New York Giants @ Dallas Cowboys, Week 10 1998 Full Game

[Music] texas stadium as usual sold out for this match and there's daryl johnson he's been asked us a long time but a long time doesn't make any difference you still get into it you still get excited you still get emotional yeah and that's the only way to play the game when you think of emmitt smith going for the all-time rushing record today for the dallas cowboys you also think of the guy that blocked four of all those yards was daryl johnston as his pullback [Applause] [Music] at the 26 and let's look at the dallas offense now led by the recovered or at least he says so troy aikman 171 passing yards two touchdowns last week against philadelphia rx actually was this week larry allen nate newton shiver adams tony hudson in place of eric williams at right tackle smith and daryl johnson the two backs billy davis and michael irvin the wide receivers and david lefleur the tight end aikman brings him up smith is deep and daryl johnson in front of him [Applause] smith outside the to 32 or three [Music] here is the giant defense coming up and there is a conspicuous missing person michael strahan is not in there at the moment harris hamilton and bratsky the rest of them are that's the front four the linebackers jesse armstead corey whitmer and marcus buckley in the secondary hamilton wooten ellsworth and felipe sparks and cedric jones is playing right here for michael strahan [Music] in the giant territory goes emmett smith the flag on the play [Music] smith is saying that that flag is for a face mask infraction you know if if you know we talk about strahan not being there at the left in tony hudson is starting his first start as a tackle eric williams on that side but the place to run anyway is the left side behind larry allen watch him i mean he he explodes and gets such movement on that side then you just get in behind moose johnston and that's that's the way to go i mean you can say that you know that eric williams isn't there spray hand isn't there when you have a guy on your left side like larry allen that's where you're going to run watch right here at the end of the play pattern it was 98 jesse and the face mask the five yard face mask violation so the cowboys had the ball and aikman is back to throw it low throw to michael irvin incomplete what the giants are saying about straight hand now pat is that they're going to use him as a role player in fact jim fossil talked a little about that last night and the role that he's going to play to start this game is just the third down so of course that means that they have to get like an incomplete pass and then they have to stop him on second down to get michael strahan in there where he can maybe take advantage of tony hudson the right tackle davis wide right he goes in motion irvin is to the left and aikman takes the reverse he's gonna throw the screen past him at smith from behind good play by the giant defense by cedric jones yeah i think i think that they know that you know when corey whitmer the middle linebacker lines up outside that he's going to blitz from that side that's michael strahan got here earlier this morning by two hours before he's never gonna be a hundred but good enough to play good enough but never gonna be a hundred yeah not a hundred percent he's not all the way back but he's good enough to play and when you get past the mid-season point in national football league there aren't many players that are at a hundred third and eight shotgun formations enough it doesn't appear as reverse down michael irvin made the catch you see it with the yard short just because they'd see what they did to michael strahan because it was a three-man line they brought mozelle adams or right guy down now here's tony hudson now here's flozal adams and here's here's michael springham so they're going to double him they're going to give him help you see he comes in and watch flows down at him he just goes over there and finishes him they build a wall around troy aikman well they're wise well that's that's the thing i mean you know that you know tony hudson is going to get help all day and that's one thing about this cowboy offensive line when you have larry allen on the other side that doesn't need any help whatsoever your whole game plan can just be give all your help to your right side tony hudson has been a guard all of his life this his first start at tackle this is this is one here for chan galey now you see what happens is michael irvin just you know had he gone about two or three more yards and got in that first down chan galey wouldn't have this decision right now to have to go for it on fourth down this is inches but i think i think at home on this field against this team this is the right call daryl johnston and emma smith and he's going to take that right up the middle that was behind you would think they'd go to the left behind larry allen that time he went right behind nate newton here's nate newton the left guard they're going to take it right in here right in this area here they're going to start off on a double team see the double team right there that creates the hole in the middle double team with clay shine with the center he comes off in a linebacker and they form a nice wall there for emmitt smith to get through on short yardage so dallas first down at the giant 31. [Applause] michael irvin by the way with a pass that was just shy of the first down has caught a pass in 117 consecutive games so that streak stays alive you know and that's always one of the goals is you want to get the ball to michael irvin obviously the whole game but he's one of those guys that you want to get him involved in the game early so you want to get him the ball very early in the game and of course the other guy you want to get involved which is real easy as that guy there emma smith and they're doing a good job of that second and seven name it again hammers to the 20. that should be enough for another cowboy first down marcus buckley made the stop he's going inside but here watch watch larry allen get this thing on chad bradsky here and then you're going to get again to push in the middle and this is where they're doing the work right on this side here you see they get a good push and what happens is the giants because because the cowboys are going to the left if they're going to overreact but watch when larry allen fires out i mean he just knocks chad on the initial move about three yards back here's emmet again picking his spots and gets down to about the 16. whitmer made the stop hey one thing about the cowboys we know that the giants are all about defense and over the years the giants have played run defense as well as most teams in this league and looks like the cowboys are coming out and just taking it to it right now and saying well we're gonna check your run defense in this first quarter emmett's getting rest warren will take his place look at that emma smith already has 43 yards so he needed 95 to break doors that's right he needs 52 more yards maybe he fell forward for a yard cedric jones wrapped him up i think this is one of the things you know you you talk about troy aikman and recovering from a broken collar bone and he said he said it still does hurt him yeah and uh you know and his back still bothers him a little and i think and i've always said this that the the best friend of a quarterback is a good running game and it's also the best friend of an offensive line as a pass protector third and five still chris warren billy davis in motion and he might have been in motion as he's moved his shoulders forward [Music] billy davis was moving in towards lefleur here's david lafleur he's a tight end billy davis is coming in motion you see the floor moved right there he moved forward actually they both moved forward you know that's the thing that chan gaily was talking about that upset him so much in the last couple games they've had a lot of what he calls pre-snap penalties and that was one right there third and ten straight hand in the game for the giants and here's went back to throw it and he didn't have any time did well yeah because of michael straight here did you see that did you see the job that he did on tony hudson he just went into him and then took the inside right now he didn't look like his back is bothering watching here he's come boom and then right to the inside watch him that this this is what troy aikman saw right there they hit then he takes the inside troy was going to step and that's that's what you have to do to quarterback that's what you have to destroy eggman that's how you throw off rhythm that's exactly what michael strahan did richie cunningham will attempt it the field goal from 37 yards out johnson holding and richie cunningham is right down the middle to put the cowboys on top three nothing 8 32 left in the first quarter and dallas leads it by a field goal that's a diet i don't think i would enjoy very much yeah but you have a have a lot i mean it's like being in a smorgasbord you can eat as much as you want all you can eat as long as you get some rain and it grows they'll be going to kick off [Music] patton and barbara back deep this is going to be david patton out of the end zone one of the giants who has the speed a down shy of the 20 about the 19 charlie williams who's there to knock him down 3-0 dallas the first time the giants will have the ball and they'll start from their own 19 20 yard line with danny cannell their quarterbacks eleven touchdowns eight interceptions and he's gonna throw it on first down if he has time and he has now about a two yard completion and that's the kind of thing that they've really been trying to get away from charles way made the catch here's the offense danny cannell as we mentioned the quarterback 6-3 220 now in florida state in front of him obama bishop scott stone and scott gregg the receiving four mike hilliard and howard cross and chris callaway and charles way and gary on the two backs that's way moving around [Applause] moves ahead outside the 25 about the 27. the dallas defense dion sanders of course a very important part of it the front four leon led kevin pitman chad hennings and greg ellis the rookie from north carolina coakley strickland and randall godfrey the linebackers godfrey having a great year different sanders the incomparable dion center stop woodson and kevin smith you know after the first play pat dion sanders was holding his ribs that's tiki barber who cut it up field and i believe got enough for a giant first down this is this is the thing that the giants have to do we talk about defense and we talk about you know getting turnovers but they also have to be able to to run the ball and get first down those kinds of things you know you know not let you know have those three and outs and that's that's the thing that has really been killing them you know they haven't they haven't been getting enough yards on first down they're 29th in the league and they're also 29th of the league on third down conversion they go with three wide receivers and canal going up field got a man wide open that was chris callaway and did he turn kevin smith around you know we talked about kevin the cornerback watch him i mean he's going to come back here's here's callaway here he's going to run it out but watch what he does to kevin smith he's he tells him that he's going to go up kevin smith continues to go up for 10 more yards and then callaway breaks it off you talk about a guy playing without confidence it's kevin smith this is gary brown around the corner knocked out of bounds in front of the cowboy bench but good yardage nevertheless kenny wheaton took him out of bounds yeah just to have a feel about this giant offense it's a little more aggressive today yeah and i mean they're just starting it's the first time they have the ball and they're gonna come out and they you know and they pass first and then they pick up a first down and a run and then they you know they get kevin smith turned around hit one to calloway and and they look like they're playing offensively and not more aggressively to start this game here's brown [Music] straight ahead 5 40 left in the first quarter and dallas leaving leading but the giants on the move and that's the thing if the giants are going to be the giants