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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola, and it's time for a Tuesday edition
Speaker 1: of Mick Shots. Bill Jones along with Everson Walls and
Speaker 1: Mickey Spagnola. And I am working right now because I
Speaker 1: walked in with Everson and I think bobbily, this is
Speaker 1: the first day of fall today, it is sometime in
Speaker 1: the it is the twenty first. I think it's the
Speaker 1: first day of fall. It was one hundred degrees here
Speaker 1: yesterday and we had a cold front come through, cold
Speaker 1: cool fun. That was seventy eight all right. The reason
Speaker 1: I'm bringing this up we walked in together and we
Speaker 1: have agreed that the hottest place in America is uh
Speaker 1: is right outside the atrium entrance here to the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Most most places in fall, the leaves turn here,
Speaker 1: they cry, but it's eighty two degrees. But this team
Speaker 1: is read a hot Yeah. Victory in Los Angeles just
Speaker 1: dreamed them on Sunday. That's a convincing victory. Now it's
Speaker 1: Philly Week as it started. Yet has Philly Week started
Speaker 1: Eagles Week started or in the Monday night game Monday
Speaker 1: night game, and so we hold off until slower build
Speaker 1: up probably, So the Wednesday practice is actually on Thursday,
Speaker 1: although the team will be here on Wednesday practice yep,
Speaker 1: mock game type deal or whatever on Wednesday. And uh
Speaker 1: so we'll officially start kickoff Eagles Week tomorrow as they
Speaker 1: need to get healthy. Okay, well that's the place to start.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Philly, they lost Brandon Graham for the season
Speaker 1: with an achilles. They lost in Brooks or Guard. He's
Speaker 1: went on IR and zach Ertz is now in COVID protocol.
Speaker 1: We'll see what his availability is on Monday, and and
Speaker 1: uh so he's out right, you never make it back.
Speaker 1: I tried it ten days. It's ten days, right, it is. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why say I haven't That's what I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anybody make it back in five Well, and not on
Speaker 1: this That's what Mike McCarthy was saying last week. Now
Speaker 1: they've just once a guy goes in that they basically
Speaker 1: figure figure it's going to be ten days before he's back.
Speaker 1: So even though they can get back sooner than that.
Speaker 1: All right, So what do you got bet and not
Speaker 1: see him out there? I bet? And I see that
Speaker 1: tight in that it's out there. Yeah, oh he made
Speaker 1: he made? Yeah, I want to see. I got some questions.
Speaker 1: You want some questions and answer answers, all right? Questions
Speaker 1: about him are Cooper's ribs, ribs um. I think they
Speaker 1: feel somewhat optimistic about it. But you know, it happened
Speaker 1: late in the game, right, that last catchy made for
Speaker 1: we assume although it may have sounded like he had
Speaker 1: something else going and he just because I thought I
Speaker 1: thought he got hit in the head, like he got
Speaker 1: deemed the way he was laying there, right, but ribs
Speaker 1: will make you lay there. The census is that he
Speaker 1: didn't get touched. Yeah, that's what a lot of people think.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him, So maybe the way he fell,
Speaker 1: he fell on certain and I think it was already
Speaker 1: something wrong. And if you ever had that, it's very painful. Muscle.
Speaker 1: What do they call him that? I can't I kind
Speaker 1: of muscles? Yeah, you got that, I haven't yeh. No,
Speaker 1: he's in my athletic career, in my athletic career. I've
Speaker 1: had it twice, he said, every injury known to man,
Speaker 1: and one in one intersection. Yeah right, yeah, I did hurt.
Speaker 1: I bet so we'll see where where that one goes.
Speaker 1: It sounded like Carlos Watkins and Dorance Armstrong had ankle sprains.
Speaker 1: Um was there one more? Maybe it was expecting Gregory back. Yeah, Gregory.
Speaker 1: They expect him back tomorrow. Yeah, back in the building.
