00:00What did you make of that victory with the Ravens over the Cowboys, 34-31 in Rio?
00:04I mean, what a way to end that thing, too, at the end of the ballgame there with a field
00:09goal that ended up winning it for them.
00:11Put him in field goal position there was Lamar Jackson.
00:13You tell me, what's your takeaway on this?
00:17Yeah, I think the Cowboys are going to look back at this, and they made two big mistakes.
00:20But the first one, just you do not kick the ball out of bounds with the touchback rule, bringing it
00:26out to the 35 in that circumstance with any amount of time left.
00:29Because you're talking about NFL kickers now have more range than ever before, and it just takes that one big
00:35play to get teams into scoring range.
00:37And we saw that play out exactly.
00:39And if you are going to allow that to happen, you need to make sure that if they're completing a
00:45pass inbounds, you do not let that receiver go down in field goal range.
00:49So those were the two failures by the Cowboys.
00:51But the easiest way to fix that, just kick the ball deep but not out of bounds.
00:56Make the Ravens return it, and unless they get a kick return touchdown, they are not beating you in regulation.
01:02So I thought that was the biggest Cowboys mistake from the end of that game.
01:05Absolutely.
01:06And what's really changed the NFL, folks, is that these kickers now get the game footballs early part of the
01:13week.
01:13And that's why you're seeing at regular pace is 56, 57, 58-yard field goals being made.
01:20Because back in the day, you didn't get those footballs if you were a special teams guy until actual game
01:26day.
01:27Now you're giving these guys, and guys like Aubrey and what we saw a little bit yesterday with that Ravens
01:33kick to win that football game,
01:34these field goal kickers are now weapons for teams.
01:37So with the point differential in the NFL being three points, those guys are weapons.
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