here we talk about the things that they have to do defensively we know the things they have to do to deion sanders who by the way as you can see here doesn't get into defensive huddle but they also have to be able to run the ball i think charles way is going to be a big part of that three wide receivers set up that might have been the cowboys leonlette who jumped off side johnny griers the referee by the way leon led is one of the quickest guys in the league you know you're getting off on the ball encroachment defense number 78 still first coach and what he tries to do is he tries to you know you know get when the ball is moved but watch the ball the ball hasn't moved yet and leon let's move i think he felt his middle linebacker you see that fred strickland was behind him and i think he felt sometimes the guy behind would come up and as he's faking he'll touch it and that's just enough to boom to pop you off there first and five cars away hammers straight ahead he appears to have enough for a first down this is one of the things that the giants want to do is use some more one back like this you see they just have one back here they have a tight end here and three wide receivers and then that one back is charles way and they could just hand the ball like this on pickle hole you see and and the line just fires out and if they and if they just over pursue a little he can cut back if they don't he just runs right through the assigned hole gary [Music] maybe got back as fred strickland who was there first fred strickland plays to run well between tackles i mean the cowboys have fast linebackers fred strickland not being one of them but the thing that he does is he does fill these holes right here in this area right here and you're gonna see him fill the hole right here you see him come here and they start to the left and here comes fred strickland right there second at eight two tight end set up for the giants canal back to throw his protection is good but his receiver can't hold on papunu had it and dropped it when jim fossil was talking last night he said the one thing that he think well yeah i mean i think this offense needs a lot of things i think they need speed because they really don't scare anyone on offense but he was talking about a tight end he said to really have the offense that he wants he says next year and the end of you know the next year and the following year and the year after year after that they're gonna have to get a pass receiving tight end so we might check it out when drafting time comes what they do timeout [Music] we come here on a glorious quest a search for that which can be found nowhere else where in the trenches where mighty men clash amidst the echoes of glory's past high atop olympus this is our quest this is what football is all about [Music] [Applause] the cheerleaders begin at an early age with a lot of enthusiasm too you know what was that uh the country wrestling you know you know mama's don't let your sons grow up to be cowboys i wonder if there's one about mama's letting your little girls grow up in public absolutely if the giants have any speed that's it it's david patton right there and he comes in when the when they go three or four wide receivers and two things happened on that one they they threw the ball to their their speed guide but the other guy they the other thing they did is they worked on dion sanders but the third thing and the most important thing it didn't work because it was short and they had to kick a field goal anyway the giants will try the field goal dalawiso with maynard holding 32 yards out dalio has always had a strong leg and in this case it's that very accurate as well and it's 3-3 in the first quarter [Music] no i've never do that i didn't uh didn't know that was how they did i mean there's a lot of there's a lot of work that goes on yeah this is kevin mathis to the 40. 3-3 time with three minutes and four seconds left to play in the first quarter and sort of both teams feeling their way a bit so far 3-3 central here on fox we're at texas stadium and it's 3-3 first quarter breaks into the secondary to midfield breaks a tackle all the way to the 40. emmett's fired up today he's going for that record yeah he followed he followed nate newton watch nate newton his left guard is going to pull and make a block right here and you see emmett's going to get right in behind nate newton 61. you see larry allen comes down nate newton comes around boom he gets that block right there and that's the one that formed the wall again to get emmett smith through it and that got him over 12 000 yards the eighth player in nfl history to rush for that total he's dreaming up on tony dorsett and he's going after it today isn't for it right now for an nfl update let's return to joe buck in los angeles all right pat how about dan reeves and the atlanta falcons off to the best start in franchise history great start today in new england already up nothing this seven yard strike to o.j santiago makes it 14 to nothing atlanta let's send you back to dallas and pat and john that's amazing the falcons and dan reeves have done now you know you talk about some of these old quarterbacks and the job that they're doing some of these coaches that have been around a little while like dan reeves are doing a pretty good job too here's the next smith again and this time it's just a couple playing well today is nate newton yeah i mean he's uh uh last week he got a concussion and knocked out but today they're really working that left side see chan galey they're calling the plays he just calls a number and then that number corresponds with the number on the wristband on troy aikman's wrist now treatment on both wrists has all the plays he has one through 65. one through 32 on runway 33 to 65 on the other so the whole offense are numbered and on his wrists from the [Applause] the intended shotgun incomplete and no flag on the play conrad hamilton right with him this might be a little too far for richie cunningham field goal good coverage by conrad hamilton you see he gets a little bump there you have to be physical on the line with michael irvin and then he runs and he gets between troy aikman and michael irvin and watch his hand right at the end he reaches back and gets his left hand just enough to knock that ball out of michael irvin's ham just enough toby going back to punt 53 seconds left to play in the first quarter 3-3 tie hangs one high the cowboys will try to down it and it just skipped away the coverage was there the people were there but you never know what's going to happen to that ball how it's going to bounce especially on the field like that tonight don't forget that season premiere of the x-files will you be home in time to see it no no no i'll be i'll be on the bus so i'll be on the bus going home and now you know i have two satellite dishes on the bus now so i can watch uh television in the front i can watch them in the back and i get like 500 channels so i can watch it on the bus i'll take it for you if you want no no no i said no i can watch it i'll be there i'll be there live i'll be flopping around watching it live good place to flop cowboys coming on a blitz pass incomplete as they tried to slant in front of [Applause] kevin smith to ike hilliard yeah i think everyone's throwing that slant way too much now but if you're going to do anything in the passing game the first thing you have to do is get this guy leon let i mean if the cowboys have a dominant player in their front seven it's leon lett and you see that they get a little help there great bishop has him has a pretty good oben comes in and gives him a little more help but they kept him away from danny cannell second and ten [Applause] [Music] [Applause] again defended by kevin smith yeah and that's that's what they're going to work on i mean you know down field they're going to work on on on kevin smith on the line of scrimmage they're going to work on leon left and and that's the thing that they have to do if he goes outside he's going to be doubled if he goes inside he's going to be double that time the center you see lance scott just sat there and waited for leon to come in oh they tripled him that time well yeah because if he was going to go outside roman oven the tackle would get him greg bishop has him and then when he goes inside lance scott gets four wide receivers set up this time barbour was the setback and canelo fires incomplete they're working again on kevin smith they're trying to to david patton very good job and then one thing i think you know you say they're working away from dion sanders or do you say that they're working on kevin smith of course because of kevin smith here and this in this good coverage out here you see he's up there he has good coverage there's no place for danny cannell to throw that he throws it away now they create this situation this could be the biggest play in the game these plays hunting to deion sanders and dion's gonna have a chance to the 50. for the giant 39. marcus buckley made the stop [Applause] you know the the one thing that they're trying to do is they want to do is they want to take the punter and they want to have him directional kick and kick the ball here or kick the ball here either between the numbers on the sideline or just out of bounds now if that happens of course then the referee goes back here this guy comes up and he's going to point you know where the ball does go out of bounds now that was the plan that was a plan that the giants have when you get backed up yeah and you're in the minus side of the field like that there's no way that you can directional kick the ball out just becomes harder and harder here's man just does get rid of the ball and he's down on the turf he's hit by robert harris eggman of course against denver in the second week of the season broke his collarbone last week was his first week back since then and you can see chan galey we talked about how he calls the plays and you can see that he ran the ball nine times six passes 13 different formations so their goal was to give a lot of formations and run the ball maybe so that they don't have too many of these because this is the side that they're getting the pressure from the right side of their offensive line three wide receivers straight hands in the game aikman back to throw that should be enough for a dallas first caught by michael irvin i remember when norv turner was here and we used to talk about the dallas cowboy offense and you'd ask north what are you going to do and he said simply said run it with emmett and and have troy throw it to michael that's pretty good formula that's the end of the first quarter with the score the cowboys three the giants three fox nfl sunday will continue at messages and a word from your local fox station timeout he was checking his index finger on his right hand his throwing hand yeah watch what happens right here keith hamilton number 75 is going to come in and hit him right there and i think that he hit him right on the shoulder and i think he got his finger caught up in there because watch as he starts to get up here see him looking at his finger now he's already doing it yeah and then he went over to the sideline and he started trying to throw football [Applause] billy davis goes in motion handoff to emmitt smith and emma twist back inside down close to the 25 he's 29 yards away from tony dorsett's all time dallas cowboy rushing record you know and usually as the game goes on running gets easier you know because the the defense is always has a little more quickness early in the in the first quarter and in less than a second less than third and less than the fourth but it looks like now that the running is getting tougher that the giant defense is a little tougher against the run now than they were earlier down to the 21 and let's go for an nfl update to joe buck in los angeles all right pat new orleans and minnesota randall cunningham out early with a twisted right ankle brad johnson says remember me 14 touchdown throw to chris carter they're up seven to nothing and carter now the all-time touchdown leader in viking history they're just about to start the second quarter in minnesota back to pat and john in dallas [Music] third and four at the giant 21. you know that was interesting minnesota