Carolina Panthers @ Dallas Cowboys, Week 6 1998 2nd Half

john all right we're going to talk about this carolina dallas game boy i tell you steve burleigh tb on record is saying that he liked berlin better and he's showing why and i think just his presence in the huddle they just look like a different team because they have some leadership we talked about the problems all these young quarterbacks are having around the league steve berlin almost with a little chip on his shoulder coming into this one you can almost tell he was thinking you know what guys it is my time right now this is my team and he has taken over and done a terrific job and rocket ishmael is finally looking like the guy that we thought he could be coming out of notre dame yeah and the interesting thing is more important than whether terry likes steve burling is that offensive that team likes steve berlin and that quarterback in terms of how he's perceived by his teammates often dictates how successful the team is and obviously carrie collins was not in sync with his players and more importantly his offensive lineman and when your offensive lineman don't like you as a quarterback there's problems i played with steve burline he's an every man's man the kind of guy that a team can rally around he's a real vocal guy a leader tough guy another notre dame guy yeah but but you know if you go back and you always look at quarterbacks and people off the quarterbacks off the bench quality quarterbacks jason garrett with the cow points in this first half over 200 yards and a touchdown but berlin remember the upset of the 49ers back in carolina well who engineered that and who was he throwing to the tight end walls down the middle berlin can get it done in big games now over the long haul of the season we're going to find out because it's his team and you're right give me a guy may not have as much talent but give me a guy with heart a guy i can depend on and the lineman will kill for us since we're passing around kudos we got to give chris collins worth his kudos who did he say was the most underrated team which team the patriots that's right what are they doing in the first half 24-0 24-0 all right folks san francisco right now five weeks waiting for that point afterwards the visa halftime will continue right after this [Applause] [Music] back at texas stadium the carolina panthers 14 the cowboys 10 at halftime you know john you and i stand in front of the camera and get a chance to talk and we have so many valued valuable members of our team that helped get the show on the air we lost the most valuable member this week our audio engineer bob snyderman and you know he was such a special person and you know when you're together with someone for 18 years as we were it's more than a working relationship every week when we would drive up the first guy that would come on the bus to say hello was spider and he was more than just someone we worked with he was one of our best friends and the thing about spiders he cared you know he cared about his job he was the best in the world he cared about his friends he was the best friend in the world he cared about the people that he worked with and he was the best with them he cared about his family and he was a great father a great husband and to lose someone like bob ciderman he just can't be replaced with us indeed you're right and when god's choir starts to sing amazing grace we know one thing the sound is going to be good we'll return after these messages from your local fox station each week during the second half of our games fox sports will have two interactive questions you call it and ask the pros these questions are for those of you that are locked onto the internet while watching our game you can participate by logging on to foxsports.com this week's you call it which team the panthers or the cowboys will have the most total yards in the second half of today's game join us on the internet log onto fort foxsports.com and we wish you good luck this week's ask the pros question is from ross of milpitas california what can the nfl do about the growing number of quarterback injuries i don't think the nfl can do anything about it i think they've done a good job in you know in all their safety rules and protecting the quarterbacks and and helping the offenses i think now it's up to the players and it's up to the coaches i think the coaches can do less hot reads you know you let a guy come at a quarterback and make him make a hot read i think they can do more maximum protection you know like we saw in this game where they go shotgun they keep two protectors right there next to the quarterback and i just think that everyone you just can't put it on the league and the officials i think it has to be put on the players and on the coaches john explain what a hot read is a hot read is when they when they bring a linebacker and you're not going to block them but you have to throw in the area that he vacated dallas kickoff by michael bates for carolina and he has got good speed faces out of bounds there's a flag on the play baits gets out of bounds at about the 28th you know and here's going to be an example of that hidden yardage this is going to be against carolina but if you look carolina now instead of starting at the 30 look where they're going to start you know and that penalty won't show up in statistics that's that thing that dom capers was talking about and on almost every kick it seems like this holding number 53 10 yard penalty first down see but it's not really a 10-yard penalty because bates brought it out to the 30. right so instead of being on the 30 look where it is it's on the 10 on the 10. so in essence it's a 20-yard penalty so 10 of those penalty yards are going to be hidden penalty yards within the kicking game and they will kill you they'll make you change [Applause] first half statistics panthers 26 yards rushing the cowboys 68. seven points for carolina off turnovers and those are another statistic that'll get you yeah and i mean if you look other than that i mean the turnover and then the seven points here this year was about even and if it weren't for that that turnover and touchdown the score would be about even second and ten two tight end set up for carolina steve berlin the quarterback from behind berlin taken down by greg ellis but greg ellis just does the speed rush he's right here and he's just going to come right around the corner and catch berlin right there that's not a move or anything he just comes with a speed the arm over and he's right into berlin you know here he is right here now watch him here comes here takes that left arm over now once he gets that left arm over then then he's right in steve berlin's face he went around rob bollinger third and 19 at the one and burling the ball's loose the handoff is high and the cowboys are saying they've got it and they did the cowboys come up with a fumble and the carolina one or two kevin mathis came up with a ball well it started with bad things happen for carolina first it was a penalty second it was a sack by ellis and then the third play is the fumble right here it wasn't by a hit it was william floyd didn't get control of the ball from the handoff just on the exchange you talk about bad things happening in a row that was boom boom boom the penalty and then the negative yards on first down the fumble on second down and the cowboys have the ball first and goal with the two yeah the the the past protection