Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mick shot
Speaker 1: streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys app. Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it is a Wednesday at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Mickey Spagnola inside the PC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: there inside Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, and
Speaker 1: Everson Walls in his domain, and Bill Jones and his
Speaker 1: and we are set to go. It's a work week.
Speaker 1: It is Niners week, and it is time. I certainly
Speaker 1: hope Mickey, when you walked in the doors there at
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco, that you had all this
Speaker 1: negativity out of your mind. It's time to get to
Speaker 1: work on the Niners now. No negativity, just realism, that's all.
Speaker 1: But I am ready for hum drum reality. Hey, I
Speaker 1: got a question for you guys. I thought of this
Speaker 1: because it keeps coming up and keeps coming up. If
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers heading into this game were say
Speaker 1: eight and five, nine and four with this game got flexed, No,
Speaker 1: it would not have got flag. It's it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Cowboys four and nine record. It's
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers fault that this gave got flexed. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's both. It's it's a two it's a
Speaker 1: two team deal. You know, Cowboys keep going wild. Oh
Speaker 1: it's not. The Cowboys are on the unique situation spags
Speaker 1: to where they no matter what they want to if
Speaker 1: we're playing well, they want to see us lose, right,
Speaker 1: And if we're playing badly like we're playing now, they
Speaker 1: want to see us lose exactly. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. So San Francisco has to hold up their end.
Speaker 1: The fact that they sucked this year that makes it
Speaker 1: How can I put it? Dumpable? It's a dumpable game,
Speaker 1: That's why I put it. Yeah, because it's it's like
Speaker 1: it's like both teams there's no appeal for the game.
Speaker 1: But if one team had something going, we it has
Speaker 1: still been a Sunday night game. But unfortunately for the
Speaker 1: forty nine Realty nine Ers have lost five last six.
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers have lost five of their last six games,
Speaker 1: and they don't have their starting quarterback, so they kind
Speaker 1: of contribute maybe, right. They are the Dallas Cowboys. They
Speaker 1: are they are typical of what happened to us this year.
Speaker 1: It's typical of all those teams that didn't manage it well.
Speaker 1: The teams that manage the COVID crisis, well, obviously those
Speaker 1: are the ones that are doing better. They're the ones
Speaker 1: that were less succumbing to uh sickness and virus and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. Uh, that's why Baltimore had to
Speaker 1: have this. They had to. It's had to have game
Speaker 1: the other night because COVID put them in such a
Speaker 1: dire situation, just like it has the Cowboys, just like
Speaker 1: it has the forty nineties. Well, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's COVID, Well, it's just handled it. Well, it's just injuries.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those injuries came from First of all,
Speaker 1: we know from the fact that we didn't handle the
Speaker 1: offseason well at all. No one was doing anything. We
Speaker 1: had no but but they couldn't do Everybody was in
Speaker 1: the same boat. It doesn't seemed like, it doesn't seem like,
Speaker 1: even from an individual standpoint, that no one did anything
Speaker 1: to prepare it. They were working out at Deck's at
Speaker 1: Deck's backyard. Remember the offensive lineman, Well, I don't know
Speaker 1: about the offense, but they got so so yeah, so
Speaker 1: he saying that the injuries were because of the off season.
Speaker 1: I think, well, why would we have so many injuries
Speaker 1: right now? What it's so different about this offseason than
Speaker 1: any of off All right, well let me well yeah,
Speaker 1: but okay, So we can start with Travis Frederick retiring
Speaker 1: right from the start. That had nothing to do with anything,
Speaker 1: you go, all right, And then Lale Collins had a
Speaker 1: bad back when he finished last season and it cropped
Speaker 1: up again, uh late right before training camp, and then
Speaker 1: developed a hip problem that had nothing to do with
Speaker 1: not doing anything in the off season. Then they lose
Speaker 1: Tyler Badish to a hand string injury during the national anthem.
Speaker 1: See should have knelt, I should have stood? But and
Speaker 1: that was two months after he had reported it wasn't
Speaker 1: like yeah right days after I'm saying, yeah, that was
Speaker 1: and had been on campus, so that was not COVID.
Speaker 1: And Zach Martin gets hurt during the season. You lose
Speaker 1: your cornerbacks, and Tyron Smith with the neck injury that
Speaker 1: that happened during the season. So injuries, I think to
Speaker 1: both teams really put them in the situation, especially when
Speaker 1: you lose your starting quarterback. So you're telling me that
Speaker 1: these rash of injuries, not just with our team but
Speaker 1: all over the league, had nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: lack of availability to your access, to your facility and
Speaker 1: to your teammates. You're telling me that these all of
Speaker 1: these injuries, they just happened to coincide with the fact
Speaker 1: that we had this COVID off season. That's what you're
Speaker 1: telling me. I'm telling you nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: That's tell me. I don't know how you train your
Speaker 1: neck in the off season to make sure a disc
Speaker 1: doesn't slip. I don't know how you train your back
Speaker 1: that was already bothering you. Uh and and you were
Speaker 1: able to come in and work out if you were
Speaker 1: rehabbing an injury. So to me, these injuries, yeah, so
Speaker 1: that was it. We're just we're just the unluckiest team.
