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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys APT now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola m Friday. Somebody drive the top side stand.
Speaker 1: We are two days away from the state championship game.
Speaker 1: It's the Cowboys and the Houston Texans, high noon at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium in Arlington. And it is high
Speaker 1: noon on our fabulous Football Friday inside the SWBC podcast studio.
Speaker 1: Bill Jones, Everson Walls and Mickey Spagnola. Did any of
Speaker 1: you two gentlemen ever play in a state championship game? Heg? No.
Speaker 1: That was our first year in for a football and
Speaker 1: we were happy to have a five six I think
Speaker 1: with five five in one season. Yeah. I don't think
Speaker 1: we had playoffs when I was in high school. No,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Okay, Now we are definitely an old crew, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, like you know, basketball, we watched it
Speaker 1: on TV, the state championship game. I don't remember anything
Speaker 1: in football. Wow. That just lets you know how old
Speaker 1: that show and he didn't grow up in Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my mac Arthur Cardinals, we won district and uh and
Speaker 1: by district. Remember Mike Ford and the Mesquite Skeeters quarterback.
Speaker 1: I played at SMU and UH lost to them in
Speaker 1: by district and they went onto the state championship game.
Speaker 1: We played in state champion basketball games. Good for you
Speaker 1: and a cute little brown ball and we won. And
Speaker 1: we won the district tennis title too. And you were
Speaker 1: on that team tennis team, not the basketball team. I
Speaker 1: bet yeah, I could remember. My my junior high basketball
Speaker 1: coach was like, why aren't you guys trying out when
Speaker 1: we graduate? You know, we went to high school. None
Speaker 1: of you guys tried out for the basketball team. Same coach.
Speaker 1: You see the guys Rogers team. There's nobody out there
Speaker 1: that five six? Okay? Um, So you did play for
Speaker 1: a state championship in tennis? Uh, we played, we won district. Oh,
Speaker 1: but you had to quality. I mean the team you
Speaker 1: didn't win state, but one of our guys went to state.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so close, and we happened to just get
Speaker 1: sick on Friday, so we can go down to Champagne
Speaker 1: and and watch him play. Right, come back on Monday
Speaker 1: with an excuse. Right, Oh, but he had the flu,
Speaker 1: and it's like, yo, yeah, you had the blue flu.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm looking this up, but I looked
Speaker 1: up Illinois foot state football championships history. Okay, the first
Speaker 1: Illinois state championship was in nineteen seventy four. Wow, So
Speaker 1: you're right. There wasn't a state championship when we didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't have playoffs. You just won, you won year
Speaker 1: league and that was it, as I remember, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's just how they do it there. They don't.
Speaker 1: That's like the Premier League. Correctly, football was not that
Speaker 1: big at that time. Once again, yeah, that's just that's crazy.
Speaker 1: All right. We do have playoffs in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and I am here to predict that the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: will not be headed there, but the Dallas Cowboys well
Speaker 1: on their way. And that nine and three trying to
Speaker 1: get to ten and three on Sunday against this Texans team.
Speaker 1: We're talking about that over the course of the next
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. But did you watch Thursday Night Football? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't you believe that, man, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: just crazy, you know what I was I don't understand
Speaker 1: the NFL. I was watching that and I just had
Speaker 1: a feeling. I said, you know what, there's they were
Speaker 1: just hanging around too long. Weird, It's going to happen here.
Speaker 1: And that's why I was hanging around, just to see
Speaker 1: if something weird would happen. It was, it was. It
Speaker 1: was the interception at came of the school. Yeah it's thirteen.
Speaker 1: It was thirteen to three and then they got to
Speaker 1: sixteen to thirteen three. I think he threw the interception
Speaker 1: in the end zone on that lollipop pass. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think his arm got hit as he was trying
Speaker 1: to throw. He got hit by this side. See, I
Speaker 1: thought something happened. Yeah, you're talking about Derek Carr. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as he was trying to throw. It either came from
Speaker 1: here or here, but it was so slight, you know,
Speaker 1: you think he has stronger hands. He just can't put it. See.
Speaker 1: That's another case of you let a team hang around
Speaker 1: and hang around, and you look at the score and
Speaker 1: you're going, our, kay, if this and this happens, they
Speaker 1: win by one, right, But who thinks you're gonna throw
Speaker 1: an interception in the end zone in schooling position? You know,
Speaker 1: who thinks you're gonna get the ball with less than
Speaker 1: two minutes to go on the two yards two yard line,
Speaker 1: with no timeouts and no timeout with a quarterback who
Speaker 1: arrived less than forty eight hours ago, he didn't even
Speaker 1: know all the players and drive ninety eight yards right.