of rob bollinger trying to block greg ellis that kind of set the tempo for things or what field position to get a turnover in for the cowboys smith is the deep back and emmitt smith gets to carry bricks to the one as the panthers converge they almost split them that was an interesting formation what they what they tried to do is get a double lead you know usually you have one back in there leading but here you're going to see they get two backs to lead to the side that emmitt smith is going to come to nikki sualua is in there along with johnston moose johnston so that was a double fullback formation now they have a full house backfield three backs in there that's on the move and here's jason guerin he is rushing down at the six by kevin green i see they tried to fake that thing that lead like they were gonna do it to the read to the right side you see here they put a lead here they have another lead right back here they're gonna fake it and then go play pass you see the fake there but it didn't fake kevin green at all and if you're gonna if you're gonna fake him you still have to block kevin green because kevin green doesn't care about that inside run he is gonna go after the quarterback third and goal from the six now that was kevin green's 143rd career sack and garrett knows they're not going to have time to get this off so he takes a timeout and the fans are fooling because they remember the time management at the end of the half 14-10 carolina nfl sunday is brought to you by first union your guide to the financial world [Music] back at texas stadium carolina 14 dallas 10 we're in the third quarter chris warren in the backfield third down from the sixth third and goal warren touched down on the shuttle pass that was the old trick what they did is they put deion sanders in there and everyone the whole carolina panther sideline will say watch out for diana watch out for dion he goes in motion now watch dion he's going in motion here they think he's going to get the ball now they go the shovel pass right here to chris warren but watch what dion does everyone's worried see him waiting out here for dion and that just opens the middle because they're all pointing before the play watch 21 watch 21 watch dion they put him in motion fake to him and throw that shuffle past chris warren a heck of a play yeah the other stricken didn't work that trick worked cunningham's extra point is good chris warren into the end zone and that puts the cowboys in the lead 17-14 texas stadium the cowboys have taken the lead 17-14 in the third quarter chris warren with the touchdown kobe going to kick off [Music] he'll hang up there a while michael bates feels it at the three and it makes a flag on the play two flags on the play three flags on the play this is going to be some more of that hidden yardage again yeah and that's that's the thing that's been killing carolina i mean they're their their field position the second half has just been terrible and then and then they add bad things to it but watch it touchdown here you want to watch some good blocks watch shiver in the block he makes clay shiver watch watch larry allen just take your pick i mean it's gonna i think the thing is loosened up by dion sanders but watch those blocks in there i mean they just put guys on their back so so part of it was a pretty good trick called by chan galey part of it was a good block by clay shiver farther was good running by chris warren there was a lot of good parts of that play illegal block on the kickoff is the call and it's first down carolina at their own 10. two tight ends set up anthony johnson gets a couple of yards before he's wrestled to the ground chad hennings in the pile along with brett strickland carolina is playing now with rob bollinger the left tackle we know because blake brockermeyer is out frank garcia's our normal center is playing left guard brian stoltenberg is a center so they don't really have a lot of power on that left side or a lot of experience i mean i think that's where they're going to get trouble with now and their pass protection is right over in this area here with with stunning and and just talent thinking of seven anthony johnson the ball carrier chad hennings and a whole host of cowboys bring him down yeah and you see what happens when field position goes against you and you start to fumble and things are going against you now now the cowboy defense has gotten up now they're getting there eight man up line up there you know you know darren woodson is up in the line of scrimmage making tackles and and for the carolina panthers to get back in this game they're going to have to loosen up this cowboy defense again pointing out the defenders and back to throw pass is it caught by anthony johnson just short of a first down when he fell he went backwards and now they're going to have to punt and now they're going to have to punt to deion sanders now he's going to have the position where he could you know good field position where they're going to have to punt it right to him and then he can squeeze it and he can look and he can find that hole and before he does those things he's needs to get this crowd excited neon you've never seen anyone ever do this no i haven't either that doesn't look like well it doesn't look like the nfl i played in there's a penalty for dancing delay offense you know we were talking to chan galey yesterday he says that you know that he may have the opportunity to coach two of the best players that have ever played the game one was larry allen and the second one or the other one was deion sanders and the other one he said i might have three when troy gets back yeah and uh yeah i mean you don't know but you know more people are talking about larry allen as the best offensive lineman not only football they but in football that have ever played when you talk to the other teams and you mention larry allen they just say oh my gosh they say the same thing about dion sanders he signaled fair cash and that was a directional kick and i'm sure because he had to aim it they lost some yardage and dallas takes over [Music] dallas by three over carolina with 9 58 left in the third quarter steve berlin has been the carolina quarterback since the beginning and he was talking to muhammad there and probably explaining why muhammad hasn't cut many balls today because dion sanders has been honored this is emma smith emmett touched back and breaks out of the pack lost the ball they could bounce right back to it that's not a a bad place to run if you're going to run the ball to get right behind larry allen nate newton here lefleur their big tight end and just run that power play with moose johnson but watch larry allen i mean he just takes his guy and there's no way that his guy is going to make the play then he'll come off and he'll get another block so larry allen made two blocks to help create that hole in that play lefleur getting good block first and ten [Applause] there's jason garrett back to throw it going deep michael irvin inside the 20 to about the 15. here they can do it and you see doug evans again up there now he's trying to play tight but you know with that with that cast on the thumb that he can't use that hand so he's getting up there early in the game he was playing off and they were and they were hitting in front of him and now he gets up there tight and they just get in behind him jason garrett threw a perfect pass watch how he just drops it right in there because