WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Food For Thought 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:07.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:12.320 Cowboys. 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:19.480 This is Mick Shots screaming live on Dallascowboys dot Com 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.800 and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now Here are Bill Jones, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:29.760 Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.760 And it is a Tuesday here inside the SWBC podcast studio. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.640 It is Niners week and this is Micshots and we've 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.160 got us six time pro bowler sitting in once again 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:49.560 for the vacationing Everson Walls. Nate Newton joins the show. Yes, Nate, 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:50.760 and Frisco is here. 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.000 Thank you for having me. Welcome Nate. Hey, hey, just 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.360 hate my show. This is mix Shots and he got 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:03.160 like eight legal pads and that shots galore. Yes he does. 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.119 So hey, we're waiting on you, mate. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.679 I tried, Mickey. Okay, did y'all watch the football last night? 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.160 Oh? You know what? See, don't do that to me 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:19.120 because I also watch other shows. And it was two 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.959 games last night. Let's not talk about the Henry game, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:22.880 all right. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.919 That's the one we could watch. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:26.720 You had to work to find the other. 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.800 Game, Yes you did. It's called ESPN plus. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.400 That's right. I got it. Mickey apparently doesn't. 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.960 Have a Yeah, you do not? I do not. 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:36.760 How do you watch Missouri football? 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.440 Want to pay for it? They're on National. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:45.280 Win Me. Yes, you're a little bit older than both. Yes, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.240 you have money saved that you you are very frugal. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.800 You are sports. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:51.440 That's why. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.600 That's why he's not on it is because he's older 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.560 and us he hadn't figured out how access it. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.520 It's amazing. It's amazing. Are we not all sports guys? 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.240 I mean we like the four major sports, right, so 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.360 we should always have access to at least before me. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:08.720 Watch games on your phone? 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.320 No, I don't watch games. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:11.560 Do you watch games on your phone? 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:11.760 Yes? 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:12.200 I do. 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:12.840 I have not. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.600 I love it phone and the iPad. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.799 Oh my god, I got both of them looked. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.919 Up try so. I got my ESPN app. I even 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.000 got my high school app. I want Friday Night. I 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.240 watched school games. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.480 I got my laptop to do that. Stuffed my phone, but. 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.320 I got to pay. Take your laptop in your car. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:29.760 You hold on, hold on. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.360 When you go to your when you when you go 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.560 to a youth baseball game like I have to go to. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.320 Then I get to go to my grandkids and I'm 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.000 sitting there watching college football. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:41.239 I'm watching the game. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:42.440 I use my dish anyway. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.720 I have a question that you get through. Go ahead on. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.120 I want I want to cut you off. Go ahead on. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.679 I couldn't do that without ESPN. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.040 You say you have a laptop, you say you have 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.639 a laugh. I got a phone, and you got a phone, right, 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.840 But you got like eight thousand sheets of paper. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.280 And it takes time to look it up. I've already 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.239 got it written. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.760 Now, okay, okay, just questioning. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.200 I'm with you. That's why I've got a big green 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.600 notebook and I've got another. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.160 But you got your pants. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.360 I tried, Yeah, because if I write it down, I 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:17.320 committed to memory. 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.160 Yes, he writes it down, and still don't commit it 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.880 to member. He writes it down in search right here, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:25.040 Jerry said. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.120 He writes it Dad, I can't remember where he wrote 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:28.480 it down. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.480 I can't read my own writing. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.600 Something else. You are something else. I did watch that game, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.320 which I watched it the first one and I had 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.480 the second going. But those two teams don't interest me. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.360 Teams where we thought we should have had a player, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.800 not me. We thought as fans we should have had 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:58.000 a player. I like to see dominant teams, our teams 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.520 with the chance to be dominant play. And I thought 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.080 that was a good game last night. And even though 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.400 Baker couldn't he started off hot. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:08.920 Yes, then they started forcing stuff. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.280 Yes, he lost his receiver too, and he lost his. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.480 Other roster the other receiver for the season. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:19.080 Wow. The Ravens defense ain't as good as it used 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.200 to be, but they still would come up with a 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.680 big hit here and a big hit there, you know, and. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.400 Now and not Todd Bowles is underfire. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.080 Shouldn't be, I know, shouldn't be like my man over here, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:31.640 shouldn't be. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.520 Why was he in the game they're starting at You 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.640 knew what was gonna happen, right, It was predictable. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:38.320 There it goes. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.960 It's the it's the book of obvious questions. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:46.359 You know what, man? I told my wife and and 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.080 it shouldn't be this simple of this mean. But I say, 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.440 thank god, these head coaches at least get five to 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.719 six million dollars in two years. They can say at 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.240 least I made ten million dollars. Because any little thing 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.680 can get you fired. I would I would not hire 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.360 a coach unless I was guaranteed for him. Four years. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.320 I just wouldn't do it. If I can't look at 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.960 this coach and go through his ups and downs and 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.120 give him at least four years, I wouldn't even hire him. 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.400 Well, this had nothing to do with winning and losing. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.159 It was because the player got hurt with a minute 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.440 to go in the game. But they they're a touchdown 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:22.920 away from an on site kick. 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:27.480 To try to understand that he's been there four years, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.400 he's kind of under fire, But has he not shown 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:35.320 you in four years? If he has a lot of injuries, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.960 does he not deserve another year? That's what I'm saying. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.560 Super Bowl Yes, and so that that's just my belief. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.600 Won the division two years in a row. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:49.480 So you know, Baker just I've always root it for Baker, 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:53.839 But these these few little moves he makes sometimes you're like, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.720 come on, Baker, wow. But I do like most most 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.880 of the quarterbacks in the league. So because this hard 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.719 played that position, it's got to be a massive. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:11.520 And then you look at Derrick Henry and he the 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.800 first three quarters of that game. I remember looking it 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.880 up and he had like five carries for twenty five 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.760 yards something like that. Yes, and then he fourth quarter 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.600 he steps off at eighty one yard or and he 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.800 winds up with one hundred and sixty nine yards rushing 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.040 on fifteen carries and at thirteen yard touchdown catch, And 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.240 which brings us to Jerry Jones on the radio this morning. 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.240 I knew you was going to swing the long. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:38.760 Ball, Jerry Jones on the radio this morning, and he didn't. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:42.559 The host did not even ask him the question about 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.279 Derrick Henry. He beat him to the punch, and he 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.360 asked himself the question about Derrick Henry. And what do 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:49.400 you think of his answer? 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.080 I thought I could have answered it for him. Number one, 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.280 he said it didn't fit into our system because we 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.120 don't run the ball that man. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.440 It's almost like he listened to mix shots yesterday at. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:08.280 Number two that obviously didn't fit into their financial system 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:15.680 for salary cap reasons. But again, yeah, he's but you 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.280 know what, he cracks one of those runs seemingly every game, right, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:21.600 one big run. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.960 Already this year he's got an eighty seven yard or 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:24.920 an eighty one yarder. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 Yeah, and it you know, it's like, oh, look at 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.800 those stats, but if you look at the blocking, there 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.320 was no one in his way, was there. It's not 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.840 like he ran somebody over. He turned the corner and 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.120 it was like he was coming down one hundred yard dash. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.360 That that's what hurts you. And that is the uniqueness 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.360 of him that I've always admired. I remember me, you 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.119 used to do the show together when we was debate 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.920 between Zeke and Henry and then I you know, you 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.560 taught me right into Zeke. And I've never regretted. I 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:00.400 never looked back. But I tell it that is that 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:04.000 is what he does. He did it at Bama, he 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.160 did He did it with the with the Titans. That 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.200 he bangs, He bangs, he bangs, and you forget that 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.280 he's a long distance runner and all of a sudden 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.680 he'll jump outside and you you just think, as a dB, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.920 I'm going to get him. But each step you take, 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.320 you see you getting further and further behind. And uh, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.440 he's done it his whole career and he trains that way. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.920 So I'm not shocked. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.439 So that State farm commercials. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.200 No, that's not a joke. He moving houses. Uh. The 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.400 amazing thing if you. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.800 Give up Friday foods when you were playing. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:47.160 I'll tell you what I did. I stopped drinking on Thursdays. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.440 I'm serious. You know, I told you all to serve 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.640 before I went to Randy White because I felt my games. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.200 I felt. I was like, man, my game, ain't I 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.839 don't feel good on Sundays when one into games and 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.520 I'm thinking I'm doing the right thing. And Randon they 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.680 stopped drinking on Thursdays. 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.679 He said, you drink every other day, yeay. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.360 On Thursdays Friday because I was I was a drinker, man, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.160 I liked the beer. And He's like, may just he said, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.839 your life will change if you stop drinking on Thursdays. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.880 So I stopped Friday Saturday and this sun I felt. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.440 So I did it for like six seven, eight years straight. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.920 I just felt good, man. I mean, you gotta do things, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.439 you know, you got to make some sacrifices. I mean, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.960 if I can throw you a few light beers for 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.559 a couple of days, and the rest of the league 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.199 can so they can be like this big horse we 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.920 seen running out the other night. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:48.480 I just that's that's that's funny. It was because at 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.760 the super Bowl it would have been ninety one, yes, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.400 and we ran into Jerry Granville. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:00.119 After Jerry Glanville coach after. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.840 The super Bowl, and my friend that I was with 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.240 from Mississippi, went to Southern Mississippi. Was a big Brett 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:15.560 Fire fan, right, and he after his rookie year he 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.320 didn't play much, and he asked Glenville, he said, do 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.600 you think Brett Fire could make it in this league? 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.520 And he said, yeah, if he figures out by Wednesday 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.679 to quit all that corn squeeze and drinking, that he 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.760 could probably make it in this league. Well it wasn't, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.520 but two or three weeks later he got traded. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:35.880 To Green Bay. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.520 Wow, and the rest is history. Yes, but he said 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:40.760 the same thing as that. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.120 Yeah, you just got it. Sometimes you got a squeaky 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.760 in life if you wanted to maintain at a high level. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.880 And but Henry been doing this all his life, man, 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.560 and now he's the nutrition part is kicking in and. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.280 It throwing tires around. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.800 And it does not hurt. This is what I got 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.880 from mister Jones saying. What he said was at this 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.120 point in time, we do not have the offensive. 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.360 Line right without saying it. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.720 Yes, and we don't. We don't run the ball enough 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.360 to give Henry, Because I'm serious. They beat everybody else 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.439 up early in the game with the other with with 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:26.400 with the other guy, and with Lamar and then they 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.319 brought in Henry late early in the second half, and 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.120 that team was worred down a little bit and he 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.200 just took advantage of it. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.839 Well, and think about the Lamar Jackson factor. Yes, you 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.880 gotta worry about that, Yes, and that can beat you 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.560 if you don't, and then that opens things up for 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:46.360 everybody else. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.440 The thing that we have thought, well as fans, you 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.959 can think what you want, to pay your money, you cheer, whatever, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:59.360 but we don't have the personnel that at this time 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.319 that the Ravens have. I mean, we talked about it 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.240 yesterday and I know it's a debbie downer, but to 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.440 these players get a little bit better as young guys. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.040 Until we kind of replace some of our older guys 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.960 who are not what they used to be, it's gonna 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.120 be a struggle. I'm not saying we can't win games, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.640 but it's gonna be a struggle. You need players. You 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.280 can holler the coaches all you want. These coaches have 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:28.920 been recycled through this league. But to a man, they'll 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.080 tell you if we got players, we're better coaches. So 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.320 we just got to get We got to play better 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:34.880 as the team. 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.600 And the exact quote from Jerry on Derrick Henry as 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.000 it relates to what you're talking about with the offensive line. Uh, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.360 in my mind, we're not playing very good football right 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.440 now at all. And it's beyond whether or not we 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.840 have Derrick Henry. I don't know if he'd be having 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.720 a career a year in our situation. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.240 And it's probably a pretty good point. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:53.760 That's right. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:54.720 It's the truth. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.480 It is the offensive line blocking. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:58.400 It's the truth. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:02.160 They've worded it well without throwing his offensive line under 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:02.600 the bus. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:10.040 Yes, So in a week's time, can you change blocking schemes? 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.440 Can you change what your run? 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:14.439 You can? 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:16.439 Runs are runs are? 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.400 You can add a few you can add a few things. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:23.240 You know. You can add a tweet here, a tweak there, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:29.240 but your basic running scheme says the same. You know, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.120 I hear everybody saying that change this and change that, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:37.480 and change this. And I'm sorry, even to the smart 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.880 guys who's smarter than me. You ain't went through all 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:45.240 of OTA's and all of training camp to wait till 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.079 week six, a week seven of a season, say hey, fellows, 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:54.000 let's change everything. You can't. You can tweak some things, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.960 you can do a few things different, but the players 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.840 have the play better. You know, the players have to 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:09.160 play better. You can't tell me that from last year 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:14.800 to this point. Bart accept the offensive line, that our 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.480 receivers and quarterbacks. You know we don't have Tony Pollard. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.400 It's things don't change that much. No, it hasn't. Guys 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:27.200 just got to do their jobs. The focus is gonna 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.160 fallo on coach McCarthy. The focus is gonna fall on 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.280 Zim because of the personnel that you have have or 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.840 don't have. It's gonna follow on them. I mean before 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.360 the year is over with, depending on how this thing goes, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.880 depending on how many games they can squeak out. It's 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.880 not gonna beautiful now. I try to tell everybody at 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.680 the beginning of the year, and I'm they three and three. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.600 They are overachieving, not just mine. I mean, yes, you 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.480 ain't gonna beat the Ravens. You can bring the Ravens tomorrow, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.280 you ain't gonna beat them. You can bring the Ravens 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:06.400 in his week seventeen. You ain't gonna beat them. The 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.480 You're gonna have the best game of their life. In 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.160 New Orleans Saints, we find we are finding out even 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.720 though their quarterback hurt even though they have lost one 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.800 of the key receivers. They had the best game of 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:22.520 their life versus the Dallas Cowboys. Okay sou because they 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:27.000 played them at home. Yeah, they can't win at home. Well, man, 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.840 I'm not gonna go. My thing is, let fans be fans. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:36.479 We we we we we supposed to have a better perspective, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.920 of a more calmer perspective. Now some fans know what's 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.240 going on. But like I say, when you invest like 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:48.000 that fan, invest your money, your time, your resources, they 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.520 gonna have a different opinion. But we over here who 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.000 gets the money from the Cowboys, you know? And we're 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.400 lucky we have an owner that allows us to say 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.560 much pretty much what we want to say was not 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.080 abusive here, we see. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.520 So I thought Michael Parsons dealt with it really well 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.760 when he was asked about all the external stuff and 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.080 everybody want to get this guy or that guy. And 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:22.720 I'm paraphrasing, he said, he said, what can help us 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:28.480 other than the people in this room, Meaning you can't 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.280 go get this guy or that guy or add this 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.680 or change that. It's like, we got to play better. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.040 We got to step up and do the job. We 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.960 can't just say, okay, well we were missing this guy 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.560 or we got to get that guy. And I thought 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.400 it was he said, there's nothing that is going to 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:53.760 save us unless it's ourselves. And I'm paraphrasing there. He said, 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.880 we got to get healthy and we got to get 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:01.200 everyone playing good football. And I think that's as from 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.040 a practical standpoint, that's where you're at when you're what 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.360 this is the seventh eighth week of the season for 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.840 you all of a sudden, you don't remake yourself, right. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.679 No, you can't. You can't. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.080 I mean, and I heard a question about, well, if 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.160 this goes sideways, are you going to start selling off? 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.320 It's not baseball, right, these contracts count. 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:29.160 That, and Jerry answer that question. Yes today. Yeah, it's 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.280 like he made the commitment to the future when he 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:31.920 signed back. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.439 To How many teams last year made the playoffs at 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.520 nine and eight, by. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.920 The way, I don't think none did well. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:41.800 Green Bay did one, I mean, and there was another 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:43.720 one that just missed out it nine and eight. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.520 Well, the thing is you look at the Saints. They 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.040 was right. It was a three way time in the Saints. Yeah, 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:56.119 so they The bottom line is this, and I know 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:02.080 we ain't thinking about off season. But every year, every 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.199 team all thirty two lose at least one third of 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.680 that team by free agency by a one year contract. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.840 However it goes restrict the free agency. You don't want 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.280 to sign them back, you lose it. So coaches already 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.480 and scouts are already banging their heads against the wall. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.879 If you get one or two guys and pay the 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.560 wrong one or two guys, it's gonna put you in 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:31.840 a tail spin. So we got a core group of guys. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:34.159 We just got to get them all on the same page, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:38.399 going in the same direction, and just hope they grow 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.800 and hope the guys that are a little bit older 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.960 don't deteriorate faster than what what we need them for 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:44.520 this year. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.400 And how about get them on the field, yes, get 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.280 them off the bend the sick bed. 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:56.480 The thing about it is injuries. It ain't we have 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:58.879 figured out, and a lot of teams in the league 0:18:58.920 --> 0:18:59.680 got figured out. 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:01.080 It ain't. 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.200 It ain't the first team, it's the third team. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:05.520 It's who do. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.760 You have do my system elevate your game when you 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.840 come in, Like I think number eighteen, I can't call 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.480 his name right now. The kid from lsu Clark, the 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:19.880 mound Clark. I think he played well. Yeah, I think 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:25.240 he played well. I think he did his job. But 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.840 you know, you still want Kendricks in there, you don't. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.159 You know, we don't know if he's going to be ready. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.359 It's like I'm watching on an NFL network right now. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:38.080 They're talking about Tua coming back and the Dolphins coming 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.000 off last season. They were a picked by a lot 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.040 of people to do a lot more this even this 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.359 year and U and for last year too, and the 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.399 last two years. I refuse to pick the Dolphins to 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.240 do anything because of tous concussion history. And they did 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.399 not have a second team quarterback that can come in 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.440 and win games for you last year or this year. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.119 And the same thing at other positions. 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