WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Nitty-Gritty Time 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:17.040 and the Dallas Cowboys football Club. This is nick Shot 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.240 streaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the official 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.959 Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Wolves, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:37.440 and Nicky Spagnola under the superb producing direction of Chris Beam. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:42.760 Here it is a Tuesday edition of Mix Shots. And yes, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.160 the victory tower is still let behind me. It's still 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.560 tis the season, tis playoff season in the National Football League, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.040 as the Cowboys are in position to win a spot 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.320 in the tournament. Bill Jones with Everson Walls and his 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:03.680 Cowboys gear, Mickey Spagnola in his Cowboys gear inside the 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.080 s WBC Mortgage Studios at Ford Center at the Start 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.440 in Frisco. And here we are. It's the final week 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.240 of the regular season. Ever, so let's give you the 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:19.240 first thought as we get started on this Tuesday. Well, 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.679 my first thought is, you know, Chris has really been 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.520 asserting himself as a producer here. Now, I think that's 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.959 kind of necessary because you know, it's not named Mick 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.640 Shots for no reason, right, I mean, it's Mick Shots 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:38.559 because Mick can be a jerk sometimes, So Chris Chris, 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.680 don't play right. I'm gonna start calling Chris uh, mister Carter. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.600 Remember the old Lean on Me movie Morgan Freeman was 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.160 running the high school and he had the back. Yeah, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.760 we're gonna start calling Chris Batman. How about that? Chris 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.480 Beam is the one who keeps Mickey in line on 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.840 Mick shots and Mickey, what are you doing on this 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:11.160 fine Tuesday? Good? We're talking playoffs? Playoffs possibly. I tell you, guys, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.560 I do have a scenario that I really didn't think of, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:22.800 because usually you're talking about college players going into bowl games, 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.280 and some of them who are highly touted, they're like 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.840 they opt out, like, look, I'm about to get drafted. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.280 I don't want to get hurt playing against, you know, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.120 somebody like North Carolina State in a bowl game or 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.720 something like that. So now this morning they talk about 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:47.240 Pittsburgh Steelers taking that same attitude. They have decided not 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:52.120 to start Ben Roethlisberger along with many prominent starters on 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.840 their squad. So now I think they were going to 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.400 play the Browns. They're going to play the Browns. So 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:05.320 those other teams, Miami, some of those low hanging teams 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.640 that are trying to make the playoffs in the AFC, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.000 What are you going to look at now? You know, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.640 what are your options? How do you feel about a 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:19.040 team basically tanking a game because it doesn't do them 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:23.680 any good, they can't improve their position. That that's something 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.359 that all of a sudden, you know, it's a foregone 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.560 conclusion on the Brown Steelers game. So whoever's expecting the 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.720 brown the Steelers or the Browns to put up a 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.000 fight one way or the other, that's already pretty much 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:42.160 predetermined because I can't see Pittsburgh beating the Browns without 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.040 Roethlisberger or many of the prominent starters that they've decided 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:52.320 to sit. So advantage Cleveland is what you're saying. Advantage 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.280 Cleveland and those that need Cleveland to win for them 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.240 to get in. You understand what I'm saying, Well, I'm 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.240 thinking of teams need Cleveland to lose to get in. 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.240 Now you go, it's all determined. It's all been, I 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.840 think now predetermined because I just can't see the Steelers 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:20.800 winning without their starts. Okay, with Washington cutting Dwayne Haxkins, Hey, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.040 if it can benefit the Cowboy, I don't give a 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.839 damn what Washington does. Well, I just see what I'm saying. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.640 I just say I just saw something that Rivera said 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.960 that he seems confident that Alex Smith will be able 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:39.440 to play on Sunday. But who knows what you say 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.320 at the beginning of the week, right smoke screens could 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.960 be I don't I don't like that. I don't like 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.200 that Alex Smith is he was doing very well before 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.560 the cast or the schooling with him, and boy, he's 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.520 gonna come out fired him, ready to go, and uh. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.760 And what I had heard and I can't remember if 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.200 it was one of those information guys at the major 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.880 sports networks, either NFL Network or ESPN, I can't remember 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:09.560 which one said that Alex Smith. They Washington felt like 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.200 on Friday that Alex Smith was going to be good 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.880 to go this week against Carolina. This past week against Carolina, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.840 he had a little bit of soreness on Saturday, and 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.200 then they just as a group decided, let's hold off, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.680 let's let's give it another week because they didn't have 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.320 to win on Sunday against Carolina. Yeah, if they would 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.600 have benefited greatly had they won, but they didn't have 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.440 to win, and so I think they feel pretty confident 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.920 Alex Smith is going to play against Philadelphia Sunday night, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.200 and I would imagine that it made it a lot 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.520 easier for them to make the decision to go ahead 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.520 and release Dwayne Haskins, especially because Taylor Heineke with Bill 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:57.080 bad I agree with, and Heineke had moved past Haskins anyway, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.200 So if Smith can't go, they were comfortable with going 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.719 with Heineke over Haskins. So and who Actually, we'll see 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.640 the game at the end and played better. That's right, 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.960 That's right, That's what that's That's what I'm saying. And 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.440 so with the issues that we're going on anyway with 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.039 Haskins over the course of the last week or if 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.120 not longer than that, they just decided to cut bait 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.760 now and and we'll see what happens. You know. The 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:29.239 other thing as it relates to Philadelphia and Washington in 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.600 regards to what you're talking about, one thing that I 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.960 was thinking about in this COVID year where opting out 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.960 has been, uh, something that was prevalent even before the 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:44.080 season began. What about these teams with veteran players who 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.760 now come down, who are out of the playoff hunt, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.000 and now they come down to the last game of 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.760 the season. They might be even more apt to opt 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:57.120 out of this game than in previous years. One guy 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.560 in particular is Fletcher Cox, who was on the sideline 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.840 anyway he got and it had been nursing an injury 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.400 even and he didn't practice last week coming into the 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.840 Cowboys game and then left with a stinger. I would 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.880 think it's the chances that Fletcher Cox's playing against Washington 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.000 are not great at all this week. Yeah, but I 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.880 don't I don't think you would. I mean, I don't 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.520 think you can call it an opt out because I 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.600 don't think I think there was a deadline to opt 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.680 out for COVID reasons. So you're right, right, but you 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:33.080 can easily Yeah, it wouldn't be official. One of the 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.160 veteran guys say, I'm not playing that bowl game. I 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:41.720 got nothing to gain. I gotta get exactly Yeah, exactly, which, which, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.760 by the way, on the college thing, I'm all for 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.360 right now, but with the state of college football, not 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.560 to get two into this topic, but I'm good with 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.679 every NFL draft prospect who's not playing in a national 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:00.200 semifinal opt out of these bowl games, opt out out, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.720 and that that is the only way we're going to 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.720 be able to fix college football where they can expand 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.440 the playoffs into an eighteen playoff or whatever and make 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.000 these games matter. You get all those players opting out, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.480 and then they'll understand that they've got a broke product 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.160 in college football as far as the bowls are concerned. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.760 Or you can be like Missouri and have a COVID 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.920 outbreak and have to cancel your bowl game. It's Missouri 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.120 the reason that they canceled. Yeah, and you probably don't 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.640 want to go to Nashville anyway, with the problems they've 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:36.280 been having there. That's right. They were in the music 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.400 city boy watch out bags, Yes, watch out but it 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 so anyway. You know, when you look at these this 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.160 final week of the regular season, there's there's so many 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.800 different variables at play. And then and by the way, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.760 and I know, Mickey, you're not big into fantasy football. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.080 This is why the fantasy football season ends in week 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.360 sixteen and not in week seventeen, because you never know 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.080 who's going to actually be playing in the games in 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.760 a week seventeen. But obviously the Cowboys need and I 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.240 think the Eagles will put a good effort out there. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.000 I think they benefit from the fact that Jalen Hurts 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.640 is at quarterback. He has shown that he's got good 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.360 leadership ability and his teammates want to play for him. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.440 And really, those the younger guys, I mean, they've got 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.120 a lot to play for in term on every team 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:34.920 have a lot to play for in terms of making 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:40.439 an impression for next season. Yeah, especially those young cornerbacks right, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.760 trying to find their way in the league. You would 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.840 think the running back Sanders, he needs to play, right, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.760 he's trying to earn a job, and they don't draft 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:55.360 the running back ahead of him, you know. And yeah, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.400 I just think I just think, you know, the guys 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.880 that play will play. No one wants to put bad 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.840 tape out there, and everybody knows that at some point 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:09.319 maybe free agency looms on the horizon and somebody will go, hell, 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.040 let me see how this guy played games seventeen or 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.000 game sixteen and twenty, right, and they go, and he 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.360 did that? Seriously, I don't want him. So I think 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.080 those things are you have to take into consideration about, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.000 you know, just going up and going through the motions 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.880 and playing the last game of the season. But but 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:34.760 on the other hand, you have to be excited about 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.839 some players opportunity. You know, you've got some guys we 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.440 talked about all the practice players. The cowboy hasn't been 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.800 using on the offensive line, talking about the secondary of 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.280 being depleted. So now you've got guys like and I 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.920 know his name, but remember when we first saw number 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.880 four them and like, who the hell is number four? 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.280 They were? Now Parker, if I'm not mistaken, Yeah, he's 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.559 he's got it. He's got he's on film now and 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.720 he can shop himself around and he is amongst many 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.000 other players that have an opportunity to do that who 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.920 otherwise we would not know who in the hell they 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.040 were if it wasn't for twenty twenty in the pandemic. 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.720 And that gave those guys an opportunity to show when 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:22.800 otherwise they would just probably be another practice player on 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.240 another team. If they're lucky, now you've got a chance 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.400 to actually take some film with you and show what 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.720 you did, you know stuff. The irony of Stephen Parker 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.600 is that kind of need him now but he's on 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:43.640 rir Who knows, but next year, if he's lucky, he 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.560 could be very business I know, but we didn't even 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.760 know who he was. And now we're sitting there going, gosh, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.480 it would have been nice if he was still there 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.480 with David Woods, who knows if he's back or not. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.600 You know, it was like the same thing with Brandon Knight. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.319 You're sitting there going, oh, Brandon Knights laying left tackle. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.200 Then he gets hurt and it's like, oh, no, what 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.760 are you going to do without Brandon Knight? Hey? You 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.280 know who on the Cowboys roster might have benefited the 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:14.160 most from the the new rules during the pandemic and 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:19.720 so forth. Think about who might have benefited the most 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.040 on this Cowboys roster from where his career was going 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:28.199 into this season and where it will be coming out 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.440 of this season, all because he had an opportunity with 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:38.280 expanded practice squads and the COVID rules in the league 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.160 where he has a chance now to revive his career. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:46.520 Who do you think he Correck Gilbert? Gilbert? Exactly Garrett Gilbert, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.800 Because if Garrett gilt if Garrett Gilbert, if it was 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.839 a normal year, there would not he would not have 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.520 qualified for the practice squad because he's too The reason 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.719 he was still in the league was because he had 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.160 practice squad eligibility this year, and so he's sitting there 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.480 on the Browns practice squad. And then when the Cowboys 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:11.040 had a need and h and the head coach had 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.640 some some product knowledge from going back to high school 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:20.280 at Lake Travis High School and at Austin, he got 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.960 information from you, Bill. They came straight to you when 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:28.120 they wanted information on any quarterback that won the Texas 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.839 high schools. There you go, there you go. But I 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.559 think about it. So he played one game and almost 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.199 beat the unbeaten Pittsburgh Steelers, doesn't get into another game, 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.679 and he is going to have an opportunity, whether it's 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.080 here with the Cowboys or elsewhere, at the age of 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.280 thirty next year that he might not. He might have 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.840 been playing in whatever spring league is going to arise 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.160 coming out of this pandemic. I would I would carry that. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.520 I would carry that game film with me wherever I go. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:02.040 Anyone that would be my middle name, Jar almost beat 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:06.320 the Steelers, Gilbert, that's my name. Yeah, let me send 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.560 you a link to my game film. He had him 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:12.040 down to the twenty one yard line before things fell 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.720 apart in the final minute. Yeah, before I pulled out 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:23.200 some of my hair, Yeah, exactly. Here's the other thing though, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.240 that scares me about the whole scenario that's gonna play 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:32.360 out on Sunday. Cowboys take care of business, they play well, 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.240 they beat the Giants. Okay, they're now in their flight 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.120 home and they're getting home, you know, second half of 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.120 that Washington Philadelphia game turning on the television, and what 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.200 is the story of the year in the National Football 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:51.040 League as far as comeback stories. Alex Smith and you 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.720 know al Michaels. Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworthy're gonna be 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.400 playing up the Alex Smith story and if he has 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.600 an opportunity to win that game and propel the Washington 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.880 football team, which by the way, was the other story 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.560 of the off season them changing their name to the 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:13.640 Washington Football Team of Alex Smith is the guy that's 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.040 putting them in the playoffs. That you talk about stories, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.200 that scares me from a Cowboys perspective, that it might 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:25.160 play out on Sunday night. Well, the other problems the 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.800 other part of that. If the Cowboys win and Washington's losing, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.560 then the story is Andy Dalton maybe reviving his career, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.520 by the way, there you go, and also, by the way, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.680 earning some serious incentive money by playing more than fifty 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.520 percent of the snaps and getting the Cowboys into the playoffs, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:51.120 I think it's a million den it's a million dollars, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.320 and if they happen to win, I think it's another 0:15:54.360 --> 0:16:00.680 five hundred thousand dollars. Wow. Okay, So let me revised 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:07.160 what I said about Garrett Gilbert, all right, because when 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.360 you think about it, when you think about it, where 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:15.400 Andy Dalton was in his career going coming into October, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.680 and if Dak stays healthy the whole year, and with 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.400 the everyone leaning towards the play the young quarterbacks the 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.280 way he's played here in December, and as the opportunity 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:31.240 perhaps to play on into January, even beyond January third, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.280 he could propel himself back into starter money in the 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.840 National Football League. Yeah, as you brought that up. Here's 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:45.120 what's unique we have. We haven't even talked about, as 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:49.720 we've talked about in previous seasons, the ability to win 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.160 after Thanksgiving, right, that was always I will push either 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.040 we made or we stunk up our season based on 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.080 that stretch. Well, here we are now. I think we've 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.000 had one of the more successful Decembers. In a minute, 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.879 you know, here we are three in a row in 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.040 December that hasn't happened for a while, and when that 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:17.640 has happened, it's always on the cusp of either we're 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.919 gonna make or break this season. So I'm very proud 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.680 of the fact that Andy was a part of that. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:28.160 And not just that. Guys, let's look back to when 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:32.080 he got knocked out. You know, a concussion protocol. All right, 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.280 we're ready to come back. Cowboys are losing. We've you know, 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.520 we look bad. You've got third string, fourth string quarterbacks, 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.240 and he has COVID. Okay, So then now that pushes 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.720 him back even more as far as his progression is concerned. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.840 And now once he finally gets a chance to get 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:55.240 a number of consecutive games on this belt, he's shown 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.520 us what he can do and why they brought him here. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.639 So yeah, he's looking pretty good. Will McClay looking pretty 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:08.399 good in regards to uh finding players. Beckn helped push 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:13.560 this team along even doing this these tough times. You know, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.800 the other thing about playing in December and we got it, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.320 we're up against it. We need to go to a 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.840 break here in a second. But the other thing to 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.200 keep in mind, and I'm looking it up right now, 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.000 is Mike McCarthy in his first year with the Green 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:34.120 Bay Packers. Okay, they finished eight and eight in two 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:38.119 thousand and six, and what did he do in December 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.960 that year? The last four games? They started the year 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.080 four and eight, and they won their last four games 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:50.200 in December to finish at eight and eight. And then 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:55.119 what they do the following season fourteen and two? There 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:00.000 you go, and we're ended up in Dallas and we're overtime. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.800 I'm away from going to the Super Bowl. Uh, in 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:08.520 the NFC title game against the Giants. They actually were 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.119 thirteen and three, but that was close enough, Mickey, all right, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.399 I thought I had it. And of course that was 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.520 the year. Of course that was oh seven more bad 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.680 Cowboys memories when the Giants beat the Cowboys and then 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:27.399 the Giants go to Green Bay and three. Yeah, that 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.560 we were the Packers and the Cowboys were both thirteen 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:35.600 and three that year that but anyway, there you go, 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.040 and it says a lot about McCarthy in his first year, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.040 UH season, much like this one, where it's kind of 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.200 going down the tubes and they finished strong and then 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.080 they parlayed that into a pretty nice little run that 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.040 he had in Green Bay, I'm gonna call Bill Parselves 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.840 and I'm gonna call Bill Parcels and tell him Bill 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.680 Jones disagrees with you. You are who you are at Thanksgiving. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:05.560 That's trying. That's exactly right. Yeah, good point Parcels didn't 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:10.000 know everything. 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Is he a Newcombonut's Music 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:11.680 to My Ears, Doctor Time, Music to my Ears and 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.000 mouth New Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda delas just do 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:23.479 back back back to mixed shots. You can now support 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.399 your beloved Cowboys from anywhere. Open up AT and T's 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:31.040 fan Zone feature inside the Cowboys app and record your 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:35.680 personal cheer and referee signals. You will receive a personalized 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.760 mosaic and may show up on the AT and T 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:45.359 Live FX video board during the game. Mickey is sitting 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:49.160 there perusing something. Not to get into your business there, Mickey, Yeah, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:51.920 has something to do with the show. I was making 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:54.040 sure I had. I was making sure I had to 0:22:54.119 --> 0:23:00.000 read for the next break. There you go, all right, Jerry, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.960 he was on the radio this morning. Any highlights that 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:08.240 you gleaned from Jerry's weekly appearance on the fan Yeah. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.720 The last thing he said, as they say there's a 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:18.000 pony in here somewhere. I don't think i've heard that 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:22.200 one before I have. What does that mean? I'm sorry? 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:26.159 What was the context? It was? It was? It was 0:23:29.200 --> 0:23:32.960 they were talking. They finished talking about, uh, not only 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.399 the possibility of having a playoff game at AT and 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:41.320 T Stadium, but also a Cotton Bowl and a Rose Bowl. Uh. 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.160 And to think that the stadium's gonna host could host 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:47.800 all three of those within a week's time. Uh and 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:51.800 uh and and they were just talking to playoff possibilities 0:23:51.840 --> 0:23:54.520 for the cowboys, and he said, as they say, there's 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:58.479 a pony in there somewhere. I heard the story. So 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.320 we got, well, yeah, what Jerry's say. What Jerry's saying 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:02.879 is I'm going to make some money off of this 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.480 some kind of way. I'm making some money off of something. Um. 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:10.000 And then he also so he not only did he 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.879 inject the pony into his segment, but he also injected 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:17.359 the buzzards into the segment. And we've heard that one before, 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.280 sitting on a fence and waiting for kind of something 0:24:23.359 --> 0:24:26.680 to come by for food, and one patient being patient 0:24:26.760 --> 0:24:29.720 and everything, and one of the buzzers to turn to 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:33.120 the other one said, uh, to hell with patients, I'm 0:24:33.160 --> 0:24:43.119 going to kill something. And it was it was all right, 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:46.320 and that one. It's important to talk about the context 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:53.160 he was talking about Moore. Yeah, and you know, Stephen 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:56.560 had pointed out sometimes when these opportunities come, sometimes you 0:24:56.640 --> 0:24:59.800 have to be patient. Uh, and kind of pointed out, 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.080 you know, we kind of kicked it off back and forth. 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:03.960 I guess we really didn't talk about it that much 0:25:04.040 --> 0:25:07.000 yesterday about Kellen have looking like he to have the 0:25:07.040 --> 0:25:09.879 opportunity to take the head coaching job at Boise State, 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:15.080 And you know, I see both sides of that obviously. 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:19.000 You know, we'd all like to go victoriously back home 0:25:19.080 --> 0:25:22.840 and do something great. But then also when you've set 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:25.640 the bar as high as he has as a player 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:29.160 at Boise State, you're better be careful because they might 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.960 expect that as you as a head coach. Now you 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.720 probably expect that as yourself of yourself. And then the 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:38.560 other thing is is what if you continue to do 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:41.520 what you've been doing for these two years as an 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.919 offensive coordinator in the NFL. I don't think teams have 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:47.720 any problems hiring a thirty four year old head coach 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:50.840 these days. And I think you have to just decide 0:25:50.880 --> 0:25:53.760 what's what's where's your priority light Is it in college 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:57.320 or would you want to do it in the NFL. 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:01.359