there was i mean doug evans wasn't mad in the free safety tony veland was also over there he had to drop it in between the two of them carolina calls the timeout michael irvin five catches 127 yards [Music] sunday is brought to you by southwest airlines proud sponsor of the nfl and official airline of the super bowl by audi and the dashing endearingly beautiful a6 by texaco a world of energy and by ibm are you ready for e-business let's watch the play again here's michael irvin here's doug evans here's tony phelan and now we'll just let it go and watch what jason garrett has to do there's a hole right there and he has to hit right in there and watch him he throws it perfectly now watch how the whole narrows down but he still drops it right in there that's a heck of a thing you know you see something you see a guy open for a step then you see a hole between the corner and the safety and you have to drop it in there as that hole continues to narrow dallas obviously has been a good second half team billy davis on the reverse spectacular looking but only about three or four yards see the guy that made the tackle over there was doug evans i mean he is you know you know you can say that they're working on them and they are but here's a guy out there that has two pins in his left thumb has a has a cast on his hand you know and is out there playing and fighting and they're trying to do everything that they can to them i mean they're running at him they're making him come up and support and force and make those tackles they're throwing at him every chance they can and he's out there battling second down emmitt smith inside the five down to about the two maybe the one i think this is a thing that's a difference between this cowboy offense now with chan galey a big part of it is is that they don't only have the power running but now they've added finesse running where they're where they're moving their linemen they're pulling guards and tackles and doing more of that before it was always kind of just straight ahead zone power running now it's a little finesse and angle tank blocking to get there running we haven't said much about big flozael adams who started and right guard but he's done a good job as well that whole offensive line has done a good [Applause] 116th career rushing touchdown and then you're going to see it he's going to come right in this area here this is just man blocking and i'll tell you nate newton gets the thing started larry allen puts it out and as you said emmitt smith could have just walked that one in there he trails only marcus allen and rushing touchdown richie cunningham for the extra point which is good [Applause] emmett smith is that intense he's going to score you know he's going to score 24-14 dallas it's the only nfl team the cowboys have never beaten [Applause] they lead by 10. nobody going to kick it off bates out of the end zone that was a good play by somebody charlie williams i believe let's watch that touchdown again here watch watch evan smith's eyes now he is looking right at nate newton and clay shiver he is going to key off of them then he knows this is where he's looking he's looking right here here and then he's going to run off this block and this block of larry allen now watch as we start here you see the double team there they start inside watch larry allen right here in the job that he does and that just opens up i mean what a hole that is nate newton pushing it in that's what that's what emmitt smith was looking at with a concentration in his eyes larry allen out right now for an nfl update let's return to james brown at the fox network center in los angeles pat and john what a birthday present steve young is delivering for himself today three touchdown passes today this one to garrison hurst 33 yards to pay dirt as he turns on the afterburners san francisco all over the sinks 28 to nothing back to pat and john and back at texas stadium the cowboys leading by ten second down for carolina and two for first anthony johnson he's got the first down you know seeing those 49ers score like that after what happened to him last week in buffalo you knew that they weren't going to go in that direction i mean they just have too many weapons on offense and i think a lot of these teams in this league that are the good teams they're going to lose some gains once a while because they don't have dominant defenses i think the 49ers are one of those teams they don't have minnesota no damp theater is one of those teams i think denver is one of those times great offenses championship offenses but defenses that you can get too steve berlin and the flag on the play 5 45 left in the third quarter dick hand tagged full start offense number 79 five yard fiddly no first down tonight it's game four of the nlcs as danny nagle looks to keep the braves postseason hopes alive when he squares off with joey hamilton and the padres in san diego coverage begins tonight at 7 30 eastern 4 30 pacific right here on fox your home of the 1998 world series you know october's a pretty good month isn't it i mean you got you got all this baseball you got you know college high school pro football you got halloween coming up hockey start pretty soon it'll be frost on the pumpkin and then we can really be talking [Music] well november the 1st we'll be in green bay and then we'll be some frost on that pumpkin yeah and then the the 49ers are going to be coming in to green bay to try and knock some frost off that pumpkin dick the guilty party 10 yard penalty repeat to down first down you know the thing is the you know it's the penalties in the field position i mean steve burline is 14 out of 15. so i mean he's come in there and and he's done it but it's the it's the penalties and not only the penalties but then the result of the penalties is the field position is so poor they can't go to work starting field position this half their own 14. that's a pretty tough road here's berlin quick pass outside caught by mohammed he's a big good-looking wide receiver now we know that if you're going to throw the ball this is the guy with this you know if they're just going to rush for you have to get leon let back one of the things that dom capers was worried about last night was leon lent just taking our guard and walking him or right back into the quarterback that time he took lucina walked him back into the quarterback and then beyond the quarterback second and 16. cowboys blitzing panthers picked it up the pass is caught he lost it and the cowboys will recover the fumble that's kevin mathis and mathis gives the cowboys the ball back and now a little scuffle goes on after it's over good throw by berlin again that was a heck of a throw because you just said there's a there's a blitz and you see the pressure coming here's rocket ismail here he gets a step here the ball is thrown right in his hands he just puts it away then it was stripped out just as he put it away it was knocked out and then boom it went forward and it gets recovered back here and so dallas will take over at their own 27. [Applause] in front of him emmitt smith jeff brady made the stop now i think that any anytime you talk about this cowboy offensive line and i've said this for years you always have to put moose johnston in there because you know he blocks along him he's just like an extra guard in there and and now now i think david lafleur is the same thing you know with the tight end that you know it used to be all you know the front