Speaker 1: We're just the unluckiest team in the league. Well team
Speaker 1: in the league, Philadelphia, Philadelphia suffered injuries, the Giants. I'm
Speaker 1: saying the entire league did not have access. That's exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. The entire league did not have access,
Speaker 1: and therefore the entire league was affected. But league, that's
Speaker 1: not sitting here at four nine and that's why I
Speaker 1: said in the beginning, it depends on how well you
Speaker 1: handled this situation in the off season. The teams that
Speaker 1: handled it better, whether it was bad luck, odd injuries,
Speaker 1: lack of access, whatever, The team that handled it better,
Speaker 1: Those that were able to stay away from it by
Speaker 1: whatever means, fags, luck, bad luck of the draw, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I think all of these injuries and the
Speaker 1: entire league is how I started off this conversation. Those
Speaker 1: that handled it best are the ones that in position
Speaker 1: right now to win, to win the division, or go
Speaker 1: on further than the playoffs. Mind if they were working
Speaker 1: out illegally. Really, that's all you gots. We're just gonna
Speaker 1: disagree on this one. That's all I understand. It's just okay,
Speaker 1: So COVID's here and all of a sudden, the entire
Speaker 1: league has I would dare compare the injuries and mishaps
Speaker 1: from this offseason the other off seasons. You're telling me
Speaker 1: that it's no that that they correlate. You're telling me
Speaker 1: that they correlate. Now they tell you that amount of injuries.
Speaker 1: If you would have told me the inability to have
Speaker 1: a real training camp in offseason affected what happened to
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin affected what happened to Gerald McCoy. Then I
Speaker 1: would agree with you. But the injuries that really debilitated
Speaker 1: this team I don't think had anything to do with
Speaker 1: the off season. Now, maybe the cornerbacks that had soft
Speaker 1: tissue injuries, I get that, but I don't think uh
Speaker 1: missing the offseason caused Treyvon Diggs to break a bone
Speaker 1: in his foot. You know there was other injuries as
Speaker 1: the season. Exceptions. Bags there are exceptions, It's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. There are exceptions. But to me, it was
Speaker 1: all about once you go through your off season and
Speaker 1: you're accustomed to doing things a certain way. It's not
Speaker 1: just about soft tissue injuries. I talked about the way
Speaker 1: back before we even started the season. The timing of
Speaker 1: it all. You're not your body is not as it's
Speaker 1: more susceptible to injuries. I think when you don't have
Speaker 1: that mental that mental connection between your brain and your
Speaker 1: feet that is usually there in a more rigorous and
Speaker 1: normal off season. So now you're going out there and
Speaker 1: it almost feels like you're not where you need to
Speaker 1: be physically. You know your timing is not there mentally
Speaker 1: and physically the timing is just not there, So there
Speaker 1: are missteps. Your instincts may be off a little bit.
Speaker 1: To me, all of those. It's like when I held
Speaker 1: out back in eighty six, I was physically ready to go,
Speaker 1: but when I came into the game instinctly, I wasn't
Speaker 1: where I needed to be with no practices during training camp.
Speaker 1: I didn't get hurt, but I got toasted. So my
Speaker 1: thing is, there are times when you need that continuity
Speaker 1: because it does work with the brain and with your
Speaker 1: feet to your body together. So your steps may be
Speaker 1: off a little bit, you may not be as in
Speaker 1: tune to getting rolled up. Just small things like that.
Speaker 1: I truly believe, and like you said, we can disagree.
Speaker 1: I truly believe when something is taking away from your
Speaker 1: offseason that that normalcy that you're accustomed to. I think
Speaker 1: you're susceptible to certain injuries. I really do and know
Speaker 1: what I believe, and I believe that. I believe that.
Speaker 1: But the injuries the Cowboys suffered were not those type
Speaker 1: of injuries. Dak Prescott was lightening the league up throwing
Speaker 1: the football and then he gets tripped out no doubt
Speaker 1: on running the ball and tears up his Ankle Dalton.