that's how i thought brad johnson would get back in there chris warren alongside aikman and the handoff is to warren who's tripped up short of the first down short of the line of scrimmage by mike strahan you know after troy aikman got hit by keith hamilton the the cowboys ran ran to the ball twice i wonder i wonder if there's still something wrong with troy i wonder if he can't throw the ball because chan galey didn't call a pass play after he was hurt well i see what he does right here well you know this is this is again after after that second run he's still he's still looking at the finger on his right hand and so on so is the medical stance yeah and so is his back up jason garrett richie cunningham from 39 yards out this time and that's no good and so the score remains giant three cowboys three we're in the second quarter 12 59 left before the half their cadillac dealers and by the united states marine corps the change is forever [Music] they've been working on troy aikman's finger this whole time out this is gary brown of the giants here's what they were doing a minute ago well you know the earlier they'd put a piece of tape on it and then uh troy aikman pulled that off and then he wanted something different and you know may not be you know such a big thing about the cut but it's on the throwing hand you know and that's the thing and that's the part of the finger you know that controls the ball and all those things plus the field is wet the result of a high school game here played friday night charles way the field is wet they covered it yesterday they're required to but the field never had a chance to drive so that's not one of his favorable conditions anyway now and of course even danny cannell i mean he threw a couple of knuckle balls out there but let's see what the giants did they ran eight times past seven on their first 15 plays from 15 different formations the first 15 plays the giants were in a different formation every play [Applause] stopped by dexter copeland well you know here's one of the biggest improvement of the giants in this game so far is right here average yards on first down they were like 3.7 or something 29th in the league but today here they are they're averaging 7.7 yards on first down now that makes sense if you if you can get a bunch on first down then you're not going to end up in those third role and the things that the giant offense is not good is third and long the way to stay at him is that success on first down they only got two on that first down so it's second and eighth here's canal back to throw it not much [Applause] he's trying to use that time clock in his head but you can see look at this on third down situations the giants have been in six or more yards to go on third down 65 times and that's the second most in the league and then you look right up here what they are right now third and ninth this is not a down in distance that the giants are very proficient in offensively they need nine for a first down the cowboys showed blitz and then backed out of it and that ball slipped out of his hand yeah yeah you wonder if that was just a bad throw or if that ball is wet because danny canel has thrown some ugly passes i mean he's throwing a couple of look like knuckleballers and as you said that one there just slid right out of his hand [Applause] i mean just watch this thing come out of there and there's not a spiral on that thing that looked like a wounded duck that looked like uh with all respect to my friend billy kilmer that looks like one of his balls [Applause] before you can just feel it in the crowd when he gets the ball can't you he's gonna make something happen before it's over the north star system that's giant fullback charles way down at the bottom of that pile who limped off the field after that last play before the punt returned by dion sanders i think in a giant plan today charles way was going to be a big part of it we talked about how he wanted to use a package of three wide receivers a tight end and one back and that one running back being charles just 22 yards and now with a bad finger and a wet ball this looks like a pass here [Applause] intended for michael irvin who was coming back toward him but did you notice up at the line of scrimmage when just before the ball was snapped troy aikman licked his fingers yes that's the thing i mean going all the way back to high school and junior college and college when i coach defense i always taught that to watch the guy if he licks his fingers like this watch just before the ball if he's out there and he licks his fingers he's just licking his fingers to throw the football he's not licking his fingers to hand it off i mean with computers and all the scouting still do it if they lick their fingers just before they snap the ball it's going to be a pass he's got a bad finger anyway well maybe he's licking the blood off or something number 61 i think that they get into you know you know baseball pitchers they do they always go and they're always doing that kind of stuff and i think the guys just get in a habit and they don't even know that they're doing it let's see what happens yeah newton rocked back in the rocker once he gets that rocker going backwards he can't stop the rocker rocker's going to keep going always well always has and that's one of those pre-snap penalties that upset change so much needed just 23 yards to break and set the all-time record of the cowboys that's going to be close i think he did it pat i think it's not only close i think that's it he just broke it you're right and you see him here and you see he's the only back in the backfield and again it's a counter play he takes that little counter step to the left then he comes back to the right gets it gets a good block right there from billy davis that springs him and then you could if you knew that he knew that he was going to get the record when he finished that off [Applause] again eminent action the all-time dallas cowboy rushing leader now just past tony dorsett different kind of runner but same kind of results and they're just announcing it now and they're gonna give him the ball the owner jerry jones down on the sideline his co-running back chris warren the first half to congratulate him along with jason garrett john you think of the two guys that have been there with him as he got all those yards nate newton is left guard and daryl the moose johnston they're two of those guys that have blocked for almost every one of those yards that emma smith that's a monumental achievement in [Music] itself intended for ernie mills incomplete yesterday we asked him at smith about his plans for that ball when he breaks the cowboy team rushing record which he just did when i was able to uh achieve the touchdown record with dan reeve's signature on that football i got his signature on it and uh and then hopefully uh when we achieve this one i can get tds on it and uh put mine right beside it and that it's gonna be a special ball this will be one in our i will keep for forever if you want to know where it is uh emma is right between the towels in that trunk in [Music] [Applause] as only he can scamper down to about the 23. this is this is the thing that they try and do is one is get dion sanders you see he's out there they have a tandem thing and they're going to put one one one deep and one short here's dion he's the short guy you see and he just stops they run the wide receiver off and he becomes a blocker and then he just gets right in behind him ernie mills was in front of him ernie mills was going to come off like he was going to run a pattern and then become a blocker like on a quick screen but dion left it a little short didn't get that first down richie cunningham lined up to try his third field goal of the day made one missed one but here's a timeout dallas they're gonna talk it over [Applause] there's emmett smith who just broke the record a moment of meditation and sitting by that trunk where they put the ball well you know he was he was saying yesterday that you know if he does or when he does this he's going to be thinking about all the people that were part of it i mean the people that put in offenses the coaches the guys that blocked everyone it's not just him it's not just an individual thing there's a lot of people that have gone into that richie cunningham this one is good as cunningham puts the cowboys back ahead by three 8 15 left [Music] we're back at texas stadium in irving texas pat summerall john madden the cowboys lead the giants 6-3 toby going set to kick it off david patton and tiki barber back deep for the giants patton with the speed knuckle kickoff bounces over barber's head fielded by patton spencer down in good shape for the cowboys and he is taken down at about the 15-yard line you know it's funny in this game there's been a lot of knuckle stuff you just call that a knuckle kick troy aikman's been throwing knuckle balls danny canel's been throwing knuckle balls and you wonder if it's the footballs or the air it's the it's the field or what the heck it is how about that block right there that's one that'll clear your sinuses out chairman williams scott galen put the block on sherman williams and the billy davis right there got two men gary brown the ball carrier matt in the hole met in the hole by dexter coakley and i think jim fossil right now is going back to you know to get the running a little more you know to do that thing to kind of slow down things because they went for a while two series ago they had to ball three incomplete passes in a row and they were only out there for 28 seconds so i think that you know that's not very good for your offense obviously but it's worse for your defense because they don't get a chance to stay fresh and the giant defense is playing very very well this is head omar omar stottmeyer and kenny wheaton took him down leon left on the sideline getting a little rest and this is the thing that they have to do you know we talk about the one back in the backfield and and here you can start in here now if there's a hole here you just keep going if not you can just bounce it to the outside you see he starts in there and then he brings the defense in there and then just bounces it to the outside and picks up a first down brown smothered at the line of scrimmage [Applause] there's the defensive coordinator dave campo of the cowboys who's done over the years about as good a job as anybody could do and and now you know the cowboys really don't have a a dominant defense they have a couple dominant players obviously leon left in the defensive line and dion sanders is a defensive back and other than that there aren't any other dominant players and that's who he's doing with canal back to throw gets it out the way makes it one hand he's taken out of bounds by darren woodson and kevin smith that was a great call there because it was a safety blitz darren woodson came up and he made the eight man up and he came on a blitz and they got rid of that ball and the and the penalty is going to be against the cowboys but that's a heck of a call when you get the eighth man up and then the eighth man who was who was darren woodson he comes on a blitz then you get to the outside defense first down kevin smith called for the violation now watch how they pack them in see here's the eight men here then you're gonna get a blitz here now you just get the ball out here quickly on that see you packed the whole thing in see you just stopped right there you pack everything to the inside and then you put the ball to the outside what you call the hot receiver here's gary brown and he's off brown to the dallas 30 out of bounds at the 26 yard line dion sanders finally took him out of bounds you see what gary brown did he was there dion sanders got it gary brown ended with a ball but but gary brown is what kind of what the giants needed you know we talk about charles way and we talk about him running at him gary brown is the same type of thing watch the speed of deion sanders as the ball is over here and he sees if i don't come here and get him i don't know that anyone else is going to get gary brown and he just takes off and flies and gets him but the giants are doing a heck of a job of controlling lion skirmish way straight ahead that was a 34-yard run by gary brown that's