WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Breaking Down 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:18.239 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick shot 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:22.400 streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.360 Dallas Cowboys app. Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:35.440 and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a Wednesday at the 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:42.479 Star in Frisco. Mickey Spagnola inside the PC Mortgage studios 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.280 there inside Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, and 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:52.400 Everson Walls in his domain, and Bill Jones and his 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.440 and we are set to go. It's a work week. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.600 It is Niners week, and it is time. I certainly 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.800 hope Mickey, when you walked in the doors there at 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.840 at the Star in Frisco, that you had all this 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.480 negativity out of your mind. It's time to get to 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.160 work on the Niners now. No negativity, just realism, that's all. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.280 But I am ready for hum drum reality. Hey, I 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.960 got a question for you guys. I thought of this 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.280 because it keeps coming up and keeps coming up. If 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:34.640 the forty nine ers heading into this game were say 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:42.080 eight and five, nine and four with this game got flexed, No, 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.760 it would not have got flag. It's it has nothing 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.080 to do with the Cowboys four and nine record. It's 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.920 the forty nine ers fault that this gave got flexed. No, 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.040 I think it's both. It's it's a two it's a 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.160 two team deal. You know, Cowboys keep going wild. Oh 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.280 it's not. The Cowboys are on the unique situation spags 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.600 to where they no matter what they want to if 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.079 we're playing well, they want to see us lose, right, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.960 And if we're playing badly like we're playing now, they 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.079 want to see us lose exactly. That's just the way 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.240 it is. So San Francisco has to hold up their end. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.000 The fact that they sucked this year that makes it 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.520 How can I put it? Dumpable? It's a dumpable game, 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.400 That's why I put it. Yeah, because it's it's like 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:34.840 it's like both teams there's no appeal for the game. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.840 But if one team had something going, we it has 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.440 still been a Sunday night game. But unfortunately for the 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.600 forty nine Realty nine Ers have lost five last six. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.800 Forty nine Ers have lost five of their last six games, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.079 and they don't have their starting quarterback, so they kind 0:02:54.080 --> 0:03:03.840 of contribute maybe, right. They are the Dallas Cowboys. They 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.440 are they are typical of what happened to us this year. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.520 It's typical of all those teams that didn't manage it well. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.280 The teams that manage the COVID crisis, well, obviously those 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.560 are the ones that are doing better. They're the ones 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.680 that were less succumbing to uh sickness and virus and 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:25.440 things of that nature. Uh, that's why Baltimore had to 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.280 have this. They had to. It's had to have game 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.160 the other night because COVID put them in such a 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.680 dire situation, just like it has the Cowboys, just like 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.480 it has the forty nineties. Well, I don't know if 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.720 it's COVID, Well, it's just handled it. Well, it's just injuries. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.560 But a lot of those injuries came from First of all, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.120 we know from the fact that we didn't handle the 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.440 offseason well at all. No one was doing anything. We 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:58.400 had no but but they couldn't do Everybody was in 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.200 the same boat. It doesn't seemed like, it doesn't seem like, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:07.200 even from an individual standpoint, that no one did anything 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.360 to prepare it. They were working out at Deck's at 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.840 Deck's backyard. Remember the offensive lineman, Well, I don't know 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.159 about the offense, but they got so so yeah, so 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.600 he saying that the injuries were because of the off season. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 I think, well, why would we have so many injuries 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.400 right now? What it's so different about this offseason than 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.960 any of off All right, well let me well yeah, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.920 but okay, So we can start with Travis Frederick retiring 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.600 right from the start. That had nothing to do with anything, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.560 you go, all right, And then Lale Collins had a 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.200 bad back when he finished last season and it cropped 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.520 up again, uh late right before training camp, and then 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.040 developed a hip problem that had nothing to do with 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.120 not doing anything in the off season. Then they lose 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.600 Tyler Badish to a hand string injury during the national anthem. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.320 See should have knelt, I should have stood? But and 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.479 that was two months after he had reported it wasn't 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.719 like yeah right days after I'm saying, yeah, that was 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.880 and had been on campus, so that was not COVID. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.599 And Zach Martin gets hurt during the season. You lose 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.040 your cornerbacks, and Tyron Smith with the neck injury that 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.520 that happened during the season. So injuries, I think to 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.400 both teams really put them in the situation, especially when 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:39.680 you lose your starting quarterback. So you're telling me that 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.279 these rash of injuries, not just with our team but 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.760 all over the league, had nothing to do with the 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:51.560 lack of availability to your access, to your facility and 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.839 to your teammates. You're telling me that these all of 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.600 these injuries, they just happened to coincide with the fact 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.720 that we had this COVID off season. That's what you're 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.760 telling me. I'm telling you nothing to do with it. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.760 That's tell me. I don't know how you train your 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.239 neck in the off season to make sure a disc 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.200 doesn't slip. I don't know how you train your back 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.480 that was already bothering you. Uh and and you were 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.640 able to come in and work out if you were 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:25.200 rehabbing an injury. So to me, these injuries, yeah, so 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.800 that was it. We're just we're just the unluckiest team. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.560 We're just the unluckiest team in the league. Well team 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.440 in the league, Philadelphia, Philadelphia suffered injuries, the Giants. I'm 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:41.280 saying the entire league did not have access. That's exactly 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.080 what I'm saying. The entire league did not have access, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.479 and therefore the entire league was affected. But league, that's 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:54.760 not sitting here at four nine and that's why I 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:58.360 said in the beginning, it depends on how well you 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.920 handled this situation in the off season. The teams that 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.480 handled it better, whether it was bad luck, odd injuries, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.760 lack of access, whatever, The team that handled it better, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:13.080 Those that were able to stay away from it by 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.520 whatever means, fags, luck, bad luck of the draw, it 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.880 doesn't matter. I think all of these injuries and the 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.080 entire league is how I started off this conversation. Those 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.080 that handled it best are the ones that in position 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:31.080 right now to win, to win the division, or go 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.440 on further than the playoffs. Mind if they were working 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:43.559 out illegally. Really, that's all you gots. We're just gonna 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:50.240 disagree on this one. That's all I understand. It's just okay, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.360 So COVID's here and all of a sudden, the entire 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:58.200 league has I would dare compare the injuries and mishaps 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.960 from this offseason the other off seasons. You're telling me 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.480 that it's no that that they correlate. You're telling me 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.600 that they correlate. Now they tell you that amount of injuries. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.400 If you would have told me the inability to have 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:17.840 a real training camp in offseason affected what happened to 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.000 Blake Jarwin affected what happened to Gerald McCoy. Then I 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.880 would agree with you. But the injuries that really debilitated 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.400 this team I don't think had anything to do with 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.720 the off season. Now, maybe the cornerbacks that had soft 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.160 tissue injuries, I get that, but I don't think uh 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.079 missing the offseason caused Treyvon Diggs to break a bone 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.000 in his foot. You know there was other injuries as 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.360 the season. Exceptions. Bags there are exceptions, It's no doubt 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.400 about it. There are exceptions. But to me, it was 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.280 all about once you go through your off season and 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.640 you're accustomed to doing things a certain way. It's not 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.240 just about soft tissue injuries. I talked about the way 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.520 back before we even started the season. The timing of 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.960 it all. You're not your body is not as it's 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.439 more susceptible to injuries. I think when you don't have 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:15.600 that mental that mental connection between your brain and your 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:20.480 feet that is usually there in a more rigorous and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.240 normal off season. So now you're going out there and 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.960 it almost feels like you're not where you need to 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.600 be physically. You know your timing is not there mentally 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.600 and physically the timing is just not there, So there 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.040 are missteps. Your instincts may be off a little bit. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.360 To me, all of those. It's like when I held 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.040 out back in eighty six, I was physically ready to go, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.840 but when I came into the game instinctly, I wasn't 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.000 where I needed to be with no practices during training camp. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.760 I didn't get hurt, but I got toasted. So my 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.840 thing is, there are times when you need that continuity 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.160 because it does work with the brain and with your 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.240 feet to your body together. So your steps may be 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.360 off a little bit, you may not be as in 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.439 tune to getting rolled up. Just small things like that. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.199 I truly believe, and like you said, we can disagree. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.760 I truly believe when something is taking away from your 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.320 offseason that that normalcy that you're accustomed to. I think 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.120 you're susceptible to certain injuries. I really do and know 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.400 what I believe, and I believe that. I believe that. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.000 But the injuries the Cowboys suffered were not those type 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.600 of injuries. Dak Prescott was lightening the league up throwing 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.960 the football and then he gets tripped out no doubt 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.400 on running the ball and tears up his Ankle Dalton. 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.360 I mean Andy Dalton suffers a concussion. Now, he did 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.120 test positive for COVID, But if you look at it, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.960 the Cowboys have only had like three players that the 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:05.120 COVID actual infection caused them to miss either practice or games, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.920 and one of those was right from the start. So 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:15.160 I just think, I just think that the injuries on 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:20.560 offense really hurt this team, really hurt this team, and 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.040 the defense wasn't good enough to compensate. And frankly, I 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.440 don't know whose defense in the league can compensate for 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:35.080 a poor offensive performance. So having said that, how much 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.480 we how much do we? So? What's next? Having said that, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.079 you know, I was thinking about that earlier today though 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.080 in regards I would love to see a study on 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:53.160 on how on the age of the rosters of the 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.960 teams that are at the top of their division right 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:59.040 now and the ones that have had the injury issues, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.240 and if there's some sort of trend along those ways. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.520 You know, one thing, as far as COVID is concerned, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.880 you did see a lot of bigger players, offensive lineman 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.920 types who opted out before the season started. That affected 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:19.480 several teams, um even before they reported for training camp. Uh. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.760 I was thinking about it in regards to some of 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.680 the Cowboy injuries. Of course Tyrann Smith, although age wise 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:30.440 he's he's still under thirty, I believe, but he's been 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:35.679 in the league for a while. Um, you know, Gerald McCoy, obviously, 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.360 Don Terry Poe was out of shape, and he was 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.400 coming off injury last year too, and his rehab might 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.000 have been affected by it. As far as COVID goes, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.160 you know, I'm thinking about I'd love to see what 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.440 what's the age of what's the what's the age of 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.560 the Chiefs roster, you know, and and uh, some of 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.120 the some of the teams that are in the league. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.520 I was thinking about it in terms of the Cowboys 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:00.959 teams of the nineties that went to the Super Bowl. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:05.480 That was a relatively young team that was just coming 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.640 of age. When in ninety two when they they were 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.120 you know, they were in the prime of their uh, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.440 just entering the prime of their careers. A lot of 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.839 the key core guys on those teams. But you make 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.240 a good point, Bill, though, you do make a good point. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.720 I wish that was a study, you know, just a 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:28.640 study comparing other offseasons to this offseason and see how 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:33.080 that affected each team, how each team dealt with it, uh, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.760 and you know, correlate that with how successful there the 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.000 record was. Well, and like I said, even the even 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.120 the things that Spag was thinking about it. You know, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.400 how at injuries are age related or wear and tear 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.120 of related go ahead making Well, I was gonna say so. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.600 I pointed out last week the number of Cowboy players, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:57.480 uh no more than twenty five years old, uh that 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.040 played this year. Well, I redid it, and I counted 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.480 guys that just played on special teams and some of 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.840 the guys that had to play again this past game. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.920 I got to thirty six guys on this roster who 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.760 have played in games with no more than in their 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.200 third year in the league. And the reason of that 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.120 was a lot of the injuries that the Cowboys did 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.400 did incur, and twenty of those thirty six started in games. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.440 So you had a lot of guys playing. As Jerry said, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.360 that probably would have been on the practice squad, but 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.960 we got them on the field. So they got too young, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.160 too soon on the field for a bunch of guys 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.560 with a not much experience, especially on the offensive line. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.120 I was listening to some of the talk shows the 0:14:55.120 --> 0:15:02.560 other day's bags and everyone was, as we talked about yesterday, 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.240 they bring up this conversation about McCarthy and once again, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.960 I think one of you guys brought it up. That 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.760 was the tail wagon the dog in that particular story. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.720 But then, of course, as as as the story continued, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:23.520 people were trying to compare McCarthy to the present coach 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.680 in Green Bay at this point, and they're giving this 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.960 coach a lot of credit for how he's dealing with 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:36.960 Aaron Rodgers versus how according to this story, Aaron Rodgers 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:42.440 performance was falling off towards the end of McCarthy's career 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:48.440 in Green Bay. Is there any valid validity to that? 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.680 Spags you as a journalist, what do you think about? Well, 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.680 all I can compare it to is how Dak Prescott 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.240 was playing at the beginning of the season. He was 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.080 one of the top quarterbacks in the league. So Mike 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:06.640 McCarthy didn't ruin Dak Prescott and one of those one 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:11.520 of those when they used that that angler was also explored. Okay, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.480 and then the one thing about McCarthy in twenty seventeen, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.720 he didn't have Aaron Rodgers. He got hurt. They were 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.640 playing a first year quarterback who hadn't played in the 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.200 league prior to that, and they were stuck basically playing 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.760 Garrett Gilbert for the entire season. I think Aaron Rodgers 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.760 finally came back towards the end. He played one game 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.560 when he shouldn't have and that was the end of 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.640 his season. So a lot of his problems were he 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.400 didn't have Aaron Rodgers. You know, makes a difference when 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:47.160 you don't have Tom Brady. Go ask New England does. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.480 It's almost as if I don't know if that was created, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:57.280 but they seemed to refer to problems that they were 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.880 having personal wise. Personality wise, Yeah, and I don't think 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.400 he's having a problem with Dak and he's certainly probably 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.840 not having a problem with Andy Dalton. Didn't have a 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.560 problem with with Garrett Gilbert. Maybe he had a problem 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:16.080 with Denucci. That's why he didn't play well. You look 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.760 at the people are grasping when you just aren't good enough. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.000 Sometimes you're just not good enough. And they haven't been 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.920 good enough on the offensive line, and they haven't been 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:32.000 good enough on defense, And that leads me to what 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:39.160 do we do about this defense? Well, because it injury's aside. 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.240 I'm side, Bill, did you want to No, No, this 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.040 relates to exactly what you're talking about with McCarthy and 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:49.640 Green Bay. What did the Packers do that improved that 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.000 team more than anything last year? For their new coach 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:58.800 coming in, they signed the Smith brothers quote unquote Preston 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.800 Smith Andsadarius Smith as edge rushers, and their defense improved 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.280 immensely last year. And as a result, they go thirteen 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.639 and three last year and they're up there at the 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.440 top of the division again this year. If you know, 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.359 if Preston Smith and Zadarius Tom and Zaidarius Smith are 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.440 playing for the Packers the year before, you know, maybe 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.840 it's a different story from Mike McCarthy. They stored up 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.639 their defense and it was the first time in a 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:28.240 long time that the Packers actually dived into free agency 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.679 and signed some guys in free agency to help their 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.320 team out, and they signed guys that weren't at the 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:40.360 end of their careers. That's right, yeah, try. Yeah. So 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:44.000 now we sit here and our defense is one of 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:49.080 the worst in the NFL, and we have few injuries 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.440 on that side of the exactly, and I understand they 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.160 lost four four starters from last year off the defense 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.680 that finished ninth overall in the league last year. Oh 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:08.360 by the way, Yeah, but you know how that Nike looked. Oh, 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.760 Bill Spags, you know how that looked. We were all 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.720 confused about the standing as far as that defense was concerned, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.160 because they were still the weakness I thought of this 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:25.439 ball club last year. Well, there was too many games 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:32.480 that Cowboys didn't score more than seventeen points too though. Yeah, 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.159 I mean, if you think about it, right at the beginning, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:40.480 the first lost twelve to ten to Saints. Can't lose 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.840 that game? And what so, how do we improve? How 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.840 