Speaker 1: So much for practice and that system must be really
Speaker 1: easy up there in the la huh. Okay, So what
Speaker 1: does the Matthew Matthew Stafford have to say about? Okay,
Speaker 1: the the NFL. In the NFL, the overall the record
Speaker 1: in the NFL for teams that are that have a
Speaker 1: thirteen point lead with four minutes left in the game,
Speaker 1: it's five hundred fifty one and four five hundred fifty
Speaker 1: one wins and four losses since Winever. Okay. Two of
Speaker 1: them came in the span of four days. Monday night,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady did it but the first time in his
Speaker 1: career came back from a thirteen point deficit in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter to win a game, and he had the
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes in the last three minutes of their
Speaker 1: win over New Orleans on Monday night, and then on
Speaker 1: Thursday night, Baker Mayfield, who was not in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: on Monday night. He didn't get there until Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: Right on Monday night. He was still he was still
Speaker 1: a member. No, he had been placed on waivers on Monday,
Speaker 1: and the Rams picked him up on Tuesday, So he
Speaker 1: didn't have a team on Monday, Like, you know what
Speaker 1: did you listen to post game? He had. He had
Speaker 1: already scheduled a flight to la though, because he suspected
Speaker 1: that the Rams would be I was an advertiser for
Speaker 1: Southwest steroids. I just caught Southwest, That's what he said.
Speaker 1: I called Southwest and I just had a feeling and
Speaker 1: I booked a flight. That's crazy. Otherwise he wouldn't have
Speaker 1: got on a flight. He had been Wednesday before he
Speaker 1: got there. I see, that's the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: would happened back you know, with no playoffs in the
Speaker 1: right right, that's the kind of stuff that would happen
Speaker 1: back then. You don't have that happening. It just shows up.
Speaker 1: But it's like, hey, I'm here, oh man, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's the TV moment. Then. This is like when he
Speaker 1: was at Oklahoma yea, he had to sit out of
Speaker 1: here for transferring from Texas Tech, and I understand he
Speaker 1: played like intermural football during that time, and so he
Speaker 1: would just show up and at the intermural field and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you want me to play for you? I think that's
Speaker 1: they had, right, why not? Don't overthink that? Yes, well
Speaker 1: he can't. The only thing, there's not much information given
Speaker 1: to him there. The only thing that would have stopped him.
Speaker 1: It was that that crappy office offensive line the Rams.
Speaker 1: Uh did you see who's starting at left? That they
Speaker 1: got no shot? Well, even more even more impressive than
Speaker 1: what Baker Mayfield did is tie In Secki was on
Speaker 1: the street. He wouldn't with anybody a month ago. They
Speaker 1: no pa you know, you know what he didn't go
Speaker 1: to training. Who was going up against? Well, I mean
Speaker 1: the trap. Does Max Crosby go over to the right
Speaker 1: side of a Yeah, he's on the left side. And
Speaker 1: so you got Chandler Jones man. Yeah, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, credit to thirty six, thirty seven year
Speaker 1: old tie and Secky. They and they had Crosby over
Speaker 1: there against the only veteran offensive lineman they had, and
Speaker 1: he was smoking Haver what's his name, Havenstein, Rob Havenstein
Speaker 1: out Wisconsin, and he well sort of I mean for
Speaker 1: that last drive least couldn't disgrace ninety eight yards and see,
Speaker 1: that's that's the kind of stuff that the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: better avoid. You know. That was our Green Bay game
Speaker 1: right to where I was like, Okay, this guy, this
Speaker 1: game is boring us. It's so easy. Well what was
Speaker 1: the cowboyd the number? Losing a fourteen point lead and
Speaker 1: it was fourth quarter? Right, only one? Right, that was
Speaker 1: the first time. That was the first Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the first time in the sixty two year history of
Speaker 1: the team. Right, yeah, But the Raiders get this. The
Speaker 1: Raiders now have had four games in which they've had
Speaker 1: I believe it's double digit leads at halftime and lost them.
Speaker 1: It's the first time since the nineteen thirties that an
Speaker 1: NFL team has had double digit leads at halftime and
Speaker 1: four times have lost four times. When I walked in,
Speaker 1: one of the Rams had them right when won them
Speaker 1: the whole time? The right when I walked in, one
Speaker 1: of the guards said, oh, the Raiders, they got to
Speaker 1: blow that up. I said, I thought they were already
Speaker 1: was to start over a new coach, Right, what do
Speaker 1: you think the defense they were employed on the touchdown
Speaker 1: passed to Van Jefferson. That was just press. It was
Speaker 1: it was a undrafted rookie cornerback that was playing press
Speaker 1: coverage on Van Jefferson on the on that without any
Speaker 1: safety help. What was the time twenty? It was twenty
Speaker 1: some second down to ten ten right by that time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there, I mean's eight seconds left when they scored
Speaker 1: and they had to go twenty Was it twenty yards? Well,
Speaker 1: there's like twenty three yard past three yards? Right? Why
Speaker 1: why are you playing up on the line of scrimmage?
Speaker 1: And the safety he bit on the guy coming out
Speaker 1: of the slot and left that guy all by himself.
Speaker 1: You know, at that time, I can tell you for
Speaker 1: a fact, there is panic time, all right, everybody at
Speaker 1: that time, it's just panic. No one can communicate because
Speaker 1: we're still trying to worry about what we just screwed
Speaker 1: up and much less trying to anticipate what's upcoming, you see.
Speaker 1: So your awareness is all over the place. And that's
Speaker 1: what happens when you go ninety eight yards the opposing defense.