the longest giant run of the year yeah and that's the type of thing that they have to get to because again if they can get that use their offensive line get the offensive line blocking you just run right at them calm down the pass rush keep their defense off the field so their defense can stay fresh then their defense has a chance to come up for some big plays for him second and seven five minutes just over five minutes left to go tiki barber in the backfield with way schumer went in motion and [Music] pass is caught by patton who surges to the 19 taken down by dion sanders and ron stones doing a good job in there the old you know the ex cowboy guard remember they got the giants got him on a trade but he's on leon lett they play together here's ron stone here's leon and if you're going to get pass protection you have to stop the penetration right there you see the job ron stone is doing yeah he does what you call short seven he gets on him right now so he doesn't get a chance to get that penetration third and three two tight ends for the giants [Music] [Applause] the rookie from penn state yeah that's what jim fossil was talking about that's what danny canal was talking about that clock in his in his head not to go too quickly to a dump but just wait and wait he waits for juror vicious to come in motion come across now he's going to be working on dion sanders here he starts to the inside now it's a zone he just keeps working danny canel finds the hole at the same time jura vicious finds the hole that's pretty good work between quarterback and receiver especially when the receiver is a rookie receiver [Applause] flag on the play no gain but a penalty marker down with a cowboy's speed on defense you can't go east and west the best runs are going to be when you go adam and stay at him or bounce it out not when you run east and west every time they do that the giants have either not gained or they've lost it's against the cowboys and so they're going to gain on this one aren't they yep because they didn't gain any yardage so whatever defense that's the first down that is one of the toughest defenses in the nationals it's what we call the 0-4-4-4 years and years ago before they had a lot of television in loving paul brown used to sneak a 4-4-4 in on you i remember both sides of the ball bill 4-4-4 in there first and goal after one the giants trying to take the lead [Applause] gary brown is very close no signal yet [Music] you know what the rule is here is the is the ball it's about the football where the football is the football has to break the plane of the goal line [Applause] the way they spotted that that didn't even even come close to the plane yet looked a lot closer when they were still stacked up [Applause] second ago there goes apron to the locker room that finger really bothering him obviously look out off the corner darren woodson aaron woodson came on a blitz earlier and they got that screen out there on him this time he comes from danny canel's backside danny canel didn't see him he's going to come from right here watch woodson here he is right here he was just outside and they didn't see him now watch here's here's darren woodson right here danny canal is play faking to the other side so he's play faking to the right side looking to the right side and quack from the left side here comes darren woodson and danny canel was hurt after he was hit by darren wilson that really stung him that's what you call a whiplash and the cowboys are there randall godfrey was the first one there we're gonna get the two-minute warning [Applause] dallas six the giants three [Music] the cowboys over the giants don't forget coming up on the visa halftime report we'll throw it down to jb and the guys for the first half analysis and joe buck and ryan pitts will have the scores and highlights from around the league plus our fox sports ticker we'll have that in the second stats all coming up on the visa halftime reporting right now the report from texas stadium is probably going to be a tie as darawiso lines up from 23 yards out and it's 6-6 i think he should be satisfied with the way that his team is playing so aggressively and the other thing troy aikman is out of the game and they took him in you can see right here he's going into the locker room for an x-ray of that right finger here's where he got it he was stepping through keith hamilton hit him yeah just as he threw the ball and it looked like the thing kept bothering him you know it looked like at first they were talking about the cut you know or working on the cuts and now when you go to an x-ray you know that they're thinking more than just a cut so when the cowboys get the ball which they will do in just a moment jason garrett that's uh not a player that's the pre-game set halftime set with what the guys do it's cold so they're all underneath here they got the blank out yeah they're right underneath here and what they do is they leave the guys under there and just put blankets over oh they got those blankets from my house they got those blankets from my house circle us john yeah i will do anything anything anything anything they want anything you ask for you got their world we're just living in it [Music] [Applause] and jason garrett there's there's a you know that dalai lisa when he kicked the field goal look where it ended up right right in front of where terry sits yeah yeah yeah right there and uh and then that woke them up because they were underneath the blankets the guys stay under there and they take naps well terry's lost weight but not that much weight no no but he takes a little nap and then that was that was their wake-up call you know someone knocks in your door aloiso kicked the football on their heads a minute 48 seconds left to play four wide receivers and jason garrett jason garrett was a quarterback you know the last time that these two teams played this year [Music] in the other direction and that's probably what it's going to be frank was talking about ernie mills yesterday and he said he's one of the smartest receivers that he's ever known in his life said he so rarely makes a mistake that when he does make a mistake which is inevitable it really stands out well of course he knows this awesome contact 24 defense first first down carlton gray is number but 24 mills was with the pittsburgh steelers when chan galey was there as the offensive coordinator and what ken gala likes is he and billy davis ernie mills and billy davis trade off and between them they make one pretty good receiver on the other side of michael irving from the shotgun dion kept going up field and jason threw it outside yeah yeah we're talking about wristbands you see dion's right wrist there he has his plays on that wrist and when they put him in it's four wide receivers plus dion so the the formation is called 214 21 and four wide receivers so he has his own plays and they're all right there so it's with his alignment and his assignment and his pattern he had the wrong play he didn't look at it and they put it on there and the wrist and the guy doesn't look at the wrist there's garrett i love the shotgun i would have to say that there's something wrong with the ball today because i mean jason garrett's coming in and throwing ducks it's wet danny canelo has thrown ducks troy aikman has thrown ducks and the kickers are kicking ducks well they played a played a high school game as we said friday night when it was raining and they put the tarp on top of the wet field and it just had never had a chance to dry out jason garrett this is what he did in the first game 12 out of 28 222 yards and a touchdown but that game was kind of about dion sanders he licked both hands both fingers on both hands i would think you're right thanks to michael irvin and now the giants are yelling call timeout that was a heck of a play by felipe sparks and when you get out there and you get that screen and your felipe sparks and you weigh about 180 pounds and you see there's about five guys coming at you you can get in between them snake in between them and make that play that's pretty good but here he comes up and he bumps he's playing pass defense now he sees it he comes up and he just kind of sneaks through and makes that tackle that was a heck of a play coming up on the visa halftime report we will throw it down to jb and the guys for the first half analysis and joe buck and ron pitts will have scores and highlights from around the league plus our fox sports ticker will have up to the second stats that's all coming up on the visa halftime report right now toby going back deep for the giants he could be dangerous as well flag on the play monty tumor gets a practice catch ball start prior to the snare number 59 offense joe avezanov who runs the dallas cowboys special teams but chan galey very much involved in the coaching of the special teams as well he was a special teams coach himself and he was a defensive coach himself chan galey was in fact on saturday we were there yesterday and and chan galey runs all the meetings he runs the offensive meeting the defensive meeting and the special teams meetings got away from jeff bogdan cowboys are saying somebody from the giant team touched it but it's a touch back a flag on the play however yeah the flag is way back here in the original line of scrimmage that's going to be an illegal man downfield remember the only two guys that can leave when the ball is snapped on the punt team are the two outside guys or the gunners everyone else has to wait until the ball's kicked an eligible member of the kicking team downfield number 40 is decline first down see what happens is these two guys they can go this whole group here has to wait until the point you have to wait until the ball's kicked and there it is right there the only problem is they don't have number 40. that's that was bill bates's number maybe they're so used to that maybe bill bates just did it it might be thoughtful there he is on on the sideline remember the coaching staff now yeah what they're saying is bill bates coached that guy to go yeah geeky barber you know i'm really impressed with the giants in this first half i mean you know they're they're playing giant football i mean this isn't going to excite you there's not going to be a lot of big plays but they play good defense they go after you everything is solid they got a running game they're doing all those kinds of things that won them a division last year that they haven't been doing this year [Applause] barber gets the carry i would think that the cowboys would take a timeout now in fact that that's probably the cowboys time out there it is the dallas timeout they have one left here was a it was a big play once once the giants got down there they wouldn't play fast you see what danny canal did he faked that play fast to the right then he went down kind of like a boomeras and fake he went down and it would have worked well on the the side of the play fake but darren woodson was coming from the other side later today michelle kwan todd eldridge and some of the world's best skaters meet in the culmination of skating's hottest event don't miss the first union grand slam of skating today following football at 4 30 eastern 1 30 pacific only on fox check your local listings for the start time in your area if the cowboys are trying to do is stop in here and make them punt one more time this half to deion sanders all right barber trying for the first down running hard he might have gotten it that's a big play i mean you know you look in the stats and the thing you think that's not going to be but now that gives the giants a first down so they can run out this half and not have to give the ball to deion sanders again a very wise thing to do let's just run it out well they're little things that add up to big things in a game that really equals smart football and that doesn't seem like much as you just said but that could turn out to be one of the turning points in this game that first down right there yeah and then that's that's the type of thing in the way that the giants you know have to play this is the kind of football that they have to play they've been doing a good job on defense they have a good special team and then if they can keep their running game going just enough to rest that defense so they