Speaker 1: Back in the building tomorrow. So now you got to
Speaker 1: get him back going. And you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you If he's back in the building, that means
Speaker 1: he's out of COVID protocol and then he can start running, right.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's been running as Zach Martin. Jack Martin seemed
Speaker 1: to be recovered well from his bout with COVID. If
Speaker 1: you analyze his performance the road greater and great, I
Speaker 1: think it was. I think it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: Superman coming to Earth. It seemed like he got together
Speaker 1: like the sun, you know what, and now it's everybody,
Speaker 1: m Yeah, that vitamin D. You if you can bear
Speaker 1: to talk, listen to talk radio. It's like, yeah, now
Speaker 1: see what happens when they run the ball, and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: was Martin there last week hour the Buccaneers playing the
Speaker 1: run just analyzes it's not about running it. It's just
Speaker 1: easy to number one defense the NFL. Yeah, as opposed
Speaker 1: to the Charges, who obviously we knew they couldn't and
Speaker 1: they gave up one hundred and twenty six to Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that offensive line and then you look at what
Speaker 1: the defense that they were that we were playing or
Speaker 1: they were playing. He were gonna run the ball right,
Speaker 1: we have to time they were like two man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you gotta run the ball on two man and
Speaker 1: pretty easy when all their their outside linebackers want to
Speaker 1: rush the quarterback and the only forces you're gonna have
Speaker 1: is a safety coming up from half the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they play them deep thirteen yards I saw one
Speaker 1: time fifteen yards deep, so that they was they were
Speaker 1: clearly Tampa's like, we're not We're going to see if
Speaker 1: you can pass the ball on us. The Charge is like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see if you can run the ball on us,
Speaker 1: because we can sure see that you can pass the
Speaker 1: ball on us. So every every week, I guess we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a different challenge. Like last night, and I
Speaker 1: think it was Detroit's defense. They had the safeties kind
Speaker 1: of within ten yards of the line of scrimmage, maybe closer,
Speaker 1: and right before the snap, one of them just goes
Speaker 1: be lying running backwards, right, going back. But he was
Speaker 1: turned to the side, and I'm going, okay, if they
Speaker 1: snapped the ball before you get where you want to go, well,
Speaker 1: what good are you? I mean, he was running full speed.
Speaker 1: I think they just wanted him deep middle. Well, it
Speaker 1: didn't lie him up there, it was in the sky. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't think Rodgers will see him sprinting right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think just can see everything. Aaron Glenn has just
Speaker 1: loves the defensive coordinator the Lions. He was just disguising
Speaker 1: things for Aaron Rodgers. They needed to do a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well it worked for a while, yeah, for the first half. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So I start to give a pick the click on Rodgers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he'd have to be plus yeah. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Usually what happens after, especially when you're Aaron Rodgers after
Speaker 1: a thirty eight to three laws there's a bounce back week.
Speaker 1: But usually what happens in this league after you fump
Speaker 1: a team thirty eight to three, then you go to
Speaker 1: Carolina and lose, so which of course, which broadcast did
Speaker 1: you watch? Oh, come on, give me a break, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not into that. You didn't watch the Mannings. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not watching a little bit of I'll watched more
Speaker 1: of it last week than this week. See, I'm already
Speaker 1: out on it, already got tired. Okay, I didn't the
Speaker 1: way everybody subscribed explained it the first time, that was
Speaker 1: like the greatest thing ever. And then I watched it
Speaker 1: and was like, oh, it's okay, Yeah, I mean it's Peyton.
Speaker 1: He's being funny, he's got a great sense of humor.
Speaker 1: His brother's a great straight man. Yeah. Right, did they
Speaker 1: have a guest on something for a while for a
Speaker 1: little bit, then five? And then now we got to
Speaker 1: look at more quarterback and then unfortunately Patrick Willis because
Speaker 1: he didn't really engage much. You know what. It's almost
Speaker 1: like the linebacker from San Francisco. It's almost like they
Speaker 1: didn't want to talk defense. It's like with every broadcast
Speaker 1: anyone has ever done. The broadcasters are great when the
Speaker 1: game is great. Right when the game is bad, the
Speaker 1: broadcasters are not. So that's when you need the broadcast
Speaker 1: that could be good. That's when John Madden, that's why
Speaker 1: John Madden was great is because it didn't matter what
Speaker 1: the game. Romo feels a lot of death spots with
Speaker 1: just words, but well, bugging games. You know, it helps John,
Speaker 1: It helps John Madden, it helps Tony Romo. When you're
Speaker 1: the A game, you're the A broadcast team, go try
Speaker 1: get on the f troop and see how interesting everything is.
Speaker 1: And I and and sometimes the Monday night games are
Speaker 1: the D train these days. These days. You know, I
Speaker 1: saw I was watching. I guess it was Nebraska Oklahoma?
Speaker 1: Was that the Fox game? Right? Yeah, Gus Johnson? Yep,
Speaker 1: that's where Bill gets his broadcast voice. Right, Bill says,
Speaker 1: this guy is just over the top. I said the
Speaker 1: guy say, he's just over the top. Nothing happened. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing with Gus Johnson. If your team that you're
Speaker 1: rooting for is the favored team or the higher ranked team,
Speaker 1: and the other team is starts making a run at you, Okay,
Speaker 1: you do not like Gus Johnson? Did he bore? Because
Speaker 1: he is jumping on that D train and because he's
Speaker 1: looking for the upset. Look, he's looking for the upset.