Speaker 1: By the time you get to have midfield, we're already
Speaker 1: feeling like, okay, this is getting out of hand. Early
Speaker 1: on that drive, they get the sack, they do something
Speaker 1: positive on defense, and then what happens. Jerry Tillery knocks
Speaker 1: the football out of Baker's hands and get called for
Speaker 1: a personal foul filty which which not only gave them
Speaker 1: the first down in fifteen yards and also stopped the clock.
Speaker 1: It was like a timeout for him. Yes, everything happened perfectly.
Speaker 1: Did the Raiders have a time out at the end. No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because what he would would hey he whatever.
Speaker 1: Sin was just saying they should have called time out
Speaker 1: and set their defense for the last plate, right once
Speaker 1: you get down to that point, yeah, because right now
Speaker 1: they had to get the ball back. And getting the
Speaker 1: ball back, yeah, yeah, spend it on defense. Wow. That
Speaker 1: was that was that? Or once you get down there
Speaker 1: now it behooves you to go ahead and and use
Speaker 1: your time out so that you get the ball. And
Speaker 1: this is funny. So I'm watching the game right and
Speaker 1: and we only have that channel on one TV because
Speaker 1: it's it's so my video. I know, it's so difficult.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't channel sir. You got to get
Speaker 1: out and then you got to get back. I was
Speaker 1: going to check the news, right, Oh no, I can't
Speaker 1: do that right exactly, that is the biggest negative on
Speaker 1: on that anyway. She asked me, why are you Why
Speaker 1: do you think you have to watch this game? I said, well,
Speaker 1: this is what I do. And she knows question, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I said, and she goes, well, I said, I
Speaker 1: told it. I said, what if I have to talk
Speaker 1: about it tomorrow? But then this happened. It's like, see,
Speaker 1: I told you, so that is a problem with the Amazon. Yea,
Speaker 1: you can't like it. Let's say there's a basketball game
Speaker 1: you want to watch at the same time. Whatever, you can't.
Speaker 1: It's so cumbersome getting out of it. And then you
Speaker 1: got to get back in spins and spins. And let's
Speaker 1: be clear, once you're down there before they throw the touchdown,
Speaker 1: you can't at your wits in you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: what what defense can you play to stop it from
Speaker 1: just you know, just just just to plug up the holes.
Speaker 1: And I think that was really the only chance they had.
Speaker 1: Really you could have played it safer, but you can't
Speaker 1: play it too safe when you're close to twenty yard line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, what can you do? There's still a bunch
Speaker 1: of holes in there that that you can't feel that
Speaker 1: close to the goal line. And once again, they were
Speaker 1: already whipped here, you know, right here, they were already done.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like they called a fancy play. Got just
Speaker 1: ran straight down the sideline. Can you believe there are
Speaker 1: times when game plans don't mean a damn thing. I
Speaker 1: was gonna talk about this like this earlier this week.
Speaker 1: There were times when when we play in games to
Speaker 1: where you know what, man, Mike, you're gonna take care
Speaker 1: of them over there. I have got to handle this
Speaker 1: guy right here by myself or desin clean scale is like, okay,
Speaker 1: this tight in his mind. You worry about somebody on
Speaker 1: the other side. There are times when you just have
Speaker 1: to go. You gotta go with your gut. You gotta
Speaker 1: play Sandler. Yeah, you gotta play Sandler. We're doing that
Speaker 1: now with Diggs. But let Diggs travel with the best guy.
Speaker 1: You know, that's not a that you can't find that
Speaker 1: in the game plan book. This is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We're going to make sure that Diggs takes care of
Speaker 1: the biggest threat. And you know, sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: just go off script because there's another part of this
Speaker 1: that's bigger picture, and it has to do with coaching
Speaker 1: and coaching quarterbacks that all right. You look at Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield when he was at Carolina, the coach before the season,
Speaker 1: basically he publicly he said, I'm not sure if this
Speaker 1: guy's my quarterback or not. Okay, And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: a coach, a head coach, believing in a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: that's one of the great positive things about Sean McVay.
Speaker 1: He has a very positive spirit about him. Baker shows
Speaker 1: up on a Tuesday, and you got the feeling that
Speaker 1: Sean McVay leaved that Baker Mayfield could do this, and
Speaker 1: he left Baker Mayfield no exactly right, exactly, and they
Speaker 1: prepared him as best they could. Got me thinking about that.
Speaker 1: I mentioned before on this show that Sirius NFL Radio
Speaker 1: Rich Gannon has a radio show on there, and I
Speaker 1: listened to it all the time because a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, he played for Mike McCarthy with Kansas City.
Speaker 1: McCarthy was his quarterbacks coach, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: he'll throw in a little nuggets about McCarthy and stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's really educational. And he was talking this week
Speaker 1: about well number one, he said, Mike McCarthy. If it
Speaker 1: wasn't for Mike McCarthy, he would not have had the
Speaker 1: career he had in terms of preparing learning how to
Speaker 1: prepare as a quarterback to play in the NFL as
Speaker 1: far as game planning. When he was in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and by that time gannon, I haven't looked up McGannon
Speaker 1: was seven years into his career. He played eighteen years
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But so anyway, he said that about McCarthy, Okay,
Speaker 1: that that, you know, McCarthy set him down, and he
Speaker 1: would in the beginning of the week he would have
Speaker 1: it mapped out. As far as the game plan, it
Speaker 1: was is very logical, and it took he took it.