do we improve defensively? Because at this point I don't 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.840 unless we start going out and doing like Green Bay 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:56.200 did last year and years before and started getting concentrating 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.760 on defense. At this point, we are salary up on 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.520 the defensive side of the ball. I mean, how can 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.800 we improve with some of our highest paid players ought 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.639 even producing well well. And here's the other thing about 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.800 the defense. I mean we talk about the injuries have 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:17.280 been on the offense, but there have been a number 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:21.760 of injuries on this defense throughout the season, going back 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.359 to you know, vander esh gets hurt in September missus 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.920 a month. Sean Lee wasn't available to even replace him 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.960 the first half of the season. Basically, Uh, you lose 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:33.440 Tristan Hill was you know, he had a comeback year 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.680 and he was playing well, and you lose him at 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:40.080 you know, around mid season and then ask as what 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.119 they're going through right now at the cornerback position. Shoot 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.200 this last game they're playing Rashard Robinson and Savion Smith 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.520 and Deante Burton had at cornerback. So and you didn't 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.199 have Cheeto for half the season from the you know, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.120 second game on uh, and then you lose him again 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:00.720 this week with covid um and then you lose. You 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.160 get Cheeto back and you lose Trayvon Diggs for a month. Uh, 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.800 and you lose and Donovan Wilson shows that he shows 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.160 a little something for a couple of games and then 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.520 he's out with a great injury. They've had their share 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.080 of injuries on defense as well. And let's also point 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:19.919 this out about about the guys that are making the 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.360 big money on defense. There's only one guy on defense 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:28.479 making big money, and it's DeMarcus Lawrence. And you know, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.320 I understand four and a half sacks is not great. 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.520 But what he's contributed in other parts of the game, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.440 I think he's played, he's played awfully well. Uh. And 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.480 and remember you were relying on two other defensive ends 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:47.760 who hadn't played. H. Randy Gregory didn't play the first 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.800 six games and then comes back after not playing since 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.240 twenty eighteen. Alden Smith kind of started off quick and 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.119 then he kind of tailed off. He hadn't played since 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:01.840 twenty fifteen. Uh. No one was making big money on 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:07.560 in the secondary. You know your cornerback, Mickey Mickey once 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:12.520 your definition of big money? Oh uh, like fifteen million 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.080 a year, twelve to fifteen million a year. No one's 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.840 making that other than Lawrence. You know, they resigned Jalen Smith, 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:25.000 but the contract was a very club friendly contract because 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.399 he got his money ahead of time. Right, You lost 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:31.800 Van Dersh. You know he's on his rookie contract. Cheeto 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:34.679 is on his rookie contract. Jordan Lewis is on his 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:38.760 rookie contract. They signed Anthony Brown back to a very 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:44.080 friendly team contract. The defensive tackles there, you got a 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.600 rookie starting and a guy in his third year that's 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:52.160 on an exclusive rights contract. So you know your other, 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.199 your other. So they didn't really spend any of the 0:22:56.240 --> 0:23:00.680 guys they spent money on. You know, they flubbed right, 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.280 don Terry Poe out of here, ha, Clinton Dix out 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:06.800 of here. And it wasn't big money, but it was some. 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:14.720 And then Gerald McCoy never got on. Boy Clinton Dix 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:16.680 must have been really bad not to make it in 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.080 this second day. Has anybody picked him up? Sets and 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.280 nobody picked him up? Nope, No, nobody picked him up. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:27.080 And he'd been on three three teams in two years 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:31.520 prior to coming here. That didn't contrast what you just 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:34.560 said about the defensive money. And then look at the 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.280 guys that there were, the money's invested on offense. Yeah, 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.600 and and there's I think the last thing I saw 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.159 was that Stephen pointing out sixty million dollars against the 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:51.760 cap this year is on injured reserve. Ready next year, 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:55.640 we're gonna be ready. We're gonna have right weebody we need, Yes, 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:02.200 that's right, but we're gonna have everybody we need. Sunday 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:05.280 when the San Francisco forty nine ers come to town. 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:10.320 Two all right, and I'll update we come back, okay, 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:14.159 when we come back on mix youns. Hey, they're Cowboys fans. 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:17.880 With Type Cleaners at Home pickup and delivery, cleaning your 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:21.120 clothes has never been more convenient. 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