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Speaker 1: Here inside the SWBC podcast studio, Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and the man who wrote the book on this rivalry
Speaker 1: with Washington. No, no, that's that's old McDonald n Missouri fall.
Speaker 1: How's the part I'm going out to chop some wood.
Speaker 1: I'm splitting some For those not watching on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot com just listening, how would you describe what Nicky
Speaker 1: has on today? It's a it's flannel gold black, and
Speaker 1: there's some bread in there too. It's very bright. It's
Speaker 1: a yield signment. Did you see me coming? You better
Speaker 1: to yield? So was this a Christmas present? Yes? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: so he was, and it was and it was cold morning,
Speaker 1: and it's not honor of Missouri, right and they're playing
Speaker 1: the Hogs today or tonight. Oh basketball? Yeah, how's your
Speaker 1: how's the banking? Arkansass is high? No? No, Missouri they're twentieth.
Speaker 1: But last week they beat Kentuck Tucky. That and they
Speaker 1: beat Illinois. Okay, look out, all right, very good. That
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time they've beatn too right,
Speaker 1: Uh no, but this first time in a long time
Speaker 1: to beat Kentucky fasture. Okay, So on that note, we'll
Speaker 1: have more on Norm Stewart and the Missouri Tigers later
Speaker 1: on big shots. But let's get to the task at hand.
Speaker 1: But you guys brought it up. No, you brought it up.
Speaker 1: You wore that. Yeah, hey, there are football player is
Speaker 1: going to be on a football field very soon here
Speaker 1: at the start and frisket. Don't you love those days?
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see, um just how much they do.
Speaker 1: Um you know if you watched. I mean I saw
Speaker 1: yesterday there were teams that were supposed to practice, and
Speaker 1: I don't know how much they practiced. I saw a
Speaker 1: bunch of them shut down the locker rooms. Um. I
Speaker 1: think it was Jacksonville had the offensive lineman. Is that
Speaker 1: where he's at? Schriff Brandon Schurff sheriff. He was the
Speaker 1: kind of the spokesman for the team, and then they
Speaker 1: closed the locker rooms. Will be interesting to see what
Speaker 1: they do today. I think they were still debating. And
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and Tennessee are playing on Saturday, and so that's
Speaker 1: why they had their locker room availability yesterday. And this
Speaker 1: is the first time for the Cowboys players to be
Speaker 1: back and with media availability come and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how much I mean, you know what, everybody's going to
Speaker 1: be asked, right, and so I don't know how much
Speaker 1: they want to talk about it. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys listened to McCarthy, but they spent most of
Speaker 1: the team meeting discussing that, having the chaplain in there, guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: and having just kind of talk the psychiatrist. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Chad was there, but that that's I
Speaker 1: think was his main goal this morning, was to take
Speaker 1: care of everybody and let everybody talk. And you know,
Speaker 1: this kind of uh brings up what happened when Marcus
Speaker 1: Paul was only what two years ago leading into the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day game. Uh, And they didn't have much time
Speaker 1: to recover, by the way, because I believe it was Tuesday,
Speaker 1: it took place and they found out he passed away.
Speaker 1: It was before the game. I think, so, uh, kind
Speaker 1: they've been through this before, not that this is the same,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you know these guys, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure this has affected him. Well you would call
Speaker 1: and I'm, like I said, I'm very pleased at the
Speaker 1: change in the temperature. You know. Yeah, how people treat
Speaker 1: this now, how they they treat athletes who are out
Speaker 1: there really putting themselves in danger every every game. You
Speaker 1: remember Mike going down, Michael playmaker Michael, Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I was yeah, I know, yeah, and that was despicable
Speaker 1: even then, was despicable, right right, And so nowadays, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure you know that that that climate is no
Speaker 1: longer exists. And by the way, um, kudos to you,
Speaker 1: Bill for bringing up Chuck who Hughes yesterday and I
Speaker 1: don't know if people saw it, go to the Dallas
Speaker 1: Morning News. Uh, Brad Townsend did a really good story
Speaker 1: of his, uh this happening to Chuck Hughes and getting
Speaker 1: ahold of his h his his wife, his son, and
Speaker 1: a I believe it was either a brother or nephew.
Speaker 1: He interviewed. He's from he was from Yeah, and uh
Speaker 1: uh talking to them about you know, the memory and
Speaker 1: they were talking about, Yeah, this brought I mean, it's
Speaker 1: fifty one years ago, but it brought back, you know, memories,
Speaker 1: emotional memories for when that happened to him. He played
Speaker 1: at West Texas No, no Texas El Paso. So what
Speaker 1: was it back then? Texas Western? Oh, it may. I
Speaker 1: don't know when the change went from Texas Western to
Speaker 1: Texas El Paso. But yeah, So anyway, if if anybody
Speaker 1: go to the Dallas Morning News website, it's a front
Speaker 1: page story. It's rightly have an iconic picture of Dick
Speaker 1: Buckas standing over him trying to get right. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was really good. And so that what
Speaker 1: year was that? Okay? Well also in seventy one, it
Speaker 1: would have been about it was about time Texas Stadium opened,
Speaker 1: but right, which yeah, and six days I think that
Speaker 1: was like October twenty fourth, maybe, yeah, six days later.