Speaker 1: You know, it hit with him. Whatever. His point on
Speaker 1: it was like guy like Zach Wilson with the Jets,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you he has no clue how to prepare
Speaker 1: to play quarterback in the NFL because he's so young
Speaker 1: and inexperienced whatever. All right, But his point on all
Speaker 1: this was he said there were only two head coaches
Speaker 1: in his NFL career who he felt like really believed
Speaker 1: in him that he could do the job. One was
Speaker 1: his high school coach and the other one was John Gruten.
Speaker 1: When he got to the Raiders, which was he was
Speaker 1: fifteen years in his career at that point. Whatever, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And he got me to thinking and think about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott here. I mean, and we saw it when when
Speaker 1: Garrett was the coach his rookie year. I mean, just
Speaker 1: what he instilled in him from a confident standpoint, just
Speaker 1: in training camp, you know, throwing with him after practice
Speaker 1: and stuff. It's instilling an abelief that you can do this.
Speaker 1: Even that was even before he became the starting quarterback whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean, Romo was still you know, the starter than
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. And then McCarthy has done the
Speaker 1: same thing with Prescott here. But I was thinking last
Speaker 1: night there it is with Mayfield. Mayfield when he was
Speaker 1: in college at Texas Tech, Kingsbury didn't believe in him.
Speaker 1: At Texas Tech, he had Patrick Mahomes and the edited
Speaker 1: Davis Webb. He was like third on the depth chart
Speaker 1: and he's a walk on. He didn't believe in him,
Speaker 1: to the point Thatt even offering him a scholarship after
Speaker 1: he played in games as a true freshman. And that's
Speaker 1: why he left there and went to Oklahoma and goes
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma. Lincoln Riley believes in him, and he didn't.
Speaker 1: He won the Heisman Trophy there well leveland he probably
Speaker 1: the coaches who know you know that was such a train, right,
Speaker 1: you know. And then but at the case end point
Speaker 1: this year Carolina, the coach even said publicly, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if this guy yeah right, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Yeah, I mean, if nothing else, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm gonna be the guy in Denver. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be hacked. I'd rather be hacked than to be
Speaker 1: the guy in North Carolina. I'd rather be that guy
Speaker 1: that's over the top confidence about my quarterback, giving him
Speaker 1: all the resources. And even as a cornerback in the league,
Speaker 1: you probably have examples of that way. The coach believing
Speaker 1: in you gave you the confidence to be able to
Speaker 1: do your job. And once that coach believes in you,
Speaker 1: then your team may have wanted to look at you
Speaker 1: in the more positive light and instead of them being
Speaker 1: pessimistic about whatever your player is, they can see the
Speaker 1: optim they can see where it's clicking for you and
Speaker 1: hopefully it does well. You brought up Lincoln Riley Well Mayfield,
Speaker 1: and maybe it was post game they talked to me,
Speaker 1: they were asked about him and McVeigh being together and
Speaker 1: it's like, what did you guys talk about? And it
Speaker 1: was I guess it was after he got there and
Speaker 1: he said, we were talking about Lincoln Riley. It's like
Speaker 1: they didn't get into x's and ohs or whatever. It
Speaker 1: just it's about style. It's about the style of court.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the victory of the uncluttered mind? I did Blaine
Speaker 1: Kney Blade Knight said that about Clint Longley when Longley
Speaker 1: when this Thanksgiving that game it was a triumph of
Speaker 1: the uncluttered mind. Yeah, it's like, okay, let's not get
Speaker 1: too confusing, you know, and believing him. So they said, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't get the practice, but Hey's got
Speaker 1: a helmet on. But they're gonna start Wolford and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: enough of that. Seem they didn't have confidence in Wolford.
Speaker 1: Didn't say it right right, he demonstrated, but he put
Speaker 1: the other guy in. He said, all right, it's like
Speaker 1: Bayfield go say, we'll think about McVeigh with Jared Goff. Okay,
Speaker 1: golf was horrible his first year. And then McVeigh gets
Speaker 1: there and all of a sudden, I mean, he led
Speaker 1: the Rams to the Super Bowl. He did, he did,
Speaker 1: only it was only so much you could do with golf.
Speaker 1: And then look at Stafford beaten down from thirteen years
Speaker 1: however long in Detroit and then he wins the Super Bowl. Well,
Speaker 1: well you can see it last night. Mcvay's optimism. He
Speaker 1: never really like you know what I mean? The whole
Speaker 1: time he's like, okay, all right, I see something there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: see something down. He was like, He's not like Jimbo
Speaker 1: Fisher chewing out his wh This guy was straight up.