Speaker 1: I mean Andy Dalton suffers a concussion. Now, he did
Speaker 1: test positive for COVID, But if you look at it,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have only had like three players that the
Speaker 1: COVID actual infection caused them to miss either practice or games,
Speaker 1: and one of those was right from the start. So
Speaker 1: I just think, I just think that the injuries on
Speaker 1: offense really hurt this team, really hurt this team, and
Speaker 1: the defense wasn't good enough to compensate. And frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't know whose defense in the league can compensate for
Speaker 1: a poor offensive performance. So having said that, how much
Speaker 1: we how much do we? So? What's next? Having said that,
Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about that earlier today though
Speaker 1: in regards I would love to see a study on
Speaker 1: on how on the age of the rosters of the
Speaker 1: teams that are at the top of their division right
Speaker 1: now and the ones that have had the injury issues,
Speaker 1: and if there's some sort of trend along those ways.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing, as far as COVID is concerned,
Speaker 1: you did see a lot of bigger players, offensive lineman
Speaker 1: types who opted out before the season started. That affected
Speaker 1: several teams, um even before they reported for training camp. Uh.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it in regards to some of
Speaker 1: the Cowboy injuries. Of course Tyrann Smith, although age wise
Speaker 1: he's he's still under thirty, I believe, but he's been
Speaker 1: in the league for a while. Um, you know, Gerald McCoy, obviously,
Speaker 1: Don Terry Poe was out of shape, and he was
Speaker 1: coming off injury last year too, and his rehab might
Speaker 1: have been affected by it. As far as COVID goes,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking about I'd love to see what
Speaker 1: what's the age of what's the what's the age of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs roster, you know, and and uh, some of
Speaker 1: the some of the teams that are in the league.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about it in terms of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: teams of the nineties that went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was a relatively young team that was just coming
Speaker 1: of age. When in ninety two when they they were
Speaker 1: you know, they were in the prime of their uh,
Speaker 1: just entering the prime of their careers. A lot of
Speaker 1: the key core guys on those teams. But you make
Speaker 1: a good point, Bill, though, you do make a good point.
Speaker 1: I wish that was a study, you know, just a
Speaker 1: study comparing other offseasons to this offseason and see how
Speaker 1: that affected each team, how each team dealt with it, uh,
Speaker 1: and you know, correlate that with how successful there the
Speaker 1: record was. Well, and like I said, even the even
Speaker 1: the things that Spag was thinking about it. You know,
Speaker 1: how at injuries are age related or wear and tear
Speaker 1: of related go ahead making Well, I was gonna say so.
Speaker 1: I pointed out last week the number of Cowboy players,
Speaker 1: uh no more than twenty five years old, uh that
Speaker 1: played this year. Well, I redid it, and I counted
Speaker 1: guys that just played on special teams and some of
Speaker 1: the guys that had to play again this past game.
Speaker 1: I got to thirty six guys on this roster who
Speaker 1: have played in games with no more than in their
Speaker 1: third year in the league. And the reason of that
Speaker 1: was a lot of the injuries that the Cowboys did
Speaker 1: did incur, and twenty of those thirty six started in games.
Speaker 1: So you had a lot of guys playing. As Jerry said,
Speaker 1: that probably would have been on the practice squad, but
Speaker 1: we got them on the field. So they got too young,
Speaker 1: too soon on the field for a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: with a not much experience, especially on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I was listening to some of the talk shows the
Speaker 1: other day's bags and everyone was, as we talked about yesterday,
Speaker 1: they bring up this conversation about McCarthy and once again,
Speaker 1: I think one of you guys brought it up. That
Speaker 1: was the tail wagon the dog in that particular story.
Speaker 1: But then, of course, as as as the story continued,
Speaker 1: people were trying to compare McCarthy to the present coach
Speaker 1: in Green Bay at this point, and they're giving this
Speaker 1: coach a lot of credit for how he's dealing with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers versus how according to this story, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: performance was falling off towards the end of McCarthy's career
Speaker 1: in Green Bay. Is there any valid validity to that?
Speaker 1: Spags you as a journalist, what do you think about? Well,
Speaker 1: all I can compare it to is how Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: was playing at the beginning of the season. He was
Speaker 1: one of the top quarterbacks in the league. So Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy didn't ruin Dak Prescott and one of those one
Speaker 1: of those when they used that that angler was also explored. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then the one thing about McCarthy in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: he didn't have Aaron Rodgers. He got hurt. They were
Speaker 1: playing a first year quarterback who hadn't played in the
Speaker 1: league prior to that, and they were stuck basically playing
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert for the entire season. I think Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: finally came back towards the end. He played one game
Speaker 1: when he shouldn't have and that was the end of
Speaker 1: his season. So a lot of his problems were he
Speaker 1: didn't have Aaron Rodgers. You know, makes a difference when
Speaker 1: you don't have Tom Brady. Go ask New England does.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if I don't know if that was created,
Speaker 1: but they seemed to refer to problems that they were
Speaker 1: having personal wise. Personality wise, Yeah, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's having a problem with Dak and he's certainly probably
Speaker 1: not having a problem with Andy Dalton. Didn't have a
Speaker 1: problem with with Garrett Gilbert. Maybe he had a problem
Speaker 1: with Denucci. That's why he didn't play well. You look
Speaker 1: at the people are grasping when you just aren't good enough.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're just not good enough. And they haven't been
Speaker 1: good enough on the offensive line, and they haven't been
Speaker 1: good enough on defense, And that leads me to what
Speaker 1: do we do about this defense? Well, because it injury's aside.