Speaker 1: And so if if your team, if your team is
Speaker 1: the is the favorite, uh, you're not so much the
Speaker 1: momose like it's like, you know, second and two. Oh,
Speaker 1: he throws it down to the flag. That's down. No,
Speaker 1: that's Testatur, That's that's Joe Tess, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: intern for me, not for me, but for Channel five
Speaker 1: with you. When I worked at at Channel five back
Speaker 1: in the nineties, Joe Testator was an intern. He was good.
Speaker 1: I just thought the day he was he was over
Speaker 1: the top as an intern too. And if he was
Speaker 1: sitting in that chair right now, I would say that, oh, well,
Speaker 1: how did he end up in Dallas Fort Worth? He
Speaker 1: because he went to I don't know if he went
Speaker 1: to Syracuse, a Yukon or Boston College. Scott Murray, who
Speaker 1: was a sports director, I don't know. Me. He just
Speaker 1: wanted to cover the Dallas Cowboys. I'm not sure. Well, no,
Speaker 1: no wonder interning for Bill and John Radigan, he went
Speaker 1: a long way. Yeah, look at us that catapult right
Speaker 1: now and I'm sitting here one. I don't know. Your
Speaker 1: ratings might be higher. Speaking of Everson Walls, Everson was
Speaker 1: a part of our sportscuest at six o'clock on CBS
Speaker 1: eleven yesterday because the Grambling head coach Brodrick Fobbs as
Speaker 1: Everson was there to promote the State Fair Classic, which
Speaker 1: is coming up at the Cotton Bowls Stadium as the
Speaker 1: Fair gets started on Friday. On Saturday, it's Grambling versus
Speaker 1: Prairie View, and Brodrick Fobbs, in starting off this press
Speaker 1: conference promoting the game, promoted Everson Walls. He said, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: we need to get this guy in the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor and in the Hall of Fame everywhere he goes.
Speaker 1: Didn he said, everywhere I go. That's where he started.
Speaker 1: This is what he said. We get him in the
Speaker 1: Grambling Hall of That got all the other Okay, want
Speaker 1: to make sure I have my jacket when I had
Speaker 1: my Black College Hall of Fame. Very good. Yeah and
Speaker 1: so uh. And just like Bill Belichick told Gil Brandt
Speaker 1: at the Hall of Fame this year that, okay, now
Speaker 1: we need to get Everson in the hall. Thing looks well,
Speaker 1: we'll see we're working on. And when I went through
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, I stood next to his picture
Speaker 1: up on the wall and I said, I know that. Hey,
Speaker 1: oh you made the white clock. Oh you talk? Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of those guys. All right, um, anything on what
Speaker 1: time do we have We had a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: before we take our first break in our first Mick
Speaker 1: Reid of the day, like we're going to do it
Speaker 1: on time. Yeah, we did had yesterday. We had press
Speaker 1: conferences from not only the head coach, but all the
Speaker 1: coordinators as well. So give us give us a little
Speaker 1: mix shot on what you heard from any one of
Speaker 1: the four that stays in your mind. I think because
Speaker 1: we know we know how overreaction nick Nick Okay, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be gust Johnson or Joe testa tour, you
Speaker 1: got to learn to lay out. Oh I forgot when
Speaker 1: the production when the when the drop starts. So let's
Speaker 1: do that. Our producer do it again, Nicky is going
Speaker 1: to lay out until the conclusion of the drop. Q Mickey.
Speaker 1: So as we always know on Overreaction Monday that now
Speaker 1: the talk is that Micah Parsons is a defensive end,
Speaker 1: that he needs to play more at defensive end, not
Speaker 1: linebacker because he rushes the quarterback so well. And so
Speaker 1: when so when dan Quinn was Cutton boll dan Quinn
Speaker 1: uh joke about it. I think the key two words
Speaker 1: was this week, meaning this week he was a defensive end. Uh,
Speaker 1: and doesn't mean that they're going to give him a
Speaker 1: steady diet or rushing the quarterback at defensive end. He'd
Speaker 1: go back to linebacker most likely. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: stuck out, I think the most. To me, I think
Speaker 1: that I think they're just trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: they don't let let the let the Eagles playing for him. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a deal. Now, they don't know where everybody's got
Speaker 1: to prepare for us rights. Is going to be a linebacker?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be defensive end? And once again
Speaker 1: we know and we know that in this day and
Speaker 1: age of NFL football, you only have so much time
Speaker 1: in practice. Right You're you're regulated, So now you got
Speaker 1: to spend more time on that than maybe the normal
Speaker 1: stuff you would depend on. So I'll give you one
Speaker 1: from each. H ellen Moore was explaining in those last
Speaker 1: thirty seconds, and he explained explicitly about how the CBS
Speaker 1: roving camera on the sideline got in the way of
Speaker 1: the clock he was watching and he couldn't see the time.