five and moose johnston now it's the front five moose johnston and david leflore the floor is six seven about 260. maybe more maybe taller done that's emma smith gets near first down yardage stopped by fred alexander yeah they're going to run this left side and this is a place that you want to work again here's nate newton he got a man on him larry allen doesn't he just kind of pulls around they just follow nate nate stays with his block and emmitt smith just runs right off nate newton's block the old sucker play pull that larry allen nobody home newton looks like a new guy doesn't he in the off-season and he usually weighs around 350 pounds in the off-season he got down to 296 pounds then worked his way back up to 320. i think you're kind at 350. here's emmett smith and he'll get i believe enough for a first down well this is nate newton's 13th year in the league he just got overpowered on that flat let's play but he said for 11 years he could do it his way and he said in his 12th year he couldn't he's just going to get overpowered right here he's just going to get knocked back but the play is going away you see he gets off he gets tough to blow up late and then the result of that he just gets knocked on his back he doesn't want that one showing he said last year the weights just killed him i mean the injuries then he couldn't get back in shape and he had a terrible year and then so he said he knew he had to do something and he did something this last offseason jason garrett as caught by michael irvin that's an old dallas cowboy that's that that skinny post that's that ernie zampesi play skinny folks where you're going to see mike irvin come here and then right in here and it's going to be a timing pass as he is he breaks right here the ball is going to be there it was there too that was yeah yeah i mean jason garrett is throwing that thing not as much mustard on it as troy aikman but with the same type of timing that troy aikman had on that skinny post first down dallas at the carolina 44. two tight ends set up this time smith just a couple you know the way football's played today pat the tight end and the fullback are really interchangeable you see that player they start tight end jordan right there and he starts out like a double tight end then he comes in motion and when the ball is snapped he's in the location fullback so in the location of the fullback so sometimes you'll see the back up there like a tight end and then sometimes you'll see like that play the tight end in the position of the fullback second and eighth [Applause] again that time he just follows moose johnston now moose johnston is trying to move around and not show you where he's going to lead and you see he's going to end up right here then he's going to come right out here and get the lead block but again larry allen makes a good block at the point right here you see he hooks his guy here's moosa's block right here that's the one that just gets emma smith about five more yards you've often pointed out carolina panther injured you've often pointed out that the key to the fullbacks block is you got to keep going on through it and moose johnson really does that well yeah the the fullback has to get into and out of the hole you can't keep any of your parts in the hole because all you'll do is clog it up you know it's not only it's not only the block of the tackle and the block of the of the fullback but then but then the wide receiver right here has to seal it see he has to do just enough to keep this guy from here not getting into this lane so we had the good block by larry allen to create the soft corner then we had moose johnston on the lead and michael irvin out there just making enough seal there that emmitt smith could get by rod smith was the injured carolina player he's coming off to the sideline 12 minutes their dominance that's the end of the third quarter with the score the dallas cowboys 24 carolina 14 fox nfl sunday will continue after a word from your local fox station [Music] 24-14 as you look at troy aikman over on the sideline jovial move he's happy isn't he i mean you know part of it is is he wants that collar bone to heal and then but but he's a competitor too he wants to be out there but as long as everything is going well and they don't need him then he can let it heal i think that's what i said earlier in the game that i really i really am impressed with jason garrett is he he's always done this as a backup quarterback not just throwing that dink and dunk but throwing the ball deep and you see there it doesn't make any difference i mean he's a tough guy he gets the pressure les miller was 69 was coming straight up the middle and he stepped right into les miller to throw that ball deep second flag on the fly [Applause] yesterday we spoke to cowboy quarterback jason garrett about receiving advice from injured quarterback troy well he's just the kind of guy who obviously has a great deal of experience and a great deal of knowledge about football but he's never been someone who's very burdensome with information during a ball game when he says something it's usually very pertinent and right on the market something i definitely listen to [Applause] that last penalty was illegal hands to the face that'll give the cowboys a first down in good field position here and again the the thing that that i think jason garrett does that a lot of backup quarterbacks really doesn't do is he come out and and he has an attack mode about him not just to let's just get through the game [Applause] damon smith picking his way left side you know one thing you know about chan galey too and the way that he calls plays if he finds a weakness he stays at it i mean they've found something they found emmett smith running to that left side is one thing and then throwing deep on him and then working over where doug evans is so whatever weakness the carolina panthers have shown the dallas cowboys have eventually gotten to go after that weakness has shown him consistency as a person week after week most of them really like that emmett smith to the 20. and you know and that was one of the things that the cowboys needed i mean they got they got to a point they won a super bowl and then they started to go downhill they were they were in disarray and and they needed someone like chan galey to come in i mean someone who would have given you know a strong organization would give them discipline to give them those types of things that have been brought back to the cowboys and gayley is not a an outspoken guy he answers your questions but doesn't elaborate but you know he's a no-nonsense guy yeah [Applause] that one looked out of sync yeah well you know they're not throwing deep on third down i mean the the thing we're talking about jason garrett you know he does attack but most of his attacking has been on first down and second down and then on the on the third down they've been going for that shorter type stuff to get first downs and that hasn't been as effective as the going deep stuff cunningham one out of two he hit one from 27. he hits this one from 38. and dallas increases their lead shane galey likes it troy aikman likes it sunday is brought to you by the new dodge it's about change by kinkos the new way to office by enterprise rent-a-car pick enterprise we'll pick you up and by the motor oil that provides maximum protection castrol gtx drive hard [Music] dallas 27 carolina 14. dallas kicks off michael bates again will