Speaker 1: It was when the TCU head coach Jim Pittman died
Speaker 1: on the sideline of a heart attack. In nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 1: It's October thirtieth, nineteen seventy one, had a heart attack
Speaker 1: on the sidelines of a game against Baylor and Waco
Speaker 1: and passed away at the age of forty six. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So so anyway, I you know, it'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: you know, the concentration in practice and if they can
Speaker 1: get back into the routine. I mean, there is a
Speaker 1: game to play on Sunday. I saw the injury report
Speaker 1: for early guys missing for the Commanders, and it was lengthy,
Speaker 1: including their running back Robinson. But wasn't he coming back
Speaker 1: from some sort of injury? I am not sure recently,
Speaker 1: of course, prior to the season he was shot and
Speaker 1: then came back and made a great return and I've
Speaker 1: checked on that might have been it. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was pretty long, so I don't know. And then my
Speaker 1: buddy John Kim that helped write the book that Bill
Speaker 1: brought up, said that when they the part of practice
Speaker 1: they got to watch the first drill they did, the
Speaker 1: reps went to Sam how their rookie quarterback, and then
Speaker 1: the second drill they did, the reps went to Taylor Heineke.
Speaker 1: So they were kind of rotating sounds like they're positive
Speaker 1: play both guys. Carson through three picks last yeah, yea,
Speaker 1: his reputation and the team. So they decided they were
Speaker 1: making that change and going to take a look now
Speaker 1: that their playoff chances are. Yeah, so they may who
Speaker 1: knows that, As Mike McCarthy said, yeah, I would just
Speaker 1: get ready for all three. And it happened just like
Speaker 1: last week. And you get ready for whoever you get
Speaker 1: ready for, and all of a sudden, the guy that
Speaker 1: they signed eight days ago starts against Ship. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would be amazing if three games in a row
Speaker 1: they faced backup quarterbacks. That's right, with Minshoe the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: game and and then Joshua Dobbs last week starting again
Speaker 1: today or this week, and then we'll see what happens. Now,
Speaker 1: Heineck was the one that kind of gave them the
Speaker 1: impetus to contend for that. You could make the contention
Speaker 1: that Heineke is actually their starting quarterback. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: was just playing He's not bad. I mean, he's Menshoe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's good good quarterbacks. I don't I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dog these guys because if you throw
Speaker 1: things on time and you have the weapons they have,
Speaker 1: then they can be potentially dangerous. Yeah. But now they
Speaker 1: talked about the other day the comeback player of the year,
Speaker 1: and they were talking about getting ready for Kyla. I
Speaker 1: think they said, Russell Wilson's gonna end up being called
Speaker 1: like black predicting for next year the comeback player, who
Speaker 1: the comeback So who's had a horrible season this year?
Speaker 1: So those are the candidates for Comeback Player of the
Speaker 1: Year next year. But then you think about he just
Speaker 1: brought up Robinson he got shot. Now that's a comeback,
Speaker 1: yeah right, I mean he should win his hands down,
Speaker 1: so he'd be the comeback player of the Year this year.
Speaker 1: He's got to be. I mean, he's got to be
Speaker 1: the man got shot. I mean he is bawling right now,
Speaker 1: and that's a mental comeback. Yeah. So I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just see who wins this because if whoever wins it
Speaker 1: over here him, if they went it over him, like man,
Speaker 1: this guy must have been through fire and come out
Speaker 1: on the other side. I'm burning. Okay, So the team
Speaker 1: will be on the field twelve fifteen, Okay, yep. So
Speaker 1: what else did you glean from Mike McCarthy's press conference
Speaker 1: today or anything else even from the coordinators the other
Speaker 1: day that you want to bring up to get us
Speaker 1: started here, you know he was. I mean, he spent
Speaker 1: the majority of the first part of the press conference
Speaker 1: just talking about the players, taking care of the players, um,
Speaker 1: you know, UM, talking about just kind of letting them talk. Listen.
Speaker 1: And I guess the big news we should get to
Speaker 1: if we have time to hear, is the roster moves
Speaker 1: I made. Yeah, they release James Washington. Poor guy, man,
Speaker 1: he just never had a Yeah. I mean, you think
Speaker 1: about it. He had It was a hamstring in the
Speaker 1: off season. He missed all the offseason work, and then
Speaker 1: the first day of pads he fractures his fifth metatarsul.