Speaker 1: I'm side, Bill, did you want to No, No, this
Speaker 1: relates to exactly what you're talking about with McCarthy and
Speaker 1: Green Bay. What did the Packers do that improved that
Speaker 1: team more than anything last year? For their new coach
Speaker 1: coming in, they signed the Smith brothers quote unquote Preston
Speaker 1: Smith Andsadarius Smith as edge rushers, and their defense improved
Speaker 1: immensely last year. And as a result, they go thirteen
Speaker 1: and three last year and they're up there at the
Speaker 1: top of the division again this year. If you know,
Speaker 1: if Preston Smith and Zadarius Tom and Zaidarius Smith are
Speaker 1: playing for the Packers the year before, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a different story from Mike McCarthy. They stored up
Speaker 1: their defense and it was the first time in a
Speaker 1: long time that the Packers actually dived into free agency
Speaker 1: and signed some guys in free agency to help their
Speaker 1: team out, and they signed guys that weren't at the
Speaker 1: end of their careers. That's right, yeah, try. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: now we sit here and our defense is one of
Speaker 1: the worst in the NFL, and we have few injuries
Speaker 1: on that side of the exactly, and I understand they
Speaker 1: lost four four starters from last year off the defense
Speaker 1: that finished ninth overall in the league last year. Oh
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, but you know how that Nike looked. Oh,
Speaker 1: Bill Spags, you know how that looked. We were all
Speaker 1: confused about the standing as far as that defense was concerned,
Speaker 1: because they were still the weakness I thought of this
Speaker 1: ball club last year. Well, there was too many games
Speaker 1: that Cowboys didn't score more than seventeen points too though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, right at the beginning,
Speaker 1: the first lost twelve to ten to Saints. Can't lose
Speaker 1: that game? And what so, how do we improve? How
Speaker 1: do we improve defensively? Because at this point I don't
Speaker 1: unless we start going out and doing like Green Bay
Speaker 1: did last year and years before and started getting concentrating
Speaker 1: on defense. At this point, we are salary up on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. I mean, how can
Speaker 1: we improve with some of our highest paid players ought
Speaker 1: even producing well well. And here's the other thing about
Speaker 1: the defense. I mean we talk about the injuries have
Speaker 1: been on the offense, but there have been a number
Speaker 1: of injuries on this defense throughout the season, going back
Speaker 1: to you know, vander esh gets hurt in September missus
Speaker 1: a month. Sean Lee wasn't available to even replace him
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. Basically, Uh, you lose
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill was you know, he had a comeback year
Speaker 1: and he was playing well, and you lose him at
Speaker 1: you know, around mid season and then ask as what
Speaker 1: they're going through right now at the cornerback position. Shoot
Speaker 1: this last game they're playing Rashard Robinson and Savion Smith
Speaker 1: and Deante Burton had at cornerback. So and you didn't
Speaker 1: have Cheeto for half the season from the you know,
Speaker 1: second game on uh, and then you lose him again
Speaker 1: this week with covid um and then you lose. You
Speaker 1: get Cheeto back and you lose Trayvon Diggs for a month. Uh,
Speaker 1: and you lose and Donovan Wilson shows that he shows
Speaker 1: a little something for a couple of games and then
Speaker 1: he's out with a great injury. They've had their share
Speaker 1: of injuries on defense as well. And let's also point
Speaker 1: this out about about the guys that are making the
Speaker 1: big money on defense. There's only one guy on defense
Speaker 1: making big money, and it's DeMarcus Lawrence. And you know,
Speaker 1: I understand four and a half sacks is not great.