return the dallas coverage by jeff ogden all he had to do is wait the cowboys are really no i was gonna say the cowboys are really stepped up in all areas they got their offense going their defense going the special teams is doing an excellent job of coverage carolina first and ten at their own 21. berlin is 16 out of 17. this time he's chasing got rid of it that one's incomplete there's a flag on the play leon lett went immediately for the official yeah and the official is a referee who's going to call holding against the panthers they have the umpire behind the defense who calls holding and then they also have the referee behind the offense who watches the quarterback and the offensive line holding offense number 65 10 yard penalty repeat the down first down that's frank garcia right here and again he's blocking leon lent so so the the referee is watching through to this frank garcia was a little late you see that leon let beat him off the step so then when he beat him he had to put his arm up there to stop him because he didn't get his feet moving and that's why leonlette went for the official three wide receivers set up they run a draw play or try to and the cowboys swarm on it coming up michelle kwan and some of the world's finest skaters meet in the first and hottest new major skating event of the season don't miss the first union grand slam of skating following football today on fox check your local listings you know leon lett is is so quick i mean that's why they call him the big cat but you know he made that play where you see he beat frank garcia out of his stance then on that last down he did the same thing i mean he got penetration and there was no place to run berlin back here he comes again leon lent the balls loose william floyd got the rebound and a touchdown yeah this is a leon let series here pat yeah yeah we watch him here now he's going to come to the outside you see it's going to be a stunt he starts inside then watch him you see the cross here and then he comes to the outside and he's right on steve berlin so that's three plays in a row by leon lett so quick the first two by quickness and that one by a stunt where where he javika pittman comes to the inside leon lett twists around him to the outside third and 26. that was rule the fumble here's berlin on the draw play nothing doing anthony johnson we were wondering how long anthony johnson was going to play or how long fred lane wouldn't play i think we found out fred lane didn't start because of disciplinary i think the answer is fred lane is not going to play in today's game it is your uh dion knows now he is great yeah because he's waiting for the ball at midfield and at some point they're going to have to punt the ball to dion sanders this might be the point [Applause] this is one he can handle if he can get to it short kick out of bounds and that's what it does to your punter having a guy like dion back there there's a flag on this play you try to kick it away from him and you become less effective holding against dallas and that's going to give carolina a first down because carolina had had tough field position there because their punter usually gets 15 yards back from the snapper he didn't have his full 15 so i think that was part of it too joe avazano holding during the kick number 20 10 yard penalty first down yeah it it it would have been a first down if if it was before the kick after the kick now the cowboys have the ball so it'll be 10 yards from there right at summer oil john madden at texas stadium the cowboys leading check their second half defense allows eight scores five touchdowns three field goals ten drive that's not a very happy second half yeah and that's you know they get behind and then the uh the hole in the dam breaks and that's what makes a team owen ford maybe after this 0-5 that's him at smith and there's a flag on this way mike barrow made the stops against dallas this time alice has really played up until this point here a very a very clean effective game i mean they haven't done a lot of offense number 79 yard penalty repeat the down first down number 79 is eric williams we saw earlier where jason peter got a a penalty for for hands to the face against him and now you're going to see eric williams unless that left hand just pulled his guy down i'm not exactly sure where the holding was you know there's an old saying in the nfl it's been around forever that if you want to on a running game you could call holding every play running or passing 318 that's michael irvin on the move and a running play straight ahead to emmett smith and right now for an nfl update let's return to james brown at the fox network center in los angeles eagles offense looking a little better here in the fourth rodney p play action finds rookie tight in kasim sensano from syracuse eagles on top of the skins 17-6 back to pat sumrall and john madden i remember that's encino that was that was one of the guys that ray rhodes liked he was it came in he he lost a lot of weight and came into training camp and he's been impressing pressing that eagle coaching staff since day one tough times in washington here's jason garrett up the middle and open is ernie he's one of those guys that doesn't seem to be spectacular when they watch him but he does spectacular things and he's chan's gayley's guy i mean he was with chan galey and pittsburgh it's interesting last year he was with carolina but but he's one of those guys that is very effective very efficient knows the offense better than any player on this team and and knows how to get open and do something about it like i said he was he was with the panthers a year ago that's the type of thing that the that the panthers were trying to do all day you know is to get some penetration and they they haven't done it and that that time was michael barrow right and you're just going to see him he's just going to run right through you know they're going to start here and here comes barrow he just runs right through unblocked and then you know gets in the backfield get that run before it got started and the flag on that last play that play by barrow holy holy defense number 90 five yard penalty first down that's against him more vito maybe that's how barrow came so clean that's that's one of the jobs in fact jeff brady was talking to us about that last night is is they wanted the defensive line to hold the linemen up you'll grab a hold of them so they can't get to the linebacker and that was tim moribito who was the the nose tackle and he's trying not to let that center get out on the linebacker as you [Applause] dallas leading 27-14 smith and emmett breaks one tackle and is taken down after a gain of three by tony vlan one thing that the cowboys haven't done today that i'm a little surprised at it and and jason garrett being the cool head that he is could do it is they haven't given him a lot of hard count because carolina has had a lot of problems and we talked about their injuries we'll talk about their you know their quarterback and all these things and they've also had trouble jumping off sides on hard count the injured panther player [Music] and this will stop the clock dallas leaving leading next week it's a fox nfl sunday doubleheader first the washington redskins looking to slow down the undefeated minnesota vikings then these cowboys head to the windy city to battle the bears plus other regional action coverage begins at noon eastern 9 a.m pacific right here on fox check