Speaker 1: Finally gets back. Unfortunately, when they were going to do
Speaker 1: the ramp up, it was around Thanksgiving. They weren't practicing
Speaker 1: for a couple of games there, so they waited, and
Speaker 1: then he played, uh in two games, eleven snaps in
Speaker 1: one game, four and another. Um. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think they they tried to use them on special teams.
Speaker 1: The guy probably not ever played special teams before, UH,
Speaker 1: and so they ended up releasing him. Yeah. And that's why, right,
Speaker 1: because you've got a guy with more experience, more production,
Speaker 1: and no injuries and no injuries and looking pretty dark
Speaker 1: good too. By the way, So here's the other thing
Speaker 1: they they you know, so obviously they opened up a
Speaker 1: roster spot. Um, they've got a problem at back up
Speaker 1: center because they've used three different guys off the practice
Speaker 1: squad and all three have their elevations have expired. Um.
Speaker 1: It was Dakota Vley, Aviante Collins, well Hoffman and brock Hoffman.
Speaker 1: And Collins is more of a tackle, but they but
Speaker 1: he had played some center, I think, but they his
Speaker 1: his has been used up, so they need somebody to
Speaker 1: be the backup center. Now on the practice squad on
Speaker 1: injured reserve is Alec Lindstrom, who is a center. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's only played in one game. He's only had one elevation. Um,
Speaker 1: so they could elevate him, or they could sign if
Speaker 1: they think these other guys are better, they can sign
Speaker 1: him to the fifty three. Uh if if they go
Speaker 1: that direction, So be interesting to see how And you
Speaker 1: would think, well, they're gonna they're going to obviously with
Speaker 1: the Beadish injury, they're gonna go with. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: now one injury away from this guy actually playing in
Speaker 1: the game. Before they were two injuries away. Now you
Speaker 1: would have done what they did right, you move Connor
Speaker 1: mcgun So it's whoever they consider to be the best
Speaker 1: candidate to play a full game. If the starting center
Speaker 1: McGovern goes down, you know, early in a game, so
Speaker 1: they got to cover that. And Hoffman has been the
Speaker 1: most recent one that's been up. So but that is
Speaker 1: the roster move that you would anticipate. Why why they're
Speaker 1: making the move now with Washington, it is because they
Speaker 1: were going to need a roster spot this weekend, and
Speaker 1: then they you know, we likely you know, after everybody
Speaker 1: gets to watch practice, see what they're doing at the
Speaker 1: tackle position. If they're going to move tiring to left
Speaker 1: and then do something at right tackle. Um, if they're
Speaker 1: gonna leave Tyler Smith at at guard? Okay, is there
Speaker 1: any part of it which James Washington, I'm okay, we're
Speaker 1: now to the last game of the season. Okay. If
Speaker 1: a team doesn't pick him up, okay, he's now if
Speaker 1: you have an injury at you still have him handy,
Speaker 1: you know, And or would there be yeah, don't go
Speaker 1: don't go home and start working on the ranch, right right, right,
Speaker 1: don't go out to Stamford yet, you know, and and
Speaker 1: even over the next several weeks if he remains out
Speaker 1: there as a free agent, or you could sign him
Speaker 1: to the practice squad. If right, that's what I was
Speaker 1: talking about, right, practice squad, because you're right, one injury
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, and so you got you got. So
Speaker 1: you're making this decision on Okay, at what position do
Speaker 1: we have the most depth and what player may not
Speaker 1: be picked up. Here's a veteran player, you know what
Speaker 1: teams picking him up who basically hadn't played this year,
Speaker 1: you know, have coming off an injury. And so even
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, it seems to be a prudent move
Speaker 1: as far as a roster manipulation to do that, right,
Speaker 1: because if you if you put sign him back to
Speaker 1: the practice squad, even though you're technically a free agent,
Speaker 1: if someone picks them up, they got to pay him
Speaker 1: three weeks and there's only one game left, one game left,
Speaker 1: and then you better have you know, you better be
Speaker 1: in the playoff. But even at that, you'd be paying
Speaker 1: him if you got beat in the first round, you're
Speaker 1: paying him another game. Well, here's here's the other thing
Speaker 1: on James Washington is he was a veteran minimum guy,
Speaker 1: salary guy, and so uh, he's a great young man,
Speaker 1: you know, and everyone roots for him, and he had
Speaker 1: the unfortunate injuries not only in the off season, but
Speaker 1: as you've detailed and first day of practice. But the
Speaker 1: bottom line is there wasn't a lot of clamoring for
Speaker 1: him in the free agency. In the off season. He
Speaker 1: was a veteran minimum guy. This was a prove it
Speaker 1: year and next year is going to be another. Now,
Speaker 1: prove it year for James Washington. A lot of times
Speaker 1: we because they are our players, we put more value
Speaker 1: on them that you know. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: you follow the money in this way. We invested in him, right,
Speaker 1: a lot of time. Yeah, right, that's the main right,
Speaker 1: that's why we look at him as I was, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not just with him with idiot players, yeah, rehab, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, right. But there's a there's a reason t
Speaker 1: why Hilton has been t Y Hilton for a decade
Speaker 1: in this league. And I was waiting on the I
Speaker 1: was waiting on the t Y when he caught them
Speaker 1: U fifties. He does that, he does that? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: why yeah, he does that. Yeah, he did it. But
Speaker 1: he's my new favorite player. Just talking to him, he's great.