could be affected they could be in this game and then smith who just set the all-time cowboy rushing record breaking that hill by tony dorsett who would have expected this score at the half 6-6 i thought it would be yeah i think when when the giants are playing and playing well it's going to be a low-scoring game and then when you have the quarterback when troy aikman gets hurt and is out of the game then you can expect it again and then to me it looks like to me in this first half that everyone all the fall handlers have had trouble handling the ball yeah as we've said many times already the field's wet got wet on friday night and didn't have a chance to drive there's troy headed up for x-rays so obviously and we'll try to find out it must be more than just a slight cut on his 6-6 giants down tonight the visa half-time winner i'm joe buck along with ron pitts the game that some of you are watching the big one down in big d the giants and cowboys tied 6-6 at the half emmitt smith already over 100 yards straight man has a deep gash on his right index finger and look it's jesse the bonnie ventura yeah he came just in time to watch randall cunningham get his right ankle roll on ouch makes the decision easy for dennis green brad johnson get in he gets in does well gets chris carter a 14-yard touchdown pass minnesota rolling all over the saints up by 10 late in the second quarter chris carter now the vikings all-time touchdown leader as we move to atlanta and new england the two head coaches talking it over and ron pitts all atlanta so far first quarter two blitz so sack fumbles atlanta recovers they make something out of it too chandler the oj santiago seven yard td atlanta 14 nothing second quarter jamal anderson here come those big thighs joe look out 10 yard td makes it look so easy his second touchdown for the day that's not the first time i've heard that by the later on falcons leading 28-3 they are late in the second quarter up in new england the chicago bears steve stenstrom getting his first nfl start yeah stencil finds curtis conway in the end zone for a four-yard touchdown stencil 5-5 on his first drive chicago up by seven earlier then tony banks fires a bullet finds ricky paul three-yard score they're knighted up now 14-7 rams more scores for you detroit at philadelphia as we check that score they are at the half eagles leading 7-3 two teams struggling there nobody struggling with the jacksonville jaguars up 24 to nothing late in the second quarter at home over cincinnati the dolphins out in front big at home over peyton manning in the indianapolis colts the oakland raiders trailing at baltimore a touchdown off an interception return for baltimore and the lead i meant this week's you call it which team the giants or the cowboys will have the most total points total yards at biggie pardon total yards in the second half of today's game so join us on the internet log on to foxsports.com and good luck to you as you can see troy aikman is back on the sideline when last we saw him he was headed for the locker room to get x-rays there is no break in his finger it was just uh it was just skinned on top and it's very painful we don't know how you'll be able to throw it or not well what they did is they talked about there was no fracture there's no ligament damage but you know he still does have a sore finger you know on his first finger on his throwing hand and i think i think that's the thing that's going to be the key the the cowboys in the first half only have 33 yards passing and you can see that even though it's just a cut even though it's not broken or fractured or ligament damage it is bothering troy aikman and he is having a tough time throwing the ball and he's just going to take a look at what he can do in the second half if if he can't perform if he can't do what he expects it's just one of those things when it is it's the hand that also takes the snap and you have constant reminders that's david patton taking the second half kickoff right now let's send you down to susie colbert pat i talked to jim fossil and asked him if he was satisfied if the giants are playing like this is a must-win game he said absolutely they're playing very hard he was very happy with the way they were playing but of course they have a whole nother half to go as for both quarterbacks maybe struggling a bit with the ball i asked danny cannell if the ball was slippery he said yes very slippery it's very hard to throw back to you thanks susie and it is very wet the field is very well although it's not raining at the moment here's canel gives off to gary brown and brown out to about the giant 30. score tied 6-6 says we're in the opening seconds of the second half well you know susie was talking about how jim fossil wanted his team to play like it's a championship game i mean he feels if they don't beat the cowboys today they're really not going to be in a division championship race and he wanted that sense of urgency from all the areas and i have the feeling and he has the feeling that he's getting it that's brown again shy of the 30 you're about too shy of a first down they keep talking about the slippery ball and the field's been wet is wet got wet on friday night they covered it never had a chance to get dry but the ball itself shouldn't be wet no that that's that's the thing that i was bringing up that i don't know how unless the center when he gets over the ball pushes the ball down into the carpet and then and then the water comes up on the ball but but the ball there's no reason that the ball should be wet but for some reason like danny canel said the ball is slippery and it looks like it's slippery well they aren't they supposed to if the balls are wet like this aren't they supposed to have backup sacks of balls on both sides yeah they do they have 36 balls 36 footballs for every game they use 18 brand new balls for the first half 18 brand new balls for the second half so if these balls are slippery i think it's because they're brand new balls rather than wet because i don't see anywhere where that ball is wet or getting wet i wonder if the center is going to turn it over now well that'll be interesting if the senator turns it over like he does but now when he pushes it down does it get wet brown in an attempt to get the first down and he's very close and this is the big thing i think for the giants is is you see they get in that third one or two where they can pick up these third down conversion and you know where they don't have that third and long so they'll move the sticks first and ten giants opening seconds of quarter number three to score tied at six just like a kind of a run scrimmage yeah you don't have the feeling that that either team is going to open up or really wants to open it up here's canal that's what speed does you know kavika pittman isn't a great defensive end he's not a great pass rusher but he can do this he can run and you see the bootleg here now watch kavika pittman here he just runs right down the line of scrimmage and he intersects danny canal that's that's the thing when a defensive lineman when a defensive lineman could run he's not going to be fooled by this that's the old bootleg remember where you would fake and then put the ball on your hip and then you would bootleg it around the end that's what canal did but it didn't fully beat the fitment three wide charles way got to carry and didn't get back to the line of scrimmage he lost a couple down and then come back and run on second down and again i think this whole thing is really to stay out of the situation that they've just gotten themselves into and that's that third and long because this you know again is not is not where they play their best football offensively third and ninth tiki barber in the backfield canel from the shotgun cowboys on a blitz wide open is amani tumer and a flag on the play now monte tumor he was out there and you know that any time that they throw one they're going to try and get a first down they're going to throw it on kevin smith now someone now someone pushed off here was it offense or defense or giants to say it was defense illegal contact 26 defense is declined first down like these cowboy fans i think are starting to boot kevin smith because anytime they're going to work this is where they're going to work you see now he can hit him in the first five yards after five yards right there he can't touch him you see what kevin smith did he hit him after he was five yards down field and then for some reason at the end kevin smith is running backwards and letting the guys catch in front of him [Applause] that's in the area of offensive holding anytime the umpire throws one like he did the umpire's the guy behind the defensive line and when he throws a ball right in the middle of the line it's it's offensive holding holding 78 offense [Applause] [Music] like you said he's the left guard and he's working he's working on leon let you see leon let gets his arm in there i don't know unless it's his left arm that he hooked leon lev i'm not sure about that because if that guy throws his arm there i've always argued you have to be able to clamp down on it so i don't think what greg bishop did initially is wrong rewind receivers charles way looking to the outside and not much there nothing there you pointed out there's a good example of a speed that the cowboys have on defense they were there in a hurry you know and the other thing leon led some of the positions that he gets himself into he was saying yesterday and it's a real interesting thing he said he learned from charles haley that the best pass rush positions are uncomfortable position if you're in an uncomfortable position your body is an uncomfortable position you're in a good position to run some passer if you're in a comfortable body position you're not in a good pass rush position that sounds like it would apply to a good golf swing here's canal and he gets it downfield compete complete the callaway who fumbles and it's picked up by kenny wheaton the cowboys recover oh danny cannell did his job the offensive line did his job callaway initially did again working on kevin smith kevin smith gives the cushion you can see the ball come in here to callaway kevin smith comes up he gets beaten again but he makes a big play by knocking the ball out there all right captains we're gonna have a coin toss now there's a team we'll call it in the air um you want a good clean game um we're all professionals here does anyone have change mortality what wanna get away now you can with pat summerhall with john madden at texas stadium in irving it's 6-6 the dallas cowboys and the new york giants first and ten dallas at their own 34. [Applause] and here's emma smith got about six yards yeah we were talking about we were talking about troy aikman and having to throw the ball in the touch but and how you're always reminded of it once as you see his right hand is up underneath his right hand has to take the brunt of the snap you see the ball as it snap is snapped right there so he's going to take a hit on that finger every snap he takes of course that's the ball then he had to hand off with or he does hand off with smith second and three giants show blitz smith shows him outside and emmitt a yard short of a first yeah one thing i think that jan galey brought to this team is having emmett smith run more outside you remember for years when he was gaining all those yards it was always to the inside and if you look now you know he has pretty good mixture of running inside and outside look he's gone three times outside to the left for 45 yards two outside to the right for 34 yards and nine inside for 36 yards so he's run inside more but he's made more yardage outside to the right to the left he gets another tie to get a first down hit and knock back as he try to go over the top yeah there was corey whitby the middle linebacker in there and they haven't gotten a lot of movement on this defensive line i'll say all day that these giants have been winning this battle now if you can win this battle of line of scrimmage then you can let your linebackers come over the top you see they win and now here comes corey whitmer and he gets just enough penetration so there's no cutback you see you win at the line of scrimmage you get penetration for your