your local listing second down about seven 7 45 left to play dallas leading 27-14 irvin in motion [Applause] yeah we were talking about the about jason garrett and the and the type of things that he does he's even helped this area you know in 1997 they ranked 29th when they got inside the redzone now they're ninth and today they have three touchdowns and again because he has loosened this defense up by throwing deep in fact he has seven completions today of over 20 yards now you don't see that in a lot of backup quarterbacks in this life you don't see it in a lot of starting quarterbacks almost nothing this is garrett sneaking for the first down the ball is loose and ron smith has it and rod smith gets into dallas territory to the 43. all of a sudden on a quarterback sneak the ball popped out away from jason garrett and the complexion of everything changes the last time i saw that detroit lions against green bay packers scott mitchell goes on a quarterback sneak and fumble you watch him here he's going to start out here to the left now a quarterback doesn't run with the ball a lot and they really don't know how to protect it all he has to do get a little push get that first down and get down on the ground carolina takes over in dallas territory yeah and that fumble jason garrett has the ball out here on a quarterback sneak you should have the ball in front of you and both hands over it now now watch it get knocked out there and you say how did it get knocked out we're going to see after this play how and who knocked it out steve berlin and carolina in dallas territory and berlin goes deep flag on the play two flags on the play intended for ishmael we talked about the things that they knew that they could do and i think the panthers knew that they could throw the ball deep to rocket ismail and then again we talked about how poor their field position they just haven't had a chance to go to work first down interference call against daryn woodson they wanted to get their speed on darren woodson here he starts you see it's a zone kevin smith passes them off here's darren woodson here he just gets a step on woodson woodson had to do something but because he didn't look back that was past interference so it's first and goal with about the three carolina getting back in this contest very quickly with him floyd stop short yardage today's games being produced by bob stenner directed by sandy grossman the associate director is mike roy broadcast associates for fran morrison and charles mcdonald technical producer bob mueller studio was produced by scott ackerson directed by bob levy associate director with jennifer love senior producers bill brown the executive producers of fox sports are ed boren and david hill second and goal touchdown carolina floyd that's another san francisco 49er play that's a bootleg off the crossing action and hitting the fullback it all started in fact you see bertline you hear what he said down there he said we're still going to win this thing all they need is another touchdown here but it all started when the quarterback sneaked by the cowboys michael barrow made a heck of a play of knocking that ball out then steve berlin makes a couple throws they get the touchdown what looked comfortable for dallas now is uncomfortable chad henning's got a hand on it and it's no good because steve berlin was just saying we're going to win this game because he knew all he needed was another touchdown to us chad hennings he's in the middle this is what you try and do you try and get a push in the middle and then a rush from the outside you get the push then you get your hand up that's chad hennings with his right hand up is that a big play because now now there's a there's a seven point difference here it is from the end zone you get the push you get the hand up let's go back and watch michael barron the play that he made that got carolina in position again see him come in right there and his hand knocks the ball out of jason garrett's arms rod smith picked it up here's the touchdown you see it's the fake then it's the bootleg and then it's the pass to the fullback in the flat seen steve young do that so many years in fact the guy that he would throw that same pattern to was william floyd and he played with the 49ers what looks so comfortable for the dallas cowboys is now in question yeah but that uh that extra point a little more comfort because if carolina had 21 then if if they could stop him and get a touchdown that could beat him now they need a touchdown to tie i them extra point whenever it happens comes back to play some sort of a significant role [Music] down goes kevin mathis just outside the 20. if you watch steve burling and he was up there saying saying that we're going to win this game but he was the last guy to know that they got a touchdown because by the time he he gets knocked up and gets knocked heels overhead and stands up he finally realizes it he knew when it left here and looked pretty good he thought and he's certainly done his job today yeah they couldn't ask for any more from from either backup quarterback i think that they got from these two backup quarterbacks today chris warns the deep back here behind jason garrett warren takes the handoff and skips up for about eight yards you know what chan gayley is thinking now and the cowboys they're thinking don't give him the ball back again yo let's just run some time off the clock here because this guy steve burline is hot today and with rocket ismail he has some speed that can do some quick damage to you so now what the cowboys are thinking is ball control don't let him get back look at those numbers on berlin three touchdowns 17 out of 18 one in completion all day long that's amazing it really is [Applause] pitches back to warren and chris warren will not get enough in fact he lost maybe a yard they'll bring up a third down situation for dallas you know you talk about resiliency or being able to bounce back this this carolina team is really something because i mean i know they're all in four and it could very well be oh and five but but whatever happens to them they just bounce back from i mean we saw it in the in the green bay packer game they get ahead and they get behind they have injury then right at the end they had one shot to beat the packers just ran out of timeouts third down about four whereas last week against the land it was another story this is not a first down chris warren four minutes left to play the highest completion percentage in a regular season game vinnie testaverdi 91.3 21 out of 23 with cleveland against the rams back in 1993 the minimum of 20 attempts berlin is closing in on that and you can see he's like a cage lion down there he wants a ball back and he's going to get him back right here and he knows that he has some things going that's winslow oliver at his own 20. and the coverage is excellent cowboys do their job tonight it's game four of the nlcs as denny nagel looks to keep the braves post-season hopes alive when he squares off with joey hamilton in the padres in san diego coverage begins don't forget tonight at 7 30 eastern 4 30 pacific right here on fox your home of the 1998 world series steve berlin checks into the huddle first and ten at their own 31 for carolina berlin has floyd behind him fires complete for a nine-yard gain you know steve berlin has been hot all day and he's a lot better when he has good field position like he has now i mean the only thing that