Speaker 1: And then I think the other thing they've got to
Speaker 1: continue working on is what they do at that third
Speaker 1: quarterback the cornerback position. Um, you know, are they happy
Speaker 1: with Nashon Wright? Remember they picked up Mulling. He's been
Speaker 1: with him and he's played quite a bit, uh in
Speaker 1: the league. If they're looking for more experience, Um, so
Speaker 1: interesting to see what they what they do there. So
Speaker 1: those those two things center are actually three center tackle
Speaker 1: and then what what they continue to do with the
Speaker 1: cornerback position. I mean, you know, if you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: the guy, you might as well play him. Talking about
Speaker 1: Joseph if you need him, I mean, there's no need
Speaker 1: in just having him bare. I know. Will you know
Speaker 1: what this kid? He can't get out of his own way, right,
Speaker 1: he's doing what he's supposed to do, going down covering
Speaker 1: the punt and he's in position to just stand there
Speaker 1: and then the punt comes more to his way and
Speaker 1: the guy runs into him to catch him. There's a flag,
Speaker 1: but you can see the athleticism. Yeah, oh yeah, speed.
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, once again, if we're paying,
Speaker 1: we should go ahead. And you know, with the depth
Speaker 1: problems that we're having, right, we just may be forced
Speaker 1: to play him and you're gonna have to trust a god. Eventually,
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have to trust I might trust amid Man. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll come back with more of that in a moment. Making.
Speaker 1: You need to go out to the practice field and
Speaker 1: see who's on the field today. And when we come
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Speaker 1: best you're gonna get out of Well, that's in Everson's defense.
Speaker 1: He found out he's reading that like literally as he
Speaker 1: started reading that because Mickey was out on the practice
Speaker 1: field and he and I think that the players players
Speaker 1: actually were blinded by Mickey when he went out on
Speaker 1: the practice field. Was that supposed to be Cowboys Nation World?
Speaker 1: Are the hoodies? Yeah? And I said, what did I say? No,
Speaker 1: I don't know you. Yeah, first I said tease year.
Speaker 1: He didn't say gear, right, Yeah, yeah, that was grabbed
Speaker 1: not gear. I know. Yeah, Well, he get a chance
Speaker 1: to proof for he did ahead of time. I said fees.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say fees, not tease. They stopped practice
Speaker 1: for you when you went out there in that shirt.
Speaker 1: Look like noodles. Let's yield, we gather. And I don't
Speaker 1: think they could see me through the window. Oh you
Speaker 1: were just on this side. I couldn't go very far
Speaker 1: that you were late. I did notice that it looked
Speaker 1: like h Layton vander esh was out there with a
Speaker 1: helmet on. Yay, So that bodes well for the two
Speaker 1: weeks from man the first week of the playoffs cool
Speaker 1: and he said he would do a little something, so
Speaker 1: that was good. And Lyndstrom they were going to start
Speaker 1: his twenty one day ramp up. But McCarthy when he
Speaker 1: spoke about him, um um Farney um, yeah, yeah that's
Speaker 1: what I meant. Um. They he sounded like, you know,
Speaker 1: we might he might be ready. And when I talked
Speaker 1: to Farniyac on Monday, he said, yeah, I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see how much they let me do. So well,
Speaker 1: it's certainly made sense to wait until now on Farneyac
Speaker 1: because of the short weeks. The last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: right exactly, because if they did, they would have wasted
Speaker 1: a week last week, right, They aren't really practiced, so
Speaker 1: he could have been ready, really yeah, two weeks ago
Speaker 1: and they just waited until the full week to get
Speaker 1: him a full week or press. So that that's a
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting to see if they think, well, he's
Speaker 1: practiced three times this week, he's good to be the backup.
Speaker 1: You just never know when you need the backup. M
Speaker 1: all right. And with the breaking news from Washington, Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera has announced who his starting quarterback will be on
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Cowboys. Sam and they are going with
Speaker 1: the rookie Sam How Wow, why not? You gotta see
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick out of North Carolina. Okay, McCarthy
Speaker 1: said he liked what he saw from him at North Carolina,
Speaker 1: so no, Heineke, Well, he would probably be the backup
Speaker 1: in Wentz would be inactive. Poor Wins. They'll be looking
Speaker 1: for a job. Sam how last year at North Carolina
Speaker 1: head in twelve starts, twenty four touchdown passes, nine interceptions.