Speaker 1: And he also gave a guy some love who messed
Speaker 1: up on the player I can't remember, but he was
Speaker 1: patting him on the head. Come on, dude, we gotta
Speaker 1: do better. Yeah. Yeah, you mentioned Garrett and Dak, and
Speaker 1: so it came up yesterday in Dak's press conference, Um
Speaker 1: that what do you think about Jason being a finalist
Speaker 1: for the Stanford job? And he goes, who do I
Speaker 1: need to call to give a recommendation? He goes I
Speaker 1: and he just went on and on and on what
Speaker 1: Garrett did for him, right, and he said he'll be
Speaker 1: perfect college. Everyone says that I've heard that's three different
Speaker 1: I've heard from three different having said that he apparently
Speaker 1: has pulled himself out of the Last night, he tweeted
Speaker 1: that thanks for the opportunity, but I love my job
Speaker 1: with NBC. I always thought that's what he was meant for,
Speaker 1: to go coaching college. Well, I mean, you look at
Speaker 1: that situation at Stanford. It's a little up in the
Speaker 1: air as far as you know. Conference alignment goes right
Speaker 1: now at USC and uc AL going. Who knows what's
Speaker 1: going to happen with the Pac twelve. So it's not
Speaker 1: the same job it was now. If Stanford goes into
Speaker 1: the Big ten, great, yeah, but it's right now that's
Speaker 1: not happening, so, which makes it a tough recruiting well,
Speaker 1: and that's the other thing for a for a guy
Speaker 1: an NFL coach to go to right now stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a totally different jobs, totally different from a recruiting stadpoint.
Speaker 1: But now the transfer portal, yeah, it'd be crazy unless
Speaker 1: you've got to drive all these college coaches to the NFL.
Speaker 1: It used to be the other way, right, It's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I ain't putting up but I think it's been proven
Speaker 1: time and again, with the exception of Jimmy Johnson. Although
Speaker 1: there was a learning curve there. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: not a lot of college coaches can make the transition
Speaker 1: to the NFL either, And there's been several cases somebody
Speaker 1: working out, somebody was I don't remember who it was.
Speaker 1: They were talking about how the percentages have to be
Speaker 1: on your roster now in college. Butt better be in
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. You better be happy to go. I
Speaker 1: think it was I think it was Nate in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Who's talking about that Frisco talking about about about the
Speaker 1: on going. That's right, that's he was saying. Here's how
Speaker 1: he's got to put his roster together. And he's right,
Speaker 1: you better be in that transfer portal otherwise gonna lose out.
Speaker 1: Just get rid of the guys you don't want. All right,
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Speaker 1: thirty last night, Thanks so much to A. D. Brendan
Speaker 1: Mure and everyone at Stanford Well. I enjoyed exploring a
Speaker 1: great opportunity at such a special place. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to continue my work at NBC on Football Night in
Speaker 1: America and with Notre Dame Football. Okay, so there you go.
Speaker 1: I got a question, Frank, guys, why do you think
Speaker 1: that McCarthy, Jerry, It's Friday right, continue to have to
Speaker 1: answer questions about Odell Beckham Junior, like why when? When
Speaker 1: can you sign him? Why do they not understand that
Speaker 1: he's not ready to play football. I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: that was duly noted in regards to their valuation, because
Speaker 1: when they're asked about it trends on the national side,
Speaker 1: but it's now it's been locally asked and asked and
Speaker 1: asked to the point I saw somebody right that this
Speaker 1: whole thing was a sham by the Cowboys talking about
Speaker 1: he's not ready to play, so it would scarer else
Speaker 1: off and they can sign him. How about that? Well
Speaker 1: that has happened. Well, I'm sure right right, but he's
Speaker 1: not ready to play at the bottom. He even came
Speaker 1: out yesterday. I think they interviewed him. Did they interview
Speaker 1: him Thursday night on one of their shows halftime or whatever?
Speaker 1: I don't know he was on them. You know how
Speaker 1: Lebron does that new thing on Prime kind of like
Speaker 1: the Manning cast. He was on that. Yeah, the shop,
Speaker 1: the shop, So he was on that. So they were
Speaker 1: asking him about that, and he basically said, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: be ready for the playoffs. I'll be ready for the plays.
Speaker 1: So he's even saying that he's out five weeks. So
Speaker 1: how how how's he gonna be Who's gonna get him
Speaker 1: ready for the playoffs? Yeah, who's he gonna be with? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready for the playoffs. And so to me,
Speaker 1: it sounds like and like I said earlier, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's him getting his own name out there, right, not
Speaker 1: like not alway out there. But this saga is I
Speaker 1: think this is part of his story that he's creating.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. And he tried to put it
Speaker 1: on other people by tweeting out the little paw pawn
Speaker 1: pawn this, you're not ready. If you're not ready, you're
Speaker 1: not ready. Well and according to Pro Football Talk, and
Speaker 1: maybe it was from this, it was night I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. Odell said, I don't see the point in
Speaker 1: playing in regular season. Yeah. Yeah, he really acts like
Speaker 1: he has a lot of luxury on this side, doesn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: leverage Jerry on the fan this morning said yes, we're
Speaker 1: still in contact. Yes, yes, yes. Is there a timeline
Speaker 1: probably the fact that time is ticking in terms of
Speaker 1: getting in here and really initiating the heavy work and
Speaker 1: rehab to get there for the playoffs if it's going
Speaker 1: to happen, that's true. So there's two factors, health and
Speaker 1: how much that's the bottom line and why right now
Speaker 1: we know that health is yeah, and how much is
Speaker 1: probably too much so or not an off whichever side
Speaker 1: you're talking about. So are you done with Odell? Yes?
