With less than two minutes left and Dowdle on the sideline working through cramps, rookie Trevor Etienne went into the game. The Cowboys called a timeout, and Young took the chance to make sure this time, the details were right.
"Bryce was all over it," bragged Canales of his quarterback. "He came over. He was like, 'OK, I'm telling these guys first down, get down.'
"This is something we practice. (Game management coordinator) George Li presents us with different scenarios in our walkthroughs, where we get to hit our two-minute situations and a half in the game, and also four-minute situations just like that. We practiced that two weeks ago, getting into a four-minute situation where this is a first down, get-down type of deal."
Added Young, "We want to leave no doubt, we want to make sure that we were in, we were, 'First down, get down, make sure that we don't want to give them time back.'"