Speaker 1: He's only six one let's say six one two twenty
Speaker 1: and fifth round draft pick number one hundred forty four
Speaker 1: pick in the draft this year. Please don't tell me.
Speaker 1: He runs the football well. Last year at North Carolina,
Speaker 1: he had eight hundred and twenty eight yards rushing in
Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns. Thousand yards. He had eight hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards rushing in North Carolina last year. Last year,
Speaker 1: in his last year at North Carolina, yes, some guy
Speaker 1: named Sam so he had. He had twenty plus passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He had nine picks and twenty four touchdowns the previous year.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, he had thirty touchdown passes in seven picks,
Speaker 1: but only ran for one hundred and forty six yards.
Speaker 1: Probably got sacked a lot. You know in college they
Speaker 1: count the sacks on their rushing totals. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: so he could have gotten a thousand yards of rushing.
Speaker 1: He could have and got sacked for a thousand yards
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen twenty nineteen, he had even more touchdowns
Speaker 1: thirty eight touchdowns and seven interceptions for the tar Heels
Speaker 1: yards per attempt in twenty twenty ten point three yards
Speaker 1: per attempt. So there you go. He was. His coach
Speaker 1: likes to put it up in the air. I know
Speaker 1: that much. I like that Mac Brown Brown. That's right,
Speaker 1: Mac Brown. He's aware down. Yeah, as soon as he
Speaker 1: got to North Carolina, he was all offense, no defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just how they played. I think that
Speaker 1: thirty eight touchdown. I think that was about his first
Speaker 1: max first year. He learned that from Lincoln Riley. Huh,
Speaker 1: Lincoln still needs to learn some things. That's right. That's right. Um,
Speaker 1: So anything else you see you out on the practice field,
Speaker 1: they were still stretching. Okay, you never see anything out there?
Speaker 1: Know why out there? For? Why you go out there
Speaker 1: just for stretching? Well, and then you leave me hanging.
Speaker 1: That's what the that's what they my bad eyes and
Speaker 1: bad light, and that's what they purposely let us watch.
Speaker 1: That's part of the right. That's strategic. It's like a filibuster. Strategic.
Speaker 1: By the way. Also the breaking news from the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame, UH, it is confirmed that they
Speaker 1: will be announcing the fifteen Modern era player finalists for
Speaker 1: the class this evening. It was originally scheduled for last night,
Speaker 1: and out of respect for Damar Hamlin, UH, they postponed
Speaker 1: it and now they're going to go ahead and do
Speaker 1: it tonight at seven o'clock Central time on the NFL Network.
Speaker 1: And UM, of course, Darren Willson and DeMarcus ware are
Speaker 1: among and Zach Thomas, a former Cowboy, also for the
Speaker 1: last year half his career. It's one year, right, we're
Speaker 1: going to claim we claim her bad early, don't we claim? Actually, actually,
Speaker 1: I don't know that we claim her bad early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does not claim USA. Oh you can if you want, though,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not in their media. Guy, do you
Speaker 1: realize that that was an entire rookie year with Mike
Speaker 1: Ditka and did not know that he coached there? What
Speaker 1: do you mean eighty one? He wasn't here in eighty one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because he went to the Bears in like eighty two. Coach,
Speaker 1: you didn't wait, you were a player on the roster
Speaker 1: teams as a rookie. I did, Oh you did? I did?
Speaker 1: He was just he was there. I don't even remember him.
Speaker 1: I have no thoughts of that was forty one years ago.
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean even even like twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: I had I missed him. I missed him. I missed
Speaker 1: it all of eighty one. I had. I had balls
Speaker 1: flying over my head, man, I had stuff. You were
Speaker 1: a rookie kie head swimming, yes, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: where my next interceptions coming from probably looking for his
Speaker 1: next meal where you're still living at the hall. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had no problem with but the meals. Mom was loved.
Speaker 1: I was loving Mom. But wait, he was your special
Speaker 1: teams coming and I played. This is my point, this
Speaker 1: is my dilemma here. I mean, dude, I played. I
Speaker 1: do the Gunners. I'm gonna kickoff team like I did
Speaker 1: all my whole career field goal block. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't remember him. I don't remember I don't remember him.