really slowed him down hasn't been this dallas cowboy offense it's been penalties and poor field position but when when he's at good field position like he has right now he's almost perfect second and one the clock running less than three minutes now 27 20 20. dallas leads income fleet behind floyd that'll stop the clock with 249 left and berlin's second incomplete pass of all day yeah and they have plenty of time in fact what they have to think here with third and short is to get a first down if they don't get a first down they're going to have to punt i mean this isn't a situation where you would go for it on fourth down at this point in the game or the field or the score third and one [Applause] i don't see the i don't see the panthers coming out and punt but i think in this situation with over two minutes to go and you have and you have all of your timeouts left i don't think that you have to go for it on fourth down here i think this this is a punting situation with this score and this situation i think they should punch well they're not going to fight i wonder if the fact that they're all in four has anything to do it doesn't make any difference i think you still play the percentages to get the ball back berlin will throw it if he has time he's chased by leon let he doesn't see leonlet but he'll get the first down and get out of bounds who would have thought of all the things in a big fourth down play that was great coverage leonlette was coming in there and that steve berlin would run for a first down here's leon lett right here and he's the only guy that's getting any pressure and he's there and he's the guy that flushed steve burlein out and right now again berlin not known as the runner does see where the first down is that's the very thing that dom capers said that leonlette could do and he was afraid would do is just walk his offensive lineman his guards back into the passover the best news for carolina besides getting the first down as leon lets out of there throw him deep intended for ismail and there's a flag on the play down to dallas 30. and it's going to be against the cowboys now if the ball was in the air it'll be past interference if it was before the ball was in the air it'll be defensive holding pass interference will put the ball down where the pass interference occurred holding is just five yards automatic first down offense number 67 illegal contact defense number 26 penalties are offset repeat the down first down they said they had one they had one against both sides but here's gonna be the here's gonna be where they're throwing the ball you see the safeties are a little mixed up before it's a little out and up that's the illegal contact right there on kevin smith i'll tell you that you know rocket ismail is a dangerous guy in this game and if carolina's gonna get a big play i would say it's gonna be two rocket ismail obviously against kevin smith not dion sanders you can see why they call him rocket here's ferlion back to throw he gets it up to muhammad and muhammad gets out of bounds at the dallas 41 and a half yard line stops the clock [Applause] ishmael all day long well you see that he just uses his speed and and if steve berlin it's obvious has a great feeling for him here because of his speed i think that's why he got that big cushion first down carolina and here comes the flag from the sideline full start ball starts number 85 wesley walls carolina at the dallas 47 now make it to 46. that's the thing that you know that steve berlin is looking for we know for the big play he's looking for rocket ismail and i think for the the the shorter plays looking for muhammad and maybe wesley walls and that could have been wesley wall play first and 15. berlin back to throw it as time gets the pass to anthony johnson who gets maybe two yards but the clock continues to run carolina had all three of their timeouts left they've just used one so they have two left plus the two minute warning and when you get to that situation you really say to yourself that you have four timeouts so the thing that you need is some first downs because they take a timeout now then like you say they're gonna get their second time out with a two minute warning and then they have two timeouts left so in essence on the board it says three but they do have four coming up michelle kwan and some of the world's finest skaters meet in the first and hottest new major skating event of the season don't miss the first union grand slam of skating following football today on fox check your local listings 216 left the way steve berlin is throwing here but we could be talking over time michelle kwon may have to wait a while i think she will keep warming up berlin in the pocket throws up the middle in country intended for walls and broken up 211 left 27 20 down just have the feeling that those are the two areas that he's going to go to wesley walls normally a tight end but he can go anywhere he can be in a three-point stance a two-point stance as he is here and you see him get bumped now he's coming under control and that was good coverage i mean steve berlin forced that a little because really at no point was wesley walls ever open good play by darren woodson exactly right third and 13. berlin retreats gets away from leon led fires incomplete the pass is intercepted by deion sanders he just stole it and dion to midfield and down here amazing all day they don't throw on him that's only the second time they threw a pass toward theon sanders all day and what does he do with it wins the game for the cowboys just took it away less than two left fox nfl sunday is brought to you by miller lite an official sponsor of the nfl and super bowl 33. [Music] 27-20 the cowboys lead carolina only the second pass of the day that steve berlin has attempted to throw on deion sanders and what does he do but save what looked like a carolina rally and give dallas the ball back with the interception this warren carolina timeout you know here's mark carrier right here and here's dion sanders here and really it's an out dion sanders is here but you're going to see the reaction that he makes i mean not only can he he cover but watch how much ground right here that he makes up he's turning around he makes up that ground gets in front and catches the ball i mean there's three things there i mean getting back having position losing position getting it again getting in front making the catch and then of course after he catches it i mean he's the greatest returner in football yesterday we spoke to cowboy cornerback dion sanders about returning interceptions it's sort of like a pump return with slower people because you got those big offensive line you got your defense i wish all our guys would just lay down so i could see the field then i could make my moves and i'm always looking for the cut back straight ahead is warren carolina with one more time out you know it's an interesting thing jason garrett how well he's played who mentioned how well both backup quarterbacks have played and and dom capers the job that he's done keeping this team together and steve berlin stepping in here he didn't even know until wednesday i mean he thought he was a backup quarterback gary collins walks in the quarterback meeting and tells steve berlin you're starting this week and steve for the first five or ten minutes thought it was a joke yeah spread it into practice because he was late to practice yeah he was late to practice and then the rest of the