Speaker 1: But what he's contributed in other parts of the game,
Speaker 1: I think he's played, he's played awfully well. Uh. And
Speaker 1: and remember you were relying on two other defensive ends
Speaker 1: who hadn't played. H. Randy Gregory didn't play the first
Speaker 1: six games and then comes back after not playing since
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Alden Smith kind of started off quick and
Speaker 1: then he kind of tailed off. He hadn't played since
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Uh. No one was making big money on
Speaker 1: in the secondary. You know your cornerback, Mickey Mickey once
Speaker 1: your definition of big money? Oh uh, like fifteen million
Speaker 1: a year, twelve to fifteen million a year. No one's
Speaker 1: making that other than Lawrence. You know, they resigned Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: but the contract was a very club friendly contract because
Speaker 1: he got his money ahead of time. Right, You lost
Speaker 1: Van Dersh. You know he's on his rookie contract. Cheeto
Speaker 1: is on his rookie contract. Jordan Lewis is on his
Speaker 1: rookie contract. They signed Anthony Brown back to a very
Speaker 1: friendly team contract. The defensive tackles there, you got a
Speaker 1: rookie starting and a guy in his third year that's
Speaker 1: on an exclusive rights contract. So you know your other,
Speaker 1: your other. So they didn't really spend any of the
Speaker 1: guys they spent money on. You know, they flubbed right,
Speaker 1: don Terry Poe out of here, ha, Clinton Dix out
Speaker 1: of here. And it wasn't big money, but it was some.
Speaker 1: And then Gerald McCoy never got on. Boy Clinton Dix
Speaker 1: must have been really bad not to make it in
Speaker 1: this second day. Has anybody picked him up? Sets and
Speaker 1: nobody picked him up? Nope, No, nobody picked him up.
Speaker 1: And he'd been on three three teams in two years
Speaker 1: prior to coming here. That didn't contrast what you just
Speaker 1: said about the defensive money. And then look at the
Speaker 1: guys that there were, the money's invested on offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and there's I think the last thing I saw
Speaker 1: was that Stephen pointing out sixty million dollars against the
Speaker 1: cap this year is on injured reserve. Ready next year,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be ready. We're gonna have right weebody we need, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's right, but we're gonna have everybody we need. Sunday
Speaker 1: when the San Francisco forty nine ers come to town.
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Speaker 1: day after the Big twelve championship game Oklahoma in Iowa
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Speaker 1: I need to figure that one out. And the Cowboys
Speaker 1: might be playing at ten o'clock one Sunday before this
Speaker 1: scene dead at ten am game, Like, we don't even
Speaker 1: deserve We'll just be on a ten Mickey, is there's
Speaker 1: no chance that they can't get flexed out of the
Speaker 1: three twenty five game on the following week against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: can they? Yes, they can. Well, if they both lose
Speaker 1: the Eagles and the Giants aren't holding up there into
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Speaker 1: both teams are like mathematically out of it by the
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Speaker 1: watch this crap, all right, I forgot to look up
Speaker 1: the Have you looked up what the what the tiebreaker is? Mickey? No,
Speaker 1: but we were talking the other day. Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: do it real quick. Yeah, if you can look up
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker, because I had figured out on a multiple
Speaker 1: team tie that on my time, Raker, which is the
Speaker 1: one that matters in my mind, which is an official Uh.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys had the time breaker, but I guess we
Speaker 1: ought to try to get it right since that one
Speaker 1: matters to other people. Yeah, in the meantime, I can
Speaker 1: get this. Oh go ahead, Have you got it already? No? No,
Speaker 1: it always going to give you a practice today. Look up.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well I get the practice update and then
Speaker 1: and then you look that up and I got something
Speaker 1: else to fill time with here, so you're looking that up.
Speaker 1: Practice up. So we got some guys back on in
Speaker 1: practice today. Uh. Trayvon Diggs began his uh return to
Speaker 1: practice off I r uh and uh. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be limited, but in the portion that US Pool reporters,
Speaker 1: myself and Rob Phillips got to witness. Right, you're one
Speaker 1: of the privileged, right you and Rob Phillips. He was
Speaker 1: moving pretty good in those drills, So we'll see how
Speaker 1: much he was able to do. And as McCarthy pointed out,
Speaker 1: the big thing is see how much how he feels
Speaker 1: in the morning. Same thing with Donovan Wilson. He was
Speaker 1: out there, Uh, probably going to be limited. Uh. Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown out there moving well, he was out there last week. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was expected to be limited. Uh. Cheeto is off
Speaker 1: the reserve COVID nineteen lists, so he's good to go.
Speaker 1: And Ezekiel Elliott began that portion that we get to
Speaker 1: watch working on the chords. But that's what he did
Speaker 1: last week, and that's what he did the game before,
Speaker 1: so I would imagine, uh he should, uh you know,
Speaker 1: be be good to go. How how how healthy is
Speaker 1: uh is another matter. Uh. They returned Adam Redman, who
Speaker 1: they released end of last week, to the practice squad. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I think that's just about us. He was the
Speaker 1: backup center, backup center, and so uh and and beyond
Speaker 1: A was out there and uh, you know when when
Speaker 1: h McCarthy talked about it, he said, uh, he'll definitely
Speaker 1: be in the mix and practice. Uh he'll have more
Speaker 1: practice reps this week than last week. So who knows,
Speaker 1: he may be your starting center. So they are getting
Speaker 1: a little healthier. I just don't know if it's in time. So,
Speaker 1: by the way, and by the way, one other thing,
Speaker 1: Deante Burton, who ended up playing when the other guys
Speaker 1: got hurt in the game, was not on the practice field,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what was up with him. We'll
Speaker 1: have to wait till the injury report comes out. All right,
Speaker 1: So if you were to uh, if be honest, starts
Speaker 1: at center, who's your starting right guard? Oh, I think
Speaker 1: it's McGovern. You go with McGovern and not slide. And
Speaker 1: I think Looney's back. I think Looney's your backup center guard.