Speaker 1: I looked at Maybe he just had the title and
Speaker 1: did something else somebody else did. Maybe I just stayed
Speaker 1: out of trouble and he didn't yell at me. Was
Speaker 1: Alan Lowry there? Oh no, no, Alan didn't get there
Speaker 1: until we saw about demise. Okay, we don't say that
Speaker 1: about my fellow Irving I'm sorry Mare. Oh wow, man,
Speaker 1: he had a tough time. He came in with a
Speaker 1: whole different attitude than the boy. The boys, they tore
Speaker 1: him up, Alan Lowry, I'm thinking, Alvan there, you got it,
Speaker 1: so sorry, well, good thinking Alvan running backs coach Alan
Speaker 1: Lowry was all at Irving High School at the University
Speaker 1: of Texas and the Special Teams don't you remember, let
Speaker 1: me tell you we're real quick. You know who taught
Speaker 1: me how to get in a three point stance at
Speaker 1: the Irving MCA and it was Alan Lowry. He was
Speaker 1: playing for the He's probably at Irving High School. Then
Speaker 1: maybe a senior in high school. Baby was going to
Speaker 1: Texas or I can't remember. He may have already been
Speaker 1: at Texas and he did a clinic at the Irving Y.
Speaker 1: Alan Lowry taught me how to get into it. He
Speaker 1: looks great. He never he just doesn't look that old,
Speaker 1: you know. But now he Uh No, Alan Lowry, I remember,
Speaker 1: I thought he's talking about how the van No, no,
Speaker 1: he you come in as a running backs coach to
Speaker 1: media guy, I need to check one thing, okay before
Speaker 1: I see it. Well, Mickey is checking that one thing.
Speaker 1: He says it. Yeah, Everson, what is your take on
Speaker 1: this team that coming into this week as far as
Speaker 1: UM playing a Washington team that has nothing to play for?
Speaker 1: What does this team need to play for? Obviously you're
Speaker 1: hoping that the Eagles lose to the Giants who have
Speaker 1: nothing to play for, and that the Cowboys win. But
Speaker 1: in getting this team ready for the playoffs, what is
Speaker 1: it that the Cowboys need to clean up this week.
Speaker 1: You know, whatever they do clean up, they're going to me.
Speaker 1: I feel better about them doing it during the game.
Speaker 1: I feel better about them playing this game as much
Speaker 1: as they should play it until you realize that it's
Speaker 1: out of hand. I want them to play this game
Speaker 1: to win it with starters in the game. We were
Speaker 1: talking during the break about you know, I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: tanking a game, but resting your players for that last
Speaker 1: season that just never votes well to me. For the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, and you're looking at this team because of
Speaker 1: our weird inconsistencies. I think we should play this out.
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like we are that team that
Speaker 1: is there. You know. I think we still are hungry.
Speaker 1: I think we're still better than last year, but we
Speaker 1: are still not there. And I don't care if you
Speaker 1: go against a Washington practice team, I don't care what
Speaker 1: it is. We still need to get out there and
Speaker 1: stay polished. When against the Tennessee practice team last week, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see what happened. You see what happened. So no,
Speaker 1: I think we're always in the position to get better,
Speaker 1: especially this team. Like they said, I think it was
Speaker 1: last week we got a young squad. We have a
Speaker 1: really young squad. I think it's best for us, and
Speaker 1: I guess I'm old school Tom Landry, par Sales, Belichick,
Speaker 1: Eddie Robinson. We just don't rest, you know, we play,
Speaker 1: We play it out to the end. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: right there with you, especially if they've got to have
Speaker 1: a potential shuffle in the playoffs on that offensive line.
Speaker 1: Those guys need to play together. You can't just act like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're just going out right and you don't need to
Speaker 1: be you know, they will. I mean, I'm sure there'll
Speaker 1: be scoreboard watching or they'll have somebody monitoring the Philadelphia game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just go playing. Just go play, go play,
Speaker 1: and when don't go out there with any other alternatives, like,
Speaker 1: you know, don't go out there thinking I can just
Speaker 1: you know, take it easy here, don't get sloppy in
Speaker 1: your technique. Digs need to guys like Digs. They need
Speaker 1: to take this this point, this game and really mentally
Speaker 1: be where you're supposed to be right and right now.