linebacker so they can't cut back then they have to run right into where you won that battle so toby going his third punt of the day this is a good one and he is down at about the 14-yard line by charlie williams 6-6 at texas stadium 8-12 left in the third [Music] 6-6 tie tonight advert all-new world's funniest it's the star-studded all-new simpsons followed by the funniest that 70s show of the season then it's television's biggest event the x-files season premiere all starts tonight at 7 6 central here on fox the giants and the ball guitars chad hennings chases him down flag on the play yeah and of course it all started with the leon led again getting penetration that's what we talked about earlier controlling the line of scrimmage if the offense wins you keep the defense on their side if the defense wins they get on the offensive side leon lett was on the offensive side in that play and that play didn't have a chance holding 78 offense still first down that's great bishop again let's see that's his second holding penalty in as many series here troy's got his finger on ice waving ice giants backed up down to their own eight-yard line canal will throw it from there looking got hit just as he let it go and the ball flew out of bounds george teague was over closest to him callaway the intended receiver and this is the area that i would expect jim fossil right now to come back with a conservative play because this this whole game has been about field positions and when you get here you don't want to give up anything you don't want to do anything stupid in this area because their defense did a heck of a job i mean they got up here and they had a turnover when callaway fumbled the ball their defense stopped and they made the cowboys punt but now you don't want to give them a turnover in this area second and long there's exactly what you said wrapped up at about the 10 11 yard line and this is the type of thing that we were talking about when you when you run it like this east and west and you start off in a sweep that that is not the type of play that is going to go against the cowboy events because they're so quick i mean and they get so many guys flowing and as you go they will go east and west as quickly as you will third and 14. this is an interesting call here in fact they're going to take a time out and talk about it because because the clock was running down but do you go for a play or do you still stay conservative i think you stay conservative but they'll have time to think about it get a little impatient with both both teams for the conservative style that's going on yeah and what they're doing now is they want the cowboys to stop them here so the giants are going to have to punt the ball to dion sanders and it'll be hard from this position on the field to punt it out of bounds there's a blitz coming canal across the middle incomplete or maybe no it was incomplete incomplete excuse me fine i was just going to say that's what the fans wanted because that's what they're rooting for to stop them here so now now they they're going to have to punt from this position in fact the punter's going to have to pump this ball out of the end zone and when you punt from this position here with rnf there's no way he can put this ball out of bounds why take a chance and throw it in the middle if you're not gonna throw it for a first down i've always wondered about that good point by you but it's right in the middle of the field or not quite in the middle but he's got a chance and there he goes there's a flag on the play back at midfield as sanders gets all the way down and flags come flying everywhere there's three flags three flags there's one right here there's another one out there and there's another one over in the sideline these have to be against the cowboys in fact dion sanders was saying a couple weeks ago he said you know sometimes when i get the ball i wish all my guys would just fall down in fact chan galey said that the worst thing we can do when they punt the ball to dion sanders is have anyone get a penalty chance said just get on somebody and stay on them and sometimes if it was deion sanders you're better if it's close not to get on someone just let him go and let him beat him we have two fouls after the change to possession during the run back number 31 of dallas illegal block in the back during the return number 34 of the kicking team face mass by rule the ball will be placed at the spot of dallas's foul first down dallas [Applause] george teague is number 31 there's the block and there's the block in the back right there and so then the ball is going to be put at that point there's brandon sanders right there with the face mask 6-6 [Music] by southwest airlines proud sponsor of the nfl and official airline of the super bowl by the new dodge it's about change by circuit city answers in every department low prices all over the store and by dr pepper and your local dr pepper bottler dr pepper this is the taste six six the giants and cowboys troy aikman with the injured finger this is a pretty good spot to take a shot first down good field position [Applause] outside all we can do is look at the giant defenders facing him and marcus buckley led the pack but emmett still got about four yards and i think that the cowboys somewhere have to have to stretch his defense a little i mean aikman is six out of 12 now for about 35 yards or so which which for him or for any top quarterback is really nothing and i think what happens is is they're running so much and they're so successful that this giant defense is tightening up but i'm tighten up on him i think they got to throw a deep one just to get him back off and to loosen him up a little second and six six minutes left to play in the third quarter [Applause] mills he's going to be a couple of yards short of the first down you know and they're doing that that's that's good coverage by the giants because aikman is trying to get the ball down in the field and on both of these he's had a dump off you see one because it's good coverage downfield plus it's a little pressure you see the little pressure right there and that time clock that these quarterbacks have in their head that went off and he knew i don't have any time to wait for someone to get open down field i better get rid of the ball and the giant defense made him do that twice in a row 400th reception of his career that's that's the one that i thought that they had to do and that was a double move by ernie mills that's what you'd call an out and up and he was working over there and he starts on the out conrad hamilton's the corner watch him he's gonna come out now he's gonna make this little move out you see just a little move and then he gets hamilton to come up thinking that's a move and then he goes right by him those are the things that ernie mills can do he got deep not with great speed but by selling conrad hamilton that he was going to go short and then hamilton came up and then as he came up boom he runs right by him and he did very well to hold on to that ball because conrad hamilton had his arm in there and troy aikman was excited on that one because he knew that he had to loosen that defense up tito wooten injured on the last play just stepped over to the giant sideline it's first and goal at the five for the cowboys and it's time for emmitt smith i would think emmitt cuts it back and doesn't get back to the five but there's a flag on the [Music] you know emmitt player in all-time touchdowns is fifth he has 124. walter payton has 125. so if he scores a touchdown here or anywhere in this game he will tie walter payton that's pretty good company yes it is and then jim brown is only the two ahead with 126.89 offense david lafleur the tight end here's a list right here we see where emmitt smith is here at 124. one more he ties walter payton two more he ties jim brown and then he has a little gap in there to marcus allen then some work to do to catch marcus allen and jerry rice of course is still adding to his toby i mean i mean that that listener knows those are great they're all time great [Applause] players [Applause] that's an interesting play they you know we talk about how they use ernie mills he caught it big fast and then they use him as a blocker to get him in a counter here's ernie mills here he ends up in the backfield then he comes and leads on a counter makes a little block there it is a block that sprung emmett smith but that's his chan galey offense he uses his wide receivers as blockers [Applause] yards hit very hard but that's the way you want to meet him i mean any any any defensive player wants to meet a running back square in the hole and watch this this is exactly what happened but he starts in here and then he just gets met right there squarely straight hand was first to arrive on the scene number nine here's spray hand right here i mean he comes down he's the guy that got him from the side got it was the front it looked like a whitmer hit [Applause] third and four third and goal at the [Applause] fourth [Applause] [Music] jesse armstead came in but scott gallian he's going to be playing in here he's going to miss the tackle right there so he could have him there emmett made him miss there and jesse armstead comes in and makes a tackle so richie cunningham comes on with eric bjornsson i think that was a little too conservative for the cowboys i know that they like to run the ball down there but after you're running once or twice i think you take a passing shot in the end zone the 20 and the cowboys again lead by three nine to six nothing but field goals this afternoon at texas stadium [Music] nate newton it was john said got a concussion last week last monday night obviously recovered he's mad at someone about something i know what it is nate newton is one of those offensive linemen like offensive all offensive ones that love to run the ball and when they give you the shot to run the ball and you don't get it in the end zone then you ought to be upset with yourself and your teammate this is tiki bar barbara who takes the lion drive kickoff and it's tackled and a flag on the play tackle by george t this is the thing that we say every week but it seems like almost every every coverage every kick coverage whether it's a punt or a kickoff you know we're seeing a flag and the other thing that i've noticed is the coverage isn't as good the tackling's not as good and i don't know if that's salary capital when the return well don't you think it is first down yeah i think it is i mean i think that special teams the special teams guys that are cover guys are getting to be an afterthought i think the teams aren't aren't putting that in there anymore because the money is tied up in the so-called star players yeah right there's there's the the block in the back right there and that's that's under under a heading of dump penalties you know you put your list that would be the number one one you'd put right there there's no reason for that i guess there would be a place somewhere sometime for intelligent penalties the pass is incomplete i killed you it had it and dropped it gotta catch this one danny canel's had some tough breaks here we see i kill you again they're just working on kevin smith and any anytime they run it out or something underneath they're wide open and then and then they just have to hold on to the ball i mean he has a ball here this is close to a fumble because he came close to control and it wasn't a fumble but remember callaway had one like that and did fumble it again on kevin smith he's off to the races again brown pushed out of bounds close to midfield good block by ron stone at the at the point of attack this is the thing you know yo yo the lion can get him started watch ron stone he's the right guard he's going to get a block here that will be the point of attack now the line can get him started they can get him that first five yards see that block right there by stone that's what got him through the hall and then you get the corner come outside and then just gary brown just jumps outside of him 38-yard run by gary brown stone got it all started there's canal again handing off this time to tiki barber and he gets pretty good yardage brown 15 carries 119 yards dallas cowboy owner jerry jones spending a lot of time down on