Speaker 1: I am okay. What about James Washington? Had to get
Speaker 1: that off my chest. I think he's I mean, he's
Speaker 1: good to go now. It's a matter if they want
Speaker 1: to put him on and use up the rosters. Well,
Speaker 1: they'll have two roster spots. They have one now and
Speaker 1: then when they put Anthony Brown then they'll have another one.
Speaker 1: And he's in good hands because the doctor that fixed
Speaker 1: my achilles did his too so early in the week.
Speaker 1: Is there a reason, I mean, even if he's inactive,
Speaker 1: is there a reason why you would I mean, if
Speaker 1: you got two roster spots, is there a reason why
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just go ahead and activate him? Because they
Speaker 1: activated tack right McKinley. McKinley, last week they put him
Speaker 1: on the fifty three, didn't they before the game? I
Speaker 1: thought they did, but they still have a spot or
Speaker 1: maybe I was thinking maybe they elevate but he didn't play.
Speaker 1: Maybe they elevate him and didn't play with him. I
Speaker 1: think last week they just elevated h All available, Yeah, Aviante. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think McKinley's on the fifty three. So but
Speaker 1: they have a spot yeah, um so yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know because when is this twenty one day window up Washington.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been out there a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: so next week would be this is two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so next week could be next week at some point.
Speaker 1: So okay, um, all right, yeah, McKinley still on the
Speaker 1: practice squad. Okay, so, but he's ready and they keep
Speaker 1: saying he's ready, that he's practiced. You're talking Washington, Washington,
Speaker 1: let's give him more. When I talked to him, was
Speaker 1: yesterday or Wednesday? He said, yeah, everything's good. He goes
Speaker 1: as soon as they say it's time to go, time
Speaker 1: to go, and they keep talking about and McCarthy was
Speaker 1: talking about by the way, it should be people should
Speaker 1: have to listen to this about how important in this
Speaker 1: league is to have uh, twenty plus yard plays in games.
Speaker 1: You got to have big players. And if I have
Speaker 1: one more person, ask me about you know, they just
Speaker 1: need to have Dak throw the ball shorter and this
Speaker 1: and that. Sure, well they don't. They don't want him
Speaker 1: throwing the ball downfield because then he gets intercepted, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's like, did they watch Brandon Whedon? Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: And it's like and McCarthy talked about how many big
Speaker 1: plays you've got to have in a game to be
Speaker 1: able to win. You can't just chunk chunk chunk chunk, right,
Speaker 1: And uh, that's what we talked about. So that's what
Speaker 1: Washington gives you. He gives you a deep threat. Now.
Speaker 1: Talked about this yesterday. Yeah, Like we said, by the
Speaker 1: time you get to the playoffs, the closer you get,
Speaker 1: the coverage gets tighter and tighter. They're gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: down on those routes. So I'm waiting for Washington to
Speaker 1: come in. I'm glad we didn't wait for him to
Speaker 1: come in before we actually tried the deep pass, which
Speaker 1: we tried to brown, right, the other day. But we
Speaker 1: should I think we should have at least three three
Speaker 1: deep passes because Dack's on him is pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and his accuracy good. Okay, Davis Mills is starting at
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Texans in this game. He has not
Speaker 1: started the last couple of games. Kyle Allen got the start.
Speaker 1: It's interesting when you look at Davis Mills, a third
Speaker 1: round pick last year, got thrown into the fire due
Speaker 1: to the Watson situation in Houston last year, and actually
Speaker 1: started let's see, eleven games last year, and now he
Speaker 1: has started ten games this year. So this will be
Speaker 1: his twenty second start in his NFL career in two seasons.
Speaker 1: That is nine more starts than he had in his
Speaker 1: entire collegiate career at Stanford, he had thirteen starts because
Speaker 1: of a COVID year they only had five games twenty
Speaker 1: twenty whatever, So he's already This will be nine more
Speaker 1: starts than what he had in college at Stanford. So
Speaker 1: why did they go to Kyle Allen and struggling the
Speaker 1: offense average homy points game. Yeah, now here's what's interesting
Speaker 1: about it. Last year they he started a number of
Speaker 1: games and then I'll get his game log here from
Speaker 1: last year and then they so he did not play
Speaker 1: for two or three games, and then he came back
Speaker 1: at the close of the season the last five. He
Speaker 1: started the last five games for Houston last year and
Speaker 1: actually won two of them and through nine touchdown passes
Speaker 1: and only two picks, which gave him hope for this year.