team didn't know he walked in the huddle everyone said what are you doing here he that there's a new sheriff in town i'll tell you he played his heart out today don't forget next week it's a fox nfl sunday doubleheader first the washington redskins look to slow down the undefeated minnesota vikings and these cowboys head to the windy city to battle the bears plus other regional action coverage begins at noon eastern 9 a.m pacific right here on fox so check your local listings we'll be up there in chicago uh with this dallas cowboy team again is the madden cruiser departing as soon as the game is over yeah the old madden cruiser i can get a new madden cruiser in in two weeks in fact i was supposed to get the new madden cruiser tomorrow you know building a cruiser is like building a house you know well it's going to be a week here a week there so now they're two more weeks behind i know i've let you speak this is warren and now the carolina panthers have no more timeouts so not bad by backup quarterbacks berlin 20 out of 25 garrett 14 out of 22. and they threw for some yardage too i mean 247 and 287 and touchdown steve berlin had three touchdown passes and jason garrett had two touchdown passes you know the interesting thing is jason garrett's only been in the league six years troy aikman is 10 years but jason garrett is a year older than troy but jason made some stops in another location well he did i mean he was in the world league he was an assistant coach at princeton in canada yeah he played in canada he uh was a he was in new orleans so he said he never thought of being anything except a football player offense well his dad was a player a football coach back his dad was a coach with the giants when i was there playing and then his dad is a scout for the cowboys he has two brothers that are nfl coaches right emmett smith 112 rushing yards michael urban 146 receiving yards dallas is 18-0 when both of them have 100-plus yard gains or maybe the opposite is true when it when the countdowns win they have big games yeah that sort of goes together if they win then they're going to have those things happen fox stops with 51 seconds left now long way to go for the panthers and steve ferlin i've always thought that about running you know they'll say if they run 30 times or more they win well if that were true all you do is run the first 30 plays and win but because you're winning you run 30 times right statistics in almost every case you can do what you want to with them statistics are made to be manipulated three-man front for dallas on defense it's first and tenth carolina at their own 23. berlin pointing coakley faking a blitz but he backs out and berlin throws up the middle incomplete stops the clock with 46 seconds left mark carrier the intended receiver yeah the cowboys are going to make them do it the hard way now they're they're just rushing three and dropping eight so he's gonna have to find some some small holes in a big zone big leon let as the weeks pass he's been bothered by a bad knee that he hurt in pre-season can't practice but he's playing more every week as the weather cools off he'll play more even than that and he can be a devastating force yeah and they need that i mean because they don't really have leon lett isn't playing like that the cowboys don't have a dominant player in the front seven they have to do it with tricks yeah lenses and things and when they did remember that one series where leon let just took over and and he's he's the only guy that they have on this defense in the front seven that can take over a game jerry jones who owns the cowboys has been down on the sideline for almost the entire game what do you think he's doing and they're coaching him up i think he'd like to well i think he's just down there he wants to be close to his team gets it up to my habit and that'll be a first down it'll move the sticks but they don't have any timeouts left there's mr jones ray jones is saying i know burling and i probably should have given him a better deal on that lot out there at starwood and he would have taken a little easier on us today but he really wouldn't i'm just kidding about that because steve berlin is such a competitor there's probably no one in this stadium that wanted to win this game more today than steve berlin and there's a lot of competitors here and you play golf with this guy you talk about competitors you know coming back to the town you live in coming back to a team you used to play with starting for a quarterback who says he doesn't have his heart in the game anymore and i think he wanted to come out here and show that his heart is in the game and how to compete this one he's got to start thinking about throwing to the sideline now pass is complete and they move into the dallas 37-yard line first down mark carrier made the catch but the clock's running the hurry they're going to have to spike it and stop it and he does six seconds see and he has to take a shot here he has to take a shot for the end zone then we have to remember that there's only six seconds and the panthers don't have any timeouts but the game cannot end on a defensive penalty so that would be the way that they could get some more time i mean one they have i mean they have time to get a playoff here and then two if there's a penalty on defense they get another play even though time runs out you got to launch it close to the end zone there's burling he's going to have time and he fires on the hail mary and it's out of the end zone and steve berlin discouraged but certainly not ashamed and he has indeed nothing to be ashamed about if he competed he just needed a little more time or some more timeouts or something to get his work done because he was hanging in there that whole time and he gave he gave those cowboys all the fight they wanted today and right now let's send you down to mike ducey all right pat we're with jason garrett the cowboys quarterback jason tell me how you think your offense operated today i thought we did a nice job throughout the ball game obviously a couple turnovers the fumble uh at the end of the game certainly didn't put us in a real good light but i thought for the most part we were able to move and running and throwing it so i felt pretty good about it you're three and one as a starter now john and pat talk during the game about how the cowboys offense remains in the attack mode even with you at quarterback instead of troy how important is that to the success of this offense well coach galey and coach guys do a great job preparing me to play and they never put me in a situation that i can't handle obviously as well we've been running the ball the last couple weeks really helps a quarterback every week i know you want troy aikman back and healthy but in a way are you going to miss this the excitement of of starting in the nfl in big games well i'm really enjoying it but obviously this is troy's team and when he comes back he's the guy and i'll just be ready to play all right jason thank you thank you deuce all right let's go back to pat and john big eric williams striding to the locker room the final score here at texas stadium is the dallas cowboys 27 the carolina panthers 20. coming up on the post-game report we'll have a complete wrap-up of all the scores and highlights from around the league and our fox sports ticker lab updated stats that's all next on the post game report [Music] you

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