Speaker 1: I think. But we'll see, okay, because they've done it
Speaker 1: the other way. Also, they put Looney a guard. I
Speaker 1: just think he's a better center than he is a guard.
Speaker 1: M and does and does it matter where they are
Speaker 1: in their season right now? What comes down on that decision?
Speaker 1: Or is it the same motivation that you would have
Speaker 1: at mid season when you're not as much of a
Speaker 1: long shot to make the playoffs. I think I think
Speaker 1: if it's I think if it's a tie, then McGovern's
Speaker 1: the guard. Looney. You know, Loony could save you a
Speaker 1: roster spot too, because he can be the backup guard center.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have to have a backup guards. You lose
Speaker 1: two offensive linemen in the first series of the game.
Speaker 1: Well that's true unless he gets hurt on the first
Speaker 1: play of the game. And good point, which has happened before. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I's looking at this San Francisco defense bags. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about this whole offensive line and how
Speaker 1: we're gonna handle it. What is San Francisco looking at
Speaker 1: on the defensive side on their D line? I recall
Speaker 1: this team being extremely physical. Their culture is aggressive. They
Speaker 1: got a defensive coordinator who was highly accomplished, and thought of,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering if we have is that going to
Speaker 1: be an issue for US? I live Washington football team,
Speaker 1: defensive line full of a bunch of studs that are
Speaker 1: carrying the team. Well, all I know is their biggest
Speaker 1: issues on offense. Defensively, you know, they played pretty well
Speaker 1: against Washington. Now I don't know if that's a you know,
Speaker 1: a badge that you go, oh, you played well against
Speaker 1: that Washington offense. Right, But here's the deal, you know,
Speaker 1: to the two touchdowns Washington scored were on defensive returns
Speaker 1: for touchdowns. But the defense by itself only, they held
Speaker 1: Washington to a one hundred ninety three total yards an
Speaker 1: average of three point one one per play. They held
Speaker 1: him to ninety five passing yards, twelve first downs, and
Speaker 1: three field goals, and one of those field goals was
Speaker 1: after a turnover and they only had to drive thirteen
Speaker 1: yards to kick the field goal. So from a defensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: they played pretty well against Washington. And by the way,
Speaker 1: guess who's leading the team in sacks. That would be
Speaker 1: Kerry Hyder, who the Cowboys did not try to resign
Speaker 1: last year. Oh my goodness. Okay, Kerry Hyder has seven
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. The former Texas Tech Red Raider
Speaker 1: out of Austin LBJ High School, who I thought he
Speaker 1: did well here, but he doesn't fit the scheme, right Mickey,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the scheme is. I can't answer
Speaker 1: that question. Well, he's only six two, two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy pounds out of Texas Tech when he came out,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't fit this scheme apparently, but he fits
Speaker 1: San Francisco scheme. By the way. The biggest issue that
Speaker 1: they've had in their front seven, though, ever said, is
Speaker 1: the injury to Nick Bosa. I mean he two they
Speaker 1: went down the same night. The other difference on the
Speaker 1: other went down Solomon Solomon Thomas out of Coppelle and Stanford,
Speaker 1: who has not performed up to the third pick in
Speaker 1: the draft level that he was picked in two twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: but he in a rotation he has been he has
Speaker 1: come along. Of course he had uh, he had a
Speaker 1: horrible tragedy in his family that affected his second year
Speaker 1: in the league with the death of his sister Ella.