Speaker 1: And he's saying that it really helped him last year
Speaker 1: as a rookie right to sit and watch kind of
Speaker 1: have a reset, and so what they're hoping that this
Speaker 1: will do the same for him this year and he'll
Speaker 1: be able to close the season stronger. So someone someone
Speaker 1: asked Lovey Smith why he made the change. Well, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this, but the first series this past game
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, Kyle Allen first play was intercepted. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what happened on that No, he was actually the
Speaker 1: pass was on target to the tight end Keegan Quatriano.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to say the name I no, no,
Speaker 1: I have no idea that's how you pronounced. But I
Speaker 1: just I just made that up. See if you if
Speaker 1: you if you pronounce a name with confidence, then it
Speaker 1: makes it sound like you knew unlike me. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what you know, that's right. Um so, But anyway, he
Speaker 1: was like falling down, he was in the ball. It
Speaker 1: looked like it bounced off the turf. It actually did
Speaker 1: not hit the turf. It bounced way up in the air.
Speaker 1: And John Johnson to Cleveland safety was there and get
Speaker 1: toe tap on the sideline and that that's the first
Speaker 1: play of the game. That's how it started. Then he
Speaker 1: had then he had a fumble return for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: an interception return for a touchdown, and so they asked
Speaker 1: they also had a punt return for a touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they asked, love you why you made the change, and
Speaker 1: he said, we don't give out lifetime jobs. Oh by,
Speaker 1: But anyway that you hope for the Texans is that
Speaker 1: Davis Mills reset will help him start jump start his season.
Speaker 1: So Cowboys hope that jump start starts next week and
Speaker 1: not this way exactly. Okay, all right, we got our
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Speaker 1: all right. I don't know if you guys remember back
Speaker 1: in the Texas Stadium, every time the coaches were leaving
Speaker 1: the field, or if a player got hurt, there was
Speaker 1: always this young man that worked with the Cowboys. Always
Speaker 1: had a nice suit and tie colors, tall, very fair
Speaker 1: skinned young man. He was. His name was Gail David Duprie.
Speaker 1: He passed last week, November November twenty eight and so
Speaker 1: they're going to have a celebration for him at the
Speaker 1: Hillcrest High School gymnasium on Saturday, and they're gonna have it,
Speaker 1: I believe around eleven o'clock. And the thing about this
Speaker 1: is Dupree was so cool with everyone. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: his picture right here. He was so cool with everyone.
Speaker 1: You might recognize him because he was always helping coaches
Speaker 1: get off the field, and he would always open up
Speaker 1: the gym for us. Me and Mike Downs and all
Speaker 1: the guys that played locally and then were just some
Speaker 1: of the local guys. We would always play basketball together.
Speaker 1: He would open up the gym for us because he
Speaker 1: was the support. And I think he started off as
Speaker 1: their basketball coach. So he also coached at Thomas Jefferson
Speaker 1: and he'll Chress High School. So very well known, very popular.
Speaker 1: When I found out that he had cancer, I called
Speaker 1: him right there. I was sitting in the suite at
Speaker 1: the game. And of course, you know, being the man
Speaker 1: that he always was. Didn't want to talk about what
Speaker 1: was eventually going to happen. All he wanted to do
Speaker 1: was just talking about good time. So I did have
Speaker 1: a good last conversation with him. The family, great family,
Speaker 1: and you know, Dupre will be missed. What day did
Speaker 1: he pass away? November twenty eight And there's an article
Speaker 1: actually in the Dallas Morning News today about him. I
Speaker 1: just looked it up and he was the chief security
Speaker 1: officer at Texas Stadium for years. Wow. No, he was
Speaker 1: a good dude. He was a good dude. He's right
Speaker 1: there with uh with Burkhard's dad. We're not gonna say,
Speaker 1: put him in a yellow jacket. Yeah, bad he was.
Speaker 1: He was legit, he was the man. He was just
Speaker 1: a professional, and on top of that, just one of
Speaker 1: the funniest guys you ever want to meet. One of
Speaker 1: the young ladies I talked to I can't remember who
Speaker 1: it was, and she was talking about how he had
Speaker 1: to teach their class and there was a sex education
Speaker 1: class and they just embarrassed him all day. You know,
Speaker 1: you got young ladies, all young ladies in the room
Speaker 1: and they just embarrassed him all day because you know,
Speaker 1: it was sex education, and you know he was just
Speaker 1: a very humble, uh family man. So a lot of
Speaker 1: fun people are gonna miss him, and I think the
Speaker 1: event is going to be amazing. And again it's when
Speaker 1: eleven it is. I'm sorry. All I know is he
Speaker 1: would always say hi. I don't know he was. He
Speaker 1: was the man, always the man, recognize your presence and
Speaker 1: say hi. Twelve noon, twelve noon, Hillcrest High School, Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's Saturday tomorrow, Hillcrest High School in the gym name
Speaker 1: Hillcrest High School Gymnasium. And just reading through this article,
Speaker 1: he's an iconic figure and that's what Charlotte Jones described
Speaker 1: him as in the Cowboy Organization. It sounds like with Dallas,
Speaker 1: I s d also no doubt, okay, our you know,
Speaker 1: thanks for leting me get that in? Yeah I need that?
Speaker 1: Can you forward it? Yes? I will? Yes? Um do
Speaker 1: you need my log in information? I think so? All
Speaker 1: right if it's in the paper, I'll fight. If you can't,
Speaker 1: you don't take the oh yes, I can you do
Speaker 1: you get the hard copy? You realize how old he is.