Speaker 1: And then John Fossil gave the most strange answer to
Speaker 1: the question about rushing the punter on fourth and what
Speaker 1: was it twenty and you go for a block, and
Speaker 1: he went for a block and they ended up getting
Speaker 1: blocked into. It was a terrible call if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at it. Their guy grabbed whoever ran
Speaker 1: into him, was it McQuaid, Oh yeah, Kamara, that's right,
Speaker 1: grabbed him and they rolled into him. But he said
Speaker 1: the Cowboy fans wanted the Cowboys to be aggressive in
Speaker 1: situations like that, so I was making them happy. I'll
Speaker 1: take it, Chris Beam. I think Cowboys fans aren't the
Speaker 1: play it safe type. So I was gonna give them
Speaker 1: what they wanted, come after their ass on punt rush.
Speaker 1: So I hope they're happy with it. Came after them.
Speaker 1: That's kind after the football. Um. And you can sure
Speaker 1: debate everything, um, but I'm still not so sure that
Speaker 1: we actually roughed them. That's the only part I agree with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So when he said it, I was waiting for the laugh.
Speaker 1: Well it never came. He straight faced. Yeah, serious, it's
Speaker 1: what you want. Take that. Take that. So yeah, I wasn't. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't get who they actually my jersey number because
Speaker 1: it was a train wreck right there at the block spot.
Speaker 1: But what I got on film is that they're number
Speaker 1: forty hook Kamara and pulled them back into the punter.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can make a great case it
Speaker 1: was holding or that the punter hit his own blocker,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of bodies at that pilot, so
Speaker 1: our goals had come after him. And see I thought
Speaker 1: that initially, but I think even if he wasn't blocked,
Speaker 1: he still would have hit had momentum. I thought that
Speaker 1: he took the blocker and I was both sides at first,
Speaker 1: That's what I thought, what you said, but then I
Speaker 1: thought he was coming so fast it was no way
Speaker 1: he was going to avoid the kicker, although if he
Speaker 1: hadn't got held, he might have blocked it. So you're
Speaker 1: thinking he would have gotten behind him where you think
Speaker 1: he would have blocked it. I think he would have
Speaker 1: blocked it, but he was in front of him. He wasn't,
Speaker 1: So you think that the blocker actually changed his momentum
Speaker 1: towards the kicker. Yeah, and that's kind of what I
Speaker 1: thought initially. But I saw him coming so fast it
Speaker 1: looked like the blocker might have actually saved the kicker
Speaker 1: from getting hurt. Well, maybe you know this goes back
Speaker 1: to what you said yesterday about all the holes they missed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. That's tough. There's I would be
Speaker 1: so quick shots on the three. I'd love to see that.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see this rating for that that team,
Speaker 1: for this game. Do they put those things out? No,
Speaker 1: I mean for the oh the officials. Oh yeah, now
Speaker 1: they do not. No, that's not public knowledge. There is
Speaker 1: a ratings, but they had to have the voice rating. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. McCarthy in his press conference yesterday
Speaker 1: said something about in those last thirty seconds, he said,
Speaker 1: we didn't want to take any chances because of the
Speaker 1: game being overly officiated to get a ten yard penalty
Speaker 1: in that situation, and then we would have had to
Speaker 1: debate do we get the ten second runoff or do
Speaker 1: we take a time out? And we only had one left, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, he thought the game would And then he said,
Speaker 1: did I say that correctly? Yeah? Best way to say.
Speaker 1: I had my phone going and I got I just
Speaker 1: called I just called I just called it a kookie.
Speaker 1: It was kookie. It was a kookie game because everything
Speaker 1: that could have gone wong and weirled it up happened.
Speaker 1: But that is one thing that people that sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't consider at the time is okay, what if there's
Speaker 1: a bad play, What if there is a ten yard
Speaker 1: loss or or something goes wrong and now you're out
Speaker 1: of field goal range and so, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it yesterday that that could have been part of the
Speaker 1: mindset too, and Keller Moore kind of he kind of
Speaker 1: uh sets up