that cowboy sideline and early i know why he went down here the first time that was when when troy aikman well yeah yeah it was foreign [Applause] nfl update let's return to joe buck in los angeles all right bad in minnesota it's a seven point viking lead until robert smith rolls 61 yards with a chris carter convoy it's a 24-10 minnesota lead so many weapons so many big play guys no wonder they're 7-1 back to dallas at texas stadium the cowboys leading by three as we get down close to the end of the third quarter third and eighth we're talking about wide receivers blocking on big plays and runs in minnesota incomplete and now that is good coverage by kevin smith people are after him yeah armani tumor though if you're going to run enough you can't be that close to the sideline i mean that that was his fault he gets too close to the sideline now the only place that danny cannell can do is throw it short or throw it out of bounds you see when you're up that close to the sideline you don't have any with the outside you have to run that thing between the numbers and the sideline you could never run up up against the sideline even if he hadn't been able to make that catch he would have been out of bounds right and and there's no place you don't leave any place for your quarterback danny cannell's playing pretty well he's not getting a lot of help from his wide receivers brad maynard lag on the play it might have taken too much time to get it snapped 14 seconds left just time brad maynard got a a practice kick and dion sanders got a practice catch and yeah sanders flung that ball back there pretty good that was dancing dion sanders in high school was important remember that yeah offense still fourth down some people say in the 90s he's the best athlete of the 90s you know they'll argue the packers is one of them will say that he's a better athlete michael jordan because of what he does in football and what he did in baseball i think he has an argument i'm not sure i would argue with him signals fair catch and makes it at the 15. i think the cowboys have to go back now you know and try and try and get a couple of first downs here and then loosen it up again the way they did with ernie mills you know and he made that when he made that double move out there and and because the giants defense is really playing well and i think the more they run the more the giants defense plays the run and they have to get a little uh i don't know why the defense always is the one to get exhausted but they have to be getting tired incomplete no flag intended for billy davis and that's the end of the third quarter with the score of the cowboys nine the giants six and fox nfl sunday will continue after work from your local fox station [Music] nine six the cowboys leading and they have the ball second and ten there's chad he's trying to work on some moves that he can he can get on larry allen i don't know that there are any because he's out here and that's kind of an all-day sucker when you're fighting against number 73. davis in motion taking them back to throw it outside [Music] unless they watch his blocks they don't get a lot for that boost call because his number one thing say is to be a blocker his number two is a receiver and not much of that yeah and then the third thing is every once in a while like once a month we'll give him the ball you see he starts in a play fake and again he just comes off in the flat but he was the outlet he wasn't he wasn't the main receiver in the progression he would have been the third guy in that progression four wide receivers they need five that's the old basketball thing as you said no one in the backfield they had four receivers on the other side dion back on this side and let him go one to one you see all the receivers are here one two three four right here here's dion back on this side so they figured okay let's get everyone over there and then we'll get one-on-one with felipe sparks back here and dion just let him use his quickness and then he should have a big part of the field to get the first down which he got and emma smith gets the carry gets up passes 35 about 36. up a few you know i've always been amazed by bruce johnston how you know for 10 years he can do this how he's had neck surgery and all he is is a battering ramp maybe not so much now because they run outside more but for all those years he's gone in there and done the grunt work and done the tough blocks and he does it year after year after year you know what amazes me about it is that he usually almost always picks the right guy to block and then after he picks him he does something about it he gets it to the floor and that's enough for a first down for dallas you know chad bradsky is over there and he's in a fight with larry allen but it's really it's really tough i mean i you know they talk about who's the best tackle top three or four to me this guy is the best offensive lineman period in football and watch chad bradsky is trying to cut from the outside but barry allen is just so strong so powerful when he gets his hands on you there's nothing you can do i mean he bench presses listen to this he bench pressed 600 pounds i've never heard anyone doing that me either and then he just puts those hands on bratsky just like a 600 pound bench press drops again protection's gotten better davis and billy davis takes a hit [Applause] when the quarterback leads you in there he starts that's that pattern that the cowboys call a skinny post and once he got that skinny post and he looked up to ellsworth right there on him first down cowboys they moved to the giant 35 and that defense of the giants has been out there a long time i don't think he saw percy ellsworth but he knew that there was going to be someone there and he had to hold on to it again and he surges to about a yard to 34. listen to the hit on billy davis well he gets inside philippe's part [Applause] percy ellsworth what you call a knockout punch but it didn't knock out billy davis one of the secrets to billy davis is you know not being able to take a knockout punches his hair he he has his hair bleached that's the scene yeah i was talking to a friday about it he calls it platinum the color [Applause] one of the things the cowboys are doing that i have more to believe in every week is is that you have to you have to loosen up the defense in order to run it used to be all the time you say you have to be able to run the ball and then you know to throw it i think sometimes you have to loosen them up just throw it and then run it watch larry allen out here on chad bradsky i mean bradsky has given him everything he has but but barry allen is just too strong for it [Applause] what a grab [Music] though but what a catch i don't care if it's a touchdown or not that's some effort and this is what shane daly brought ernie mills here for ernie mills is right here and watching he's just going right through the zone and troy aikman makes a perfect pass though i mean he had a he had a deep guy and a short guy and he throws it right between them and now did the ball break the plane before his knee goes down his knees down nope it's that that's not a touchdown [Applause] although no one did touch it oh that's right you're supposed to be down as a result of contact and there was no contact doesn't that have to be a touchdown it had to be but it's not [Music] and by intel makers of the amazing pentium two processor [Music] nine to six the cowboys lead at texas stadium first and goal at the one was reading the play on his wrist as he went up to the line of scrimmage there's emmett smith this one [Music] in fact he lost a couple but what a throw and what a catch by bernie i mean that that that throw getting it in there was an amazing throw but that catch that ernie mills was something special unbelievable we're going to run and you see the giants again have good pursuit and and we talk about it's hard to run outside on the cowboy defense which is because of their speed it's also tough to run a sweep you know wide you can take inside and bounce out but it's tough to go east and west against the giants in this area certainly who makes it juggle it momentarily touchdown [Music] [Applause] he makes 30 mils and gets him down there and then he throws a touchdown that and that just was a full play i mean that's all if they go they go to play fast and they know that when you see emmitt smith back here everyone is playing run so you you you fake the run you bring borison jordson around all the way from the right side you see that he lined up and right came all the way across the back of the backfield and out the other end [Music] and richie cunningham is good with the extra point and the cowboys move a little further ahead again play fake to this side now here's bjornsson right here he comes all the way across and sneaks out here so they play fake to the right now watch how this play fake holds the line everyone and watch out bjergsen over that left side he just sneaked right through in fact he sneaked between his guard nate newton and the line of scrimmage six david patton fields it chased and brought down back at about the 10-yard line by isaiah reese and the giants will start to operate from deep in their own territory 16-6 [Applause] who gets out of bounds stops the clock 8 28 left but you don't know who they're going to throw it to but you know who they're going to throw it against and again they just get working this thing all day in fact it's a double coverage now now kevin smith when you have a guy like darren woodson inside you you don't have to go for the inside move you stay outside that's why they put darren woodson over there to help you three wide receivers two of them to the left this time canelo looking right and the pass is out of bounds it's incomplete and it's the same thing it's the same thing amani tuma he's running that up and he didn't give any any room to the sideline so now if you watch him go up the sideline there's only one place they can throw you can't beat that line up that wide then take an outside release now the only place that danny cannell can throw the ball and complete it is out of bounds so you can't get this close you got to run you're you got to be out in this area so the quarterback could throw over here there's no way that you can run that pattern up the sideline second and ten brings it out to charles way kevin smith is up to hit charles way as soon as he makes the catch he was this upset minnesota 24-17 in the fourth over new orleans atlanta beating new england badly [Applause] atlanta you know people keep saying are they for real i guess they are yeah and you know you know they're tied with the 49ers in that division and then the 49ers are now playing today without steve young playing carolina third and nine here's canel and again he looks in the right direction over the middle pass complete chris callaway at midfield or close to it and that was on dion sanders you know if there is anything that you can get on dion sanders it's an in-pattern now the first thing you have to do is you have to be able to block now the offensive line has given danny cannell plenty of time there yeah and now you see here if there's anything that people can run on is just keep coming across the field on dion sanders again incomplete no flag across the intended receiver coakley i think that's the first pass that they've thrown to uh to howard cross today and we were talking earlier about how jim fossil feels that if he's going to have a complete offense he feels good about his wide receivers but he feels that he needs a fast receiving tight end i still think he needs a wide receiver that scares you because there's no one there's no one on this on this giant offense that scares you speed [Applause] second and ten canal back to throw it and this time he is down [Applause] [Music] greg ellis was first there greg ellis was there the rookie and then and then leon led also and that's that's the thing i mean danny cannell has to has to has to throw the ball so they know and and the way this thing started it was kind of ugly i mean there's there's confusion strickland's falling down and substitutions all right but they finally got it right and then they got the passport there well it was latin ellis yeah leon knight was the guy that really got