Speaker 1: Digs is not mentally what he needs to be. QUI
Speaker 1: he's guessing. He thinks he's smarter than everybody else. We
Speaker 1: all do, and they're getting him, Yeah they are, and
Speaker 1: that could you don't need that going into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: nor end the playoffs. So all of those guys that
Speaker 1: are not quite where they need to be. Uh, you
Speaker 1: your season didn't end what it started. Guys like Durance
Speaker 1: Armstrong still playing well, but you know, not getting the
Speaker 1: pressure that we were accustomed to getting. This is the
Speaker 1: time to go ahead and shore that up. See if
Speaker 1: you can better yourself this game better than you've been
Speaker 1: doing the last two weeks, which, by the way, Durrance
Speaker 1: had a pretty hectic week last week because his uh,
Speaker 1: the families getting ready to he was getting ready to
Speaker 1: have his well not him, but uh first child. And
Speaker 1: I think he left here on Tuesday his daughter was born.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe it was Tuesday. He was there Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: then he had to fly on his own from here
Speaker 1: to Tennessee on Thursday, the morning of the game. And
Speaker 1: I looked at him, I said, I take your word
Speaker 1: on Southwest Edie goes yeah, he goes yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: he he was like beaming. He said it was great,
Speaker 1: but it was pretty hectic. Heavin fly and then play
Speaker 1: that in that game, and he actually showed up a
Speaker 1: little bit. But well, if it was that week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's still holding at eight sacks. And you know,
Speaker 1: he started off pretty well the guy that's been coming
Speaker 1: on as Dante Foller. But what I was going to
Speaker 1: say is, you know, and I keep harping on these
Speaker 1: these last several games, they haven't had many sacks. They
Speaker 1: had two games with no sacks, I think, one with one,
Speaker 1: and then last week they had two. Uh So it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on up to pace. Well I looked and I
Speaker 1: was thinking they were they were at forty five at
Speaker 1: some point. Well they're at fifty one. Uh And I
Speaker 1: just happened to, you know, kind of peruse fifty one sacks. Well,
Speaker 1: they had fifty nine in two thousand and seven, so
Speaker 1: this is the most since two thousand and seven, and
Speaker 1: it's the second most since if you don't count the
Speaker 1: strike season in eighty seven. This is the second most
Speaker 1: since eighty six, when they had fifty three. So not
Speaker 1: only were you guys kind of intercepting passes at eighty
Speaker 1: five eighty six, but they had fifty three sacks. That
Speaker 1: here they tend to come with each other. Yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then and in speaking of sacks, Donovan Wilson is
Speaker 1: has the most sacks of any safety this year, five
Speaker 1: and he's matched Bill Bates single season safety record had
Speaker 1: five if yeah, I think it was eighty eighty four maybe, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was the record for a safety because
Speaker 1: they ain't really blitz the safeties that much they back then. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Bates didn't play much after. I mean when
Speaker 1: Jimmy got here. I remember every year offseason, Bates was
Speaker 1: just frantic. I don't know if I'm gonna make the
Speaker 1: team that you know, they don't want to right, yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Eddie would always make it right. But then when they
Speaker 1: got to the Super Bowl, finally he had tours acl uh,
Speaker 1: like I don't remember if it was in the playoff
Speaker 1: game or right before the season ended, and he couldn't play,
Speaker 1: and he I could remember him telling the story of
Speaker 1: when they were out there for the national anthem uh
Speaker 1: in Pasadena for the Super Bowl twenty seven. He was
Speaker 1: out there and he was trying to show him he
Speaker 1: could run. It's like Bill, he never could run, which
Speaker 1: which is another thing. When when this happened, I was
Speaker 1: thinking of the different injuries I've seen that you know,
Speaker 1: have been really serious. And I remember him that one
Speaker 1: year and you you would have been there. It was
Speaker 1: a preseason game and they were going to have him
Speaker 1: return punts and he ran right up the middle as
Speaker 1: fast as he can and you know, Bill, he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna avoid anymore. And he got slammed and he was
Speaker 1: he tells the story. He was knocked out right. And
Speaker 1: they said when they when they got to him, he
Speaker 1: was snoring on the field. We shouldn't laugh about, right.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a strange, strange story. And
Speaker 1: you you know you mentioned Michael and then the the
Speaker 1: wide receiver that was from he was from Arkansas. Um,
Speaker 1: the guy that he was an Armstrong. He fractured his
Speaker 1: knee cap twice and he did the second one when
Speaker 1: we were in training camp, and he did it right
Speaker 1: in front of me. And I swear to god I
Speaker 1: heard it. You know, I probably didn't write, but you've
Speaker 1: seen when a guy goes down like that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just don't remember his name, sir, and Anthony Armstrong Anthony,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We'll look it up. And I've got
Speaker 1: an update for you as we go to break here
Speaker 1: on Damar Hamlon. The Buffalo Bills have issued a statement
Speaker 1: saying that Damar remains in the intensive care unit and
Speaker 1: critical condition, with signs of improvement noted yesterday and overnight.
Speaker 1: He is expected to remain under intensive care as his
Speaker 1: healthcare team continues to monitor and treat him. And of course,
Speaker 1: we keep Damar hamling in our thoughts in prayers. Let's
Speaker 1: go to breaking. We'll wrap up mixed shots in just
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Speaker 1: yelling like Mickey does all the time. No intonation, just
Speaker 1: kind of flat Mickey, what are you looking for in
Speaker 1: that media game? Looking for the guy I was looking
Speaker 1: for that cracked his kneecap twice from Arkansas and Arkansas
Speaker 1: Wide Receiver. Yeah, okay, well we're back on the air now, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I got I gotta, I gotta give up. I can't
Speaker 1: be Yeah, maybe you can tweet it out or something.