Speaker 1: We just talking about this man. You know he's gonna
Speaker 1: do old people stuff. When you eat to get sleepy. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now automatically he takes the naw do right you read
Speaker 1: sprint at I'm just like an old person. When it's
Speaker 1: not there on time, I get irritated. I've got their numbers,
Speaker 1: I've got their number memories. That's so good one to
Speaker 1: call to get read delivered. It's the only one in
Speaker 1: the woods. That's why it doesn't get there. Somebody just says, oh,
Speaker 1: screw that one, all right. Picks picks to click, picks
Speaker 1: to click. All right, I'm always going first, so I
Speaker 1: will continue that trend. This is tough game, guys, to
Speaker 1: counter the pick not to score. I have the score
Speaker 1: as thirty five thirteen. I'm having confidence in this team.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna look for them to take a step back.
Speaker 1: I'm going to MA tour as far as my relationship
Speaker 1: with them, so I'm going to believe in them. They're
Speaker 1: going to come out and play this game the way
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be played. Thirty five thirteen. My boy Wilson,
Speaker 1: besides having probably double digit tackles, I'm going for him
Speaker 1: getting an interception. Come on, man, you know why, and
Speaker 1: you know why I was going to pick him because
Speaker 1: I thought we need to talk about him excellent because
Speaker 1: he has been playing, he's been balling out. He's tied
Speaker 1: for the team lead in tackles. Uh, and I don't
Speaker 1: know that he gets enough. I think he's under the
Speaker 1: radar and he's kind of special out there, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So now I'll try to come up with somebody else.
Speaker 1: But that's what I wanted to say, just because I
Speaker 1: thought we needed to bring him up. Um, my score
Speaker 1: was thirty three thirteen, so we're right three thirteen, And
Speaker 1: I figured if you can score thirty three and one quarter,
Speaker 1: you ought to be able to do that in a
Speaker 1: whole game against the Texas. Uh. Pick to click? Why
Speaker 1: don't you do? Years? And I'll come up with a
Speaker 1: pick to click. Okay, the Cowboys are playing the Houston Texans,
Speaker 1: and so my pick to click is a guy who
Speaker 1: went to high school in Houston, and that would be
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. This worked for you last was it last week?
Speaker 1: This worked for you? That's right with Millie Hooker? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now okay, so my secondary one's Carlos Watkins, former Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: You're getting into a bad tree into your bill. Can't
Speaker 1: you can't keep using two people? Man? Okay, like last
Speaker 1: week with excellent I'm going off Leak Hooker, excellent job.
Speaker 1: Then you gonna throw in India, Indie native Zach Martin. No,
Speaker 1: and then you you claim that he gave up a
Speaker 1: sack or Mickey he finally got called finally got called for.
Speaker 1: That was a week before before, a week before and
Speaker 1: you know you got you know, Dak made the wrong move. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the first time I've ever heard of blame Dak.
Speaker 1: How much you love Zach talking about blaming Zach for
Speaker 1: the sack? Sack on that? All right? So uh CD
Speaker 1: and Carlos Watkins, okay, because of their Houston connection. And
Speaker 1: there's a It's a big day on Sunday, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Very big day? Right, very big day. It's a big
Speaker 1: day for Mickey Spagnola. It is his birthday. And so
Speaker 1: my final score, wait, you're gonna pick his age and
Speaker 1: we're gonna the Cowboys, I mean eight Cowboys win over
Speaker 1: the Texas and honor a Mickey Spagnola. Seventy to thirteen.
Speaker 1: It will be the final score. And I don't know
Speaker 1: why I picked seventy because he's seventy. It's thirteen. It's
Speaker 1: the final score. I'm not saying why I picked seven.
Speaker 1: Then we're going lamb's a speed limit, right, you gotta
Speaker 1: hit these speed limits as you get old, you're gonna
Speaker 1: do forty to thirty. Yeah, right, that's good. You have
Speaker 1: a pick to Clinton. Yeah, I'm gonna go with one.
Speaker 1: Dakota Prescott. Nice. Okay, we never pick him, right. Well,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna get to seventies, gonna have a thirteen.
Speaker 1: So I went thirteen because they went thirteen the number right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And my other pick to click is Rex Birkhead for
Speaker 1: the Texans. There you go, that's three three. I didn't
Speaker 1: even put down Watkins. By the way, I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: a CD just to save your credibuilding. Okay, So if CD,
Speaker 1: and if CD has a big day, then the quarterback
Speaker 1: has a year ago, we might have an argument. I
Speaker 1: think we're all just happy that Baker Mayfield didn't sign
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans this week. Man, that might have
Speaker 1: been kind of weird. Huh. All right, So that does
Speaker 1: it for this edition of mix Shots. If you see
Speaker 1: Mickey at the stadium on Sunday, wish him a happy
Speaker 1: birthfead a birthday. Uh, they pull up the pants pull
Speaker 1: up the underwear h just a hug there, and there
Speaker 1: will not be candles on that birthday cake. I guess
Speaker 1: we'd have to call the fire marsh right, all right,
Speaker 1: and we'll chat at you again on Monday on Mike
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