the cardinals here on this opening weekend an impressive performance before a sellout crowd here at texas stadium open the season sherman williams straightened up at about the four yard line mckinnon the linebacker number 57 and andre wadsworth tim right now right now the cowboys totally collectively have about 180 yards rushing the last time they did that was november 96. they had a 200 yard day [Music] well you know what's exciting for me is that next week they go to denver and going to denver next week bill it will also give them a chance to find out where they're really at [Applause] third and goal on the three williams not much there the cardinals front battling here not wanting to give up any more points under a minute we go counting down to 15. you know it's interesting you talk about that don't think for one second that chang yelly isn't looking in his mind to go up to denver don't forget remember the afc championship game he had to match wits against mike shanahan and that game went down the wire there i mean that's the game he wants another shot at so they send on the field goal unit here at the time counting down to 30 seconds cunningham on board ready to attempt the field goal here and the cowboys can feel good about this opening day effort for sure for arizona vince tobin's got to go back and say well maybe we got a little over excited these youngsters jake plummer the euphoria about andre wadsworth signing and getting into uniform today they got some work to do back there in the desert but it was clearly a much improved team from a year ago and they've just got to build off this well you know they got all the pieces in place like i said now you didn't see it today no but the upside of the whole thing is ronnie she know on the offense it's five yards still fourth down delay a game it's a lot of young guys i mean you look at this team it's a lot of young guys for arizona plus let's not forget remember the trade okay they gave up the number two spot in the draft of san diego and they've got a bunch of draft choices coming for that they got eric metcalf over he's going to help him out through the course of the year they felt good enough about jake plummer that they didn't need that spot they didn't need a franchise quarterback now they're going to have they got players they have more draft choices next year and they got a young team with a lot of great nucleus 25-yard field goal attempt for cunningham and it's good cunningham was pretty much routine a year ago and jan galey gets his first of what i'm sure he hopes will be many more of those dunkings there woodson drowned him with the gatorade plugger first as a head coach in the national football league first here in dallas following barry switzer jimmy johnson before him and of course the legendary tom landry and chan gailey can smile freely know that uh he and his coaching staff despite their owen five preseason knew what they're up to preparing for the real stuff today here against the arizona cardinals 31-10 the score 19 seconds remaining you know the tough thing like i said before earlier on you know six months you'll wait six months in the offseason you wait for one game for the start and it's so tough to start the season out with a loss you know everybody somebody's going to have to lose every game today but it's so hard to start for the arizona cardinals they haven't won a home opening game and every time they every time they started off with a home loss or opening season loss they've been sure to go nowhere yeah it's tough bill and i remember going back to my rookie year because at that time we lost our first game and somehow we started mustering it up and and the offense started to click and this guy by the name of montana who everybody's saying that jake saw a lot alike he started to come into his own so i'm not ready to give up on this football team this offense is going to get better metcalf dropped the ball [Applause] and i'm not ready to give up on the cowboys either did you see that stick that was hemsley the linebacker and the loose ball picked up by the cowboys running to the end zone kenny wheaton reserved defensive back with just 11 seconds on the clock hemsley just lit up watch right here watch this play hemsley just lights up eric metcalf and that ball pops out and there's wheaton so a freebie for kenny wheaton wheaton was in the battle for the safety spot with omar stoutmeyer stottmeyer selected by the staff to start and you can see yeah vince tobin like what else can happen to us here to finish off this game today still 11 seconds to go cunningham on for the point after i do agree with you ronnie i i totally agree with the arizona no you can't even nowhere near even thinking about giving up on that team that team has a lot of upside [Applause] 15-yard touchdown of the fumble recovery return by wheaton and the dallas cowboys in a route 38 to 10 still 11 seconds to go now do you give metcalf another [Music] run back back there to put somebody else at this time he's on the field lots more programming ahead here after our football is completed this afternoon on fox at 7 30 starts with holding the baby and then the simpsons and that 70s show from eight to nine and at nine o'clock ex files all ahead here on fox yeah bill uh you know i i've sat here i'm sat next to you i've sat next to tim you guys have you brought me along this week you showed me the room and i and i'm and i'm loving it man this is exciting this is where you want to be out here you're right here man i felt that last hit i can smell it you know and working with you and tim and it's been awesome baby i can't wait i felt the hit too but what you smell is time could be in this eat all day here tell you what i watched you last year several times moss you look a little smaller last year you've been dieting that cap gets up to the 18-yard line and hangs on to that ball this time you don't get the same kind of hit look at the sidelines of the cowboys now if you can reflect back to the end of last season emmitt smith is up he's out there he was congratulating his offensive line look at this hugs for everybody this is a different team there's no question in my mind do you remember the last five games of last year catching watching them at all i mean the sidelines was just a disaster nobody wanted to be there no one wanted to be around the area this is a different team and a lot of rejuvenation felt today with what they have and where they want to take it and it's nice when you bring in a coach like chad galey who is really understated he has got caught up in the hoopla he's been very very patient and for me i like being around a guy like him [Applause] now that is it the final play an incomplete pass and the dallas cowboys an impressive home opener 38-10 over the arizona cardinals for ronnie lada bill moss i'm jim ryan saying so long coming up kevin fraser and ron pitts will get you caught up with everything on the fox nfl post game report

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Length: 34min 3sec (2043 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020