Speaker 1: But he's you talk about a quality human being and
Speaker 1: a and a guy who's going to make the most
Speaker 1: of his ability. Solomon Thomas. But as you alluded to,
Speaker 1: he tore his acl the same game that Nick Bosa did,
Speaker 1: and so that was They also lost que Alexander the
Speaker 1: linebacker early in the season as well. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: still able to hold Washington to meager wresting yards come
Speaker 1: compared to what they would do against US. Well, they
Speaker 1: also held the Rams to just twenty points. They held
Speaker 1: New England to six the Rams the first time around
Speaker 1: the sixteen, and the Giants to nine the Jets the thirteen,
Speaker 1: gave up twenty four to Arizona. Then they've had some
Speaker 1: bad ones Seattle thirty seven, Green Bay thirty four, New
Speaker 1: Orleans twenty seven, Buffalo thirty four. So when they've played
Speaker 1: the really good offenses, yeah, they haven't played. And by
Speaker 1: the way, the most Nighters were playing Carrie Hyder at
Speaker 1: defensive end, h not inside like he did a lot
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. All Right, So let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: when's the last time the Cowboys spent a first round
Speaker 1: draft pick on a defensive lineman? Taco Taco twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: That was late first round, Right, they didn't work out
Speaker 1: so well? Kay, Tristan Hill was the first pick. He
Speaker 1: was a second rounder, Yeah, but he was he was
Speaker 1: late second round, right. I mean even DeMarcus Lawrence was
Speaker 1: a second round pick? All right? What are the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers done on their defensive line? In twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: in the first round, they took DeForrest Buckner all right?
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, twenty seventeen, third pick in the draft.
Speaker 1: They took Solomon Thomas in twenty nineteen, second pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. They took Nick Bosa in twenty twenty This year,
Speaker 1: fourteenth pick in the draft, defensive lineman Javon kinlaw And
Speaker 1: I even take you back twenty fifteen, seventeenth pick, they
Speaker 1: draft Eric Armstead. So twenty fifteen they took a defensive
Speaker 1: lineman Armstead. Twenty sixteen, they took Buckner, who's now at
Speaker 1: the Colts. Twenty seventeen, they took Solomon Thomas. Twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: they skipped a year and then twenty nineteen, Nick Bosa
Speaker 1: with the second pick in twenty twenty, Javon kin Law.
Speaker 1: So there's five defensive linemen that they taken in the
Speaker 1: last six drafts. Yeah, and that's one reason why with Deebo,
Speaker 1: Samuel Down, Brandon Aouk has fifty catches and you probably
Speaker 1: can't name any of the other wide receivers on the team,
Speaker 1: and probably not another running back after Raheem Monster mostart
Speaker 1: and and he came out of nowhere. So they're they're
Speaker 1: they're most notable offensive player, uh not named. The quarterback
Speaker 1: is Greg Kittle, right, George Kittle, George Kittles, so notable
Speaker 1: that he's Greg k Yeah, Greg, he's pretty good. So
Speaker 1: is he still out? They don't know. He's on I R.
Speaker 1: And they were gonna see what he could do. He
Speaker 1: could do this week. Also Monster h not sure about him.
Speaker 1: They haven't. I don't know. We'll see what happens in
Speaker 1: practice today, what the report comes out, if they're staying
Speaker 1: with Nick Mullins or if they're going with CJ. Bethard
Speaker 1: and they were having then the guy that had the
Speaker 1: problems against the Washington defensive front was their twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: first round pick, Mike mcglinchy struggled badly against those defensive ends.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they've got they've got some problems offensively. So
Speaker 1: McGlinchey at tackle is the only non defensive player they've
Speaker 1: taken in the last six drafts, and so they offensive
Speaker 1: tackle that year in twenty eighteen. All right, we gotta
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Speaker 1: That would be hilarious. I do if two clubs remain,
Speaker 1: all right, So the the the two club tiebreaker is
Speaker 1: head to head, best one loss tide percentage in games
Speaker 1: played within the division, So division record, third is best
Speaker 1: one lie tide percentage in common games, and then it's
Speaker 1: conference record. Then strength of victory if there's three or
Speaker 1: more the multiple team I have three clubs. Uh So
Speaker 1: if there's three clubs, it says note if two clubs
Speaker 1: remain tied after the third or other clubs are eliminated
Speaker 1: during any step, tiebreaker reverts back to step one of
Speaker 1: the two club format. But for three head to head games,
Speaker 1: division record, common games, conference record, strength of schedule, our
Speaker 1: strength of victory, then strength likely that's more likely the
Speaker 1: Cowboys scenario. Right, three being tied, so you put all
Speaker 1: three together and then when if you eliminate one, then
Speaker 1: it comes down to two, then you go back to
Speaker 1: the top basically the same. Yeah. Right, And it's not
Speaker 1: like there's gonna be two teams going out of the NFC,
Speaker 1: so right, yeah, So I don't have to tell you
Speaker 1: if it's if you're trying to break a tie for
Speaker 1: a wild card within the conference, then you first apply
Speaker 1: the division tiebreaker, and then you file the other different
Speaker 1: divisions applied to the following steps, which comes to conference
Speaker 1: head to head conference record. That's when conference record takes over.