the penetration of canal spots first they showed blitz early blitz and here it comes to canal and the pass is short and incomplete david patton the intended receiver covered by dion sanders okay and danny canel really got it there he gets it from the front of back and then he gets it from the linebacker dexter coakley is the guy that's going to finish him off watch him come from this side he's on what we call a spy and then when the back blocks coakley takes off he really had a shot there could have been a bigger shot on him randall godfrey came from the other side brad vayner back to pune 16-6 dallas looks like he's dead tired [Applause] [Music] and now see where it's lined up at the six that's where the cowboys stuck six yard line leading 16-6 [Music] back at texas stadium pat summerhall john madden 16-6 the cowboys lead the giants one touchdown in this game mike but by eric johnson i'm just going to say mike kieslach is in at the center now for the cowboys he was he was doug flutie center in canada that's his claim what a story smith the ball carrier gets outside the 10 with a struggle right now for an nfl update let's return again to joe buck in los angeles all right thank you pat vikings up by seven at the new orleans five until this sammy night say good night 91 yards back the other way the interception returning to the touchdown it's a 24-24 game early in the fourth quarter back to dallas nate newton shaken up on the last play you know we talked about last week he got knocked out and had to come out of the game here he is here the left guard you see he's just blocking there everything looks okay yeah maybe he just fell down had a hard time getting up that could be i could understand that [Music] but he looks okay last week he was telling me he got knocked out went off on the sideline and he and he was supposed to pull and the coach said what do you do on 39 and he goes wait he said i don't know about 39 he said go over the whole offense with me he says coach said go sit down then he sat down where the quarterbacks said and he said he couldn't stop trying he said he just sat there and tried the whole rest of the game so shiver comes in and keeps like moves over to guard and emma cut it back to the outside got to about the 10. and here comes nate back so whatever was wrong with nate uh he waddled back in again okay yes chant galey yesterday how was nate playing and he said he's getting the most he can out of a body that's been in this league a long time [Music] next week it's the fox nfl sunday double header first it's a battle between the two top teams in the nfc west as the 49ers clash with the surprising falcons then brett favre and the packers head to new york to take on these giants plus other regional action coverage begins at noon eastern 9 a.m pacific right here on fox check your local listings by the way atlanta winning over new england 31 38 to 10 now yeah we were talking about the giants and their problems and i i think all their problems started when they lost jason seymour you know he was he was such a good player that he allowed that defense last year to do the same things the cowboys do where jason seahorn could take a receiver and let their other nine or their other ten defenders play against the nine offensive guys [Applause] when that ball comes in there if you hear one thumb that's the guy catching it if you hear a double thump that's the ball hitting the ground and the guy catching it yeah ernie mills runs a pretty good pattern he does sparks was saying that he didn't catch it the ball hit the ground i don't know i can't see the ball hit i can't either he was down as they pulled the ball loose [Applause] there's a pretty good story number 76 flozelle adams who's the number two draft choice for the cowboys normally and was in college a tackle but they moved him into guard and he stayed there yeah and i think eventually he's going to be a tackle though i mean you know six foot seven there are some tall guards in this league like a tall guy when you're six foot seven six eight you have a tough time playing at guard but you're more made for a tackle and if you really look at this team i mean larry allen was built more like a guard and flozael adams would be built more like a tackle troy aikman in the second half 10 out of 1125 yards the one touchdown of the game even with that bad finger yeah and he's he's gotten the accuracy and when he gets accurate there's no one more accurate than troy aikman and whatever was bothering him and and danny cannell too in the first half didn't bother him in the second half i was talking to him before the game and the fact that the field was wet was really bothering him you could tell that whatever he got in his head he got out of here it'll bring up a third down situation but the clock continues and you know the thing that's impressive about troy aikman's second half is is and you know all those completions he had he's completed to a lot of different guys i mean the thing they're not one dimensional in fact i don't think michael herbert caught one i mean he had six different receivers at one time and michael irvin wasn't one of those six different receivers keep in mind that the giants have used all of their timeouts so even if they do get the ball they got to do everything by winning out of bounds or [Music] [Applause] [Music] here's nate newton here's larry allen if you get in a short yardage situation this is the area you want to go in you see larry allen blocks down nate newton pulls him they run a cross block and then the hole is right between larry allen coming down kicking out on that cross and emmitt smith just hits the middle of the cross and got the first down it's first and ten 302 three minutes left now and again the giants out of timeouts 16-6 dallas leads by 10. [Applause] yeah but that's not a smart play i mean emmitt smith has done a lot and he's broken a lot of records but what the what the cowboys are trying to do now is keep the clock going and the worst thing you can do is run out of bounds he would have been better just by falling down running john yeah what is that i don't know we're in texas stadium maybe that's what it is second and seven [Applause] obviously he didn't get [Music] [Applause] [Music] two minutes to go on the cowboys leading new york by 10. this was a must-see game for the giants [Music] two minutes left dallas 16 the giants six [Applause] third and about two three you say the giants don't have any more timeouts the cowboys need a first down here and then they can run the clock out and it's smith behind the trap block emmett gets the first down and i think now they can they could probably take emmitt smith out because he's done his work for the day and in fact they all have and let someone else just run the clock out here now emma's starting to walk off the field i don't know if anyone has come in for him yet here comes chris warren chris warren's coming in now what a day he's had though this has to be you talk about a memory and make it a memory and you know you want to do it on a game when you're playing at home and when you win the game and now the cowboys are just running out today's game being produced by bob stenner directed by sandy grossman associate director of mike roig the broadcast associates of fran morrison and charles mcdonald technical producers bob mueller studio was produced by scott ackerson directed by bob levy associate director jennifer love the senior producers bill brown the executive producers of fox sports ed goren and david hill [Applause] that's in the ring of honor tony dorsett whose records were broken today by emmitt smith what a career he's had jerry jones down here with him pr director rich dalrymple everyone congratulating emmett smith and now he has the record he broke tony dorsett's record troy aikman already has a record he broke roger staubach's record not today but he had michael irvin has a receiving record that drew pearson once had [Music] so the triplets have all the records and that guy there is a big help to getting records too isn't he larry how anyone could put a list of offensive tackles or offensive linemen and not have larry on it is beyond me coming up this play of the game is brought to you by dr pepper i think if you have a play of the game today it has to be this guy emmitt smith what a day what a career and it's a day that he broke the all-time rushing rushing record of the dallas cowboys this is a play he did it on that's the record run and there's what happened to the ball and right now let's go down to suzy colbert who has troy aikman a big day for troy aikman but first let's take inventory the shoulder and how's the finger the finger's gonna be okay they did x-rays there's nothing broke but i wasn't i don't know about the ligaments and stuff and i wasn't able to get a real good grip on the ball and it was causing some problems and uh fortunately i was able to still come back and make a few throws there in the second half you'll be careful with it this week and then make a decision for next week well no i'm gonna i'll be back next week if i finish this ball game i'll be ready to go next week against arizona the offensive line did a great job of really holding off the giants they really came at you hard today well they did they're an aggressive style of defense and our offensive line came off and got on people emmitt smith right behind you he had a heck of a day running the football he's a great back and anybody that questioned that coming into the season i think he's answered those questions let's take a second here to congratulate emmett whenever was 20 years old he walked in here he looked up he saw the names today you are the dallas cowboys all-time leading rusher is the real thing as good as the dream you know i think winning this game made everything complete so far but the season is yet over we have a long way to go i'm thankful for the opportunity to do it today in front of the home crowd i'm thankful jared jones will give me the opportunity to play here as a dallas cowboy i'm thankful for tony for setting the milestone so high and giving me something to reach forward to and most important than that i thank god for giving me the talent to come down here and do all that i do every sunday i try to do the best i can that's all i can ask myself so many people had written you off especially last season how great does it feel to come back out here silence everyone and how much you're enjoying this system this season you know it doesn't matter what everybody say jesus the one got the final word over everything so you know he giving me the strength this year to come on out and do the best that i can alignment back healthy they're doing good they're playing well the system itself is set up where all of us can have some success it's different than it was last year or the past two years and that right there itself is good motivation to push us forward and uh to continue to give us that drive to go on and be successful and try to win more championships for this organization you and troy and michael break in all the records congratulations man thank you send it back upstairs to password all right susie silver john madden i'm pat summerhall saying so long from texas stadium where the final score is the cowboys 16 the giant six and we'll send you back to the fox network center in los angeles with joe buck and ron pitts with some final thoughts after these messages [Music] check on that dallas new york giants game and uh the victory for the dallas cowboys 10 points we will end up sending you back to big dallas with the guys the high rent district is down in dallas and uh ron pitts the victory for the dallas cowboys yeah and i think you know emmitt smith wanted to come out he had over 100 yards rushing just in the first half it was clear that he had a mission he had a goal you

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Keywords: Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Troy Aikman, Danny Kanell, Rodney Hampton, Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett, Ryan Bush, Decade Of Futility, Michael Irvin, Greg Ellis, Deion Sanders, Pat Summerall, John Madden, Darren Woodson, Chan Gailey, Jim Fassel, Dexter Coakley

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Published: Mon Sep 28 2020