Speaker 1: You have more breaking door something, No, that's we're caught
Speaker 1: up on our breaking news items. One thing I will
Speaker 1: say about what's going on now, I think they're better
Speaker 1: that mister Hammond gets. I think the tension will ease
Speaker 1: around the entire league. You know, I would I would
Speaker 1: imagine things do hang on his recovery. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: just as far as mentally in regards to all the
Speaker 1: players around the league. You know, if something would have
Speaker 1: if he would have passed on during that game, you
Speaker 1: got a whole different thing going on in the league.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he is getting better, I think
Speaker 1: the players talking and all of that, the fact that
Speaker 1: he's getting better, I think those conversations go a little
Speaker 1: bit easier, they're a little bit better. But if something,
Speaker 1: you know, if he takes it, I don't even say
Speaker 1: if things would have been different, then I think our
Speaker 1: attitude in this room and around the whole league would
Speaker 1: have been different. You know, they had his UM. I
Speaker 1: believe it was his uncle that helped give a update
Speaker 1: last night out by the hospital that while he was
Speaker 1: still in critical condition, uh, they had reduced the amount
Speaker 1: of oxygen he was getting from one hundred percent to
Speaker 1: is excellent. So they were trying to encourage his lungs
Speaker 1: to take over and that guess they were trusting him. UM.
Speaker 1: So that was that was encouraging. But again it is
Speaker 1: my understanding that they take forty eight hours to try
Speaker 1: to keep him as stable as possible and then so
Speaker 1: that you get past that forty and forty eight hours
Speaker 1: will be tonight, right, So and they you know, they
Speaker 1: need to kind of calm him down to test him, right, right,
Speaker 1: you had to go through all those tests. Well that's why,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why they put him sleep. Yeah, of course, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they could you know, insert them the breathing tube.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it just it just kind of creates a
Speaker 1: pall over everything. And I'm sure guys, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're going to get to talk
Speaker 1: to him, but you know, how into practice can you be,
Speaker 1: you know, just thinking about it, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: not just what you saw on the field, it's how
Speaker 1: everyone relates to it individually. Yeah, everyone has a memory,
Speaker 1: a story of you know, what they saw besides what
Speaker 1: happened the other night, and they compare that to it,
Speaker 1: and so they'll see they'll see that they might go
Speaker 1: to thinking about what happened with their parents when they
Speaker 1: were in the hospital, or a tragedy within from a
Speaker 1: family member they started compared. You know, it all brings
Speaker 1: up those kind of memories. So it's not just football, right,
Speaker 1: you know, it goes way outside of that because now
Speaker 1: you're talking about Okay, you know, man, that looked just
Speaker 1: the way my you know, my mom before. You know,
Speaker 1: when they tried to help her out or something like that.
Speaker 1: So it's it's you know, it's tough because it brings
Speaker 1: up everything that you're afraid to bring up. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was talking to somebody here yesterday and they were, you know,
Speaker 1: seeing it right, and it's like, well, we went through
Speaker 1: that two years ago with Marcus Paul, and then it
Speaker 1: dawned on me when we were back at the ranch.
Speaker 1: John Chang was the same thing when he um, I
Speaker 1: believe he had a brain aneurysm or a stroke and
Speaker 1: he fell out ahead of the department. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: fell out right there in the hallway. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it brings back, it brings back, you know,
Speaker 1: those memories. And you know, I think you said it
Speaker 1: yesterday about you know, when you're that young, you don't
Speaker 1: normally see people pass away hopefully right. Yeah. Um. And
Speaker 1: I remember when we had the bus crash twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: going to training camp, when we got out of the
Speaker 1: bus and we were all, you know, okay except for
Speaker 1: Emory's arms all cut up, and went running back to
Speaker 1: see if we could help the people in that car.
Speaker 1: And when I got within ten yards, it was like,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything, and my young guys. I told him,
Speaker 1: do not look, and they looked, and it affects Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And that's the thing with this.
Speaker 1: It played out on national television. We all saw it
Speaker 1: for everyone to see. Yeah, all right, Uh, we're out
Speaker 1: of time on this edition to mix Shots. Keep tomorrow
Speaker 1: hambling in your prayers and we'll be back again tomorrow
Speaker 1: at noon for another edition of mix Shots. Wait on one.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank all the people on Twitter that
Speaker 1: came to my defense, pointing out when the tweet came
Speaker 1: out with my column, Uh it, the backlash was really bad,
Speaker 1: but lately everybody said, hey, we know what happened. So
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody's sticking up for me. That's cool, because yeah,
Speaker 1: they were on you man, they were on you man.
Speaker 1: What does happen? You ain't you know what's going on?
Speaker 1: What did that guy do? Who is this bumm they're
Speaker 1: talking about? All right? Anyway, now we're done, okay, and
Speaker 1: Mickey will never tweet again right now, even though he
Speaker 1: didn't tweet them to do it again? All right, and
Speaker 1: we'll chat at you again tomorrow on Mike Shot for Cowboys.
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