Speaker 1: That's why Washington needs to lose, really lose out right. Well,
Speaker 1: and I gotta go now my assignment for tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: gave Mickey, I gave you an assignment. My assignment now
Speaker 1: is to figure out this scenario on the common opponents
Speaker 1: and see where the Cowboys sit. If they tie with
Speaker 1: the Giants and Washington, well, it's not going to be
Speaker 1: very good because the only teams they can beat going
Speaker 1: forward are teams with a losing record, and those teams
Speaker 1: have all already beaten somebody with a significant winning record.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys played basically the same schedule except for
Speaker 1: for what one game, two games for except for two
Speaker 1: games two games? Yeah right, so okay, I'll figure that
Speaker 1: out though. And one of the games ahead of the games,
Speaker 1: one of the games the Cowboys won was out against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: so you would have to hope that they would finished.
Speaker 1: They're there, are they six seven and six or six
Speaker 1: and seven? They're six and seven, right, and so no
Speaker 1: one else would have played them. That was outside the division.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys lost to all the teams in the
Speaker 1: in the West, right, And I am once depressed again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, they got to beat San Francisco. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they gotta beat everybody, that's what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do. Because they beat they beat but they lost
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. They beat the Giants lost to Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: they lost to Washington, which the Cowboys did too. Do
Speaker 1: you want to know who the youngest team in the
Speaker 1: league is, Well, how's that figured? Young like today or
Speaker 1: to start the season. I don't know. Chris Beams sent
Speaker 1: it to me. I have no idea, as Chris, and
Speaker 1: it was taken if it was their roster at the
Speaker 1: oh roster at the beginning of the season, Well, the
Speaker 1: roster at the after the fifty three men cut on
Speaker 1: September second. The teams have changed so much since then,
Speaker 1: this makes no sense whatsoever. I want a better roster
Speaker 1: breakdown anyway. Well, there's your assignment. Jacksonville. Jacksonville as the
Speaker 1: youngest roster as of Labor Day. As of Labor Day, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: the record is and they're awful. Okay, here's the next.
Speaker 1: Here's the next four. Next four Dolphins, second youngest, they're
Speaker 1: in the Hunt. Rams, third youngest, they're in the Hunt.
Speaker 1: Browns the Browns, fourth youngest, they're in the Hunt. Packer
Speaker 1: laid in their division. They're in the Hunt. And then
Speaker 1: we got Minnesota, and then we got Denver, we got
Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Giant, so we hit a little
Speaker 1: lull there and then the tenth youngest the Colts. They're
Speaker 1: in the hunt the Raiders. The Cowboys are number twelve
Speaker 1: on the list. Now, where are the Chiefs, you ask?
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are number sixteen, So they are middle of
Speaker 1: the pack as far as youngest roster back on Labor Day.
Speaker 1: So if you consider all that, okay, tell me, tell me,
Speaker 1: I'm counting it up right now. How many guys the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have on the roster that are more than at
Speaker 1: least thirty years old? Twenty? No, I'd say a dozen,
Speaker 1: all right, ten seven that are active today. I'll say
Speaker 1: seven that are active today today today. One of those
Speaker 1: is your backup quarterback, which is okay, one of them
Speaker 1: should have been your backup center guard. Looney's thirty, Balden
Speaker 1: Smith who hadn't played in five years thirty one, Uh
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford thirty one, Sean Lee thirty four. Can't get
Speaker 1: him on the field, uh C J. Goodwe is thirty
Speaker 1: and L LP I missed one, Greg zerline two and
Speaker 1: LP's thirty nine. Kind he kind of messes up the average, right,
Speaker 1: you got a thirty nine year old deep snapper. It's
Speaker 1: not like you know, I mean he's good, right, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna set the record, like we talked about for
Speaker 1: Canadian born players most games late in the NFL, assuming
Speaker 1: he doesn't hurt himself between now and the National Anthem Sundays.
Speaker 1: Don't put that out in the universe, man, Okay, I
Speaker 1: didn't say it. So, so all right, that's at the time.
Speaker 1: That's it. They you know, and the guys they lost,
Speaker 1: you know, weren't that old either. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: think uh, Tyron's Tyrn Smith is thirty yet. If he is,
Speaker 1: it's only thirty. Lel Collins isn't think you may just
Speaker 1: turned thirty maybe, so you know, Dak's not thirty, Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin's not thirty. So they were a pretty young team.
Speaker 1: Uh to start with? Uh uh, I got breaking news
Speaker 1: for you. What's what's the day today? The sixteenth, four
Speaker 1: days ago, Tyron Smith turned thirty. Okay, so add Tyron Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: he's not active, he's on ir We're out of time.
Speaker 1: We're out of time, all right, worrow, I will tell
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. We wouldn't well tomorrow start saying it's not
Speaker 1: picks to click, but I will tell you tomorrow whether
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have a chance of making the playoffs that's
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